The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1908-10-30
COLORADO NEWS

The grand lodge of Odd Fellows at
Greeley voted t0 hold its next annual
session at Pueblo.
The Rev. NJ. b. Williams of Chicago,
noted evangelist, is to head four
weeks series of revival meetings in
Denver.
Miss Adele Fowle a Denver stenog
rapher. was sixth in the international
and third in the amateur typewritins
contest held recently in New York.
The sample ballots for Weld county
for the general election have been
prepared in the English. Swedish Rus
sian, Spanish and Italian languages.
On the 2lst inst, for the first time
in the history of Pueblo. there was not
case of contagion registered with the
board of health, nor was there a case
in quarantine
According to Prof C. r. Chadsey.
city superintendent of schools in Den
Yer, it is necessary for Denver, in Or
der to keep pace with the growth of
school population, to spend about
$1,G00,00O every five years for school
buildings
Florian Cajori, head professor of
mathematics in Colorado college, and
dean Of the engineering school, has
reconsidercd his decision made last
term that he would resign as dean of
the school, and will again take up his
work.
The Kansas. Colorado Electric Rail
road Company Friday commenced con.
hemn"tion proceedings against eighty
four property owners in Pueblo county
to complete its right of way The
court issued an order giving the road
immediate possession.
The Colorado State Prison Associa-
tion is preparing statistics to be used
In support of bill permitting adult
first offenders to be paroled by the
courts in cases where such action
seems desirable. Good results have
followed this practice elsewhere.
Stricken suddenly with pneumonia,
Capt. John l.. Armit, for many years
prominent attorney and social leader
of Colorado Springs, died in Butte,
Montana, hospital on the 22nd inst,
after only a few days illness For the
past year Captain Armit had been
manager of the Montana Consolidated
Mines Company, one of the big copper
producers of that state.
In notices sent around to nearly ev-
cry business man in Denver, Secret
Service Agent Goddard warns all
against two men who are reported to
be examining cash drawers under pre-
tense of belonging to the secret SER
vice. The men have been caught, it
is said. in the act of removing money
several times, but have each time es-
capped.
c. S. Morey, president of the Great
Western Sugar Company, is reported
as saying that sugar in Colorado beets
this year is two per cent. below the
average. The best crop in Colorado
averages from fourteen to fifteen per
cent, sugar, but the percentage this
year will be from twelve to FOURTEEN
which means a loss of two per cent. to
the farmers.
Denver will have venison for
Thanksgiving, Christmas and New
Years feasts, Judging from the mum.
ber of storage permits being taken
out in the office of the state game and
fish commission. Over 200 permits
have already been issued and many
hundred deer are being stored in the
cold storage rooms of various ice
companies IN this city.
mted to the county commissioners OF
Pueblo county for the erection of the
new court house exceeded the esti
mates of both architects and the board
Five bids were presented, the loves
being that " Frank Taylor of Pueblo
$44S,3OS. Taylor contracts to use Tur
key Creek stone and to complete the
structure within two years.
Charles H. Mcclure, engineer at thu
Denver mint, stood highest in the ex
animation siven by the United State
civil service commission to applicants
for the position of inspector of me
chanical and electrical engineering il
the supervising architects office IL
Washington. He has been ordered t,
position.
A. E. Williams. blacksmith worl;
ing for the StrattonGranite company
sixteen miles north of Salida, was evi
IDENTIFY victim OF the heavy snow
storm that ragged in that vicinity Sur
day. He was last seen at the cam
of the company and his frozen bod
was found beside the trail shor
distance from the cabin. He had
brother in Aspen and sister in Der
yer.
Sixty young women of Colorado e,
ecuted one of the most complicated an
best managed drills ever attempted b
women on the stage of the auditorium
in Denver Saturday night. when th
drnl team of the Denver Youn
Womens Christian Temperance Unio
formed the letters V w. c. T. U. Will