The Springfield herald., 1901-07-26
COLORADO NOTES.

There are many more people on the
i Chautaqua grounds in Boulder thah
On any previous year.
| The new Antlers hotel at Colorado
Springs Will be run strictly on the
! Europeah plan.
| \ new postoftice has been estab-
lished at Vona. Kit Carson county,
with Sarah c. Webb as postmistress
/ The Woman's Club of Boulder has
placed wire settees in various parts OF
town in shady places, for the benent
of strangers.
A large working model of Cripple
I Greek has been proposed as one OF the
chief exhibits of this stale at the ST.
Louis Worlds Fair in 1893.
While drilling n well twenty miles
south of Granada. in Prowers county
/ Ley Blackwell struck heavy How
| Of ariesian water at a depth OF lIo
/ feet
| The fact that there Were tallesed'
Rocky Ford melons on sale in Denver
before the vines at Rocky Ford We're
fairly in blossom is troubling the mel
on growers
Peaches from Grand Junction and
other parts of the Grand River valley
are now on the market Throughout
most of the non-peach growing por-
rions of the state.
The directory publishers who have
| Just finished new directory for Puep-
| 10. estimate the population at i',pr-
] The census of 1900 gave Pueblo pop
| ulation of 2S,lo..
| Superintendent of Fish Hatcheries
Holland recently went to Estes park to
put 5000 young trout in the brooks OF
that section The fish Were Matched In
the Denver hatchery.
The City Council of Rocky Ford, haY-
ing a $4,000 issue of water bonds to
dispose of. accepted the bid of Chi
cago firm which offered to take the
| bonds at par at four and one-hall per
| cent. Interest for ten years
The committee in charge of the hor-
ticuIture show at the Festival of
p, Mountain and Plain at Denver has de
cided to divide the state into the SIX
| horticultural districts for the purpose
of offering sweep stake prizes
Arapahoe county will take few Sc
lect boarders 1t has agreed with Sher-
! if Adm Putnam OF Elbert county to
keep in the Arapahoe county jail such
prisoners as he cannot care for at home
at cost of 80 cents day each.
Five new street ears patterned after
the convertible open and closed ear.
which recently won n grand prize nj
the Paris exposition, have been ordered
for the Colorado Springs railway and
will probably be in operation by Sep
! tember 1st.
While John Mosconi. Ed. Gabarsky
and a party of dog fanciers from Cen
tral City. were out east of Denver
hunting coyotes one Sunday recently,
Mr.. Mosconi had his right arm badly
bitten by a coyote that had been
brought to bay by the dogs.
Aided by the use of electrical min
| ing machines lately Installed by the
Fremont coal mine at Williamsburg,
better known as Bear sulch. the Colo
RADIO Fuel and Iron Company is said TO
be producing as much coal with sixty
/ men as it did last fall with 40.
! The Pullman company in its repair
shops at Denver will pay the lst and
10th of each month. conforming with
the new state law calling for BIZ
! monthly payments of employees There
are 300 men now employed. but IT Is
expected that the number will be
| raised to between 700 and 500.
| Long mountain trips ON foot. on
horseback and by wagons are one of
! the popular features of the Glen Park
| Chautauqua at Palmer Lake this sum
mer. y recent three days "trip includ-
ed Manitou park. Woodland park. Ute
pass. Green Mountain falls. Cascade
canon and the Garden Of the Gods.
| James Page. postmaster at White
water. Colorado. has Informed POstof-
flee Inspector sullivan ar Denver that
his office had been burned on the night
| of July 10th. The loss was somewhere
between $50 and $40 in stamps burned.
just the amount could not be deter
/ mined until the safe was rccoN cred and
opened.
A largely signed petition was receiv-
| ed by the Fort Lyons Canal Company,
| directors while in session AT Las AMI
mas a few days ago. requesting that
suit be Instituted against the Amity
| canal and the oxford Farmers canal
to determine their rights to the use Of
water as against the rights of the Fort
! Lyons canal.
The petition to force the Boulder
street car company To suspend operar-
| ing the car and electric line and to
| lease the same was refused by Judge
| Bennett. The petition was brought on
! behalf of the creditors of the company.
represented by ]. S. McBcth- Receiver
| Dyer was ordered 10 make report
! within Il reasonable time.
The SNOWFALL excursion OF The Boul.
der Chautauquans. July nth. was a
novel experience 10 many of the Wis
itors The eXcursiOnists went on the
narrow gauge road as far as Camp
| Frances the last station before reach
ing Ward and from there went ON foot
or horseback to the snow fields ON the
northern slope of the mountains. There
they enjoyed rare sport. for snow
balling in the middle of July is not n
frequent occurrence especially for the
people of Texas.