The Grit-advocate., 1902-07-04
COLORADO BRIEFS.

Capt. AlonZO |. COan has turned over
TO Judge Junius Henderson 100 British
fossils for the State University mu-
scum at Boulder
Crickets have been doing much dam
age to alfalfa and garden products III
some parts of Rio Blanco county. but
are reported not TO like corn.
AT Leadville on June 2Sth nearly six
inches of snow fell between 6 and s
p. m.. and tourists from the East
greatly enjoyed throwing snow balls.
Curator Ferril of the State Museum
at Denver declares that cats are re-
sponsible for the killing of thousands
of song birds. He would like to see
tax on eats to reduce the number.
1t is reported al Cripple Creek in
connection with the announcement of
a settlement of the rate war, that the
passenger traffic will be thrown, as far
as possible TO the Short Line, the Mid
land taking the freight.
Col. j. ii. Nicholson. cashier of the
National State Bank of Boulder. died
at San Diego, California; on June 23d.
of heart failure brought on by the grip.
He had been in California, with his
family, for about two weeks.
AT the eighth annual banquet of the
alumni of the State School of Mines,
held at the Albany hotel in Denver,
DR.. Regis Chauvenet retiring presi-
dent of the institution. was presented
with a magnificent loving cup.
a company has been organized at
Greeley, known as the Greeley Auto
mobile Company. to manufacture au-
tomobiles, with Il. NJ. Miller as presl
dent and general manager. The fac
tory will be located in East Greeley.
A Madison dispatch says that e. p.
SandSten, Il former Colorado student,
who helped to pay his way through
college by running market gardens,
mas been elected assistant professor
of horticulture in the University Of
Wisconsin.
On 1,0O0-acre beet farm five miles
southwest of Alamosa. three seven-inch
hrteSian wells have been sunk and Il
contract let for ten more wells the
same size. An ample flow of water
from each well is obtained and large
yield of sugar beets is assured.
A recent meeting of Colorado Philip
pine veterans in Denver adopted reso-
lutions denouncing Brigadier General
suage because of his alleged character
ization of the First Colorado volun-
teers as "howling mob"
The Glenwood Springs annual bicycle
road race will take place on Sunday,
July 9th. The race will be over the
twenty-tive-milc course from Basalt to
Glenwood. Last year John Beard of
Fruita covered the distance in 1:16:2O,
which is the best record ever made on
tha trOad.
A few days ago mountain sheep
ran into the barbed wire fence at the
homestead of John Jones at Mary's
lake, in Estes park. and became so en-
tangled that il killed itself in trying to
get loose. The animal was an old
ram. one of its horns being thirty-siX
inches long
The cattlemen of Routt county have
held meetings and decided to levy a
tax of cents per head on all stock on
the range in order to raise a bounty
fund, $40 being the price for each wolf
scalp. Wolves have = been numerous
this spring and have killed many
calves.
The Railway Age credits Colorado
with folty-eight and one-half miles of
railroad track laid this year up to
the first of June. New track was laid
by four different lines. The Denver X
Northwestern promises to figure large
ly in the railroad building of the next
twelve months.
The Senate has passed Senator Tel
ler's bill to grant certain lands to the
Spnth plofta Canal and Rnsnrynir Cam