The Glenwood post., 1906-02-24
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

Two companies of cadets have been
organized at the University OF Denver.
Golden will make bid for the loca-
tion of the Colorado & Southern's new
car shops.
Maj. Aaron Cove OF Denver has been
before the Senate committee on the
Philippines in opposition to the pro-
posed reduction in the sugar tariff.
Wallace Elliott of La Junta was
killed at Guanajuato, Mexico, by con-
tact with live electric wire. His re-
mains were brought home for inter-
ment.
T. A. Gunnell, father of Judge A. T.
Gunnell of Colorado Springs, died at
his home in Colorado Springs on the
18th instant at the age of eighty-five
years.
Jack Hitler and ]. c. Kerns were
sentenced by Judge Lewis at Colorado
| in the penitentiary. They were con-
victed of working confidence games.
A company Of Durango men being
organized to build $4,000 hotel Is
headed by Giles T. Vandergrift, Tom
Lofts and Charles E. Herr. Thirty
thousand dollars has been pledged.
George F. Doane, the man who To-
Gated Aspen, and who later located the
Roane-Rambler mine near Battle Lake,
Wyoming, which he sold for $4,000
stant OF heart failure.
A collision between Santa Fe train
and Pueblo fire apparatus resulted in
the smashing of Pueblo's newest and
best steam fire engine, which cost $6,-
500. In running to fire the driver
got in front of freight tram.
Charles C. Welch, an employe Of the
Globe smelter in Denver, committed
suicide on the 18th instant by swal-
lowing strychnine and laudanum. Ill
health, by reason Of inhaling gas
fumes, is supposed to be the cause.
The city and the Rio Grande rail-
road will jdAtly build a new bridge
across the Arkansas at Salida, which
will cost $4,000 1t will be a modern
structure of concrete, sixty feet wide
and 120 feet long, with center pier.
George Marshmann, who held up a
ranchman at Henderson in broad day
light three weeks ago. pleaded guilty
to highway robbery and was sentenced
in the District Court at Brighton to
from eight to ten years in the peniten-
| tiary.
]. U. Vigil, Democratic candidate for
county clerk of Las Animas county,
and whose Office was contested for by
Eugene Garcia, Republican candidate,
the latter having been given the office
by the Supreme Court. has filed a mo-
tion for rehearing.
Governor Mcdonald has received a
handsome diploma from the manage
ment of the Lewis and Clark Exposi-
ton for distinguished services" The
governor helped in making the Colo
rado exhibit success and made a
speech on Colorado Day.
To test the constitutiona1ity Of the
law and decide the question whether a
horse with docked tail can be i'm.
ported to Colorado the cases against
Charles E. Stubbs and Nehemiah Fit
zell in the District Court at Denver
will be appealed to the Supreme Court
Business men from all over the state
attended the dollar dinner given by
the Colorado State Commercial Asso
citation at the Antlers hotel at Colo
raod Springs. The feature of the af
fair was the launching of a movement
to secure a million population for Col
orado.
Morrison is Jefferson county's lat
est incorporated town. The following
! officials will serve for the first year
having been elected on Citizens
ticket: Mayor, T. c. Morrison; trus
tees, DIR. F. l.. Luce, Jacob Schneider
Charles Dixie, John w. Mclean. Ed
ward LeGrow and P. Olsen.
Herman Panzer, a grading crew
foreman in the employ of the Moffat
road, was murdered either late Friday
night or early Saturday morning in g
lonely spot one mile west of Leyder
near Denver and within 500 yards o
the Denver, Northwestern & Pacific
railroad. The body was found 'Satur
day morning, and was identified by E
]. Carroll, Moffat road contractor.
The yacht Anemone, which C. L
Tut of Colorado Springs has entered
for the New York Yacht Clubs race
from San Francisco to Honolulu, has {
Denver registry. Mr.. Tutt wanted tt
give the boat Colorado Springs reg
lstry, but that city not being a port O
entry, he was compelled to register tht
yacht at Denver, or go outside of Col
orado, which he would not do.
Because some one had a real or fan
cied grievance against Candido Barela
Republican member of the last Legis
lature, an attempt was made to blow
his saloon and another building ad
joining off the face of the earth will
dynamite, at Weston, sixteen mile
vest of Trinidad, on the night of thu
18th instant. The principal damage
done was shattering the windows.
Patents have been issued to the fol
lowing Colorado people: John A. Fer
: guson, Denver, press for concrete
, building blocks; James F. Ferry, Lead
Vile. cooking utensils; Eli Forester
Denver, railway rail joint; Frank w
Jacques, Victor, ore sorting belt; d.
Mosher, Manitou, barrel filter; Jane
E. Pitman, Gold Hill, trap; Paul H
Widman, Denver. acetylene gas appai
atus.
The fact that F. ]. Sachs was, inten
tionally or otherwise. very ba
marksman probably saved him from