The Glenwood post., 1907-07-27
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS


dig affair at Denver.
Work is progressing on the new
Royal Gorge railroad.
The report that Denver confronted
fuel famine is disproven.
The Salvation Army in Denver con-
verted $50 persons in June.
Some Larimer county men have been
arrested on a charge Of cattle rust
ling.
The state lumber dealers held their
anntal meet at Colorado Springs re-
Gently.
Up to July goth there had been
thirty-one divorces granted in the
courts of Denver this month.
Mrs. Robert w. Hearne was badly
hurt in a driving accident at Central
City one evening last week.
The Denver papers are having
hard time finding the first capitol
building. They might ask oliver Wig
gins.
While splitting kindling wood, Mrs.
Della Dodge at Grand Junction,
chopped off the forefnger of her left
hand.
The bite of a gnat caused the death
of James Chase at Plateau. Blood
poisoning set in, caused by scratching
the bitten place.
Eugene F. Ware, former United
States commissioner of pensions, is
taking his vacation at Camp Never
Mind in Ute pass.
The State Editorial association, 1875
strong, paid their respects to Hot Sui
phur Springs on the 23d of July in
their midsummer outing.
A Trinidad street car conductor has
been fined for swearing. Evidently the
trial Judge thought that preroGative
belonged to the patrons.
Students of the Golden School of
Mines are to be given practical knowl-
edge of mining by driving tunnel
into Mount Zion, near Golden.
Chief Delaney of Denver police force
has decided to stop the malignant
form of murder now prevalent in that
city among automobile speed maniacs.
The recklessness of some of the driv-
ers was something fearful.
Search your dirty linen. A tramp
was stealing ride in linen closet on
a train that pulled into Pueblo found
a pocketbook containing $1,000 1t
had been gathered up from the birth
by the porter. The owner took the
tramp home with him and will give
him a responsible position.
A boarding house and grocery store
owned by j. j. Abendschan in Colo
RADIO City were totally destroyed by
fire, the loss approXimating $4,000.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Gastwell, who
were asleep in the boarding house,
were aroused by the firemen breaking
in, thni1
night clothes.
heavy rain west and north of Trim
idad raised the Las Animas river six
feet, the highest it has been since the
flood of two years ago. Two Colorado
G. Wyoming railway bridges one at
Madrid and another between Madrid
and Segundo, are reported gone and
some damage is reported from Longs
canon.
The Rocky Mountain Chautauqua
opened its first session at Salida on
July 90. There were fully 1000 peo-
pie in attendance. The attractions
were the Minneapolis Quartette and
H. F. Huntington. humorist. The
Chautauqua will last ten days and is
to be made an annual affair in River
side Park, one mile north of Salida
on the banks of the Arkansas.
Nathan Naum, who has been attend
ing the State University from Manske.
Russia and who is now employed in
sociological work among the Jewish
immigrants to this country who come
to New York, is doing remarkable
work and will not return to the uni
versity next year. His work has to
do with lettering the condition of the
thpu sands nf fnraipn IaWS W hn
find their way to American shores,
and of securing for them openings in
western industries.
Douglas Clemens, the eight-year-old
son of Walter Clemens of jamestown,
was taken to the University hospital
where he must have three fingers and
the first joint of the thumb. all on the
left hand. amputated. He with some
other children had secured some giant
caps at the Wano mill above James
town. The little fellow tried to crack
one of the caps and the explosion ter
ribly laccrated his hand. He was also
injured about the face and left thigh
but not seriously.
]. H. Weisse & Co of South Omaha
have been awarded the contract for
building the new postoffice at Colorado
Springs, the contract price being $173,-
613. 1t was recently reported that
this firms bid was $2O6,95S, which
would have necessitatcd a readver-
tisement for bids, since this amount,
with the cost for furnishings, would
have made a total in excess of the
100000 set aside for the building.
The site cost $4,000 and congress ap-
propriatcd $275,000 for building and
site.
Louis Stein, arrested several weeks
ago at Trinidad, on the charge of writ
ing Back Hand" letters, was released
from the county jail on his own recos-
nizance. The recent arrest of Charles
keesee, who is also charged with writ
ing threatening and obscene letters,