The Glenwood post., 1907-07-13
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

senator Guggenhe1m sent cneck
of 5000 to the Greeley library fund as
| u starter,
A team ran away with DIR. Sol G.
Kahn at Leadville, injuring him Sc
verely.
It's hard matter for one who lives
in Colorado to find place away from
home where he can enjoy his vacation.
| Now that 1.-The glorious Fourth" has
teeE rounded up and hog-tied for an
ether year, all Colorado is back to busi-
EeSS.
Three separate companies are seek,
| ing franchises for interurban electric
lines from Denver to Greeley and the
| north
Gold has been discovered in a Delta
| orchard but the fruit yield is so rich
| the owner doesn't need the new dis
| covery.
A Fort Collins woman sues for di-
vorce because she says her husband
4 forces her to work on Saturday, her
| Sabbath.
Ben B. Lindsay has finally been set
| aside as county judge in Denver, and
will now have his own little juvenile
| Pet court all by himself.
The married men of Greeley went out
| on the diamond and proved to the bach
| elor team that they still know how to
handle the bat.
Colorado's crop of tourists this year
shows marked increase over former
| seasons, despite the late rains and
| slow trains from the East
A new town, which has not yet been
named, is being started six miles east
| of Colorado Springs. 1t will be sup
ported by sugar beet culture.
Some fear is expressed at Fort Col
llns that conspiracy has been entered
into by thugs to murder the entire po-
lice force there. The supposition does
not seem to be well founded.
Information has come to light which
says the late J. G. Allen, marshal, who
was murdered at Fort Collins, has
wife and children at Parsons, Kansas.
He had posed as a single man.
| Margaret Yont, the four-year-old
child of Bert Yont, living near Grand
Junction was nearly burned to death
one day recently while playing with
gasoline lamp, which exploded.
Timothy Babb, aged sixty-one, COM
mander of ]. w. Anderson Post, G. a
R., at Cripple Creek, has answered 10
the final roll call. This is the third
comrade of this post to die in one
year
| prominent social family" living
near Platteville, gathered up their
ready cash and wrapping the cloaks of
night about them, departed for fields
more green. A large circle of cred
itors mourn their departure. 1t was
| SO sudden.
vast tract of grazing land at the
| edge of the forest reserve, twenty-five
| miles northwest of Gunnison, has be-
come so overgrown with larkspur that
| the cattle which have been feeding
upon it are dying by scores, and the
| stockmen are considering plans for the
| removal of their herds until the plant
| ceases towering.
A committee of forty, appointed by
| the Greeley Commercial Club to solicit
| funds for the building of the EmpSon
canning factory, is meeting with much
success, and after one days work re-
ports $4,000 subscribed. The acreage
committee is also busy solicitating l.
300 acres to be planted for the factory,
| for which 500 have been pledged.
| Forty thousand acres in the Arkan-
sas valley east of Pueblo and this side
of the Kansas line, are covered with
f1ourishing crops of sugar beets. These
| figures are given out by competent Pu-
| eblo authorities and show an increase
| of about forty per cent. over last year.
| Indications are that the average will
be at least twenty tons an acre and
that there will be enough beets TO
| keep all the sugar factories in the val
ley busy until next April.
| Footsore and weary after miles of
globe-trotting across the deserts of
Utah, an aged Greek whose name is un-
known, fell exhausted in front of the
| home of George Anderson in Grand
Junction. Policeman Paterson removed
him to jail. A physician found that the
Greek was deranged as the result of
| his experience. He speaks only
broken English, but from his discon-
nected story it was believed that he
had walked several hundred miles with
scarcely any food.
George Carver, an inmate of the
county jail at Greeley, arrested recent
| law in Eaton, who was recently run
| over by a car at La Junta, which cut
off both his legs Just below the knee.
has been placed in the county hospital.
because he suffers excruciating pains,
he says, in his toes. His limbs, he
| says, do not bother him, but only those
parts of his legs and feet removed IN
the accident. Carver is about thirty
five years old, highly educated, and
says he is of a prominent Cincinnati,
Ohio, family: that his brothers are
bankers and his sisters society lead
ers there. He says Carver is not his
real name, but he refuses to reveal any
ether out of regard for his family.
A dispatch from Boulder says: I'm
fertaker Tippett returned from Nevada
yesterday with the remains of the late
George E. Mcknight who died there
I.