North Park union., 1902-05-02
COLORADO BRIEFS.

''N sNiNS s'oich eNeEy uoHtu Ill Den
YER.
j. Stitt Wilson. the noted socialist
lecturer. has been having immense au.
diences in Denver.
Raymond and Whitcomb excursion
parties have begun passing through
colorado. Look out for bad weather.
Colorado railroads will be given a
chance to exhibit at the st. Louis eN.
position by the Colorado Fair commits.
sion.
EX-Gov. John L. Routt is now In
iarls, france, with his family, but cN-
poets to return to Colorado about
June 1st
Seven companies of the Eighteenth
infantry have been ordered to Fort Lo-
gan, near Denver. They are ut present
in Texas.
While in apparent health, Frank
simmer. prominent hardware mer-
chant Mt Creedc, suddenly fell dead of
heart failure on the morning of April
10th.
AT Canon City, April 2Oth, Rev. W.
III. Hightower, widower. aged eighty
three years, WAS married to Mary
Goodwin, widow, aged slxty.threc
years.
The fund that is being raised by the
capitalists of the capital city TO pur-
chase presents for the cruiser Denver
has reached S3,90j 1t was To have
been $4,000.
Captain James Reed of Buena Vista
died Of pneumonia ut ST. Anthony's $
hospital, Denver, April 2lst. He was
Grand Army man and sevcnty-onc
years of age.
The new steel bridge across the
Platte river AT Brighton Is completed
The structure is 300 feet long and cost
the county of Arnpahoc S1S,Oo0. 1t
has Two spans of 100 feet each.
y. NJ. Hawlcy. secretary of the state
board of agriculture, has received the
appointment OF statistical agent of the
United States Department of Agrlcul-
ture. He will collect Colorado crop
statistics all over the state.
\ Colorado zephyr blew Emil Strand,
the team of four horses which he was
driving, and Il load OF timber over the
bank near the Eagle Bird mine at Sil-
yer Plume n few days ago. Neither
team nor driver We're badly injured.
The committee of investigation on
the books of cN-City Clerk w. H..
Moore of Durango has completed its
work and the report shows Mr.M0orc's :
shortage for the three years term TO
be something in excess of $1,000.
The bill granting the city of Colo
RADIO Springs the right to buy 1000
acres of the forest reserve in the viciu-
iiy of Seven Lakes. where the new
water works system Is located, has
been passed by both houses OF Con
crcss
Isabella Dayton of pcytuu. Colorado,
in the County Court OF FL raso couu-
ty, has been granted n divorce and II.
lie TO 400 acres of land she decided 10
her husband. They We're married cS-
actly thirty days before she filed the
complaint.
President Van Horn of the Laramie,
Ilahn's Peak and Pacific Railroad has
written from the Boston office to Vice
President Miller In Laramie, Wyo-
ming. lnStructing the company's of
iicers to resume operations on the line
as soon rs possible,
Rabbit coursing is crime, viola.
tlon of the humane laws of the state.
according to the verdict of the jury In
the West Side court mt Denver which
tried the test ease in that tribunal
through the efforts of the officers o,
the State Humane Society.
The commissioners of Saguachc
county at the April meeting took up
the matter of a display at the st. Louis
Words Fair. and decided To ask Rio
Grandc. Costilla, Coucjos ana Mineral
counties 10 join with Sacuache In II
display TO be- known as the san Luis
valley exhibit.
w. Ii. Brown of Marble, who was
accused of blasting fish In the Crystal
river several weeks ago. was brought
before Judge stevens of the District
Court at GunnlsOn for trial. He plead
ed guilty and was sentenced To not
less than six nor more than eighteen
months in the state rcformatory at
Buena Vista.
The Gem Gold Mining Company has
secured judgment in the District Court
at Cripple Creek against the Town of
Altman 70" $1,000. During the small
pox epidemic last year the town seized
the claim owned by the mining com
pany and established II pest house
there preventing mining operations
and damaging the company.
In the District Court at Mccker.
james Wallace, n wealthy cattleman
OF Rio Bllnco county. was acquitted
on charge of cattle r,istlinG. william
Farley was sentenced 10 eighteen
months in the penitentiary for steal
ing number of watches. amounting
to $500. from \. Oldland X Co. The
court adjourned 10 September 10th.
Charles ii. Plerson Of Idaho Springs,
Il veteran of the Civil War, who has
been trying FOR several years TO secure
n pension on account of injuries re-
celved, has just been Informed that his
applicatiun has been granted, WIN
back pay to be allowed from the time
of his disability. The amount TO which
Mr. Pierson is said TO be entitled Is
about $4,000.
Colorado City is vigorously agtat-
ing the question of Il hospital for the
miners. mill men and railroad work
crs. 1t is the only city of any rail-
road importance in this section where
such an institution Is lacking, and
many serious cases have been asgrn-
waited by the long ride to the hospitals
in Colorado Springs. The movement Is
headed by Dr. H. l.. McCrecry, the
new city physician.
A Colorado Springs dispatch of April
23rd TO II Denver paper says: Leney
Keller. the tifteen-ycar-old colored girl
arrested yesterday in Eastonville upon
the charge of incendiarism. is In the
county Jail in this city awaiting n
hearing She Is accused of setting fire