The Grit-advocate., 1906-05-11


the District Court docket at Pueblo.
The State Land Board has appointed
W. T. Fairfax Of Pueblo as timber c4m-
missioner.
The Helen Hunt school in Co!acado
Springs won prize OF $25 for tie test
showing of any school in the ~ on
Arbor Day.
The Twin Lakes people think they
see good prospects OF the building OF
an electric line from Leadville to the
lakes.
J. j. Harbeck, now at Nice. France.
recently cabled a subscription OF 900
to the fund being raised for a first-class
hotel at Boulder
Delta is making a determined effort
TO secure the new Presbyterian Col
lege that is to be located somewhere
Oh the western slope.
Mrs Laura A. Lane Of Florence, who
was thought to have perished in the
San Francisco earthquake and fire.
writes that she had a narrow escape
from death and lost all her household
effects
The commissioners Of Fremont
county have decided to make re-
quest on Werden Cleghorn of the State
Pententiary to furnish fifty more con-
vcts to work on the county roads this
summer
Fire caused by spontaneous combus
ton destroyed the plant of the West
ern Glass Company at Denver on the
4th. The plant is total wreck. at a
loss Of $l5o,600. The loss is two-thirds
inc hHu -
employment by the fire.
Unofficial returns from the school
census show an increase in Cripple
Creek of twenty pupils over last year.
Victor has lost 200. The outlying
towns have gained practically all that
Victor has lost Total decrease from
the district, 1866. Total number of
children of school age, 3,344.
Plans for the entertainment OF the
Missouri Pacific Immigration Bureau
in Denver in June provide for state
dinner to be given by the Colorado
State Commercial Association on June
18th. trip over the Moffat road on the
following day and an automobile trip
through the city of Denver itself on
the morning Of June 18th.
Perry Seeney. George w. Ball, sher-
in Of Washington county, and Ezra
Stone appeared before Judge Robert f.
Lewis of the federal court at Denver,
May I'd. to answer to an indictment re-
turned by the federal grand jury
charging the two first with gross land
frauds, and the last with cutting tim
Der from government reserves.
Counterfeit silver dollars bearing
he mark 20" of the New Orleans
mint, and stamped with the dates 1898,
1896 or 1901. are being circulated in
Denver. and large number of the
coins have been passed on tramway
conductors in the last week. The
coins are underweight. have scarcely
any ring to them, and most of them
have been merely washed in silver.
It Is reported at Boulder that the
Colorado & Southern company will
electrify its road between Denver and
Boulder and perhaps further north. and
will secure power from the Westing-
house company which is backing the
Henry deal in the purchase of the BOul.
der Electric Light & Power Company's
plant and which is to put up o $1,000
900 electric plant at or near Lafayette.
The following new patents have
been issued to Colorado inventors: AL
fred e. Johnson, Denver. assignor to
Johnson Furnace & Engineering Com
pany. Colorado Springs, furnace: Pc.
ter A. Mortensen, Sanford. whistle;
Edwin A. Sperry, assignor, one-third to
w. G. Wilson, Denver ore operator:
Jean f. Webb and c. N. Frederickson.
Denver electric signaling system.
Durango is to have another tele-
phone line to Denver, an improvement
which is much needed as the present
line is overcrowded with business
much of the time. The link necessary
10 complete the short line lies between
Bayfield,, twenty miles east of Durango,
and Del Norte The line will run
through Pagosa Springs. The survey
will begin as soon as it Is possible to
cross the range and the line will be
constructed this summer.
Professor Cajori, dean of the engin-
eering school of Colorado College, has
recently been elected a member OF the
Italian Mathematical Society. known
as the Circolo Mathematical di Pa
lermo. This society is composed OF
mathematicians of Italy and other
countries. anu Has d iutIiDel oLip VI
3GG, OF whom nearly one-half reside
outside of Italy. Professor Cajori is
one of the very few Americans who
haze been elected to membership.
For a second time the City Council
of Colorado Springs has passed reso
luton declaring forfeited the Jackson
franchise held by the Pixies Peak Hy-
dro-Electric Company. The first reso
luton was rescinded, but on further
consideration the council decided that
their contention was right and lawful.
The franchise consists of a right to the
city water for power generation and
the company is claimed TO have vio
latpd its agreement with tbs city
Commissioner L. Lyman White has
received from Portland Il medal
awarded to the Colorado mineral OK
l;b;; at the Lewis and Clark exposition
as frs; prize for the best display. A
personal medal was also sent TO Com
missioner White in recognition of his
services to the exposition.
George W. Hatfield. one Of the ear
lest pioneers of Colorado, dicd at his
,or,e near Semper in Jefferson county
Nuyii sT;i at the axe OF Sev MY Scvo'
ears SeTen children and twsn'
-qndt hiltren wore l., "ttsns- -rco 3
Z frngra., wilic.. vas "'lr &, ( Tie larc
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