The Elbert County tribune., 1902-10-23
COLORADO BRIEFS.

sending large sums of money to Penn
sylyania to aid the strikers.
The employees of the Meyer mine at
iIeadville recently sent a check or
$52625 TO the anthracite strikers.
The Denver Ministerial Alliance and
the Charity Organization Society viii
work together in the future in dispens-
ing charity.
The county commissioners OF Cum
nison county have submitted the ques-
( ton OF county high school TO the
people OF the county to vote on next
month.
The soliciting committee OF the
Brush Chamber OF Commerce has
pledges of over 5000 acres of beets in
1904 and 1905 for the proposed sugar
factory.
The Fort Collins sugar factory will
be located on the Barry farm. north OK
the town. Surveying has already been
begun for the factory site and railroad
side tracks.
Chancellor Buchtel is still at work
raising money to clear the University
of Denver from debt and has now
brought the required sum down to
close margin.
The Commercial Club of Denver is to
be consolidated with the Chamber of
Commerce. the new body being called
the "Chamber of Commerce and Com
mercial Club"
Many cattle from the South Park re-
centy received at the stock yards in
Denver are said to suffer from lacerat-
cd throats and tongues caused by eat
ing foxtail grass.
During September the death roll of
4 iiD
population was 1908; excluding tuber-
culosis contracted elsewhere the rate
was 12.ss per 1000.
The Rocky Mountain Hotel Mems
Association will hold convention in
Denver November 4th. The head
quarters of the convention are at the
Brown Palace hotel.
Germans living in various parts of
the state. who wish TO attend the fair
to be given In Denver November 18th
to 23rd. by the United order Of Haru-
gari. viii be given reduced rates by the
railroads.
The state convention of the Young
Mems Christian Association will be
held in Colorado Springs November
9Th to 9th. Many prominent speakers
have been engaged and large attend
ance is expected.
The committee which had charge of
entertaining the delegates to the
tenth international Sunday School
convention in Denver last June reports
balance of $640.39 left after paying
all bills.
The jury in the District Court at
Boulder In the case of John Dunn,
charged with the killing of Fred Brem-
maier near Marshall, brought in YER
diet of guilty of involuntary man
slaughter. which means n maximum
punishment of a year in the county
jail.
At a special meeting of the Pueblo
County Sunday School Association Oc-
ltober 18th, arrangements were made
for the State Sunday School conven-
ton to be held in Pueblo. November
t11th. 18th and 18th. The sessions Will
be held at the First Presbyterian
church
Strattons Independence. following
the example OF the Woods syndicate.
has decided to furnish the residence
formerly occupied by General Manager
Shipman for a club house for its en-
ployes. The idea is said to have orig
mated with John Hays Hammond on
his last visit to camp.
a low round-trip home visitors"
rate is promised from principal points
lin the West to leading points in the
East on certain dates OF November
land December. The final vote on the.
low rate is to be one fare for the round
"trip, plus SO. and twenty-one days will
be the limit Of the tickets.
Hunters are getting plenty of game
I'm many parts of the state. On the
18th instant a party of about twenty
tourists arrived at Meeker from Bu-
ford, having one wagon on which
were sixteen bucks. Four wagons
were loaded with forty-seven deer.
They were taken on to the railroad for
shipment.
President Frank Trumbull of the
Colorado & Southern railway system
has placed an order for twenty-four
engines and 200 stock cars for the Fort
Worth and Denver City road, which is
intimately connected with the Colo
rado & Southern. This order was
made necessary on account of the con-
struction of the new packing plant at
Fort Worth, Texas.
Carl S. Chamberlin. nephew of the
late w. S. Stratton, and one of the ex-
ecutors of the latter's now famous will
proposes to enter Colorado College at
Colorado Springs. Chamberlin was a
football player at Cornell and expects
to assist in coaching the Colorado
College team. He is going to take up
special work. completing his course in
electrical engineering.
James W. Hatfield. through his at
torney. Scott Ashton, has commenced
suit in the District Court at Cripple
Creek against the Golden Cycle Com
pany to recover damages in the sum
of S51 900 for injuries sustained in the
companys mine. Hatfield suffered a.
fractured skull and injuries to the
spine which. 1t is alleged. will rem