The Glenwood post., 1909-07-03
COLORADO NEWS

eral years before.
The Union Pacific railroad has Sc
cured nearly all the property necessary
for it's right of way through Fort Col
Inns.
Thirty blooded Percheron-Norman
mares from France are to be brought
to Greeley for breeding purposes at a
cost of $4,000
The work CT decorating the inter
begun soon after the adjournment of
the National Educational Association.
The Stratton estate contemplates
improvements of about 100000 on the
Brown Palace hotel in Denver, which
will begin next fall, after the summer
season.
Milo MCGOWAN, a young real estate
dealer at Limon, was struck by light
ming June 25th and instantly killed.
while working at his homestead twelve
miles from town.
R. c. Johnson, representing the Kan
sas-Colorado Construction Company, is
settling the accounts of creditors at
Pueblo, after which it is said that
work on the road will be rushed
A promising gold discovery has
! been made in Routt county on Rock
creek near Whitley in the Rabbit Ear
range which is said to be an extern
sion Of veins running through the Gore
range.
1t is now Dr. Shafroth. The Uni.
versity of Michigan on June cath con,
ferred the honorary degree of l.. L. d.
upon Gov. John. =. Shafroth of Colo
RADIO, a graduate of the law school in
1875.
Upon the reQuisition of Gov. B. B.
Brooks Of Wyoming, Lieut.. Gov. Fitz-
garrald issued extradition papers for
Oscar Berg, wanted for horse stealing.
Berg was found working in the mines
at Lake City.
! C. B. Nix sold his farm of 100 acres
near Eaton few days since to Chris
Nelson for $21.OOO. Nix bought 1t last
fall for $16,5O0. He retains two-thirds
of this years crop and estimates his
profit at $500.
| Work has begun on the new bath
pool of the Steamboat Springs Town
site Company. 1t will be fed by nat
ural hot springs, is to be 100 by $50
feet and will be similar to the large
pool at Glenwood Springs.
R. A. Ballinger, secretary of the inte
rior in President Taft's Cabinet, and
Congressman E. 4. Taylor of Colorado
are among the important public men
who will address the Denver Chamber
of Commerce at series of luncheons
planned for the late summer and early
! fall
While c. w. Gilbert, proprietor of
the Gilbert drug store at Loveland.
and his assistant Mr.. Brown, were
charging soda fountain tank, it ex-
ploded. and the upper portion was
thrown across the room, knocking
Brown down and breaking Mr. Gil
bert's left forearm near the elbow.
| A chapter of the Daughters of the
Confederacy will be organized in Den
yer within the next few weeks. At
meeting of fifteen women of, Denver,
all former residents of southern states,
held at the Albany hotel, petition for
a charter was signed. The meeting
was called by Mrs. A j. Emerson of
Berkeley, formerly of Virginia.
X. Matsubara, Japanese consul at
Chicago. was a recent visitor in Den
yer. coming as the guest of the Jap
anese Association of Colorado and DR..
| A. L. Bennett, state inspector of Or
ientals. A banquet was given to NJ.
Matsubara and Dr. Bennett by the jap
anese Business Mems Association of
| Colorado.
George Easton, wealthy lumber
man charged with timber trespassing
at Fraser in Grand county, confessed
judgment in the Federal Court in Den
yer, and gave the court his check for
$67S.50 and costs. The amount paid is
at the rate Of IS per 1000 feet for the
timber. which he was charged with cut.
ting from government land.
Prof Abram Gideon of the State
Normal Schosl, has been appointed on
the advisory council of the simpified
spelling board of the United States.
Two other Colorado men are on the
board-President Anderson of the
School of Mines, and Doctor Pershing
of Denver. Their are twenty lecturers
on the board, of which Doctor Gideon
is one.
About 10 o'clock on the night of
June 25th, two masked men entered
the store of James A Fenlon at I'm
compahgre and, after severely beating
Fenlon and leaving him tied and help.
less, looted the store, taking $25 in
cash knives and tobacco Fenlon MT
up lively fight but was knocked
down with revolver and over
powered
A verdict for $500 for little Clayton
Kerr, the seven-year-old son of Harry
Kerr of the district attorneys office
in Denver. has been returned in Judge
Riddles court at Denver against DR..
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