The Glenwood post., 1907-10-12
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

and lead it into town.
Denver tried to unearth another dy
Mantle scare but 1t proved hoax.
Mayor F. P. Hunt of Delta, killed
himself on account of domestic trou-
BILE.
The men charged with blowing up
the depot at Boulder are to go to trial
October 10th.
Claim is set up by indicted drug
gists at Fort Collins, that the grand
jury was illegally serving.
Robert E. Cunningham shot and
killed himself on the grave Of his wife
at Leadville because of dependency.
mentally deranged Slav at Trini-
dad cleared a rooming house of its
inmates and smashed up the furniture.
He was finally subdued.
o. Hall, who was in business at one
time at Idaho Springs and well known,
died at Stamford, Connecticut. His
brother, Albert Hall, is a prominent
mine operator
H. w. Moore near Brush, harvested
fifteen acres of potatoes which went
40 sacks TO the acre, weighing no
pounds to the sack. This is the record
Tor this vicinity.
petition signed by Postmaster
Walpole and officers of the Pueblo
Business Mems Association was for
warded to Washington requesting that
railway mail service be established on
Santa Fe trains No. COL and COZ be-
tween Denver and La Junta.
Peter Sprohesa, rancher, and for
twenty-five years a resident of Las
Animas county, died at his home near
Johns lake, east of Trinidad. De-
ceased was seventy years old and a
native of England. He is survived by
his widow and three sons.
Robert H. Gore, city editor of the
Chronicle-News of Trinidad, and Miss
Lorena Haury of Owensboro, Ken.
lucky, were married in the chapel of
the Catholic church by the Rev.
Father Drummer. The bridegroom
went to Trinidad five months ago from
Kentucky, where he was engaged in
newspaper work. The bride arrived
from Kentucky later.
Mrs. Augusta Cuthbertson of Oak
land, California, seventy-nine years
old, died on board Denver & Rio
Grande train No. while the train
was passing De Beque, of hemorrhage
of the brain. With her daughter, Mrs.
Kate c. Black, she was on her way
to visit relatives in the east. The body
will be taken back to California by
Mrs Black.
The first arrest under the new
Boulder liquor ordinance prohibiting
the giving away OF liquor at a place
g nn,,
was made when H. C. Truman,
painter, was arrested on the charge
of giving whisky to friend. He was
fined S5 and costs in the Police Court
this morning. Sentence was suspended
on promise of good behavior.
Old timers are predicting an un-
usually early and nard winter owing
to the fact that so many porcupines
are seeking civilization. Not in many
years have SO many of these little ami
mails made their appearance in Golden
and 1t is no strange sight to see one
numbering along through the street.
One was so bold as to venture out on
Washington avenue in front of the
business houses, where it was quickly
killed.
The Portland Gold Mining Com
pany, it is expected, will declare a
four-cent dividend at the regular quar-
terly meeting to be held Saturday
The amount will be 100000, payable
October 18th to stockholders of record
October 9th. Officials of the company
are reticent about divulging their
plans, but from outside sources 1t was
learned that they contemplate making
the dividend four cents. The disburse
ment viii be one of the largest of the
year in mining circles.
At depth of ninety feet blanket
vein of coal six feet six inches in
thickness was struck at the Brilliant
coal mine near Canon City. The out
cropping half mile from the shaft
showed another vein twenty feet be-
low the present discovery, five feet
and half in thickness. The Brilliant
Coal Company will sink three-com-
partment shaft eight by sixteen feet
and will operate the mine extensively.
The company owns l60 acres of coal
land ten miles southwest of here.
One hundred sacks of rich ore from
the new strike on the Royal Flush
group, being operated by the Hahn's
Peak Gold Mining Company, is now
on the way to the Argo smelter in
Denver. 1t will mil not less than $500
per ton and will do much toward es-
tablishing the status of Hahn's peak
as shipping camp. With 1000 tons
on the dump of this one property
some idea can be gained of the traffic
that will Immediately spring up when
the Moffat railroad gets as close as
Steamboat Springs.
DIR. Amos Bourquin of Denver, who
owns valuable grazing and agricul-
tural land and water rights in Web
ster park and Copper gulch canon
which he acquired from the Canon
Cattle Company. few months ago,
has secured from the District Court an
Injunction against Antoine Adamic pre-
venting Adamic from developing a
water right from the underflow of
Copper gulch and conducting the
water across Bourquins land to a
16O-acre tract on which Adamic pro-