The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1902-08-09
COLORADO BRIEFS.

A Rocky Ford couple have gives mp
the idea OF . runaway marriage be-
cause this il the cantaioupe season.
The joint ticket agencies at Denver,
Colorado Springs and Pueblo estimate
there are 27,000 tourists now In the
state.
About 100 members Of tue Tennessee
Press Association will arrive In Den
yer, August 14th and make 4 trip Into
the mountains.
The Colorado Fuel and Iron Com
pany's power house at the Crested
Butte mine was burned ON the morn
Ing Of August 3rd.
Rockville 10 calling In the last Of its
municipal water bonds, OF which $780,
900 worth are outstanding. The water
plant was built by the city In 1893 at q
cost Of $4,000.
fresh air fund In Denver to take poor
taRers will be asked to care for them
for week at . time.
A wild coyote, apparently about two
months old, entered the CITY park in
Denver few days ago and tried to
BET Iuao tue cage Win tuc cApuSG CVJ-
oteA He was accommodated.
Building permits were taken out In
Denver during the month Of July for
the erection OF new buildings that will
cost .$44S, $40. This II $70,O61 more than
the permits of the same month last
year
The required sum Of money has been
raised to save the buildings and prop
erty Of the Colorado Woman's Baptist
College at Denver. A further amount
of 10000 IL needed to complete the
building ready for the opening Of the
school.
The Pueblo Gas and Fuel Company
has filed Incorporation papers with the
secretary Of state. The company 10
capitalized for $500, 900, and tie direc-
tors for the first year are: T. e. Ely
man. n. A. COwan, ]. +. McCorkle, J.
d. Taylor and G. H. Prall of Pueblo.
As . dance was In progress at Bal
ley, Platte canon, on the night Of Au-
gust End, meteor was discovered
about o'clock in the eastern part Of
the sky. 1t WAS like one grand illu-
mination and the rare beauty OF the
scene stopped the dancing until 1t had
passed.
In Difference to the difficulties that
tenderfeet have In pronouncing uAmes
derived from the Spanish, the Santa
Fe railway has ordered that In all Its
signs and advertising the word can
on shall be spelled canyon" As for
instance, Canyon City, Cheyenne Can
yon, etc.
Pueblo, Canon City and Rockdale
are competing for the artesian water
flow from the well drilled by the Colo
RADIO Springs OIL and Gas Company At
Chandler creek. It e the largest arte-
sion flow ever opened in FreAont coun-
ty, and II estimated at half million
gallons Of water daily.
Oficial advices received In Denver
from the home in London, England.
confirm the appointment of Walter 3.
Hoyt, formerly of Denver. as general
manager Of the smelling and refining
works of Australia, located at Dapto,
N. 8. w. Mr.. Hoyt was formerly con-
nected with the Grant smelter.
Elwood Mead, chief of Irrigation for
the Department OF Agriculture, has
written to State Engineer McCune that
he Is coming to Colorado Immediately
to join with Mr.. Mcclure in study Of
drainage conditions within the state.
This work by Mr.. Mead Is considered
of especial Importance on account Of
the new law.
Shortly utter midnight on July 31st,
at the crossing of Logan and Alameda
avenues In Denver, tallyho coach
containing party of nineteen was run
into by an electric car and overturned.
Several of the party were seriously in
Jured, but all are expected to recover
soon. Mfr. Lyua A. Horton was badly
cut about the head.
Terseto Chaves, Mexican sheep
herder in the employ of Felix Chaves,
large owner Of sheep In Saguache
county, was shot and killed August
2nd by David Tucker, a cowboy en-
ployed as range rider by Clark Bros.
The shooting was done at the Sa-
guache big park east of Sagunche.
Tucker surrendered himself to the an
th0rities.
big Glory" Sergeant Ivy Baldwin's
great captive balloon at Elitch's Gar
dens in Denver, was torn to pieces in
fierce dust storm Sunday, August
3rd, while tied fast to the platform ON
the ground. Sergeant Baldwin was
compelled to give up his engagement
for the season and take the balloon
away for repairs, which will cost
about $500.
Great commotion was caused at Bal
ley in the Platte canon one afternoon
few days ago by the appearance Of