The Grit-advocate., 1902-06-27
COLORADO BRIEFS.

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| A forest fire OH Tcnderfoot mountain
near Dillon has destroyed nearly 5000
acres of timber.
| The teachers institute at Colorado
Springs will begin on the first Monday
in August and last for two weeks.
w. Ii. Moore. the defaulting city
| clerk of Durango. has been held for
! trial at the September term of the Dis
trict Court.
The Grand Junction School Board
has purchased sites for two new school
buildings and will erect handsome
| structures.
| old son of Charles +. Arterburn of
Colorado City was killed June 21st by
the kick of horse.
Department Commander J. w. Huff
G. A. r., has established headQuar
tcrs at Victor with w. w. Ferguson as
assistant adjutant general.
1t is stated that W. S. Stratton pro
poses to build II club house and gym
nasium for the benefit of his Colorado
Springs street car employees.
The Denver base ball team by repeat
edly defeating Omaha has reached sec
! ond place in the Western League and
is crowding Kansas City for first.
President Benjamin L. Andrews of
the University of Nebraska delivered
the address on the occasion of the
graduating exercises of the Leadville
high school.
The regents of the University of Col
orado have appointed Prof. George II.
Rnya ora II To, Of l,,,T Tt,ir .,f
Michigan, to be dean of the School of
Applied Science.
Mr. John r. LangS of New York City
has been appointed instructor in music
for the University of Colorado at Boul-
der. and director of the Colorado
School of Music.
The next session of the University
of Colorado will begin on Monday. Sep
tember s. 1902. Registration will com
mence on the Friday previous and con
tinue on saturday
The property of the Jarvis Hall
school for boys at Denver has been
sold by the Episcopal Church author
illeS and no attempt will he made TO
revive the institution.
President Frank Adams of the Den
yer Fire and Police Board. who has
been dangerously sick for Il long time,
is reported TO be much improved and
i'll fair way to recover.
Denvcr's lack of an auditorium is
emphasized by the meeting of the In
ternatonal Sunday School convention,
which has to split up into sections that
cannot at any time meet all together.
There will be no more electric light
competition in Denver The managers
of the Denver Gas and Electric Com
pany have purchased majority of tbe
stock of its rival. the Lacombe Fled
trlc Company.
Rev. Canon Rywatcr of Grace Cathc-
dral, Topeka. and member of the fac
ulty of Kansas Theological Institute.
has been appointed by Bishop Olmsted
archdeacon of the Denver diocese of
the Episcopal Church.
james +. Secrest. formerly banker
of South Side Camp No, II. Woodmen
of the World, in Denver was arrested
on the 18th inst. on a warrant charg-
ing him with embezzling S1,.O4.4 10 of
the funds of the camp
A Chicago dispatch says that mem.
bers of the Interstate Commerce Com
mission will go to Lcadville. Colorado.
where an inquiry will he made con
ccrning charges filed hy the Board of
Trade of that city against the trans
continental lines.
Former Sheriff Joseph Yates and
William Mott two well known mining
men of boulder County. have returned
from the Thunder Mountain country
in Idaho and report that il has been
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