The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1902-10-11
COLORADO, BRIEFS.

COLORADO BRIEFS.
The telephone wires in Pueblo are b.
Ing placed underground. az. -,
The late xains had the eject OF de-
laying the opening Of the Greeley bset
sugar refinery. De
Montclair,, q suburb of Denver. Will
raise 10000 and construct q water
plant Of its own. ,ef
& Four new letter carriers and six
clerks We're added to the Denver post
office force October LIST. tr
The City Council OF Boulder has
adopted resolution providing for the
purchase of 100 acres of ground to be
added to the Chautauqua tract.
81 Mrs. Helen L. Grenfell. state super
intendent Of public instruction, who
. has been seriously Ill for some time
In Denver, is reported to be on the
way to recovery. .s
There are giants in these days. The
Highest man in the University OF Ne
hfaska eleven, who defeated the Uni
yersity' Of Colorado in the football
game at Boulder. weighed 185 pounds.
81 The .All-American and Ali-National
baseball teams will play series OF
exhibition games in Denver October
25th and 26th. Many of the stars OF
the two great leagues will take part
Manager Packard Of the Denver
Baseball team of the Western league
says that he Will retain the Denver
franchise and put the strongest team
I hss gan secure in the field next year.
The colleges and high schools OF Col
orado are going in for football this sea-
son as never before and the crop OF
broken limbs from this most strenuous
x1 sports promises to be large one.
r Tourists arriving in sight OF the Col
orado mountain ranges during the past
week have been surprised to lind them
- white as II the season were midwin-
ter. An immense amount OF snow has
fallen, ,a..Izr ga .eflsf
H. e. Mulnix, of the Worlds Fair
board, is making tour Of the state 70
visit the county commissioners and
urge them to make adequate appropria-
lions for a creditable display ut St
Louis in 1904. nqs ffi.f = s'sa
si On October 1st another, oil producer
in the Boulder field was announced,
being that owned by the Anderson OIL
Company on the Gooding ranch. half
mile east of the Arnold. A good now
was struck at 1900 feet.
John M. Houk. q Denver grocer, COM
mitted suicide on the 4th inst. by swal-
Lowing carbolic acid. The act was due
. to Ill health and dependency. Houk
|, n said to have been q member OF tho
A. o. U. w. and P. o. 8. of A.
At the special election October LIST.
the people Of Fort Morgan voted to
erect water works and bond the town
for 100000. Great interest was taken
tn the election and the proposition car
ned by vote OF over two to one.
Nj Denver is in no further danger Of .
water famine. The recent rains have
filled the Platte river from the noun
tains and the Denver Union Water
Company has ordered that no more
storage water be drawn from the reser-
voirs. f
In trying to shoot rattlesnake. VIII
liam Chatwood Of Lafayette hit his leg
near the thigh, inficting dangerous
wound, from which the surgeons at the
State University extracted forty shot.
two 10-cent pieces and q part OF .
penny. l.fe
It seems As II the Denver divorce
mill must be run by steam or electrtci-
ty. In Judge Mullins division Of the
District Court few days ago, seven
divorce cases were heard and DEGREES
entered in just thirty-two minutes.
Next!
DR.. F. G. Nichols has purchased lots
and let the contract for the construc-
ton of a hospital in Craig. The build
ing will contain rooms and accommo-
dations for twenty patients. It will be
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northwestern Colorado 49, sss
R. r. Taylor. tried q Colorado
| Springs for the murder Of Frank H.
Shader last August was Acquitted.
Taylor's Plea was self defense. and evt-
dence was submitted to show that ShA-.
der had threatened to kill him and was
IN the act of reaching tof 9 revolver
when Taylor shot g M
President Aaron sonnebor Of the
State Fair Association thmks that the
last fair tust closed at Pueblo ..dem-
onstrates that . successful stats fair
can be held in Colorado. 4" ana that
.the fair has shown thAt CoaofAdos
resources are more varied thar most
Of its citizens believed" ~ x.s
The Colorado Springs Street Car
Company has Just inaug,rated fts
transfer System, the privilege being al
lowed on all intersecting lines whose
| general trend is not parallel. w. 8.
Stratton was responsible for the
change. which he decided upon after
purchasing control and merging the
two companies. slaI a.,...i
Ed O'Kelly, the slayer Of Bob Ford
ut Creole ten years ago, Ford being the
man who killed Jesse James. was re-
leased from the penitentiary at Canon
City October 2. He at once started for
Pueblo, his former home. O'Kelly was
sent up from Creole for life, but his
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