The Glenwood post., 1910-06-25
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

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Arthur r. Bliesner has been appoint.
ed postmaster at Verde. Pueblo county.
Rocky Ford Elks expect to take
steps soon toward providing q lodge
home.
The Rocky Mountain Hotel Mems
Association is meeting at Estes Park
this week.
A fine flow of water has been struck
in the test artesian well being sunk in
Grand Junction.
Trinidad Episcopalians will endeav-
or to raise $4,000 to build a new
church edifice.
Caonn City has been selected as tho
meeting place of the State Epworth
League next year.
A ministerial association has been
organized among the gentlemen of the
cloth in La Veta.
DR.. L. E. Hastings of Golden, pio-
neer and veteran of the Civil War.
died at the age of seventy-four.
Lemuel T. Talmage, a veteran Of the
Civil War, was found dead at George
town, where he had lived forty-two
years.
Six cowboys from Nebraska are on
their way to North Park to roundup a
large number of wild horses which
range in that section.
The American Association of Trans
portation and Car Accounting officers.
$50 strong. are meeting this week at
Colorado Springs. ..-.
Henry T. Rogers, Denver man,
was elected chairman OF the Yale
Conn. Monday night.
The Denver, Laramie & Northwest
ern road has placed an order with an
eastern factory for 1874 freight cars,
which will cost $113.661.
Report has it that Longmont will
have union depot, which will be
used by the Colorado & Southern, Bur-
lington and Great Western.
The Alma Bulletin reports that "the
Hilltop mine shipped eighty cars of
high-grade zinc and lead ore last
month, and will do better this month"
Hon. S. A. Griffin, prominent law
yer of Boulder, died suddenly at his
home Sunday. He was about 65 years
old and at one time was a regent of :
the State University.
The big Baptist meeting of this year
will be held at Cascade canon from
July 22d to August 1st. More than
thousand delegates are expected to at
tend.
Evarts Tracy, architect of the new
Denver postoffice, says that, after hav-
ing visited the famous marble quarries
of Italy, Colorado marble quarries have
no superior in the world for capacity,
quantity and quality. @
Austin Downey of Fort Collins. a
graduate of the Agricultural College,
and lately an engineer OF the reclama-
tion service, was drowned at Cody,
Wyoming, when a steam launch on the
big Shoshone reservoir capslzed Thurs
day night.
Glenwood's annual Strawberry Day
celebration Saturday is reported to
have been the best ever. About 5000
attended. In the hose contest the team
from Aspen was awarded the first
prize, Palisade second and Glenwood
third.
Ino Chavara, a Mexican, was found
near the tramway track in Arvada Fri
day with his throat cut, having been
there all night. He was nearly dead
from loss of blood. but was taken to a
hospital in Denver. He refused to give
the name of his assailants
The commissioners of Larimer coun-
ty have just been informed by a gov
ernment inspector that the lumber
they have been buying for numerous
new bridges, ETC., had been cut from
government land. Informatlons are to
be filed against, the dealers.
Walter B. Edwards, vice president of
the First State Bank of Hillrose, was
found dead Monday, he having commit
ted suicide by means of shotgun. Ill
health is supposed to have been the
cause. He left an estate valued at
about $25,O00.
The Colorado Springs Electric Com
pany. the Colorado Springs Light and
Power Company and the Pixies Peak
Hydro-Electric Company have been
merged as the Colorado Springs Light.
Heat and Power Company, with a cap
italization of 100000.
The contract for the new white mar
BILE postoffice in Denver calls for the
work to be done in twenty-five months
and the contractors will use every e:-
fort to complete it in that time The
marble company will begin delivering
the huge white slabs in September
New officers of the Colorado State
Christian Endeavor Society elected at
Sterling Saturday are: President, Her
bert r. Chapman, Colorado Springs;
vice president. w. M. Cocks. Denver;
recording secretary, Miss Edna Bru-
ner. Loveland; treasurer, Joseph
Schlotter, Colorado Springs. Rev. Joel
Harper was chosen superintendent of
personal work.
Cragmor sanitarium, built by the
late Gen. William ]. Palmer at Colo.