The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1900-11-03
COLORADO NOTES.

preparing Il directory Of local manuIac-
turers.
Brick walks have been put down be-
tween the tracks ut the Union depot In
Denver.
The annual Pioneers Society ball will
be given In kassler's hall, Denver, III
the first week In December.
Thieves broke Into "PursOn" Uzzelrs
new tabernacle building in Denver and
robber the carpenters chests OF tools
worth $75.
On the evening of The cath the shaft
houserecently built at the EithOff tun-
mel ut KokomO was burned, practically
destroying the plant Of machinery.
Donacio Trujillo. n boy eighteen
years OF age. was run over by eoal
car and killed ut the Starkville coke
ovens, near Trinidad, October 18th.
George COppell, chairman of the di-
rectOrs of the Denver and Rio Grande
road. denies the report that President
Il Jeffery is to retire from his office
al an early day.
In honor Of Mrs. Carr of Longmont.
tional President of the w. II. c., and
Mrs. Hardin Of Denver. national sec
rotary, the ladies' of Nathaniel Lyon
Post, No. %, q. A. H., of Boulder, held
a reception and banquet October 23rd.
The net earnings Of the Denver L.
Rio Grande for the third week In De-
tober were *244.4O0. un Increase of
1000. The net earnings from July
Let We're $3,G0l 600. an increase of
$505. 100.
Ross Miller, the Denver & Rio
Grande brakeman who knocked a
wOuld-be train robber on the cur with
his lantern, has been taken care of by
the company and placed on IA good run
near home.
The school board OF District No. l,
Denver, known as the East Denver
district. has arranged to have children
in certain remote parts of the district
taken from their homes to school In
the morning and back at night In ON
nibuses.
Professor Walter II. Nichols has
been appointed to the chair of history
and political science in the University
Of Colorado made vacant by the resig
nation Of DIR. MacIean. who leaves to
accept the position of president OF
Idaho University.
Captain John b. Bennett. Sixteenth
infantry, has been relieved from duty
as acting judge advocate of the Depart
ment of the Colorado. and from other
duties at headquarters in Denver, and
has been ordered to join his regiment.
now campaigning in the Philippines.
The much-ratlied-for big COW. that
earned 30 much money for the Old LID
dies Home in Denver, has been pur-
chased by the International Stock
Food Company and taken to Mime
npolis. Her weight before she started
for the city of big mills was 900
pounds.
The companies controlled by the Gug.
genhein brothers at their various
plants in Pueblo, Old Mexico, Perth
AmbOy, New Jersey, and Chill, South
America, are said to employ about
twenty Of the graduates of the Colorado
State School Of Mines, many Of them
In leading positions.
Thomas Holland state supefintend-7
ent Of fish hatcheries, who has been in
the western part of the state where he
went in company with State Game
Warden johnson. says the Int move
ment of the game from the north alone
saved most frghtful slaughter from
the invading Indians.
A gallon jug full of corn whisky was
recently received at the revenue office
In Denver ms proof that an Illicit dis
tiIlery formerly existed In that section
of Ebert county, near the ArapahOe
line, known as THE Breaks" The
still, however, seems to have disap-
peared.
Harold ]. Bell. civil and mechani-
cal engineer, died Mt Denver, October
2Sth. Mr.. Bell was of an inventive
turn of mind and had taken out more
than 400 patents on various articles of
general or special use. He was a ma
tive Of Ireland, but had resided In
America since bOyiiood and had lived
in Colorado since the early los.
At the annual meeting of the interde-
noninntiOnal missionary societies of
Pueblo, a committee was appointed TO
secure books to start missionary de-
partment In the Mcclellan public IL
brary. 1t was also decided to raise
800 to educate Turkish blind girl in
England to act as missionary among
her own people.
The dead body of Mrs. Elmira G.
kier was found in her cabin. Just east
of GlenwOOd Springs, OH the 18th in
slant. There We're no signs OF violence
and death was probably the result of
alcoholism. The woman has been
known for the past ten years as
"Micky" Sullivan or Mine of Dia-
monds." For the last few years food
has been supplied her by the county.
Some time ago Robert Allen of Long
mont mysteriOusly disappeared and has
not been heard from since. 1t is claimed
that he Is dead. Allen belonged to the
W0Odmen of the World and carried 81
COO insurance. His wife. Mrs. Louise
Allen, has sued the order for the insur-
ance money, which IL contested on the
ground of lack Of sufficient proof that
Allen Is dead. The case was brought
up In the District Court at Boulder.
At special meeting of the board of
trustees of the State School of mines