North Park union., 1901-09-13
COLORADO NOTES.


The Democratic convention Tor Las
Animas county will be heid III 1rlhi-
dad September 3Oth.
The Socialist Labor party In Denver
has nominated full county ticket ror
the fall campaign.
The Prohibitionsts of Colorado are
PreparIng to agitate the submission
of temperance amendment.
Three thousand dollars has been
raised In subscriptions for the forma-
ton of polo club in Colorado Springs
Normal Institutes throughout the
state this year report large attend
ance and good work done. The profes-
sional spirit in teachers seems to DE IN
creasing.
Governor Orman has issued requl-
sition on the governor OF oregon ior
the return to Fort Collins of Mike ber-
nv. the bicycle thief, who made his es-
cane from the Fort Collins jail some
DAYS ago, and is now under arrest IN
thnt state.
At the rock drilling contest in Lead
Vile on Labor Day, Hupps and Lind
auist of Ouray broke the worlds rec
ord by driving the drill 41la inches,
which beats the former record held by
Chamberlain and Andregg nearly two
inches.
"a grocery, n boarding tent, book
store and postoffice, church, ana
nearly 200 families living in tents fill
ed with several hundreds of people is
the inventory morning paper gives OF
the Seventh Day Adventists' camp
meeting in Denver.
II satisfactory arrangements can be
made with the American Sugar Beet
and Irrigated Land Company for 2O,OOO
acres OF land under the reservoirs north
of Lamar, a colony of 800 families
from the eastern and central states Will
be located there at once.
The directors of the state fair to be
held at Pueblo September 23d to 2Ith
have received n letter from Gunnis0n
! county asking that arrangements be
made to allow the county to have
building mnde from bales of hay In
which to place its exhibits.
August was the heaviest month of
tourist travel Colorado has ever known,
II the baggage records at the union de-
pot in Denver are Il correct index. Tie
number of pieces handled was 103.36S,
while for July 1t was but 1OO.S3O. This
Is also an increase over August of last
year of 1850 pieces.
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
n mile and half from the center Of
the city and the parties intend to make
1t n big resort The building of this
car line will be the first step. 1t will
cost S25,OOO.
During the storm at LOvelnnd Sep
tomber 3D.. two men, William Clark
and Charles Wells, We're hurt by Il
lightning stroke while under their wa
gon, about 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.
1t Is announced that by October LIST
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 G. +. Il |. Company. 1t is
understood that the $350.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 Il. T.. Wade
of Colorado Springs was carried by II
vote of 3 to .. The franchise asked by
the Pixies Peak company and Peoples
Electric Light Company We're voted on
by the same vote. The action of May
or Crane In closing gambling In that
city was also Endorsed by IL majority
vote.
On the evening of September 3D.
fire Mt Engle, mining camp few
miles south of Trinidad, totally de-
stroyed the mercantile store of Pine 4
Co. The stock was entirely destroyed.
The loss was about $1,000. with little
insurance. The building belonged to
A. Raskower of Trinidad and wns
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 G. 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
iam ]. Jones. Denver, apparatus for
carbOnating liquids; James II. Mont
gomery. Denver. aerial wire rope
tramway; A. Il. Rathron, Florence,
book rest.
The worst of n series OF violent rain
storms struck Manitou and vicinity on
the forenoon of September Sd. continu-
ing for some time, and wreaking con-
siderable damage. Between Colorado
City and Manitou, near what Is known
us Arensdale, $50 feet of the Manitou
street car track was washed out by
the steady downpOur OF rain. The
street cur company was obliged to
transfer passengers around the scene
OF the accident
A Colorado Springs dispatch saws:
Definite plans have been finished for
the new $4,000 hotel to he erected by
Werner Reed of this city at Grand
Junction, and the contract will soon be
let. Mr.. Reed is now in Europe, and
will return about November. The ho-
tel will be two stories high and contain
fifty rooms. 1t will be built of brick.
The beet industry in Grand Junction
is attracting local capital, many
Springs men being heavily Interested.
Both Mr.. Reed and ]. X. McKinnie
have large interests.
On the night of September 3D. n par-
tV Of Dpnynr and rn1nrnIn Sp,i,,,,