The Meeker herald., 1900-09-08
COLORADO NOTES.

COllO1kADO AVA AeSs
Herds Of antelope have recently been
seen twenty miles east OF Denver.
The pioneers Of Washington county
held reunion at Akron on the Srd-
Albert W. Durkee of the Greeley Ma
tional Bank has been appointed POSI-
master.
The horse show will be held at Den.
yer October 3rd and 4th. A great
many entries have been announced A.
ready.
There are at least five new creamery
enterprises soon to be started In Colo'
RADIO. The Industry continues to grow
slowly but surely.
william Barager, a cook. shot and
killed Alvina Bollen at Denver Mon
day because she had refused longer to
receive his attentions.
1t is announced that Florence will
very soon have an automobile factory.
large two-story structure VIII be
commenced In about two weeks Tor
factory building.
A new rural delivery route has been
established at Rocky Ford, to be thirty.
four miles long and cover an area Of
forty-eight square miles. Eugene W.
Shelton has been appointed carrier.
Colorado built 122 miles Of the 2110
miles OF railroad constructed In tho
United States in the first six mouths Of
this year. This does not include sew
eral lines now in course Of construction
which, when finished, will bring Colo
RADIO well up in the list Of states that
are building railroads.
The thirty-eighth annual session Of
the Colorado Methodist Episcopal
Church convened In salida on the 18th,
and there Is large attendance Of min
listers and great interest in several
Items Of business to come before the
conference, notably the University OF
Denver and the deaconness work OF the
state.
The second series of fires which has
threatened Leadville within a week Oc-
Cured on the End, and came near wip-
ing out the little suburb Of Stringtown,
where the smelter people Hive. 1t was
only through the excellent work Of the
Arkansas Valley smelter that the town
was saved. The houses are all frame,
built in row, and there Is no water.
The Arkansas valley people stretched
a hose about 500 yards and put their
pumps to work. The damage was S.
900 or $1,000.
Spencer Dicks, who murdered Orviile
Miner, near Castle Rock on Sunday
night, drove into Rocky Ford Tuesday
night, put his horse in livery stable
and sent telegram to the Onicers At
Castle Rock to come and arrest him.
He said he might 60 to the penitentiAry
but could stand no longer the life he
had led since Sunday night. Dicks was
completely exhausted, and after send
ing the telegram he registered at the
st. James hotel under his own name
and went to bed. He carried two no
volvers.
The State Board Of Health. under the
direction Of Secretary Tyler, Ii preper-
ing q tabulatlon Of deaths and the
causes leading to these deaths. These
figures show that for the hrst six
months of this year 766 more makes
than females died. According to the
school census Of Arapahoe county the
male children Of school age number
1854, while the females number H.
515, or 081 more than the makes. The
other counties Of the state establish
the same general proportion, which
gives Colorado many more girls than
boys.
For the fourth time within seven
days another bad blaze occurred at
Leadville on the 3rd. The fire occur
red at the r. A. NJ. shaft Of the Small
Hopes Mining Company. This h one
Of the finest surface plants in the
camp, and the shaft Is one of the heav-
lest producers In the district. For .
time It appeared as II the entire place
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struggle the miners succeeded In get
ting control Of the flames, keeping the
damage down to about $4,000 The r.
A. II. shaft is located in Graham park.
It n owned and operated by the Small
Hopes Mining Company and is one OF
the deepest shafts Of the district.
A tenpound hammer skipped from
the hands Of a Marshall coal miner, .
contestant in a program of field sports
at Boulder lake last Sunday after
noon, and stove In the face and frac-
tured the skull of A. G. Edison, agent
Of the Colorado 4 Southern railway at
Marshall Mr.. Edison died during the
night. Mr. Edison WIS spectator,
and standing at distance Of thirty
feet from the ring when he was struck.
Two feet from him stood William
Thoreau of Denver. The handle Of the
hammer hit Mr.. Thoreau, cutting q
deep cash on the forehead and bruis-
ing him severly. In the excitement the
hammer thrower, a coal miner Of Mar
shall, left the grounds and cannot be
found.
The Transcontinental Passenger Az
ISOLATION 10 now mn assured fact. The
general passenger agents who have
been in session at GlenwOOd since last
Thursday morning concluded their la
bors Monday, and the results go to the
presidents and managers Of the re-
spective lines, who meet in New York
City September 18th. There appears
to be no doubt in the minds Of the
agents but that their work will be rat
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