The Elbert County tribune., 1902-07-10
COLORADO BRIEFS.

The postoffices at Barr, Gladstone.
Iliff, Roggen, San Pablo and Thatcher
have been made domestic money order
Offices.
Capt Alonzo l. Coan has turned over
TO Judge Junius Henderson 100 British
fossils for the State University mu-
scum at Boulder.
The Colorado Automobile Club has
recently been organized Mt Denver and
Is expected TO take in most of the 135
owners OF automobiles in Colorado.
bout 100 members from all portions
OF the state attended the fifth annual
meeting OF the Colorado Bar Associa-
ton at Colorado Springs, July 1st and
2nd
The first midsummer meeting of the
Colorado Horticultural Society will be
held at Boulder ON July 23rd and oath.
Premiums will be given on the best
displays.
carload of registered shorthorn
bulls, twenty-five in number, were re-
Gently driven into Rio Blanco county
by Foreman f. ii. lines of the Bar
Triangle ranch
Five separate surveying parties for
the Denver &c Northwestern. the new
Mofat railroad, are mt work on the
east side OF the main range, and anoth-
er party is making preliminary sur
veys on the west side.
The Denver union stock yards last
month broke all records for cattle re-
ceipts. The total number received
during June was 75,491 head of cattle.
5,3O9 hogs and 5,029 sheep. This beats
any month in the history of the yards.
A Madison dispatch says that L. z.
dot lNa.l. a..
who helped to pay his way through
college by running market gardens,
has been elected assistant professor
of horticulture in the University OF
Wisconsin.
A recent meeting of Colorado Philip
pine veterans in Denver adopted reso-
lutions denouncing Brigadier General
John @. Chase, n. G. O.. in violent Ian
guage because of his alleged character
ization of the First Colorado volun-
teers as ''howling mob
Mrs. Hooper, the mother Of Maj. S.
X. Hooper. general passenger agent of
the Denver & Rio Grande railroad,
died at New Albany, Indiana, June
Both, at the age of elghty-nine years.
Major Hooper had been In attendance
on her for two weeks before her death.
A few days ago mountain sheep
ran into the barbed wire fence at the
homestead of John Jones at Mary's
lake, in Estes park, and became so en-
tangled that 1t killed itself in trying to
get loose. The animal was an old
ram, one of its horns being thirty-six
inches long.
The Railway Age credits Colorado
with forty-eight and one-half miles of
railroad track laid this year up to
the first of June. New track was laid
by four different lines. The Denver x
Northwestern promises to figure large
ly in the railroad building of the next
twelve months.
Gen. William j. Palmer has written
letter from Athens, Greece, to Cap
tain Watson of Colorado Springs. ex-
pressing his aversion to becoming a
candidate for governor of Colorado, as
1t would be "to much like getting into
business harness again." General Pal
mer recently retired from active bust
ness.
Miss Pauline l.. Davidson, aged
twenty, beautiful and accomplished,
committed suicide In Denver on the
I'd inst. because of unrequitted love
and poverty. She left letters to sew
eral friends and one to the newspa-
pers, along with n photograph which
they all used in their account of the
tragedy.
The business houses at Telluride
We're closed ON the afternoon of July
I'd out of respect to the memory OF
John Barthel, the union miner who was
killed during the Telluride riot of July
3. 1901. Memorial services were held
over his grave and addresses We're
made by John II. O'Neill of Victor and
Father Hagerty of Denver.
A Walsenburg dispatch of July 1st
to Denver paper says: An immense
forest fire is rapidly destroying the
timber on Blanco mountain, at the
head of the Huerfano. About 5000
acres have been already burned over.
and the fire Is still unchecked. This is
valuable timber land, and covers the
headwaters of the Huerfano river.
Under n new order of the Postoffice
Department which went into effect
July 1st, the mail carriers on star
routes are required to deliver mail in
to all boxes and hang small bags or
satchels containing mail on cranes or
posts that may be erected along the
lines of their routes. This is in addi-
tlon to the usual service of carrying
mails to pontoffices and is in the nature
of rural postoffice delivery.
The large two-story building at No.
31S Harrison avenue in Leadville.
owned by NJ. Hyman of Denver and
occupied by Sands Bros, clothiers, was
wrecked by gasoline explosion on the
night of July Sd. The explosion was
followed Immediately by fire. The
two together completely wrecked the
building and destroyed almost the en-
tire stock. There We're four men in
the store. three of whom We're injured,
one seriously and the other slightly.
The Colorado Fuel and Iron Com
pany has taken steps In The District
Court at Pueblo, which will test the
liduor clause. which Is n nnrt of eret.v