The Grit-advocate., 1901-08-23
COLORADO NOTES.

The horse show at Colorado Springs
August Goth to 22nd, is expected to be
one of the finest affairs Of the kind
ever held in the state.
The Colorado Federation of Wom-
ans Clubs will hold its annual meet
ing at Victor and Cripple Creek, 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.
+. 7. Clark, a Cripple Creek police
man, was killed on the night of the 9th
instant by accidentally coming in CON
tact with live electric light wire.
The following new pOstottice ap-
pOintments have been made in Colora-
do: Austin Crooks. Bowen: Thomas
Pattison, Sopris, and Petrollno paiz,
Trujillo.
The drill corps of Colorado Command
cry, No. 1, Knights Templar. of Den
yer. will compete for prizes at the trl-
ennial conclave in Louisville, August
Goth to 2Sth.
1.-The sightseer who comes to Colo
RADIO and does not take in Cripple
Creek has missed half the show is
what a Kentucky editor says of the
great gold camp.
The Telluride Reduction Company.
which has been boring wells on the
Hobbs tract near Colorado City. has
opened two springs with a capacity of
$4,000 gallons a day.
The hayng season is now well under
way in the South park, and a large
tonnage is being cut, for which good
i prices are expected owing to the drouth
in Kansas and Nebraska.
8 The directors of the Pueblo state
fair have established bureau of in
4, formation to help visitors secure lodg-
Y ing places and hotel accommodations.
1. ]. Tyson will be in charge.
The old Tabor opera house at Lead
Vile, erected by III. A. w. Tabor dur
ing the palmy days of the camp. has
been purchased by the Leadville Lodge
a Of Elks and will be greatly improved.
Colorado football teams are already
beginning to arrange dates for next
falls contests. The Denver Athletic
Club will have q team in the field as
usual, but the Denver Wheel Club
may keep out
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.
A Los Angeles dispatch says that +.
d. Bright formerly 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
new building to cost 100000
The American Microscopical Society
will meet In Denver August 18th and
Both. 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 off in the sky. But in coming
down he struck barbed wire fence
and got badly scratched besides hav-
ing his balloon ruiIfed.
The gross earnings of the Rio
Grande Southern for the fiscal year
ending June Both We're $539. 500. an in
crease OF $14.392 compared with the
preceding wear The net earnings