The Glenwood post., 1906-11-17
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

The Colorado Fuel & Iron Company
recently shipped trainload of twenty
cars OF lence wire to Ottawa, Kansas.
The newly elected governors name
is pronounced as if it We're spelled
Booktle. with the 2ccent on the book"
"Buck-lelI and "Buchtle" are both in
correct.
colonization syndicate of Geneseo,
Illinois, has bought $500 acres of land
in the san Luis valley, the price being
stated at about $4,000. 1t is planned
to settle the tract with Sandinavians.
THANKSGIVING day a concerted effort
Will be made at Colorado Springs to
raise ind for the proposed 100000
deaconess hospital. A general collec-
ton Will be taken in all the churches.
A movement is on foot to secure
the erection of s5O,OOO Y. NJ. C. A.
building in Canon City next summer.
bequest of $4,000 by the late F. A.
Reynolds Will serve as a nucleus for
the fund,
| The Buckhorn plaster mill, about six
miles west of Loveland was burned
before daylight on the morning of the
10th inst, being a total loss. The loss
on mill and stock is estimated at S24,-
OuV, WIN SN,tuO insurance.
The Northern Colorado Poultry AS
scciation which will give a show at
Boulder December 18th to 18th, in
elusive, has already secured the prom
Use of twenty silver cups to be
awarded as prizes.
/ Levi Balm, aged twenty-three, while
oiling machinery at the Fort Collins
sugar factory, was caught by a belt
on the llth inst. and so injured that he
died the same day. One arm was torn
from his body and one leg fractured.
James Mitchell was found on the
18th inst. in a starving condition in his
cabin a PiCtOn, near Walsenburg, and
died after being taken to a hospital at
Pueblo. He was but little known and
had not been seen for eleven days be-
fore his death.
Mrs. Annie Duncan has brought suit
against the Denver & Rio Grande rail
road, in the District Court at Colorado
Springs, to recover $4,000 for the loss
OF her son, Leslie R. Duncan, who was
killed November 10, 1905, while en-
ployed as a switchman.
Harrison Parks, town marshal of La
fayette committed suicide on the 7th
inst. by shooting himself through tho
head. Domestic trouble is supposed
to have been the cause of his Iction,
He was fifty-two years old and leaves
wife and five children.
The comptroller of the currency has
approved the application of Ewing
Mum, Fred E. Cotton, Charles +.
Simpson, Eugene Mum, Ole Nelson
and RILEY S. JOslin to organize tie
Stockmans National Bank of Brush,
Colorado, with $500 capital.
Mrs. James Weste, seventy years of
age, was robbed of $50 on the road
between Victor and Goldtield on the
night of the 10th inst. Two brutal foot
pads led her away from the road and
roughly searched her person, finding
the money which she had secreted in
one of her stockings.
Work has been begun by the Denver
& Rio Grande on its double tracking of
Eagle canon between Rex and Red
Cliff, large force of men having been
at work on it since the middle of OC-
tober. Owing to the narrowness OF
the canon the tracks for most of the
distance will be on opposite sides of
Eagla liver.
Patsey Butler. the nineteen-year-old
son of Adam Butler, pioneer of the
Cripple Creek district, now located at
GoldlIeid, Nevada, is said to have
cleaned up $4,000 in stock deal in
the Nevada camp on an original in
vestmcnt of few hundred dollars he
had saved. Butler left the district
about nine months ago.
State Game and Fish Commissioner
Woodard has been informed that GER
tain hunters in Gunnison county mis-
construe the law and propose to kill
mountain sheep after January 1st He
says that section one of division B of
the new law expressly fOrbids the kill
ing OF mountain sheep at any time, and
that it will be enforced.
John C. Canute, a rNnchman, was
killed at Calnan on the 1lth inst
Canute was feeding his team and was
standing in front of the animals, when
they 9ecane frightened. The horses
knocked him down and trampled his
PROSTATE body, also drawing heavy
wagon over him. He died almost in
stantly Of internal injuries.
A man giving the name of Jack Low
ney, aged about fifty, Vas found near
the railroad track, about 100 yards
from the depot at Marshall, in Boulder
county, on the morning of the 18th
inst, with both feet crushed by the
cars, having apparently been over
come by liquor He was taken to the
University hospital, where both feet
Were umputated.
f. K Smith and number of other
Fort Lupton capitals will build 4
big reservoir costing $4,000 in the vi
clnity of Fort Lupton, from which
some $4,000 acres of now non-irrigable
land will be brought under cultivation.
The reservoir is intended to conserve
the surplus over appropriated waters
of the Fulton ditch and draw on the
food and seepage water of the streams
in that vicinity.
Michael Storm, one of the earliest of