The Glenwood post., 1908-08-08
COLORADO ITEMS
Denver is to have a new ice manu-
featuring plant with capital Of $780,

Denver is to have a new ice manu-
featuring plant with capital Of $780,
000
The rate fixed to the G. A. r. ma
tional encampment at Toledo, Ohio,
from Denver and Colorado common
points is $4s.25.
The grand council of the Red Men
Of Colorado will be in session at Pueb-
10 Aug. 10th, 11th, 18th and delega-
tions from all over the state are ex-
pected.
Acknowledgement Herbert S. Hadley
of Missouri, who, with his family, is
locaed temporarily at the E. H. Cook
home at Boulder, will address the ma
tional convention at attorneys-general
at Denver August goth, and will de
scribe his fight with the Standard Oil
people.
Water Commissioner Autrey of
Boulder states that notwithstanding
the heavy rains little of the flood
waters got into the storage reservoirs,
on account of the heavy flow coming
down at night, after washing out the
headgates or choking the inlets with
debris.
In fight between two inmates of
the Boulder county poor farm, T. X.
Bracken, aged about seventy-five years,
was knocked down and badly beaten by
an insane inmate name Jack holland.
Brack was taken to the University hos
pital, where it was stated that he
might recover.
California quail are becoming so
numerous and tame around Florence
that they are finding their way into the
city and eat grain with chickens in
Florence yards. A covey Of them daily
appear at the home of E. c. Hall OF
West Florence, and the smaller ones
eat from the hands of Mrs. Hill.
l.. W. Felter will start from Canon
City on a trip around the world Au-
gust goth. He will sail westward from
Seattle on the 30th in the steamship
Minnesota, visiting in the Philippines,
Japan and China. In India he will spend
several months in studying the mis-
sionary work among the natives.
John c. Sitterer of Denver has been
elected professor of civil and irriga-
tion engineering at the University of
Wyoming in place of Herbert T. No
well. resigned. Professor Sitterer is
graduate of the University of Ohio
and from the civil engineering de-
partment of the University of Denver.
Union depot officials declare that
all records have been broken during
the month of July in the number of
passengers carried into Denver. There
also has been an advance over previ-
Gus years in the number of tickets
sold, the increase being nearly $25,.
600 over the sales Of last year.
While driving across q dry arroyo
Wednesday night near Maitland, Huer-
fano county, John Wondergern, six
teen-year-old boy, was caught by
flood of water, which came down the
arroyo in a wall six feet high, and was
drowned. and his younger brother was
saved only by being washed into
wire fence
BY the flooding of the Gunnison tun-
mel on the 3Oth ult, as the result of a
cloudburst, fifteen men working in
the tunnel four miles from the river
portal. almost lost their lives. But
for the timely warning they had, and
the noise made by the rushing of the
water through the tunnel, they would
have been entrapped. They were
working near the 700-foot air shaft
and made their escape through this.
The directors of the Kansas Colo
RADIO Railroad Company had meeting
at Pueblo on the 31st ult, and let a
contract for the construction of the La
Junta and Kansas divisions of the
road. The contracts were awarded to
A. B. Hulit, who represents the North
ern Electrical company, and included
grading, ties and steel bridges. Mr..
Hulit announces that work will be be-
gun within ninety days.
The annual regatta Of the Grand
Lake Yacht club will be held on the
week OF August 18th. Grand Lake is
three miles long and three-cornered
course will be sailed, over about seven
miles. Besides the chief yachting
event, there will be many other attrac-
tions during regatta week. There will
be power boat races, rowing races for
men, women, girls and boys, and bron-
cho busting.
The United States Reduction & Re
filming Company has announced that the
United States smelter at Canon City
will be closed in few days for about
three months on account of the ware
htouses being filled with paint pigment
The market for paint in the East is
not good and 1t will take several weeks
to dispose OF the present supply. The
CloslHS Ol tue SLlelteT Will throw OUT OF
work $50 men.
The resumption of work by the many
factories of the East and South has
caused good demand for the starch
made by the Greeley factory last sea-
son and at satisfactory prices. AL
ready 100000 pounds of potato starch
has gone to the Oxford and Adams
cotton mills In Massachusetts, the
mills at Seneca. 8. c., and other east
ern points. Other factories have or
dered starch. Five carloads have gone
to New York city to be re-ground and
bolted for potato flour and sold to Ger
mans.
About ten carlots of material and
supplies OF the Colorado & Northwest
ern are in the yards at Boulder await
ing shipment to the Barker meadow
dam of the Eastern Colorado Power