The Grit-advocate., 1906-06-29
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

storm.
The Colorado State Normal summer
school at Greeley began its sessions
June 18th with an attendance of 300
and will continue for six weeks, clos
ing July 3lst.
Thomas Cunningham, miner en-
| ployed on the School Section Leasing
| Company's property at Victor fell
down shaft l25 feet on the 18th inst.
and was instantly killed.
All the great newspapers in the
country will be represented in Colo
rado at the meeing in Denver of the
International League of Press Clubs
the last week in August.
The Colorado Fuel and Iron Com
pany will establish semimonthly
pay day at the Pueblo Steel Works,
which will do away to large extent
with the use of scrip Or orders.
About s00 colored citizens from Pu-
eb!o, Colorado Springs, Victor and
Cripple Creek attended the picnic
given by the Nonparei band of Pu-
eblo at Clyde, on the Cripple Creek
Short Line.
The school census of Larimer county
taken in April shows the total number
of persons OF school age is 1860. This
| is nearly double the number reported
in the school census of 1900, showing
u rapid growth.
The commissioner of the General
Land Office has withdrawn from pub
| tic settlement, TO be included in the
Fruita forest reserve, 19S,000 acres of
| public lands in Mesa county, near
| Grand IuncriDp and Eruita
Twenty-Five miles of the gigantic
| Colorado Fuel and Iron Company's ca
nal to supply the steel works with wa
| ter from the Arkansas river have been
| completed, and the worlmen are now
within eight miles Of Pueblo.
Clarence Tracey and Frederick
Hann1, linemen of the Denver Gas and
| Electric Company were dangerously
| injured on the 18th instant by the
| king Of an electric light pole on
which they We're at work.
Farmers in the eastern part Of El
Paso county are planning to erect
$50 900 flour mill at Peyton, as a result
of the success Of the durum, or maca'
roni wheat planting. Twenty thousand
acres have been planted, and the crop
is expected to be over twenty bushels
to the acre.
At Victor, June 23d, Michael ]. Gil
more, aged forty-eisht years, a timber
man at the Portland mine, was caught
| between the cage and the shaft and
| killed, being dragged upward to the
| 200-foot level, where the body was re-
covered. He leaves a widow and six
| children, the oldest a boy Of fourteen.
Convicts working on the new county
road at Brewster. near Florence, dug
up a part of skeleton of monster
prehistoric animal. 1t is leg bone
eight feet long, ten inches across and
six inches thick in the narrowest
place. 1t is partially petritied. An eff
fort will be made to locate other por-
tiouS OF the skeleton.
Mitchell Benedict, of the law firm of
Benedict and Phelps, one of the pio-
neer lawyers of Denver and man of
prominence in his profession, died at
Asbury Park New Jersey, June 23d
| from heart disease. Judge Benedict
was a Civil War veteran, having been
a captain in the Twelfth Pennsylvania
and acting as provost judge.
Plans for the s25,oo0 building of the
Y. NJ C. A. to be located in West Den
YER near the Denver & Rio Grande
shops, are being completed by the rail
way department of the association.
Helen Miller Gould has promised do
nation and with the $4,000 in the
treasury of the organization, the struo-
ture will be erected The Denver &
Rio Grande will pay for the site.
Daniel Witter, a widely-known Col
orado pioneer and prominent land at
torney in Denver. died June 22d. He
had held the position of miners judge,
member of the. Legislature, collector
| of internal revenue for Colorado, vice
president of the first street railway in
| Denver, of the Denver Safe Deposit
and Savings Bank. and of the Denver
Water Company. He was the first Re
publican nominee for governor OF
Colorado.
The reunion Of the old settlers OF
Lincoln Park, a suburb of Canon City,
was held June 2lst. at the home of Dai
DeWaese. or the half-score guests
present, only one W. H. Stover, has
resided at Lincoln Park twenty years.
In fact, all the territory included
within its borders was dry. treeless
plain at that time Lincoln Park now
contains about 900 people and is one
of the most delightful rural communl-
ties in the West.
Arrangements are being made by
number of the citizens of Pueblo to
dig up from South Union avenue the
stump of the famous old tree thai
stood in that thoroughfare until 1885,
mention OF which is given in the early
history of Colorado and which was the
scene of many lynchings and Indian
gatherings long before there was any
Pueblo. This stump is about eight
| feet below the surface of the street,
having been buried by the building up
of the grade.
Deputy State Labor Commissioner
| E. " Brake at Denver has received
| statements that farm hands are badly
wanted in Delta and Gunnison cOun-
ties. Demand for help also comes
from Las Animas county, and it IS
| feared that there will be Il shortage of
help to gather in the big fruit crops
| this year. Farmers and others who
| communicate with the labor commits
| sioner's office in regard to help are re-
quested by him to state definitely how
| many men or women are wanted and
| what wages are to be paid.
c. II. Drage and his three sons,
Vivian, Leo.ard and Ralph. were