The Grit-advocate., 1901-07-12
COLORADO NOTES.

L lie HOtel dI ludlla Ill ATdpduOe cOuu.
~. John Mccoy, manager, was burned
Vune 2Sth.
The new Antlcrs hotel at Colorado
Springs will be run strictly on the
European plan.
Samuel MOffat. the oldest brother Of
David II. Moffat, the Denver banker,
died few days since at Goshen, New
York. aged eighty-two.
With the opening of the ID. 4 Il. G..
line from Texas Creek. Westcliffe and
Silver Cliff have made their second de-
but into railroad society.
Mrs. NJ. \. Shute, secretary of the
State Board of Horticulture, will have
charge Of the horticultural department
of the state fair at Pueblo next fall.
There is a very pretty rivalry be-
tween Boulder aud Colorado Springs
in the matter of quartoccntennial
celebration. Good advertisement for
both.
III cXcavating for the basement of Il
new building nt the corner of Four
teenth and Lawrence streets. Denver,
the workmen found the tooth of !,
mastOdOn.
The county commissioners of Ell Paso
county are considering Il petition for
franchise to construct an electric rail
way from Colorado City to the Garden
Of the Gods.
At its recent session in Columbus,
Ohio. the supreme council United Com
mercial Travellers, granted charters for
councils at Trinidad and Pueblo and
also a charter for the grand council of
Colorado.
The new law permitting the intiIc-
tion of the death penalty for murder
went into effect July 1, but the quo
tations do not show any rise in the
price of hemp.
At Ouray, on the Fourth, in the min.
ers' double-hand drilling contest,
Hupps and Lindqust drilled in the
regulation contest time 39A inches IN
lnnison granite.
w. +. Bailey formerly general pas
senger agent of the Colorado Midland,
has been appointed manager of the
railroad department of Rand, McNally
4 Co., publishers of Chicago.
The American Microscopical Society
will meet in Denver at the same time
with the American Association for the
Advancement of Science. One hundred
members are expected to be present.
There were iifty-nine cases of diph-
liberia in Denver during the month Of
June, as compared with fourteen the
year previous, and the health commits
sioncr has instituted an investigation
to try to find out the causes.
Chancellor IL. \. Buchtel of the Uni
versity of Denver reports that the uni
versity had S7S students last year in
all departments, Il gain of 24S over
the preceding year He says the at
tendance will easily reach 1000 this
fall
From all parts of the state come the
usual reports of Fourth Of July acci'
dents. If all the victims could be
gathered in one crowd it would furnish
an appalling object lesson. for there
would be fully 100 sufferers, some very
seriously hurt.
During sudden squall of wind at
Pueblo. June Both, Mrs. J. w. Mitchell
was struck by falling limb FROM
dead cottonwood tree and dangerously
hurt. She was taken to St MAry's
hospital. A babe that she held in her
arms escaped almost entirely unin-
jured
President Mckinley has signed the
following Colorado commissions: Per
ry HObkirk, receiver of public moneys
at Del Norte; David c. Fleming, reg
lister of the land office at Sterling (re-
appointed: Charles B. Timberlake, re-
ceiver Of public moneys ut Sterling Te-
appointed).
At Pueblo June Goth the temperature