The Delta independent., 1901-08-23
COLORADO NOTES.


& Southern in Clear Creek county.
The steel works at Pueblo had a pay
roll Of $174,6OO.5O for the month of
July, which is higher than ever before.
The planning mills and woodworking
establishments of Denver have been
idle for some time by reason of a
strike of go workmen.
The Colorado Federation of Wom-
ans Clubs will hold its annual meet
Ing at Victor and Cripple Greek, Sep
tember 10th, 11th and 18th.
The open season for deer and ante
lope with horns, grouse, prairie chick
ems, wild turkeys and sage chickens,
began in Colorado on August 10th.
While on a picnic with his family in
Williams canon at Manitou a few days
since. Nelson II. Gates. of Nebraska,
fell from Il cliff and was instantly
killed.
The following new postoffice ap-
pointments have been made in Colora-
do: Austin Crooks. Bowen; Thomas
Pattison, Sopris. and PetrolIno Paiz,
Trujillo.
The Telluride Reduction Company,
which has been boring wells on the
Hobbs tract near Colorado City, has
opened two springs with a capacity of
$1,000 gallons a day.
The haying season is now well under
way in the South park, and a large
tonnage is being cut, for which good
prices are expected owing to the drouth
in Kansas and Nebraska.
The directors of the Pueblo state
fair have established a bureau Of In
formation TO help visitors secure lodg-
ing places and hotel accommodations.
l.. j. Tyson will be in charge.
Lieutenant Colonel Cassius NJ. Moses
has returned to Pueblo and will make
1t his home in the future. Since re-
turning with the Colorado regiment Mr..
Moses has lived in Kansas City and
Denver.
In the Sugar City school bond cleo
ton the proposition to issue $4,000
bonds for an eight-roOm brick school
building was carried unanimously. The
new building will be ready for occu-
pancy this year.
Colorado football teams are already
beginning to arrange dates for next
falls contests. The Denver Athletic
Club will have team in the field as
usual, but the Denver Wheel Club
may keep out
In the amount of building permits
last month Denver stood twelfth in the
list Of American cities. her citizens
taking out permits to the amount Of
S3sS, ,tS9. being an increase of thirty
six per cent. over July, 1900.
While prospecting near hewitt. fif-
teen miles east of Buena Vista. George
Cooper discovered the tooth of a mas
todon in a very good state of preserva-
ton. 1t is described as measuring eigh-
teen inches in length and six inches in
breadth.
The Colorado Holiness Association
will hold their annual camp meeting
at Greeley from August Both TO Sep
tember 18th. inclusive. Rev. Isaiah
Reed Of Iowa and Rev. E. A. Ferguson
Of Normal. Illinois, will be in charge Of
the meeting.
On the 18th instant large excursion
went from Pueblo over the Texas
Greek branch of the d. & R G. road,
running from the main line at Texas
Greek to West Creek. The new branch
Is worthy of the reputation of the
''scenic line"
A Los Angeles dispatch says that E.
d. Bright. formerly a prominent resi-
dent of Trinidad. Colorado, committed
suicide in East Lake park. Los Ange-
les. August 18th, by shooting himself
through the head. Mr.. Bright was an
old timer in Trinidad.
1t is stated that hotel company is
now being formed under laws of Tex
as for the purchase of the tract of land
OF about forty acres, including the
Manitou and Mansion hotels in Mani
tou Springs. 1t is proposed to erect q
new building to cost $4,000.
The American Microscopical Society
will meet in Denver August 18th and
30th. Indications are that about $50
microscopists. representing many parts
Of the United States, will be in attend
ance at the meeting. Twenty papers
and discussions and some clinics will
occupy their time.
Ivy Baldwin's two-thousandth bal
loon ascension at Elitch's Gardens in
Denver on the night of August 18th,
was illuminated by fireworks which
he set of in the sky. But in coming
down he struck harbed wire fence
and got badly scratched besides hay
Ing his balloon ruined.
The gross earnings of the Rio
Grande Southern for the fiscal year
ending June Both We're S5S9.o2S. an in
crease of S14,392 compared with the
preceding year. The net earnings
amounted to S252.14S. an increase Of
1924. and the total net earnings We're
$3.50. 445. an increase of S11,90S.
In her address before the teachers
institute at Colorado Springs Mrs.
Helen L. Grenfell. state superintendent
of public instruction. said that thirty
one out of tifty-seven county superin-
tendents are women. as are also nine
tenths OF the teachers. Many men,
bers of the school boards of the state
are women.
AT n meeting this month of the board
of managers of the Jewish National
Home for Consumptives in Denver it
was reported that six patients who
had been in the hospital from eight to
twelve months have been discharged