The Grit-advocate., 1901-09-06
COLORADO NOTES.

Inc SOCIALIST Labor party IN Denver
has nominated Il full county ticket for
the fall campaign.
The Prohibitionsts of Colorado are
Preparing to agitate the submission
or temperance amendment.
Three thousand dollars has been
raised i'll subscriptions for the forna-
tion of Il polo club in Colorado Springs.
On his short private visit to Boulder
August 2Gth W. J. Bryan spoke to a
small impromtu gathering in the court
room.
Normal institutes throughout the
state this year report large attend
ance and good work done. The profess
sional spirit in teachers seems to be in
creaSing.
Francis Truth, the so-called "healer,'
who has been operating in Denver ana
who was arrested on several charges,
has agreed to 20 out of the business IN
Denver and cndcavor to get heeled III
some other vocation.
Mrs. Matte Wilson has been appoint
ed county superintendent of schools by
the county commissioners of Fremont
county. She succeeds the late super
intendent, j. NJ. Hanks. who died re-
Governor Orman has issued requi-
sition on the governor of Oregon for
the return to Fort Collins of Mike Bcr-
~, the bicycle thief. who made his es-
cape from the Fort Collins Jail some
days ago, and is now under arrest in
that state
"A grocery, Il boarding tent, book
store and poStotficc. a church. and
nearly 200 families living in tents fill
ed with several hundreds of people is
the inventory a morning paper gives or
the Seventh Day Advcntists camp
meeting in Denver.
If satisfactory arrangements can be
made with the American Sugar Beet
and Irrigated Land Company for 10000
acres of land under the reservoirs north
of Lamar, Il colony of 800 families
from the eastern and central states will
be located there at once.
Richard Humphrey. al old resident
of Coal Creek. committed suicide Au-
gust Goth, by shooting himself through
the heart. He was siXty-one years of
age and leaves Il wife and several
children. He had been suffering from
an abcess in the brain caused by in
juries received in mine.
August was the heaviest month of
tourist travel Colorado has ever known,
if the baggage records ut the union de-
pot in Denver are Il correct index. 1hc
number of pieces handled was 1O3,5GS,
while for July it was but lOO,S3O. This
is also an increase over August Of last
year of 1880 pieces.
The Beaver Greek Reservoir Com
pany has been Incorporated at Fort
Collins with Philip Wilson, E. j. Greg
Dry and Charles A. Button as incor
porators. The purpose of the corpora
tion Is TO construct and maintain six
reservoirs above the source of Beav
er creek in Larimer county.
b. F. Rockafcllow proprietor of the
Fruitmere farm. recently sent box
of apples to Secretary Shute Of the
State Horticultural Board. After she
had selected a dozen for preservation
purposes, she sent the remainder TO
all the offices in the capitol building.
And when the woman had given them
apples they all ate.
Mr. G. NJ. Hobbs. purchasing agent
of the Denver 4 Rio Grande railway.
and Mrs. Hobbs left August 30th for Il
six months tour in central and south
ern Europe. The major portion Of their
time probably will be spent in SwitZer-
land and northern Italy. Mr.. Hobbs
lecture, Colorado VS.. Switzerland"
has made him well known and popular
in all parts of the state.
John Bradford and Brick Price, cat
tlemen living six miles of Erie, en-
gagged in an argument Il few days
since. They exchanged blows and