The Springfield herald., 1902-09-26
COLORADO BRIEFS.

between the Stute university uua thc
University of Nebraska.
The Republicans have nominated w.
5. Winery of Lake City for float rep
resentative from the district compris-
ing Mineral and Hinsdale counties.
The newspaper artists Of Denver VIII
give an exhibition of original drawings
during the week of October 18th. Near
ly one thousand drawings will be dis
played.
at Grand Junction on the 18th inst,
G. w. Hofr died from the effects of in
juries received two days previous by
accidentally riding his bicycle over
high embankment.
The Prohibitionlsts of Weld county
have nominated Robert Steele and
Mrs. A. Putnam for the state LeSis-
lature. Only four towns In the county
have licensed saloons.
In the joint Republican senatorial
convention of Pueblo, Teller and Ere
mont counties, held at Canon CITY,
Louis Campbell of Cripple Creek was
nominated for float senator.
1t is probable that the Colorado ana
Wyoming delegation to the Natiohal
Encampment of the G. a. X. In wash
ington will make another effort to bring
the encampment to Denver in 1903.
James II. Peabody, Republican can
| lidate for governor with his wife and
daughter, has engaged rooms ut the
New Adams hotel in Denver. He Will
remain in Denver during the campaign.
Charles f. Smith of Boulder, brother
of the late Mrs Charles Fair, has pur-
chased the J. b. TeaSarden home on
University hill in Boulder. one OF the
handsomsst new residences i'll that
part of the city.
a dynamite bomb made of piece of
gas pipe was found few days ago IN
the Presbyterian church at Boulder by
Edwin Baker, the janitor who lost the
fore finger of his left hand in invesu-
eating the strange apparatus.
w. II. Montgomery has resigned the
office of president of the Incorporated
trades assembly of Denver on account
of his having become n candidate for
the state Legislature from Arapahoe
county ON the Republican ticket
A homing pigeon liberated in Den
yer by C. NJ. Day of the Adams Ex-
press Company on the 18th of August,
reached Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, on
the morning of September Bird, having
made the trip in twenty-five days.
James A. Semple, formerly n promi-
nent railroad man, died in Denver
September 18th at the age of seventy
seven years. He WAS the father of
Frank b. Semple, city passenger agent
| of the Denver Il Rio Grande railroad
in Denver.
The city officials of Denver have
again moved into the city hall, which
Las been repaired, remodeled and
greatly improved since the big fire OF
several months ago. 1t is no more
like the old building than a parlor is
like pig sty.
| The Socialists of Mesa county have
nominated the following ticket: Sen
utor, c. p. McCary; representative,
Matt Flynne; county commissioner, Il.
NJ. Todd; surveyor, c. Il. Dnugherty;
justice of the pence, James IL. john
son; constable, Murray Corver.
The trustees of the State School of
Mines met at Golden and passed reso-
lutions deploring the death of w. S.
Stratton, formerly member of the
board whose beneficence finds exhibit
ton in various departments of the in
stitution and who gave it at one time
25,0OO.
Dennis Nolan, aged twenty-seven,
was killed by blast in the G. +. II.
mine at Orient. near villa Grove. Sep
| TENDER nth. Nolan set Off three shots,
| two of which exploded, and he went in
TO the shaft and brushed up the fuse
| on the third when it went off, killing
him instantly.
A peach weighing only one ounce less
than pound, raised by II. $. Earring
house of Canon City, was exhibited in
Denver n few days ago by ]. p. Far
mer president of the Fremont County
Fruit Growers Association, and at
tracted much attention. 1t measured
twelve and one-half inches in circum-
| ference.
The Masonic grand lodge at its meet
ing in Denver elected the following Off
GERS: Marshall III. Deane of Glenwood
Springs. grand master; james X. Kill
liam, Denver, deputy grand master,
George L. Cooper, Amethyst, senior
grand warden: Darius A. Barton, Den
yer, grand treasurer; William ID. Todd,
Denver, grand secretary.
The surveyors of the Denver & Rio
Grande in the field between Palmer
Lake and Hustled, distance of twelve
miles, have not yet completed their
work but Manager Herbert is said to
be of the opinion that the grade of sew
enty-tive feet to the mile between che
TWO places will be reduced and if neces-
sary the entire twelve miles of track
| will be built anew.
In the District Court at Denver on
the 10Th inst, Edgar III. Neff, formerly
cashier of the Union Pacific freight
depot, was sentenced TO the peniten-
tiary by Judge Carpenter for from
two to five years for embeZzling $500
from the railroad company. Neff
claimed that he felt justified in taking
the money because he believed it to
be due him for extra work
Joseph a. Holmes, chief of the de-
nartment of mines and metalmrgY of