The Grit-advocate., 1902-08-01
COLORADO BRIEFS.

chair of mining engineering Ill the
State School of Mines at Golden on
July oath
The ninth annual convention Of the
Philatelic Sons OF America will meet
in Denver August 9TH and Sth to dis
cuss the subject of postage stamp col
lections.
The robbery of TWO powder houses
near Denver Is thought To Indicate the
presence Of Il gang OF train robbers,
who are laying in supplies of dynamite
and caps.
The water shortage in Denver prom
ises to be serious until the water com
pany can finish and fill its new rcSer-
voir, which is not likely to be before
next spring
The Garden of the Gods Chautauqua
Summer School at Colorado Springs
opened on June 23d with an attend
ance of fifty students. which will be
considerably Increased.
While walking up the stone steps IT
the Loretto Academy in Santa l'e. New
Mexico. July 25th. Rev. Joseph Z. Car
riGan OF St Patrick's Church in Den
yer. fell and dislocated his hip.
Lieut. Gov. ID. G. Coates has started
on Il tour of several weeks through
Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska in the
interest Of the Western Federation of
Miners and the socialistic movement,
According to the reading of Il bicy-
cler's cyclOmeter. the distance from
Aspen to Meeker. via the New Castle
road, is 40 miles-tifty nine to New
Castle and tifty-onc from New Castle
TO Meeker.
Bob Reigan of Piceance creek. in Rio
BlancO county, is accumulating wealth
by lassooing wolves and presenting the
pelts at the county treaSurer's office
for the bounty His lariat never
misses fire
The State Association of District At
torneys was formed at G!cnwood
Springs July 2Gth by the election Of
Henry Trowbridgc of Cripple Creek
president, and II. G. Thurman of Cen
trail City secretary.
City Engineer Case of Colorado
Springs has recently returned from
Los Angeles, where he investigated the
method of sprinkling streets with oil to
keep down dust. He will recommend
its use in Colorado Springs
Emile Berne, n striking machinist at
Denver, was fined 81 and costs by
Magistrate Thomas for applying the
word "scab' dersively to John Farm
berg, a nOn-union boilermaker working
in the Union Pacific shops
The Catholics of Victor have decided
to begin the construction of II new Sl2,-
900 church. The editice will be forty
three by ninety feet, built of pressed
brick, trimmed with cut stone and will
have seating capacity of about 800.
E. G. Whitney writes from Eocl>v
Ford to the mayor of Trinidad that
for the sum of $1,000 he will prodilc"
three inches of rain in trinidad within
four days by an entirely new process
which uses neither prayer nor exoios-
ives.
The Colorado Terminal Lines Asso-
citation has agreed to grant round trip
rates Of one fare plus 81 for the annual
state meetings of the MaSOns in Den
yer. the Woodmen in Colorado Springs
and the Odd Fellows and Red Men In
Denver.
John Pallister, a ranrhman living u
Lake creek, in Eagle county. was shot
and killed a few days ago by Bert
Siddell. living on an adjoining ranch.
The quarrel was about some money
and Siddell Immediately surrendered
himself to a deputy sheriff
Cheyenne park. Strattons new public
villa at the mouth of Cheyenne canon
:at Colorado Springs. was lighted by i
network of electricc lamps for the first
time on the night of July 22d. in the
presence of several hundred people