The Glenwood post., 1907-03-23
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

Montclair, at $1,000 year
/ A shipment of 40 cars of sheep
from the Fort Collins and Greeley dis
tricts started for the Chicago market
| on the 14th
If there isn't music in the air at
| Fort Collins it will be no fault of the
band boys, who have just received
| their new uniforms.
Ludwig, Nelson and Jess A. Eddy
miners employed on the Golden Cycle
mine at Victor were killed by an
explosion on the 14th.
Winter tiptoed in so quietly. acted
so nicely, and departed so slyly that no
one knew it was on the place. Colo
| RADIO weather is nothing If not genteel.
The Logan County Advocate and
| the Republican at Sterling have been
| consolidated and will be conducted by
| ID. c. Smith, former publisher of the
| Republican.
Announcements of the tenth annual
session of the Colorado Chautauqua
and summer school. to be held at
Boulder, have Just been made Twelve
distinct schools are organized thus
giving the students splendid opportun-
tiles
Alfred Hopley and Bert Perry,
messengers for the Wells-Fargo EX-
press company between Aspen and
l}asalt. have been arrested on the
charge of embe7zling a package con
tanning $500 said package having
disappeared while in transit.
Alfred Hopley and Bert Perry, mes
sengers for the Wells Fargo Express
Company between Aspen and Basalt,
have been arrested on the charge of
embezzliES a package containing
s2,50O said package having disap'
peared while in transit
The Scouts Revenge" blood and
thunder tragedy in three acts, has
been perpetrated upon an nnsuspectinS
public in various towns in the state
during the past week Just what the
public has done to have revenge taken
out On 1t, the complainants sayeth
not
Tuesday night about $50 Miss Het-
tie Bever, 1G-years-old girl, was shot
through the window at her home in
North Delta, the ball passing through
her arm just above the elbow Jimmy
Workman, twenty-five years old, is in
Jail charged with the crime, which he
denies.
Clifford Pinchot. chief of the forest
service. has recommended the release
from temporary withdrawal of $780,
acres of land in western Montrose and
San Miguel counties. A large area
had been temporarily withdrawn in
that region pending an examination TO
determine It's suitability for forest pur-
poses.
The reclamation service wants 80
600 barrels of Portland cement for the
Uncompahgre irrigation project and is
asking cement mills TO submit pro
posals which will be opened April 18th
at Montrose. This cement will be
used in lining the Gunnison tunnel,
which is now considerably over half
completed.
After months of negotiations Ne
tween the Denver & Rio Grande and
the International Association of Ma
chinsts, the latter organization has
secured the cocessions it was asking,
ond 800 r1achinists and pipemen have
been granted al increase in wages OF
two and three cents an hour, nin"-
hour day, and time and half for
overtime
Mrs J. B. Smith was taken to Fort
Morgan from Snyder by Sheriff Bur
dette and lodged in the county jail,
charged with the murder of her six
teen-yearold daughter, Shirley Smith
Mrs. Smith was arraigned before JUS
tice of the Peace Edward Wilson al
Snyder and was bound over to the dis
trict court in $4,000, which she failed
TO furnish
Manuel Rodrgues, a Mexican. was
about to be sentenced to ten years
by Fort Collins Judge, on the charge
of assault with a deadly weapon,
when the county physician intercedcd,
stating that the man would lose his
mind if such a heavy penalty were i'm
posed The judge relented and gave
the Mexican one day in Jail. It's
great to be crazy.
1t is stated that the Santa Fe Rail
road Company is wedding out all oper
ators who belong to the Telegraphers
union. 1t Is said that fifteen union
telegraphers between La Junta and
Las Vegas were discharged this morn
ing, that no reason was given, but
that it is on account of their union af-
filiations. What the outcome will be
is uncertain. Among those discharged
were two operators at Trinidad.
A fire started from an unknown
cause in the boys dormitory at the
Fort Lewis Indian school, fifteen miles
from Durango. at 6 O'Clock Tuesday
night In spite of the efforts of the
employees of the school and the assist
ance of the scholars the building was
destroyed. together with the gymna
stun and schoolhouse adjoining. All
of the buildings in question were old
and had been used since the establish
ment of the government military at
Fort Lewis The loss probably win
exceed $4,000. The entire contents OF
the buildings We're saved. There are
about 200 students in the school
It favorable results are obtained
from Investigations which are being
made by the members of the Electrical
Engineering Department of the Uni.
versity of Colorado the city of Boulder
may be supplied with electric light
and mower from its own reservoirs