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

cause this is the cantaloupe season.
The joint ticket agencies at Denver,
Colorado Springs and Pueblo estimate
there are 27,0OO tourists now in the
state.
About 100 members of the Tennessee
Press Association will arrive in Den
yer. August 1ith and make Il trip into
the mountains.
The Colorado Fuel and Iron Com
pany's power house at the Crested
Butte mine was burned on the morn
ing Of August Bird.
Rockvalc is calling in the last of it's
municipal water bonds. of which $1O,-
600 worth are outstanding. The water
plant was built by the city in 1893 at a
cost of $4,000.
An effort will be made to raise II
fresh air fund in Denver to take poor
children into the mountains, where cot
tagers will be asked to care for them
for week at time.
A wild coyote, apparently about two
months old, entered the City park in
Denver n few days ago and tried to
get into the cage with the captive coy
otes. He was accommodated.
raised to save the buildings and prop
erty of the Colorado Woman's Baptist
College at Denver. a further amount
of $4,000 is needed to complete the
building ready for the opening of the
school.
The Pueblo Gas and Fuel Company
has filed Incorporation papers with the
secretary of state The company is
capitalized for 100000, and the direc
tors for the first year are: I. f. Ey-
man, II. y. Cowan. J. Il. McCorkle. j.
ID. Taylor and G. Fl. Prall of Pueblo.
AS a dance was in progress at Bal
ley, Platte canon, Oh the night of Au-
gust End II meteor was discovered
about l o'clock in the eastern part of
the sky. 1t was like one grand illu-
mination and the rare beauty Of the
scene stopped the dancing until it had
passed.
In Difference to the difficulties that
tenderfeet have in pronouncing names
derived from the Spanish. the Santa
Fe railway has ordered that in all its
signs and advertising the word can
on shall be spelled canyon" AS for
instance, Canyon City, Cheyenne Can
yUn. etc.
Pueblo. Canon City and Rockdale
are competing for the artcsian water
flow from the well drilled by the Colo
RADIO Springs Oil and Gas Company at
Chandler creek. 1t is the largest arte
sion flow ever opened in Fremont coun-
ty. and is estimated at half Il million
gallons of water daily.
Official adviccs received in Denver
from the home in London England
confirm the appointment of Walter S.
Hoyt, formerly of Denver, as general
manager of the smelling and refining
works of Australia, located at Dapto,
n. S. w. Mr.. Hoyt was formerly con-
nected with the Grant smelter.
Elwood Mead. chief of irrigation for
the Department of Agriculture. has
written to State Engineer McCune that
he is coming to Colorado Immediately
| to join with Mr.. McCune in study Of
| drainage conditions within the state.
| This work by Mr.. Mead is considered
| of especial Importance on account of
| the new law.
Shortly after midnight on July 31st,
| at the crossing of Logan and Alameda
| avenues in Denver, n tallyho coach
containing party Of nineteen was run
into by an electric car and overturned.
Several of the party were seriously in
| jured, but all are expected to recover
soon. Mr.. LYDIA A. Horton was badly
| cut about the head.
Terseto Chaves, Mexican sheep
herder in the employ of Felix Chavcs,
Il large owner of sheep in Saglache
| county, was shot and killed August