The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1902-07-12
COLORADO BRIEFS.

COLORADO BRIEFS.
Meeker wants lodge Of ElkA. 70 %
not to feel lonesome when all the WIG
ones are gone.
The postoflices at Barr. Gladstone.
lin, ROggen, San Pablo and Thatcher
have been made domestic money order
OfAces.
The Fourth Of July celebration at
Leadville wound up In = lively snow
storm, the ground at midnight being as
white as In winter.
The Colorado Automobile Club has
recently been organized at Denver ana
- expected to take in most Of the I'D
owners Of automobiles in Colorado.
..bout 100 members from all portions
Of the state attended the ffth annual
meeting Of the Colorado Bar Associa-
ton ct Colorado Springs, July LIST and
End.
The Arst midsummer meeting Of the
Colorado Horticultural Society will be
held At Boulder on July 23rd and oath.
Premiums will be given on the best
displayA
A carload Of registered shorthorn
OubISs huAAONhs "SAN ~
Gently driven into Rio Blanc0 county
Triangle ranch.
The number OF pieces handled IN the
baggage room of the Union depot at
Denver during the month Of June was
44,553 as compared with 1925 for the
same month last year, gain Of TO-
228
A great army of caterpillars has been
devastating the aspen trees south and
east of Victor and has reached nearly
all the mountains In the vicinity. On
several Instances they have impeded
and stopped the progress Of trains.
Special rates will be made by the
Western Passenger Association for tho
meeting of the National Irrigation Con
gress 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 70. 481 head Of cattle,
500 hogs and 5000 sheep. This beats
any month in the history Of the yards.
Mrs. Hooper. the mother Of Maj. 3.
X. Hooper, general passenger agent Of
the Denver & Rio Grande railroad,
died at New Albany. Indiana, June
3Oth, at the age Of eighty-nin yearA
Major Hooper had been in attendance
on her for two weeks before her death.
Charles F. Lacombe. president and
chief promoter Of the Lacombe Elec-
trio Company of Denver, attempted sui
eide on the morning of July I'd during
an attack of nervous prostration
brought on by business perplexities.
He cut his arm with razor, but failed
to reach an artery.
The colored citizens of Colorado
Springs are making elaborate prepara-
lions for the observance of emancipa.
ton day, September 22d. 1t is the In.
tention Of the committees to make II
a state affair, II possible, and send out
Invitations to the various colored or.
gani1ations throughout the state.
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
SOth. The shooting resulted from
quarrel over a burned bridge. Plum
went to Estes park and gave himself
up.
Gen. william J. Palmer has written
a letter from Athens, Greece, to Cap
tain Watson Of Colorado Springs, ex-
pressing his aversion to becoming a
candidate for governor of Colorado, as
1t would be ito much like getting into
business harness again" General Pal
mer recently retired from active bust
ness.
Miss Pauline L. Davidson. aged
twenty. beautiful and accomplished,
committed suicide in Denver on the
I'd inst because of unrequitted love
and poverty. She left letters to sew
eral friends and one to the newspa.
pers, along with a photograph which
they all used In their account of the
tragedy.
The coroner's Jury In the inquest
held over the remains of F. R. Allen
at Big Elk Park returned a verdict
as follows: That F. r. Allen, de-
ceased, came to his death on June 30,
1902, by a gunshot wound in the head
made by 4 gun held in the hand Of
Gustave Plum. and that said killing
was not felonIous."