The Glenwood post., 1907-05-04
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

courthouse to take place of the old
one erected forty years ago.
Rocky Ford gave the Odd Fellows
rousing reception on April 26, the
eighty-seventh anniversary of the or
der.
double track is being built on the
railroad between Canon City and
Florence in order to take care of the
heavy trafic.
A Denver chemist discovers that
California coffee firm puts chicory in
| their coffee, and the authorities are
after them
Gen. William ]. Palmer has sent to
the Civic improvement leagne of
| Canon City several hundred shrubs for
the state park.
The MacMonnies Indian statue has
caused about as much commotion
among the pioneers of Colorado as the
| appearance Of the real red men did in
early days.
Walter Cunliffe, director off the
Bank of England, and private car
| party, spent several days in the Pixies
Peak region. The party also visited
! Cripple Greek.
Charles Friend won in the High
school oratorical contest at Colorado
Springs, and will represent the school
at the interscholastic contest to be
held in Boulder, May 10th.
R. F. Milford, the caretaker of the
| Silver Lake reservoir, telephoned the
city clerk at Boulder that eighteen feet
OF snow had fallen at that place this
| winter and five feet this month
Mrs. w. II. Miller of Gunnison blew
| !, 1,r, TEL, ,,i.. ol
of despondency over her husband los
ing; his position as station agent. She
had been an invalid for years.
The chared body of Henry Godfrey,
foreman of the calcination department
of the Portland cement works at
Florence was found in the white-hot
miited suicide.
| Emma Goldman the female alarm
ist, has been in Denver for a few days
and none the daily papers actually
found it necessary to put on an extra
lieg of red ink in order 20 properly
handle her warm remarks.
Mrs Mary Quisenberry of Trinidad,
| 20 years old. has gone to Oregon to
be married to the sweetheart OF her
youth. Obstinate parents had side
| tIdCheu lHe HldtCu HldHy y ediS > d5o, pul
now the barriers are buried away.
An engine on the Colorado & North
western railroad overturned while
bucking snow near Ward, on Sunday,
ard tumbled down the mountain side
400 feet, killing Engineer Robt. Cook.
| The engine was torn into pieces.
G. H. Patterson, labor commissioner
for the Great Western Sugar Company
at Loveland. has gone to Nebraska to
engage 1000 Russians for the coming
beet campaign. The acreage this year,
in snite of the silo clause, is greater
than before.
Now that Jack Shire has confessed
to numbering Maurice Caplan in Den
yer, the police and the newspapers of
that city are trying to prove that he
| didn't do it. Murderers should be very
| careful about making confessions
unles they have additional proof.
Little packs of garden seed,
Little plats of ground,
Little early rising,
And a little scratching round
VIII supply hungry family
| And overflow their cup
In this land of Colorado
If the hens don't scratch it up.
The Pioneers Society of Colorado
raises vigorous protest against the
design for the proposed monument to
be erected in their honor at Denver.
The artist suggests the statue of a
vicious Indian poised on top of the
pedestal, and the pioneers object to
having such prominence given the
enemy they had to conquer.
meeting of the Ouray Development
flII ut hn ho1 q
proposed to raise $4,000 to be ex-
pended in advertising resources, es-
| pecially mineral, during the next two
months. In addition plans are on foot
for big tourist hotel, sanitarium and
a swimming pool which will utilize the
| water from the natural hot springs.
cheap and delightful way in which
to spend ones vacation is entertain
ingly described in a booklet, Camping
il, the Rocky Mountains" Just issued
| by the Passenger Department of the
Denver & Rio Grande railroad. This
Il little book tells where to go, what to
wear, what to take and what it will
cost.
The Boulder Oil Refining Company
will build refinery on Dabney place,
east of town. The plant will cost $10,-
900. The stills and other machinery
have already been purchased. d. B..
Burton of Denver will be the superin-
tendent. The main object of the com
\ pany is to make by-products of oil
rather than paraffn.
After ten years of patient waiting
the widow of the late II. A. w. Tabor
expects to realize her dream of wealth
which has occupied her mind since her
husbands death In the Matchless
mine near Leadville, the one asset
which Mr. Tabor valued more than
anything else, rich body of ore has
been discovered during the last week.
Lack of evidence, it is said caused
District Attorney Hogan to dismiss the
case of alleged attempted arson against
Dora McInerey and Helen Granger at