The Grit-advocate., 1902-07-11
COLORADO BRIEFS.

Me-ahcr wants 4 lodge oil f.lkS. 30 As
not 10 feel lonesome when all the wild
ones are gone.
The po>totiices ut Barr. Gladstone.
lliff. EO.geu. San Pablo and Thatcher
have been made domestic money order
Offices.
Tie Fourth Of July celebration at
Leadviile wound up in a lively snow
storm. the ground at midnight being is
white a. in winter
The Colorado Automobile Club has
recently been organized ut Denver and
is expected 10 take Ia most of the 30
owners of automobiles in Colorado.
-.bout LOO members from all portions
of the state attended the fifth annual
meeting OF the Colorado Bar -Associa-
ton a; Colorado Springs. July lst and
End
The first midsummer meeting of the
Colorado Horticultural Society will be
held a, Boulder on July 2$rd and oath.
Premiums will b. given On the best
displays
A carload Of registered Shorthorn
bulls. twenty-five in number. We're re-
Gently driven INFO Rio Blanco county
by Foreman Z. II IGle> OF the Bar
Triangle ranch.
The number of pieces handled IN the
baggage room of the Union depot at
Denver during the month of June was
i4..l$ as compared with "a. .::ji.2,5 for the
same month last year, gain Of 1o-
22S
y great army Of cdJerpillarS has been
devastating the aspen trees south and
,..I- NJ
all the mountains in the vicinity. on
several instances they have impeded
and stopped the progress of trains.
Special rates viii be made ny the
Western Passenger Association for the
meeting of the National Irrigation Con
=reSS at Colorado Springs October 9Th
TO 9th. The National Forestry Asso-
citation Will meet at the same time.
The Denver union stock yards last
month broke all records for cattle re-
ceipts. The total number received
during June WAS I549l head of cattle,
''.3u9 hogs and 5.G2a sheep. This beats
any month in the history of the yards.
Mrs Hooper. the mother of Maj. $.
X. Hooper. general passenger agent of
the Deuyers N Rio Grande railroad.
died at New Albany. Indiana. June
5oth. at the age Of eishtyniue years.
Major Hooper had been III attendance
on her for two weeks before her death.
Charles f Lacombe. president and
chief promoter of the Lacomhe Elec-
tric Company OF Denver. attempted sui
eide on the morning of July Sd during
an attack of nervous prostrarion
brought on by business perpIexities.
7 l., HI -f-E i.rr- r,fl laJ
TO reach an artery.
The colOred citizens of Colorado
Springs ere making elaborate prepara-
tions for the observance of emancipa-
ton day. september 22d. II Is the in.
tention of the committees TO make it
a state affair. if possible. and send out
Invitations to the various colored or
ganizaJions throughout the state. ,.
F. R. Allen. one of the pioneer saw
mill men of Lyons. was shot and in
Stantly killed by Gus Plum. a ranch
man living fifteen miles west OF Lyons,
in Big Elk park. on The night of June
3oth. Tn. shooting resulted from 4
quarrel over burned bridge Plum
went TO Estes park and gave himself
/ ur
Gen. William ]. Palmer has written
[ 4 letter from Athens. Greece. 10 Cap
tain Watson of Colorado Springs eN-
{ pressing his aversion TO becoming a
! candidate for governor of Colorado. as
, it would be 10 much ike getting into
/ business harness again General Pal
7 mer recently retired from active bust
I ness
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