The Grit-advocate., 1906-06-15
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

Central City is raising large fund
for Fourth of July celebration such
as our daddies used to have.
The State Christian Endeavor con
vention will be held at Colorado
Springs. June l4th to 11th.
Thomas McCasland, formerly agen,
OF the Equitable Life at Denver, died
at st. Louis. June lst. of d,opsy
Their was big snowslide near Mon
teZuma, in Summit county, June 5th
IL leVeled considerable strip of pine
forest.
Rural Route No. :, will be estab-
lshed at Monte Vista after July 10th
1t will serve 2S7 people and eighty-two
houses.
A strong commercial club has been
organized at Ebert. with A. G. Corn
forth as president and J. E. Meyer as
secretary.
Inc annual picnic of the Colorado
Pioneers Ladies' Aid society will be
held at Elitch's Gardens in Denver,
June 23d.
The large cyanide mill Of the Myrtle
Mining and Milling Company near
Ward was burned to the ground on
the morning of June 9Th.
Twenty-Five marriage licenses were
issued at Denver in one day recently,
but this is still below the record,
which is twenty-nine for day.
The diocesan council of the Episco-
pal Church of Colorado, at its session
in Denver, voted to add 1000 to the
annual salary of Bishop Charles s.
Olmstead.
John Quinn is serving a sixty-day
sentence in the Pueblo county Jail for
preventing his ten-year-old son from
reporting regularly at the juvenile
court as ordered by Judge Myrick.
The Moor, one of the most famous
saddle horses of Kentucky, has beoa
recently purchased by Gen w. :. Pa.
mer of Colorado Springs from Maj. Da-
Nid Castleman, the consideration be-
ing $500.
w. ID. White, who is grading for the
Florence electric line, has nearly 200
men employed and says that on the
next pay day 100000 will be distrib-
uted. Mr.. White believes the road will
be finished by the middle of August.
The citizens OF Kremming are pre-
pairing to celebrate the advent of the
Moffat road by giving three-days' eel
ebration on July 4th, 9TH and 9Th.
There will be horse racing, broncho
busting, baseball, a fshbake and other
amusements.
The Colorado Fuel and Iron Com.
pany has been installing automatic
dumping cages on the Fremont coal
mine in Fremont. The mine will re-
sumo operations with force of more
than 800 men.
The County Commissioners of Boul-
der county have promised $4,000 to
help the people of Boulder to build a
good road up Flagstaff hill, west of the
city. This will make accessible some
of the finest scenic attractions in the
foothills.
The oldest and largest tree in Gree
ley is cottonwood that was planted
in 1871 by Mrs. Abigail Durham, who
is now the Oldest woman in Greeley,
being in her ninetie'h year The tree
is fifteen feet in circumference and
seventy-fve feet high.
The beet growers of Lone Tree, eight
miles east Of Greeley, have organized
Beet Growers association, with
large membership for the purpose of
securing railroad for that section and
avoiding long and arduous hauls ir
getting beets to market.
The ninth annual meeting of the Ar
kansas Valley Press Association was
held at Salida on the eth instant. Guy
U. Hardy of the Canon City Record
was elected president and p. Byrne of
the Bessemer Vindicator secretary and
treasurer. The location of the next
meeting was left to the executive COM
mittee.
The first train into Telluride from
Denver and Durango without transfer
ring, arrived June 9Th the great slide
on Keystone hill having been cleared
away. One thousand feet of track was
carried away by the landslide, making
it necessary to build new grade and
track. Freight and express have been
conveyed by wagon.
A charter has been granted by the
territorial secretary of Oklahoma to
the Pueblo, Oklahoma G New Orleans
Railroad Company, with $500, 600 cap
ital stock, and with headquarters at
Oklahoma City. The proposition is to
build line from Pueblo to New Or
leans, a distance Of 1850 miles, at an
estimated cost of s21 100000.
John Kennedy, who broke Jail at
Delta on the 9Th instant, having been
confined on the charge of horse steal.
ing, overpowering Undersheriff Ham
mond and locking him in a cell in the
JAIL was captured at Mesa, seventy
miles distant, four days later. Ken
nedy had escaped once previously but
was captured before he got ont Of
town.
At Pryor, a coal camp near Walsen-
burg, on the 9th instant, f. S. Lad.
dener, a colored deputy sheriff, was
shot and killed by another negro,
named Harris, because he had ordered
the latter, together with colored wo-
man, out of a saloon. After Laddener
had been shot twice and mortally
wounded he drew his revolver and shot
Harris five times, killing him on the
spot.
In letter to Warden Cleghorn, An
tone Wood, or Charles Howard. as he
has been known since his parole from
the Colorado Penitentiary, announces
his marriage at Newburgh. New York,
to Miss Mabel Estella Terry, daughter
Of former Judge Henry p. Terry of
Newburgh. Woode has been widely
known as the "boy murderer having
been sent to the penitentiary for mur-
der when only about ten years old.
Z. II. Asmussen, saloonkeeper OF
Cripple Creek, who was convicted of