CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1902-11-06
LOCAL AND PERSONAL

went TO Denver on busin. SIS yesterday.
The regular semi monthly meeting
OF the city council will be held this
evening, having been postponed from
last Monday night by agreement be-
tween the mayor and the aldermen
romposing its membership
II. y. Beecher and c. W. Talbot
returned home Monday night after
two or three days hunting exclusion
in Copper gulch and near the head
of Crap creek They had a pleasant
outing, but did not succeed in bag
eing any game.
A circular sent out by a prominent
produce concern contains some good
sdvice TO poultry raisers For exam
Pile 1t SAYS: ''Ranchmen should now
be feeding their turkeys for the
Thanksgiving market. The large
birds should be sold for the Thanks
giving market and the small ones
should b. held 70 the Chistmas holi-
oass, of the spring maket in Februa-
~. The circular suggests that the
turkeys for the Thanksgiving trade
should be marketed from the
18th to the Goth of the current month
in order that the dealers may have
time 10 dress the fowls and get them
on the market.
What is no doubt the largest, high
class colored amusement organizations
in the country. THE Hottest Coon in
Dixie" will occupy the boards at the
opera house next Wednesday evening
and there is fun ahead for those who
attend The company comprises forty
of the foremost singers. dancers and
comedians and speciality artists that
the American stage has ever produced.
The piece j. lively farce comedy
and travesty in three acts and three
scenes, and that numerous class of
theatre goers who revel in hearing
the hottest '.rsg-time" song hits of
the day and the cstchiest kind of
coon melodies will have one OF the
richest of treats in store admits Of no
d,-bt.
W. 7, Bridwell received letter a
few days ago informing him that his
niece. Miss Carrie Bridwell, one of
the leading singers in Maurice Grau 5
opera company, would pass through
mere an the 18th ins; en- route east
from Salt Lake City where she Is
spending her vacation. Miss Bird
well. who Is to appear at the Tater-
nscle in Salt Lake Tu. siay night. is
under engagement to sing at the Metro
politan opera house in New York at
the initial appearance of grand opera
in the metropolis for the current sea-
ION. Miss Bridwell indicated de-
sire to sing in this city on her way
east, but owing TO the very complete
list Of bookings at the opera house
it was impossible to ind satisfac-
( tory date for her.
1 The siphon under Sand creek has
Neen completed and it is expected
that the water viii be turned into
the ditch Sgain tomorrow. II ha.
heen a work OF considerable magni
tude and the engineering features in.
volved have been interesting to thos,
who have watched tse progress of it.
construction. The siphon is nothing
more than a submerged aqueduct, and
is soInewhat ingenious piece OF
mechanism, resembling an elongated
barrel with heavy iron bands to hold
the slaves in place iutsead of the Gus
tomsry hoops, IL was built under
the supervision of ]. G. Miller of
Denver, who has had wide expsr.
ieno, in that character of work. The
contractors are Messrs. Home and
Allen of the same city. The hrst
siphun of the kind alluded to was
built near Denver for an irrigating
company about twenty years ago.