The Glenwood post., 1907-08-24
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

| 10 lIldl ever.
A Denver tramway car, carrying
| thirty people, was wrecked recently
and many passengers injured.
Miss Emma Gabel of Milwaukee died
| at Fort Collins recently from an at
| tack of appendicitis She was prac.
| tically among strangers, but kind
hands administered 10 her.
| Edward Kyle, aged 81, accidentally
| discharged revolver and killed John
| Conrad. government sheep inspector,
whose home was at Olney Colorado.
| The shooting occurred at Denver.
The structural steel for the new no.
| tel at Boulder receipt of which was
| delayed because of the switchmen's
strike, has reached Boulder, and work
on the hotel has begun anew, but now
there is a scarcity of brick
The first carload of early Greeley po.
tatoes to leave for market was shipped
by J. Gervin of La Sale to Denver.
They brought sl.5O hundredweight
and were of superior quality, the car
bringing between $3.50 and $500
Raymond, son of Eli Jeffreys, paying
teller of the First National bank al
7 rindad, was thrown from a horse on
his fathers ranch and sustained
broken leg, besides many ether bruises,
| The boy was brought home and will re
| cover.
At the Country club a dinner-da
was given by Miss Evelyn Walsh OF
| Denver and was attended by about
| fifty guests, among them being the
| elite of Colorado Springs and Denver
society. The function, though informal
was one of the most brilliant of the
| present season.
The ice famine at Fort Morgan has
caused the forming of a company to
Immediately build an ice plant and
| work on the structure was started at
| once. The building will be so by 150
feet and cost about 100000. l.. Offer
j. e. Williams and E. I. Cook are the
projectors and expect to supply local
consumers this summer.
The first car of the Fort Collins
street railway has arrived from Den
yer and is being fitted for use on the
West Mountain avenue line. 1t is
brand new having just been turned out
of the shops in Denver expressly for
service. 1t is attracting a great deal
of attention. Another car, a duplicate
of this one, is expected in day or
| two.
During a severe electrical storm at
| Trinidad lightning struck the home of
Mr.. Howard, at Jansen, three miles
west of there. Mrs. Howard was par
! tally paralyzed by the shock, and her
| recovery is doubtful. The bolt struck
clothes line by which it was con-
Quoted to the house and the latter
would have been destroyed by fire had
il not been for the prompt action of
the neighbors.
Michael OGrady of Evans has
brought suit to foreclose a mortgage
on large amount of Evans property
valued at many thousands of dollars,
| against the hers-in-law Of Il. NJ. Per-
kns. The Perkins mortgage was or
| iginally given to S. X. Huffsmith and
covers an undivided one-half interest
in several blocks of Evans property
| and was assigned to OGrady, who
owns the other half interest of the
| property.
Suit for divorce, on the grounds of
extreme cruelty, has been brought in
the county court at Cripple Creek by
Violet Bragunier, wife of David Bra
sunier. They We're married in Chey-
enne about three months ago. Last
February Bragunier's first wife, whom
he married in public at the Elks' car
nival about three years ago, secured
divorce upon similar grounds. Two
divorce cases inside of six months is
record in Teller county.
The Ell Paso County Cattle Growers
Association will hold another meeting
to take further action with regard to
the cattle quarantine in this county
State Veterinary Surgeon Land has
notified the executive committee that
the quarantine has been placed on the
cattle by the government as a precau
tion against mango This disease, it
is claimed, Is not prevalent here, and
vigorous action will be instituted in an
effort to relieve the embargo.
In race war between Greek and
Italians at Bucktown, near Leadville,
Joseph Mufago received a slight scalp
wound, but is not seriously hurt. Sam
uel Terquillo has been arrested,
charged with inhicting the wound. The
shooting, il is said, grew out of quar-
rel over the affections of woman
Friends Of both men took up the fight
and more than dozen shots were
fired. Mufago was the only man in.
jured Sheriff Dan Bonner stopped the
fight.
The body of George Walkenshaw,
the young boiermarker who was swept
to his death while fishing in the Grand
river near Grand Junction. was recov.
cred. Two small boys, who were fish
ing in the stream. discovered the body
floating on the rifle in an elbow of
the river. They secured boat
brought the body to shore, and it was
taken to an undertaking establishment
The remains were sent to Salt Lake
for burial. A reward of $50 offered
for the recovery of the corpse will be
paid to the boys.
Mrs. Frank Winters was robbed OF
a purse containing 500 while attending
the mission services at the Catholic
church in Georgetown. A strange wo-
man entered the church and took a
seat by the side of Mrs. Winters. After