The Grit-advocate., 1902-09-26
COLORADO BRIEFS.

The streets of large section of Cap
ltol hill in Denver will be paved with
disintegrated granite.
Denver dealers report an uncommon
ly large amount of fruit on the market
recently and correspondingly low
prices.
A football game is to be played on
October 4th on the Boulder grounds
between the State University and the
University Of Nebraska.
Estes Park people hope that the
building Of the new Moffat railroad
will lead to the speedy construction Of
branch road into the park.
Mrs. Katherine Felt Hallett, wife of
Judge Moses Hallett died at Denver
September 10Th. Her death was the
result of an illness of several weeks.
The Denver joint labor committee
finds that the Labor Day celebration
has netted about $3.50, which amount
will be divided among the different or
ganizatlons.
The ProhibitiOnists of Weld county
have nominated Robert Steele and
Mrs. A. Putnam for the state Legis-
lature. Only four towns in the county
have licensed saloons.
In the joint Republican senatorial
convention of Pueblo, Teller and FIRE.
mont counties, held at Canon City,
Louis Campbell of Cripple Creek was
nominated for float senator.
1t Is probable that the Colorado and
Wyoming delegation to the National
Encampment of the G. A. II. in Wash
ington will make another effort to bring
hn nna an mn 10, in,
The Denver Athletic football team
has arranged to open the season with
Il game with Colorado College at Colo
RADIO Springs Octobe" 11th. Its next
game in the state will be with the
mSchool of Mines October 25th.
A homing pigeon liberated in Den
yer by c. NJ. Day of the Adams Ex-
press Company on the 1lth of August,
reached Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, on
the morning of September Bird, having
made the trip in twenty-five days.
The trial of the county commission
e"s Of Arapahoe county for malfeas-
ance in office in connection with the al
legged overcharges in the Smith Brooks
printing contract has been postponed
and may not come up until after cleo
ton.
James A. Semple, formerly proml
nent railroad man, died in Denver
September 10Th at the age of seventy
seven years. He was the father Of
Frank B. Semple. city passenger agent
Of the Denver T. Rio Grande railroad
in Denver.
In response to Il circular letter, John
Hipp Of Denver. chairman of the CEN
tral committee of the Prohibition par
ty, received promises from 1,2OO min
listers to deliver Il sermon upon prohi-
bition or temperance, Sunday, Septem-
Der 2Sth
The city officials of Denver have
again moved into the city hall, which
Las been repaired. remodeled and
greatly improved since the big fire OF
several months ago. 1t is no more
like the old building than parlor is
like pig sty.
Dennis Nolan, aged twenty-seven,
was killed by Il blast in the G. +. H.
mine at Orient. near Villa Grove, Sep
tember 18th. Nolan set off three shots,
two of which exploded, and he went in
to the shaft and brushed up the fuse
on the third when it went off, killing
him instantly.
The Masonic grand lodge at its meet
ing in Denver elected the following Off
GERS: Marshall ii. Deane Of Glenwood
Springs, grand master; James X. Kill
lian, Denver deputy grand master;
George r. Cooper. Amethyst. senior
grand warden; Darius A. Barton. Den
yer, grand treasurer: William ID. Todd,
Denver, grand secretary.