The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1902-07-05
COLORADO BRIEFS.

The recent heavy rain storms seem
TO have extinxuished many forest
hres in different portions Of the state.
Capt. Alonzo l. Coan has turned over
to Judge Junius Henderson 100 British
fossils for the State University mu-
scum at Boulder.
AT Leadville on June 18th nearly six
inches Of snow fell between 9 and =
p. M. and tourists from the East
greatly enjoyed throwing snow balls.
Curator Ferril OF the State Museum
At Denver declares that cats are re-
sponsible for the killing Of thousands
Of song birds. He would like to see
4 tax on cats to reduce the number.
1t 10 reported At Cripple Greek in
connection with the announcement Of
| q settlement Of the rate war. that the
passenger traffic will be thrown, as far
as possible TO the Short Line, the Mid
land taking the freight.
Col. ]. H. Nicholson, cashier Of the
National State Bank of Boulder, died
ut San Diego. California, on June sd,
of heart failure brought ON by the grip.
He had been in California, with his
family, for about two weeks.
At the eighth annual banquet Of the
alumni of the State School OF Mines.
held at the Albany hotel in Denver.
DIR. Regis Chauvenet. retiring presi-
dent Of the Institution. was presented
with \ magnificent loving cup.
A company has been organized At
Greeley. known ~ the Greeley Auto
mobile Company, to manufacture au-
tomobiles, with e. NJ. Miller as presi-
dent and general manager. The fac
tory will be located In East Greeley.
A Madison dispatch says that E. p.
Sandsten, a former Colorado student,
who helped to pay his way through
college by running market gardens,
has been elected assistant professor
Of horticulture in the University Of
Wisconsin.
On 1,OOO-acre beet farm i've miles
southwest of Alamosa, three seven-inch
artesian wells have been sunk and q
contract let for ten more wells the
same size. An ample flow Of water
from each well u obtained and large
yield OF sugar beets il assured.
A recent meeting of Colorado Philip
pine veterans in Denver adopted resO-
buttons denouncing Brigndier General
John G. Chase, n. G. c., In violent Ian
guage because of his alleged character
ixation Of the First Colorado yolun-
teers as "howling mob"
The Glenwood Springs annual bicycle
road race will take place on Sunday,
| July 9th. The race will be over the
twenty hve-mile course from Basalt to
Glenwood. Last year John Beard OF
Frulta covered the distance In 1:16:2O,
which IL the best record ever made on
tina troad.
A few days ago q mountain sheep
ran into the barbed wire fence ut the
homestead of John Jones at Mary's
lake, In Estes park, and became 50 en-
tangled that 1t killed itself in trying to
get loose. The animal was an old
ram, one of its horns being thirty-six
inches long.
The cattlemen of Routt county have
held meetings and decided to levy a
| tax of 3 cents per head on all stock on
the range In order to raise bounty
| fund, so being the price for each. wolf
| scalp. Wolves have been numerous
calves.
The Railway Age credits Colorado
with forty eight and one-half miller OF
railroad track laid this year up to
the first of June. New track was laid
by four different lines. The Denver 4
Northwestern promises to figure large
| ly in the railroad building Of the next
| twelve months.
| The Senate has passed Senator Tel
ler's bill to grant certain lands to the
South Platte Canal and Reservoir Com
pany for use for the purposes Of wa
ter storage and supply Of Its water
works. The lands granted are all
1 within the South Platte forest reserve
and aggregate 1880 acres.
Sontora Doettla, an Italian, shot and
killed Emil Carmina between Weston
| and Torres in Las Animas county on
June Goth. Afterward he killed an
other man with a knife In order to es-
cape. The crime was on account of
the recent marriage of Carmina to a
woman who had refused Doettla.
Fifty-one homeseekers from Nebras-
ka have been examining the country
around Alamosa. s. L. Amber, man
| ager of the Southern Colorado Land
| Company, says that over 800 families
living In Nebraska are anxious to To-
cate In the San Luis valley II beet
sugar factory can be assured them.
The Pueblo City Council has passed
an ordinance granting the Pueblo Trac-
ton and Lighting Company certain
street franchises which 1t is expected
will be Immediately followed by the
construction of an electric line on
South Santa Fe avenue to the smelters
and steel works and on North Main
street to Mineral Palace park.
AT Creole on June 9th Henry s.
Jones, a pioneer miner of Creole camp,
whose wife and baby reside in Denver,
fell from the top of the Happy
Thought skip to the eighth level, a dis