The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1902-08-23
COLORADO BRIEFS.

dent on the 18th instant.
Mayor Brown Of Pueblo has appoint
ed Howard n. Shoup chief Of police
to succeed Chief McCanerty.
A branch of the Hoo-Hoo was insti-
tuted In Pueblo ON the 10th Inst. with
fourteen charter members.
The building trades propose ~ turn
out 3. 100 strong In the Denver Labor
Day parade September LIST.
Police Magistrate Thomas has sus-
tained the ordinance closing the barber
shops In Denver on Sunday.
The Fc-t Collins opera house IL be-
ing entirely remOdeled and enlarged.
II will have seating capacity Of 200.
Large falling boulders on Republican
mountain In Georgetown narrowly es-
capped striking number Of buildings q
few days ago.
There are IN unusual number of
campers on the upper portion OF Boul-
der creek this year. This will apply
to many other streams in the state.
A good flow of water has been struck
in the artesian well sunk on the
grounds Of the proposed Y. N. O. A.
health resort for young men near Den
yer.
Denver ranks sixteenth among the
cities of the United States in the mag
nltude Of Its building operations for
July, the permits amounting to $448,-
$40.
The Grand Junction city council has
granted to the Teller Institute, the
school for Indians, permission to con-
meet with the sewer system Of the
city.
Farmers living ON Orchard mesa. be-
tween Grand junction and Whitewa-
ter, suffered considerable damage from
a cl0udburst and haiistorm on the
night Of August 11th.
Judge E. A. Pattison, one of the
most prominent attorneys Of Denver,
died on the 10Th instant Of paralysis.
He was fifty-six years Of age and
came to Denver IN 1886.
II the ordinance now before the Den
yer City Council Ia passed the Denver
City Tramway Company will make nu-
merous and important additions to Its
electric railway system.
The special fruit cur from Denver to
LOveland has been discontinued for the
season. The raspberry shipments.
now completed, have been immense
and the crop has averaged about the
same as last year In the financial re-
turns.
A suit has been filed in the District
Court at Grand Junction for the re-
covery Of $4,000 of Mesa county funds
that were on deposit In the Colorado
State Bank that failed last January.
Suit has also been brought against ex-
Treasurer w. C. McCurdy and his
bondsmen.
On the 10th instant ladies on the
north side In Pueblo met and organised
the Pueblo Civic improvement Asso-
citation. There are twenty-eight char
ter members of the organization, the
purpose Of which Is to take an active
interest In the work Of general city
improvements. Mrs. NJ. A. Noble was
elected president.
The Denver Republican correspond
emit says that work OH the Eaton sugar
factory Is being pushed. More men are
being put on and there seems no rea-
son to believe that the factory will not
be ready for operation by the time the
beets begin to como in. Almost 5000
acres of beets are being ruised for
this factory.
The delegation of Florence Elks who
went to the Salt Lake convention wore
head, mounted on a design Of oxidized
silver. Suspended from this is cellu-
loid pendant on which Is stamped the
picture of an oil derrick and the in
scrlption, Were Oil Right" and
stop and FIJI Your Lamps"
The Democratic First district con-
gressional convention has been called
to meet In Denver Tuesday evening,
Ia 1SA tot I1s~
will be as follows: Arapahoe, lit dele
gates; Boulder, 81; Jefferson, II; Lari-
mer, II; Lake, 20: Logan. 9; Morgan,
6; Park, z; Phillips, 8; Sedgwick, 8;
Washington, 8; Weld, 10; Yuma, 8; to-
tai, 235.
Benjamin Tuck, keeper OF the ami
mails at Elltch's Gardens In Denver,
died August 18th of conclusion of the
brain. Mr.. Tuck received the injury
while bathing the day before In small
lake near the city. He dlved from q
considerable elevation Into what he
supposed to be deep water, but It
proved to be go shallow that his head
struck violently against the bottom.
The cornerstone Of the new $11S.OOO
city hall building at Colorado Springs
was laid August 18th by the Elks. An
address was delivered by Hon.. I. N.
Stevens. During the exerc SEES the
roof Of an adjacent stone shed col
lapsed under a load of amateur pho
tographers and spectators and Arnold
Unger, cigarmaker. and his three
year-old son were Injured, the former
seriously.
The Ell Paso Good Roads Association
has recommended that the city coun-
ell Of Colorado Springs mike tests on
a single block Of the city streets with
oil, another test of dIsintegrated gran
lite, to be made on an adjoining block,
80 that comparison may readily be
made. An ordinance will be intro
duced requiring all vehicles Weighing
1000 pounds or over to use tires at
least four and one-half inches In width.