The Springfield herald., 1902-09-12
COLORADO BRIEFS.

| September 18th and continues for five
days.
Duck hunters from Denver and other
| large towns can now be found ut about
every lake in the state.
Seventy-five cars of cantaloupes were
I, shipped from Rocky Ford on the first
two days of September.
A good deal of damage was done in
the vicinity of Fowler by n severe hail
storm on the night of August 31st.
The Denver theater on Curtis street
has been renovated and remodeled and
will hereafter be. known as the Curtis
theater.
A party of Rio Grande engineers are
making new survey for the line OF
that road between Palmer Lake and
Monument.
1t is stated in Denver that eXPresi-
dent Edward Boyce of the Miners fed
Grafton will make Denver his perma-
nent home.
Professors d. ]. Griffith of Amcs Col
lege, Iowa, will act as coach for the AS-
ricultural College football team at Fort
Collins this year.
Boulder business men have iIaugur-
ated n crusade against street fakirs
who make a market-place of the prin-
cipal streets of the city
Large forest fires are constantly in
sight from Denver and it seems as II
the foothills of the Eastern range
must soon be entirely bare of timber
A party of scientists have been max
ing Il survey of the large glacier on
Arapahoe peak in Boulder county and
will later publish Il full description OF
it,
The football team of Colorado College
at Colorado Springs has begun practice.
1t is reported that the University OF
Denver will also have team i'll the
field.
The Otero oil well near Boulder was
shot on September LIST with sixty quarts
of nitroglycerlne Oil rose to within 100
feet of the surface, indicating valu-
able well.
Denver "fans" stoutly assert that the
Denver baseball team will again win
the Western League pennant, though
beginning its series of home games at
fourth place.
The Gates system of mercantile
houses, creameries and cheese factories,
has inaugurated 100 miles of barbed
wire fence telephone line on the DlNlue
east of Palmer Lake.
several StflugS OIL COW -poiiicS Ia =
been attracted by the large purses of
fered by the Colorado State Fair at
Pueblo September 18th 10 goth, and the
relay races promise to be the best ever
held in the state.
1t seems likely that the new Lead
vile electric power ana railroad scheme
will be carried through. The company
proposes to build Il railroad connecting
the mines and shelters of the district
and to furnish power to mining plants.
w. w. Price of Colorado Springs and
Webb Jay of Denver drove fifteen-
horsepower automobile from Colorado
Springs to Buena Vista in nine hours
on August 31st, but were delayed be-
tween Buena Vista and Leadyille by
the illness of Mr.. Jay.
The August report of the sales of the
United States land office at Denver Is
as follows: Total receipts from sales,
$4,000. 80: the fees of the office. $1,000
Oj, n total of S51,0O0.OO. This is an in
crease of S1.6o0.OO compared with the
corresponding month last year.
At Ouray, August 29th, Judge Ste
vens in chambers heard n petition for
an injunction from citizens of Grand
Junction asking that the school board
be restrained from selling bonds issued
LOT new S'I''i hpuSNF'. IN
petition was denied. District Attorney
McAIullin and Attorney Caswell repre-
scented the board.
John Drager, an old settler in the VI
cinity of Fort Collins. was instantly
killed September LIST by an explosion
of the boiler of Il threshing machine en-
CINE. His son, Arthur Dagger. was at
the same time seriously injured. The
machine belonged to William Foy and
was at work on Parker's ranch four
miles south of Fort Collins.
Secretary Gilbert McClurg of the Col
orado Springs Chamber of Commerce,
who has recently returned from two
weeks trip through New Mexico, Iowa.
Kansas and Minnesota, reports great
interest in the coming meeting of the
National Irrigation Congress at Colo
RADIO Springs October 9th to 9th. Thorn
as L. Walsh, president of the congress,
has made generous subscription for
the entertainment of delegates.
A mass meeting of fruit growers was
held at Grand junction August Both to
protest against the high rates charged
by the express companies. AS n result
express rates for fruit shipments from
all points in Mesa county have been
reduced by the Wells-Fargo and Rio
Grande companies. In carload lots the
price has been reduced from 80 cents
to 10 cents, while in 2,50O-pound ship
ments it has been reduced to 81.
The city council of Glenwood Springs
has granted the Denver n Rio Grande
concessions in the way of closing part
of the river from Front street in con-
sideration of the building of ., $4,000
depot This is an improvement greatly
needed. but it has been delayed several
wears for want of suitable site. The