The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1901-05-18
COLORADO NOTES.

Denver letter carriers have decided
to adopt the shirt waist for summer
wear.
Mrs. Mertie Burger, the Pueblo
school teacher who mysteriOusly disap-
peared some two weeks ago, has not
yet been found.
An attempted auction OF real estate
In Denver few days ago did not
prove successful. Only two lots were
sold and those at less than their value.
General Irving Hale and Henry I.
Rogers will represent Denver Unitar-
tans at the annual meeting OF the
American Unitarian Association in
Boston the last week in May.
The Denver Real Estate Exchange
has voted to employ competent experts
and arrange some plan for boring a
well in the Denver basin to Ascertain II
there is any oil to be found.
John G. Henry, who died at Denver
May Bird, Is claimed to have been the
inventor of the overhead trolley for
electric railways, which was first used
In Kansas City in 1888. He made a
fortune out of his inventions.
Governor Orman has named Friday,
June 18th. us Flag Day. The Sons
and Daughters of the American Revo-
luton are preparing an extensive pro-
gram in Denver and will ask all the
school children to assemble in the City
park.
On the 9Th inst. Amos Frazer, super
intendent of the Scott & Ogden lease
on Sheep mountain, near Placita in
Pitkin county, was instantly killed by
snow slide. His remains were
shipped to Aspen, where his family re-
sides.
Parson Uzzell of the Denver Taber-
nacle has arranged with the manage
ment Of the Loveland beet sugar fnc-
tory to supply several hundred work
ers from his congregation for emerg-
ency labor in the beet fields this sum-
mer.
The recent heavy rains caused sew
eral large rock slides on the track OF
the Denver & Rio Grande railroad
along the Grand river near Glenwo0d
Springs. The water in the river was
Also at very high point, occasioning
a good deal of anxiety.
With the recent orders secured for.
steel rails from the Colorado Midland
road, there is enough work on hand
to keep the rail mill at Bessemer busy
throughout the summer. At present
work is being done on large order of
eighty fve-pound rails for the Santa
Fe road.
The school census Just completed at
Central City shows a school population
of 1,115, as against OBS in 1900. This
puts Central City in the list of first
class districts and entities 1t to school
board numbering five instead of three,
but no change will take place till next
year.
Jesse A. Moore, convicted in the
District Court ut GlenwoOd Springs
Of the murder Of Walter Phillips, was
sentenced to the penitentiary for life.
Moore received his sentence with APP
parent Indifference. This is the first
criminal sentence passed by Judge
Shumate.
In the new science building at Colo
RADIO College in Colorado Springs there
Will be department for the accommo-
dalton Of the museum, recently much
enlarged by the purchase In California
of the Coronado collection, secured for
tho college through the generosity OF
W. 8. Stratton.
There are said to be few Denver
people left who have not yet been APP
pointed on the committee to receive
President Mckinley June 9th. They
can doubtless figure in the committee
OF the whole, even they don't get their
names in print in small type in a
crowded column of the blanket sheets.
B. f. Rockafellow, the Canon City
fruit raiser. is quoted MS saying that
the renewed interest and excitement in
oil will not prevent Fremont county
from harvesting next fall the largest
crop of fruit the county ever had, es-
pecially of apples. The trees have been
more covered with blossoms than was
ever before known.
+ Reduced rates have been made by
the railroads for the American FEEDER
alton Of Musicians convention at Den
yer, May 14th to Goth, for the annual
meeting of the Western Federation of
Miners to be held ut Denver May o7th
to June 4th, for the racing meeting at
Colorado Springs May Both, to June
3rd, and for the annual convention
Colorado Federation Of Labor at Lead
vile OF June Bird. g
The April financial statement of the
Denver & Rio Grande shows phenome>
nal increases. For the last week of
the month the net earnings were
$278, 700, an increase of $4,000 over
the same week last year. For the
month the net earnings were $500, 500,
an increase of $1O7, 500 over the same
month of last year. From July LIST to
May LIST the net earnings were 1906
200, an increase of $1,1O7, 600 over the
corresponding period Of last year.
Actual work at boring for oil has
been commenced In Pueblo county.