The Grit-advocate., 1906-07-13
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

Nine-year-old Ernest Storey of Boul
der lost three fingers of his right hand
by the explosion Of giant cracker
July 4th.
The Elks' convention begins in Den
yer Monday. July 10th. and lasts four
days. Immense preparations are be
ing made for II.
At Pueblo July 5th the City Council
turned over to the owners of the wa
terworks bonds to the amount of over
$5OO.O 900 and the South Side plant for
mally became city property.
The FIRST National Bank at Windsor
has been authorized to begin business
with $4,000 capital. John f. Law Is
president: Lewis Korn, vice president
and Frank n. Briggs, cashier.
Halsey NJ. Rhoads OF Denver, the old
newspaper man. has been appointed In
spector for the Department OF Agrtcul
ture and collector Of statistics OF live
stock, sugar beets and wheat for wy
Oming and Colorado.
Samuel Woodbury. has been declared
insane by jury in the County Cour'
at Boulder and sent to the stat asy
lum at Pueblo Woodbury. went Graz,
over trying to perfect patent in con
nection with irrigation.
Edward Hawks, a Civil War veteran
was shot and killed at Altman on the
9th instant by Michael McCready II
McCready's saloon. The shooting tool
place as the result of saloon Quarre
over private differences.
Over 5000 names have been at
tached to a petition asking the stree
car company to reduce the fare be
tween Colorado Springs and Manitou
Broadmoor and the Cheyenne canon:
from 10 cents to cents.
Henry Rogers. well-known stool
raiser and resident OF Boulder county
since 1870, died at Boulder on the 5tf
instant of cancer of the stomach. He
was seventy-two years of age and ma
tive of Cornwall, England.
Samuel C. Carpenter, the Denver po
liceman who lost leg as the result o
wounds received at the time of the
election riots in Denver November 6
$40 a month.
The Fourth of July attractions a
Frisco in Summit county included
horse and foot races, drilling contests
baseball game and twenty-rount
prize fight, together with display o
fireworks from the top Of Noun
Royal.
The State Supreme Court has de
cided that the Cakes Home for Con
sumptives in Denver Is exempt from
taxation, 1t being in the same class al
to charges for service with other hos
pitfalls that have always been SO ex
empted.
Allen Yard, three years old, while
fishing with his father on Beave
creek, near Florence, a few days since
caught a nine-inch trout. He is thu
youngest child that has ever caught :
fish in the stream. The boy LANDED
the fish without assistance.
The Colorado Telephone Company
through its treasurer, e. B. Field, Jr.
has contributed 500 for the fund tt
purchase silver service for thu
cruiser Colorado. The check was re
ceived by Governor Mcdonald ant
turned over to the trustees of the fund
The report of the business trans
acted by the Pueblo land office for the
year ending July /, 1906, shows tha
1853 homestead entries have beel
made, covering 162,041.62 acres ant
that 223 desert land entries have beer
made, covering 46,427.47 acres. Thi
is the largest business done by the
land Office of this district for man.
years.
In the Cripple Creek District oil
July list. B, +. Wildman, en-
gineer at the Cameron power house
was struck by bolt of lightning ant
paralyzed. He was walking to the doc
after oiling his machinery, when th
flash came. knocking him down. HI
was removed to the Red Cross hospita
for treatment with little chance of sav
ing his life.
Judge Ben B. Lindsey of the juvenile
court at Denver has ordered France:
and Chrissie Burlington, daughters. of ;
Pittsburg man, who have occupied
considerable Denver newspaper space
recently, to be placed in the Home o
the Good Shepherd. A waiter will
whom it is said the girls went to Lead
Vile, is in the county Jail awaitin!
prosecution by the girls father.
The Colorado Bankers Association
at it's session, just closed, in Glcnwoot
Springs, elected the following officer.
for the ensuing year: President, c. c
Hemming, vice president OF I'll Past
National Bank of Colorado Springs
vice president. F. B. Gibson of Den
yer: treasurer, Alva Adams of Pueblo
secretary, A. A. Reed of Boulder Th'
next annual meeting will be held a
Boulder.
William A. Otis and associates. in
cluding G. A. Taft, president of tn
Pixies Peak Hydro Electric Company
have organized the Empire Water &
Power Company and announce tina
they will soon begin the erection of
new electric power plant at Manitou
to cost 5000 900. In addition they pro
nose to expend 100000 on pipe line
and reservoirs, and $500 900 additiona
in general improvements.
A considerable sum is being ex
pended by the Friends in Council, ;
woman's organization of Canon City
in beautifying the public schoo
grounds of Canon City, South CanoI
and Lincoln Park. Flowers and shrub
berry have been planted on the grounds
and an arrangement has been made
with the boards OF education whereby
the ianitors of the various schools viii
care for them during the summer
months.
Mrs. w. T. Fancher OF Beaver CreeI
in Fremont county, whose husband
was killed by an electric wire whil'
riding the range about year ago. ha
secured settlement from the Pueblo
Lighting & Traction company She re
ceiyes s.. 200 cash and the free use o