The Meeker herald., 1902-08-02
COLORADO BRIEFS.

nesday, October eth and Sth.
The ninth annual convention Of the
Philatelic Sons OF America will meet
in Denver August 7th and 9Th to dis
cuas GAe subject of postage stamp COL
lectlons.
The robbery of two powder houses
near Denver is thought to indicate the
presence of 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 COIL
pany can finish and I'LL its new reser-
volr. which is not likely to be before
next spring.
Tile Garden of the Gods Chautauqua
Summer School at Colorado Springs
opened on June Odd with an attend
ance Of fifty students. which will be
considerably Increased.
Lieut. Gov. ID. C.. Coates has started
on tour Of several weeks through
Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska In the
interest of the Western Federation OF
Miners and the sociallstic movement
According to the reading Of q bIcy-
cler's cyclOmeter, the distance from
Aspen to Meeker. via the New Castle
road, Ia ITO mIles-hfty-nine to New
Castle and fifty-one from New Castle
to Meeker.
Bob Reigan OF Plceance creek, In Rio
BlancO county, is accommodating wealth
by lassooing<wolves and presenting the
pelts at the county treasurers office
for the bounty. His llriat never
misses IRE.
City Engineer Case of Colorado
Springs has recently returned from
Los Angeles, where he Investigated the
method of sprlnkling streets with oil to
keep down dust. He will recommend
Its use In Colorado Springs.
Emile Berne. striking machinist at
Denver. was fined, IS and costs BY
Magistrate Thomas for applying the
word "scab" derisively to John Farm
berg, a nom union boilermaker working
In the Union Pacific shops.
The Catholics of Victor have decided
to begin the construction Of new &12,.
600 church. The editice will be forty
three by ninety feet, built of pressed
brick, trimmed with cut stone, and will
have a seating capacity Of about 800.
The date of the laying of the city
hall corner stone ct Colorado Springs
has been changed from August 18th to
18th, owing to the fact that the Elks,
will be busy on the 18th with their
street fete.
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. ranchman living on
Lake creek, in Eagle county, was shot
and killed a few days ago by Bert
Siddell. living on nm adjoining ranch.
The quarrel was about some money
and Siddell Immediately surrendered
himself to deputy sheriff.
Cheyenne park, STATIONS new public
villa Mt the mouth Of Cheyenne canon
at Colorado Springs, was lighted by
network of electricc lamps for the first
time on the night of July 22d, in the
presence of several hundred people.
Band concerts will be inaugurated
three times week.
At Monument, July 23d, David G.
CURE was killed by Denver & Rio
Grande passenger train while crossing
the tracks. His body was badly man
gled. Both his horses were killed and
the wagon smashed to pieces. Mr..
CURE was sixty-six years of age and
one of the old settlers.
At mass meeting Of colored citizens
in st. Johns Baptist Church, under the
auspices of the Young Mems Christian
Union (colored), resolutions were adopt.
ed cOndemning recent cake-walk shows
and buck-and-wi dances, together
with all other "nigger'' performances
that tend to degrade the race and hold
It up to ridIcule.
A dam Is at once to be built across
the outlet of Lawn lake near Estes
Park. In order to hasten the work
and speed supplies several miles of
road has just been completed to the
lake from Estes Park. The lake lies
at timber line on Hague's Peak, not
far from Hallet glacier, and for the fu-
ture will be storage reservoir.
On July gath three children, the old
est being only twelve years old, made
the round trip to the summit of Pixies
Peak and return OH foot in the record
breaking time Of ten hours. The chill
dren are Mary and Gudella Hurt, aged
respectively twelve and ten years, chill
dren Of tourists from Missouri. and ten
year-old Earl Keller Of Colorado
Springs.
The Denver park commissioners have
accepted three months-old mountain
lion cub captured recently by d. F.
Howard of New York and T. w.
Hampson Of Salt Lake while on
hunting expedition near Steamboat
Springs, and who made q present of
the animal to the city. The mother Of
the cub was killed while trying to pro-
tect it from the hunters.
The Pueblo City Council has passed
an ordinance granting a franchise to
the Rapid Transit Electric Railway
Company to build and operate an cleo
trio line within the city limits which