The Glenwood post., 1907-12-07
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

A cat show will be held in Denver
December 18th to 14th.
The Merchants's National bank OF
Salfda has been authorized to begin
business with $5O.000 capital. James
). Mckenna is president and D. IL
Craig cashier.
The Democratic club at Denver
voted to donate $500 to the fund for sc.
curing the Democratic national conven
t1onal convention next year. The en-
tire sum called for is 100000.
The Platteville board of trade has ap,
pointed committee to look into the
matter of providing a waterworks sys.
tenn Tor the town using the same plan,
to generate electricity for light.
DIR. Charles Hendrick, an eminent
New York physician and surgeon and
founder of large sanitarium in Ard
more, l.. l.. is at Colorado Springs max.
ing plans to erect sanitarium at
cost of s150,00O.
The following postoffice appoint
ments have been made for Colorado:
Arriba, Lincoln county, Bessie e
Graves, vice c. S. Graves, removed;
Larkspur, Douglas county, Philip Rue.
boil, vice F, A. Murphy, resigned.
~A> S'"'N bodlu u vi Htdlll op
pointed Charles l.. Walker of Pueblo as
food inspector of district that will he
known as the Pueblo district, his in
cumbency dating from December lst.
His territory will include all of south
ern Colorado
A. M. Copeland, who had made two
previous attempts to kill himself, com
mitted suicide in the city jail at
| kTpmmlinp on hn nj ipb nf hn 9Oth iI1t
by tying a silk muffler about his neck
and hanging himself by attaching it to
TIE iron grating of the window.
December usually shows the highest
shipments of potatoes of the season
from Greeley. but this year they prom
Use to be larger, say dealers. Texas,
the Southwest and near East are the
heaviest buyers. Farmers are now lie
ceiving siXty-five cents.
At La Junta on Sunday the 1st inst.
after shooting and instantly killing his
motherin-law, Mrs. Jose Lusero, and
deyta, a Mexican, turned his revolver
upon himself and committed suicide.
Mrs. Mrs. Addeyta was not harmed.
A large alfalfa sugar meal factory
will be built at Brush for the manu-
1t will handle the output of the Ster-
ling and Fort Morgan factories. The
Great Western Sugar Company is now
feeding 600 head of cattle at Brush.
The largest family gathering at a
THANKSGIVING dinner in northern Colo.
RADIO was probably that of Tom Beas.
ley, farmer living south of Longmont,
who entertained his uncles, aunts,
brothers and sisters with their fam
lilies numbering seventy-one persons.
In the district court at Trinidad Dan
Smith pleaded guilty to charge of fer
gerry and was sentenced to two to three
yeas in the penitentiary. Smith vas
the leader in an attempted Jail delivery
which was prevented by one of the
prisoners disclosing the plan to the
sheriff
According to a report from d. f.
Murphy, treasurer of the Woodm en- S
National Home Building Association
over 100000 has been contributed by
local camps for the national home in
Colorado Springs and it is expected
that this sum will be doubled when all
the camps are heard from.
w. l.. Pierce, living northeast OF
Mead in Weld county, this year had
CO6) sacks selling for $5,424, and sev.
erty acres acres of beets, yielding 1.53O
tons, valued at s6,sl6.25. The total
value of the crop was sl2.270.25. which
is more than the valuation placed on
his farm.
The Fort Lupton, the Kelsey, tie
Burge and Wattenburg districts and
district No. 100 in southern Weld
county. are considering consolidating
for the purpose of supporting first
class graded grammar school and a
separate high school. BY such a COM
bnation. it is argued, the school cX-
penses would be reduced.
Alphonse A. DeRome, conductor Of a
switch train on the Denver & Rio
Grande railroad, was killed at Walsen-
burg November 25th by rear end col
lsion between his train and freight
train, being thrown against the engine
Of the freight train and dreadfully
mangled. He was thirty-nine years of
age and married leaving Il wife i'll
Pueblo.
According to the estimate of the pub
fishers of the new city directory, the
population of Pueblo is now 6l,400, an
increase of nearly 5000 over last year.
The book contains twenty-five pages
more than it did one year ago and $500
additional names. 1t contains 24,56O
names. which multiplied by two and
ore-half, gives the estimated popula-
ton.
Captain David r. Sparks, who died a
few days since at Alton, Illinois, is
credited with having set up the first
quartz mill in Colorado near the Bob
I tail mine at Black Hawk. The engine
used in that mill is still in use on the
Bobtail. Mr.. Sparks afterward re-
turned to Illinois and became one OF
the leading flour millers of the state.
AT the time of his death he was about
eighty-four years old. He was an uncle
OF Mrs. George Fritz Of Black Hawk
I In the District Court at Greeley On