The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1901-04-06
COLORADO NOTES.

Colorado will have team OF dear
mute baseball players this summer,
Cripple Creek people will make an
organized effort to induce President
Mckinley to visit the great gold camp.
A big apartment house to be built In
Denver will have a telephone to each OF
the apartments, of which there will be
twenty-four.
Nearly 400 acres of sugar beets have
been contracted for in the vicinity OF
Fowler. being large increase over tne
acreage of last year.
The Rio Grande saloon at Cripple
Creek was held up at 1870 a. IN. on
March 18th and robbed of $S7. rive
men were in the place at the time.
President Packard Of the Denver
Baseball Club Is gathering In the mem
bers of the team and expects to have
them all together before April 10Th, the
day set for them to meet.
The loss of stock by the recent
storms in eastern Colorado Is estimat-
ed in different sections at from one to
three per cent. 1t is generally reported
to be mostly young calves.
The agricultural department Of the
State Agricultural College has received
= very fine microscope for bsctsriolog-
ical work, and als6 two and half
horse power gasoline engine. y s..,
A cane made from the historic Char
ter Oak at Hartford Connecticut, has
been placed In the state museum OF
war relics in the capitol building at
Denver by William A. Fuller
The valuation attached to Denver
building permits for the month OF
March, 1901, was the sum of $4S4, SS2.-
o., q great Increase over the year 1900,
when the valuation was only $265. 14O.
A short time ago 1t was announced
that the macarOni factory at Coal
Greek, near Florence, would be moved
to Pueblo, but the operators decided
that the plant should remain where 1t
Is.
The Lamar Building and Loan As
ISOLATION has been Incorporated with
capital stock of 100000 by G. J.
Garvin Morton Strain, G. G. Huddles-
ton, i. L. Maxwell. A. E. Bent, l. H.
Myers and w. j. Johnston.
Benajah s. Phelps of Colorado
Springs celebrated his 1O1st birthday
March oath. He is in very good health
and IL believed to he the only person
in the state who has lived In the
eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth
centuries.
Mayor johnson of Denver has signed
an ordinance passed by the City Coun-
Gil prohibiting storekeepers from ex-
changing candy, cigarettes, ETC., Tor
milk, bread, yeast and car tickets, post
age stamps and other articles offered
as barter by children.
After being out twenty-four hours
the jury in the Vanolia VS.. Thompson
attempted murder case at Montrose
was dismissed and the prisoner bound
over to the next term Of court. The
jury could not agree, standing ten for
conviction and two for acquittal.
In a rear-end collision between two
freight trains on the Rio Grande near
Apache, forty-fve miles south Of Pueb-
10, March 3Oth, at 0:06 p. M, in . fierce
snow storm, Head Brakeman Edward
Miller was Killed outright and Conduc-
tor Goodlow Of train No. 400, was In
1ured. f
l1he receipts at the United States Gus
tom house in Denver from duties on
imported goods were twice as much
for the month just closed as for March,
1900. The greater part Of the revenues
come from taxes on whisky and tobac-
co, ana Lne resi- ulHluly VI blAAs AAA
other articles of luxury.
A division Of the Salvation Army,
consisting mostly of young women, In
vaded number of the saloons and
gambling houses at Victor few nights
since, where they sang songs and ex-
horted the keepers and others present
to turn from the error of their ways.
The army lassies were treated with
much respect.
The Florence field seems to be going
right ahead with its production with
out any fear Of losing Its position at
sections in Colorado. The field is grad
ually extending. A few days ago a
new well was struck about three miles
southeast of Florence and on the ex-
IRENE limit Of the developed field. 1t
produces $50 barrels n day and was
struck at depth of 2. 100 feet.
A large cheese factory is being erect
ed at point ten miles north of Pey-
ton In the center of one Of the richest
agricultural sections of Ell Paso coun-
ty. 1t will be known as the Bijou Ba-
sin Cheese Factory and will cost from
$1,000 to $4,000. The plant Will have
n capacity Of handling 1900 gallons
of milk and will turn out 600 pounds
of cheese each day. Francis Capell Of
Colorado Springs is the proprietor.
Curator Ferril Of the State Historical
Society and Museum, at the capitol
building lin Denver, - receiving some
distinction at the hands Of the st.
Louis papers, which give him the credit
for the frst suggestion of not only the
centennial celebration Of tho Louisiana
purchase in the Mound city, but OF the
first suggestion Of the coming centen-
NAL Of the Lewis and Clark expedition
to the northwest, which will be held
in Portland, Oregon, In 1905.
The Crystal Springs Brewing and Ice
Company's plant of Boulder has been
purchased by s. Pells and l. NJ. Loben-
cte{n NJ Rock Island JIltnoiu The coy