North Park union., 1902-04-11
COLORADO BRIEFS.

James r. Riggs has been commits
stoned postmaster at Greenland.
william S. Sexton of Victor was Sc
riously injured a few days ago by the
collapse of folding bed.
The wife of ]. Addison Peralta-
Reayis Of Peralta land grant fame,
has sued for Il divorce In denver,
Reovjs has left her and is In Califor-
mia.
. For economic reasons, the Denver &
Rio Grande and the Colorado Midland
have opened a joint agency at Aspen.
The Denver a. Rio Grande agent Will
hereafter act for both roads.
The Postoffice Department has or
dered the allowance of four additional
carriers at the Denver Office, three to
be anpoiuted OH April 1st, and one OH
April 10Th.
Judge John A. Riner OF Cheyenne
will take the place of Judge Moses
Hallett in holding the regular spring
term of the United States Circuit anu
District courts at Pueblo.
On the night of April 1sts Governor
James b. Orman and his staif or tweh-
ty-two resplendent colonies attended
ball given by the knights of Macca-
bees at Mineral Palace in Pueblo.
The distributing station of the Colo
RADIO Springs Electric Company was
burned on the night of March 18th,
leaving the city in temporary darkness
and involving Il loss of about $lo,oOo.
The Head Camp Of Pacific Jurisdic-
ton, Wo0dmen of the World, VIII meet
Mt Cripple Creek, August md. The date
f,.Ar
so as not to interfere with the meeting
of the Grand Lodge of Elks later In
the month.
About seventy-five school superln-
tendents and principals attended the
opening of the Superintendents ana
Principals Round Table at Colorado
Springs, March 2Sth. The state super
intendent and most of the leading
teachers of the state were present.
Thirteen bridges are to be erected
by the Chicago Bridge Company near
Trinidad on the line of the Colorado n
Southern railway. Men who are now
doing contract work at the Minnequa
steel works will be sent south to take
charge of the railroad Improvements.
The attorney generals office Will
soon issue the new revenue law in
pamphlet form for the benefit of law
yers and others interested in its con-
tents. The feature of the pamphlet
will be the index and the side margins,
showing at glance the contents OF
each section.
DIR. William Sparks. m old Civil
War veteran, was brought TO st. VIM
cents hospital at Santa Fe, recently,
with his left hand crushed. 1t was
necessary to amputate his arm near
the elbow. Sparks had been injured in
Hesch's saw mill on the upper Pecos,
near which he has a ranch home.
Andrew j. Ramsey, assistant fore
man of the big Kanawha Leasing
COmpany's mill at Creede, while look
ing after and cleaning one of the
screen OH the both ultimo. was knock
ed off the platform. He fell two stories,
or distance of thirty feet, which re-
suited in his death at midnight, twelve
hours after his fall.
Richard Wisner, alias II. II. Hollis
ter, alias Clarence Mackeesey, is to be
brought back to Colorado from Iowa
to stand trial OH the charge of muir
der. EXtradition papers have been
signed by Governor Ormnn on the gov
ernor of Iowa. Wisner Is wanted in
Leadville for shooting Joseph Mans
helm on September 10, 1901.
AT meeting of the Cripple Creek
chamber of commerce which was
largely attended. II resolution of thanks
was unanimously adopted thanking
the Hon. h. +. Montgomery, speaker
of the House, for his successful effort
in having the opinion of the chamber
indorsed and put into law in regard
to the taxation of mining properties.
Thirty per cent. increase over the
business done at the Pueblo Union de-
pot in March of 1901 is the record
made for the month just past Bag
gage to the number of 24,216 pieces was
handled this year. against 1857 pieces
for March. 1901. m increase of 5.639
pieces. The ticket sales for the
month of March. 1902, We're forty per
cent larger than the sales for March.
1901.
Adjutant General Corbin has stated
that Fort Logan, at Denver, will be
given II full complement of troops when
the regiments now designated to re-
turn from the Philippines are given
final station. This means that in all
likelihood n regiment of infantry and
yer. The present barrack room at Fort
Logan will accommodate eleven COM
panies and a band.
Deputy Game Warden James Bush
secured the conviction ut Colorado
Springs of w. +. Burns for killing
eleven deer out of season. He was
fined SD and costs, amounting to
$3.50. The eleven quarters of ven
isOn which he seized from Mr. Burns he
sold for S45O. Six pairs of prairie chick
ems and twenty-seven ducks, also seized,
netted $12. He sold four of the mount
cd mountain sheep heads which he
seized ut Colorado Springs for $144SJ.
The first head of wild game for the
stnte's exhibit mt st. Louis has been
received at Denver by Commissioner
Harris. 1t was deer, about Il year
old, shipped from NARROW Brothers
ranch. thirty-tive miles from Montrose.
Il am going to put up wire corral"
said Mr.. Harris, ..and put the deer
there. 1t is wild, and must be fed on
certain kinds of grass and boughs, or
1t VIII die. BY the time the exposition
opens l will have fine collection of
wild game"
Colorado will be better advertised by
the railroads this year than ever be-
fore In Its history. The passenger de-
partment of the Colorado l. Southern.
III addition to the Denver a. Rio
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