The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1901-03-23
COLORADO NOTES.

Springs will open about July LIST.
The President has appointed j. b.
johnson postmaster at, Montrose.
The Democrats of Colorado Springs
have nominated W. c. Jones for mayor.
A mass convention at Rocky Ford
nominated Hon. G. W. Swink for may
| or.
DIR. +. ]. Crane was nominated for
mayor Of Cripple Greek by the Demo-
cratic convention.
br. W. w. Rowan has been nomi-
mated on non-partisan ticket Tor
mayor of Ouray.
The county commissioners of Lnri-
mer county have appointed W. A. Han
kins horticultural inspector.
The fourth annual session Of the Col.
orado Chautauqua at Boulder VIII
| open on July 4th and continue to Aug
| ust 10th. -
President Francis L. Patton, OF
Princeton University has written that
he will visit Colorado and Denver
some time this spring.
Charles G. Chever, 4 '50er In Colo
RADIO and prominent real estate owner
in Denver, died in Denver on the l3tn
Inst. at the age of seventy-four years.
The Democrats of Denver have nom-
mated Judge E. T. Wells for mayor.
Ii. v. Johnson. the present mayor has
announced that he will run on an 1nde-
pendent ticket. 80.
Peter McCOurt, manager Of the TABOR
and Broadway theaters, is at Coronado
Beach, California. He has acquired
part ownership of the Wyatt theater
in Los Angeles. t,
Two immense eagles, measuring over
eight feet from tip to tip. were recently
captured on the divide south of Den
yer by Leslie Meyers and Henry New
| man OF Denver and given to the City
park.
John Darling, formerly travelling
| freight agent for the Rio Grande, died
.0h the 18th instant ut the Hot Springs
hotel In Canon City. tuberculosis
was the cause of neutrality-suspicious.
by dropsy.
The Denver & Rio Grande and Rock
Island railroads will erect Il new joint
freight station between Eleventh and
Thirteenth and Wazee and Wyncoop
streets in Denver. 1t will be 132x64O
feet in size and cost $4,000. -,
Rev. Robert +. Coyle, who recently
resigned the passionate OF the Centrnl
| Presbyterian Church In Denver, has
4 withdrawn his resignation and VIII re-
main with the church, greatly. to the
delight of the congregation.
Robert r. Wright, Jr., was nomi-
mated for mayor of Denver by the Re-
publican convention which met on the
18th, to run against Judge E. T. Wells,
the Democratic nominee. Both are re-
garded as exceptionally strong candi-
dates.
A consignment OF 10000 rainbow
trout from the state hatchery at
1 Brighton have been placed in Leaven-'
worth creek, eight miles above George
town. From Georgetown the cans con-
tanning the fish were transported on
burros.
The. woman voter was distinctly In
| evidence at the Prohibition convention
| in Denver and none but women were
nominated. The ticket is headed by
Mrs. Antoinette A. Hawley. candidate
for mayor, and every name on it Is that
Of Mrs. or Miss. +'.
The state convention Of the Colorado
Retail Credit Mems Association met In
Denver on the 14th instant and elected
the following officers for the ensuing
year: A. G. Foster of Denver, .presl-
dent; II. c. Stone of Leadville, vice
president; w. NJ. Dickinson of Cripple
Creek, second vice president; E. A.
Howell of Denver, secretary; F. @.
Moys of Boulder, treasurer; M. p.
Lewis Of Florence, director.
The derailment of q switch engine Mt
Diamondville, Wyoming, caused the
death Of John Cush. foreman, who was
standing on the footboard and was
thrown under the wheels and badly
\ mangled. Death was instantaneous.
He was well known in Denver, having
run a passenger train on .the South
Park railway for years; He leaves q
wife. who is now residing in Denver.
, Curator William c. Ferril of the
| State Historical and Natural History
| Society Mt the capitol building, Denver,
| lays claim to being the first man to
suggest the Louisiana Purchase Cen
| tennial exposition in 1903. His first
contention for the exposition appeared
in Kansas City paper July IA. 1859.
| His second article was published in
| the Denver News Of November %,
| 1891.
Rev. Frank T. Rayley of Plymouth
Congregational Church, Denver, ex-
changed pulpits with Rev. ]. B. Gregg
| of Colorado Springs, on Sunday, the
18th instant, and was treated to a sur
prise on his return home. During Mr..
Bayley's absence his congregation yot-
| ed him four months vacation, Mt full
pay, to make a trip to Europe, and
-aised $1,000 to help pay the expenses
of himself and wife while absent
D. s. Bennett, who was arrested by
Deputy Game Warden Boyd of La
Junta on the charge of unlawfully kill
ing game in the Cedars, forty miles
south Of La Junta in Las Anin,as coun-
ty wnS taken to Trinidad for trial ON,