The Springfield herald., 1901-09-13
COLORADO NOTES.

has nominated n full county ticket for
! the fall campaign.
General w. j. Palmer OF Colorado
Springs has given 500 TO Command
ant Snyman for the Boer rellet iuhu-
The Colorado Springs y. Nj. G. \.
building directors have received sl1'
of 81, 800 from 4 donor who desires
not to have his name published.
At the rock drilling contest in Lead
vile on Labor Day. Hupps ana Llhu-
uuist of Ouray broke the worlds rec
ord by driving the drill 4l1a inches,
which beats the former record held py
Chamberlain and AndreGS nearly TWO
inches.
The directors of the state fair to be
held at Pueblo September I'D to 2ith
have received a letter from Gunnlson
county asking that arrangements De
made to allow the county to have
building made from bales OF nay IN
which to place its exhibits.
August was the heaviest month OF
tourist travel Colorado has ever known,
if the baggage records ut the union de-
pot in Denver are n correct index Inc
number of pieces sandled was 1O3.1OS.
while for July it was but 1Oo.s3o. rms
is also an increase over August of last
year of 1880 pieces.
Mrs. Helen Grenfell will make
careful inspection of the public schools
in the North park, Il part of the state
that has not always received the at
tention it deserves on account of the
time required 10 reach it from Denver
John Erickson proposes TO build a
$4,000 opera house at Florence.
The grand stand for the Festival of
Mountain and Plain will be erected on
the site of former festival arenas Mt
ColfaX avenue and Broadway. The
seating capacity will be upwards of
10000. All special events will take
place in the arena. All parades VIII
pass in review before the grand stand
f. l.. Dana and Charles Zobrist an
nounced their intentions to build
street car line to Prospect Lake from
Colorado Springs. The lake is about
Il mile and a half from the center of
the city and the parties intend to make
it n big resort. The building OF this
ear line will be the first step. 1t will
cost $4,000.
During the storm Mt Lovcland Sep
tember Sd. two men. William Clark
and Charles Wells. We're hurt by
lightning stroke while under their wa
gon. about n mile west of town. Their
dog was killed. Lightning struck
some hay stacks on the farm of A.
Rist. four miles west of town, and
about fifty tons We're burned.
Blast furnace \ at the Minnequn
steel works, Pueblo, which has been
in course of construction for more
than a year. was blown in September
4th. Miss Grammer, daughter of Su-
perintendent Grammer of the blast
furnace, started the big machinery GO
ing. The furnace will add about 400
tons of pig iron day to the output OF
the plant.
1t is announced that by October 1st
work will be commenced on the new
steel wagon plant at Pueblo to be
erected between the Minnequa town.
site and the Union Stock Yards on the
land of the C. +. & |. Company. 1t is
understood that the S35O,OOO of capital
stock of the company has all been sub
scribed, and all possible efforts will be
made to get the work under way.
At meeting of the Cripple Creek
board of aldermen the granting of an
electric light franchise to +. L. Wade
of Colorado Springs was carried by
vote of 8 to 2. The franchise asked by
the Pixies Peak company and Peoples
Electric Light Company We're voted on
or Crane in closing gambling in that
city was also indorsed by n majority
vote.
On the evening of September Sd
fire at Engle. mining camp n few
miles south of Trinidad, totally de-
stroyed the mercantile store of Pine IL
Co. The stock was entirely destroyed.
The loss was about $1,000. with little
insurance. The building belonged to
A. Raskower of Trinidad and was
worth about $1,000. Mrs. Welch's res
taurant and boarding house was also
destroyed.
The following patents have been
granted to Colorado inventors: Leon
ard C. Bailey, Florence. bottle; Melvin
II. Beck. Victor, chair for mining
cages: Merritt G. Conley. Longmont,
bedstead; Augustus A. Clough, Denver,
dust trap for street Sweepers: Will
lam j. Jones. Denver. apparatus for
carbonating liquids: James II. Mont
gomery. Denver, aerial wire rope
tramway; A. Il. Rathron, Florence,
book rest.
| In a suit brought by eastern credi
tors against the Brown Palace Motel
| Company, managers of the Brown Pal
ace hotel in Denver, ID. ii. Mofiat tes-
tilted that the company has upward of
$4,000 to its credit in the First Ma
| tional Bank and is making money ut
the rate of $1,000 or $1,000 n month.
| The ten years lease held by the hotel
company expires November Goth, 1902.
! The company now has S2JO,O0O in
bonds outstanding and is regarded as
one of the most fiourishing hotel com
| panies in the West.
| At meeting of citizens held at De
| BeQue it was decided TO hold the an
nual lion hunt and cowboys roping
| and broncho riding contests this year.