North Park union., 1900-11-02
COLORADO NOTES.

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Simeon w. Cantril has been elected
general superintendent Of the Denver
Tramway Company. to succeed Q. x.
Durbin, resigned.
Winter may be said to have set In
quite generally in the mountain sec
tions Of Colorado on the Goth Inst,
when cold weather and snow were re-
ported over large area.
Secretary Osborn has practically
completed the program OF the conveh-
ton of the State Horticultural Society.
which meets In the state house on No
vember 21st. 22nd md 23rd.
Warden A. C. butcher says there
have been no punishments necessary III
the state reformatory for the past nve
months and no attempt has been made
by any OF the inmates to escape.
General H. c. Merriam. commander
of the Department of the Colorado
says hard bread and bacon make the
best emergency rations for soldiers.
No new invention has proved their
equal.
BARRIERS from all parts of the state
are preparing to ask the next LeGis-
lature to establish u license and exam
nation for BARRIERS, to shut on the
hastily educated students" Of the bar
bers' colleges.
The canning factory at Manzanola
has canned 1900 cases Of string beans
and 1900 cases Of tomatoes. This week
pumpkin canning begins and 1000
cases will be put up. Pueblo groceries
take the entire output.
The Denver boys who put a small
garter snake in a mail box for the fun
of seeing the letter carrier jump when
he put his hand in after the mail have
all been discharged after having been
pretty well scared by the prospect OF
having to serve term In jail.
The Colorado Humane Society is con-
sidering n thorough investigation of
the conditions existing In mines where
horses and mules are kept below
ground throughout the year. 1t Is said
that some animals never see daylight
from one years end to another.
The comptroller of the currency has
approved the application OF the First
National Bank of Sterling, Colorado,
to begin business with a capital OF $25,-
600. L. NJ. Kelly. Charles Vale, Geo.
A. Henderson, w. J. Powell and L. NJ.
Judd are named us stockholders.
The Pixies Peak Belgian Hare Club
Of Colorado Springs has been organized
with n membership of forty. w. j.
Doyle was elected president, Charles e.
Leibold secretary and L. q. Davis
treasurer. The club Is making ar
rangements for hare show to be held
soon.
Game Warden Lee snys that the Uin-
tab Indians have been in Rio Blanco
and Routt counties hunting, but have
been peaceable. Tint they care moth
ing for such regulations as have been
established by the state laws IN evil
denced by their constant shooting At
either bucks or does.
Thomas +. Walsh. owner of the
Camp Bird mine near Ourny, and Col.
orado commissioner to the Paris Expo
tition. is said to have spent half mil
lion dollars on dinners, receptions and
entertainments during the past six
months. He has quite set the pace for
the luxurious French capital.
Joseph Shaklee, arrested Mt Greeley
and confined for some time in the Weld
county Jail, has been taken to Denver
on the suspicion that he Is the person
who murdered Mrs. Lillian Bell and as
saulted Mrs. A. l.. Jessup and Miss
Annie McAtec. besides assnulting other
women on Capitol Hill. Shaklee Ia
mentally unbalanced.
The first cur OF sugar beets was ship.
ped from Las Animas on lie 11th inst.
to the American Beet Sugar Company
at Rocky Ford. There was grown in
the vicinity only 100 ncres which will
yield an average Of fifteen tons to the
acre. The percentage OF sugar is
greater than expected. and 1t is predict.
ed that an acreage in the thousands
will be sown to beets next year.
There are 1000 tons of sugar beets
In the sheds at the Colorado Sugar
Manufacturing Company's plant al
Grand junction. Bulletin No. 3, by
Manager Cox, notified the ranchmen
that they must hurry In the beets, Us
the big factory would be started Octo-
ber 18th. and kept running day and
night until the crop OF 1900 Is convert.
cd into granulated sugar.
Word has reached Montrose that Jos |
eph Woods was murdered mt Naturita
In Montrose county, by Austin Il. Ions.
way, n neighbOring ranchman. There |
has been i'll feeling existing between |
the farmers for some time, growing |
out Of n dispute over some land, cul |
minating in murder. The murderer, |
while fleeing, met his victims sons
coming to the home he had saddened. |
On learning OF the death Of their faith. |
er, the sons pursued the fugitive.
A half rate from all points In Colora |
do, selling October 20 and good to No. |
vember /, to the Good Roads conven.
lion, to he held October 80 has been |
granted by the railroads centering in
Denver. 1t Is quite probable that the |
two cabinet officers will be presen,,
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson tc
talk on the general subject of good |
roads, and Postmaster General Smith |
to emphasize the fact that the only |
thing which now stands in the way OF |
universal rural free delivery is the poor |
condition of the country roads in the |
nation. Hon Martin Dodge, secretary
of the office OF road inquiry Of the Ag.
ricultural Department. will also be
present. Il
Constitution Day" was observed in |
the many towns throughout the state !
on Friday, October 10Th. In most of |
the schools an hour was given in the |
afternoon to appropriate exercises. in
cludipg history OF the famous naval |
battle in which the Constitution van.
Quished the British frigate Guerrierc. |
Constitution Day" was appointed by |
the Society of the Daughters of 1912 In |
Boston, which desires to raise the $4OO,. |
600 necessary to restore the old frigate
In letter sent to all tn eschools in the