The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1901-03-02
COLORADO NOTES.

ing for the East.
A great quantity of rock from the pa
salt cliffs at Golden will be used IN the
streets Of Denver.
Recruits are being received in Denver
for the Thirtieth infantry, which Is 10
rendezvous at Fort Logan.
The Santa Fe railroad has complet-
ed its two large ice houses at La Juhta
and has them about filled with Ice.
The pay roll of the Colorado Fuel
and Iron Company at the Bessemer
steel works for the month Of January
was $157,241,34.
James Gill was fined $40 and costs,
amounting to $35, for the unlawful
killing of game in the cedars some for
ty miles south Of La Junta-
The Fire and Police Board Of Den
yer have offered $500 reward for the
capture of the Capitol hill thug who
has been assaulting and numbering
women.
There are 1855 members in good
standing in the Department Of Colorado
and Wyoming G. A. X. During the
past six months the gains were 159 and
the losses 126.
The gross receipts of the Denver City
Tramway Company for last year
amounted to $1,302, 2S9, which Is a con-
siderable improvement over those OF
the year before.
An examination for postal clerks and
carriers will be held in Denver, April
9th. Application blanks must be filled
out and turned In to the board Of ex-
aminers before March 9th.
The Health Board of Denver is pre-
pairing for vaccination crusade with
view of utterly stamping out smallpox
in the city. A house to house system
or visitation and vaccination is talked
Of.
On the night of the 18th instant the
Leadville Lodge of Eagles gave Il sue
cessful entertainment for the benefit
of the Tabor fund which is being
Rised in that city. and which previous.
~ amounted to 500.
While in Denver few days ago,
Colonel s. B. Dick. vice president of
the Colorado & Northwestern railroad,
stated that without doubt the company
would build the proposed extension
from Ward to Eldora.
R. Francis Kennedy. professor of
philosophy in the University Of Colo
RADIO, died nj Boulder, February 10Th,
of typhoid fever. He was a graduate
of Princeton University, and was only
twenty-six years old.
The Pueblos Evening Journals vot.
ing contest for the most poplar school.
boys in Pueblo" was decided in favor
of Ed. G. Smith and Carl Maroney,
whose expenses are paid to Washing
ton and return to witness the Inaugural
ton.
Roderick L. Lawther, who died from
injuries received at the PocahOntas
gold mine, was buried at Glenwood
Springs, February 10Th. He was In
only the week before the accident, and
was prominent in mining circles.
r. c. Russey of Parachute, Colorado.
has donated TO the bureau of war relics
in the capitol building at Denver, 4
Mauser rifle taken from Filipino. The
calibre is only .2S, but the bullet will
pierce six feet of seasoned pine.
John Alexander Seeley, the we'll
known civil engineer and former coun-
ty surveyor of Otero county, but latter
ly an auctioneer of Boulder county,
died at the home of his sister, Mrs. w.
G. Houston, In Boulder, February 10Th.
Joseph Inman, Colorado pioneer
and a member of the Greeley colony in
the early days, dropped dead Of heart
disease while walking along the street
at Nineteenth and Lincoln avenues in
Denver on the afternoon of February
18th.
Governor Orman has signed reQuisi-
hon papers for the return of William
Collins from California. Collins IL
wanted on the charge Of forging time
check for 1900 on the Colorado &
Southern railroad. Special Officer
Reno of the railroad company
will so for Collins.
In the two years ending November
3Oth last, Logan county cared for thir-
ty-nine poor persons at a total cost of
$709.S1. For the year ending Noven-
Der 30, 1899, twelve males and nine fe-
males were helped at a cost of $266.65,
and for the year ending November 80.
1900, eleven males and seven females
at cost Of $443.16.
The reception given to General Fitz-
hugh Lee by the Sons of the Revolution
at the Brown Palace hotel in Denver
on the night of February 22nd, was a
brilliant social affair. There was a
very large attendance of prominent
people, many of whom came from dis
tant parts of the state. General Lees
speech was received with almos. con-
slant applause. {
Frank Tompkins. the sheepherder
who disappeared from Adams & Bunk
ers' ranch about n month ago, was
found February 23rd by one of W T.
Farr's herders, sixteen miles northeast
Of Greeley, near Wyatte Bros place,
frozen to death on the prairie. 1t is
that Tompkins started to
walk to Greeley and was overcome by
sickness and the cold.
A meeting of the school boards Of
Phillips county was held February
22nd for the purpose of electing coun-
ty high school committee. The follow
ing persons were elected: John Hegin-