The Delta independent., 1902-10-10
COLORADO BRIEFS.

laying the opening of the Greeley beet
sugar refinery.
Montclair, suburb of Denver. will
raise 100000 and construct a water
plant OF its own.
-Four new letter carriers and six
clerks We're added to the Denver post
Office force October LIST.
The City Council of Boulder has
adopted a resolution providing for the
purchase of 160 acres of ground to be
added to the Chautauqua tract.
Mrs. Helen l.. Grenfeil, state super
intendent of public Instruction, who
mas been seriously i'll for some time
IN Denver. is reported to be on the
way TO recovery.
There are giants in these days. The
hghtest man in the University Of Ne
braska eleven. who defeated the Uni
versity of Colorado in the football
game at Boulder. weighed 1S5 pounds.
The All-American and All-Nauonal
baseball teams will play n series of
exhibition games in Denver October
10Th and 26th. Many of the stars of
the two great leagues will take part.
Manager Packard of the Denver
baseball team of the Western league
says that lie will retain the Denver
franchise and put the strongest team
he can secure In the field next year.
The colleges and high schools Of Col
orado are going in for football this sea-
son as never before and the crop OF
broken limbs from this most strenuous
OF sports promises TO be n large one.
Tourists arriving in sight OF the Col
orado mountain ranges during the past
week have been surprised to find them
as white as II the season were midwin-
ter. An immense amount of snow has
fallen.
II. Z. Mulnix, of the Worlds Fair
board. is making tour of the state to
visit the county commissioners and
urge them to make adequate appropria-
uons for creditable display at St
Louis In 1904.
On October Ist another oil producer
in the Boulder field was announced,
being that owned by the Anderson Oil
Company on the Gooding ranch. half
mile east of the Arnold. A good flow
was struck at 1900 feet
John NJ. Houk. Denver grocer. COM
mitted suicide on the ith inst. by swal-
lowing carbolic acid. The act was due
to I'll health and dependency. Houk
is said to have been a member OF the
A o. U. w. and =. o. S. OF A.
At the special election October LIST.
the people of Fort Morgan voted to
erect water works and bond the town
for $4,000 Great interest was taken
in the election and the proposition car
ried by vote Of over two to one.
Denver is in no further danger of a
water famine. The recent rains have
filled the Platte river from the noun
tains and the Denver Union Water
Company has ordered that no more
storage water be drawn from the reser-
yoirs.
In trying to shoot rattlesnake. Will
liam Cbarwood of Lafayette hit his leg
near the thigh. infiicting a dangerous
wound. from which the surgeons at the
State University extracted forty shot.
two l0-ccnt pieces and part OF
penny.
II seems rs II the Denver divorce
mill must be run by steam or electrici-
~. In Judge Mullins division OF the
District Court few days ago. seven
divorce cases were heard and DEGREES
entered in just thirty-two minutes.
Next
DIR. F. c. Nichols has purchased lots
and let the contract for the construc-
,ion Of hospital in Craig. The build
ing will contain rooms and accommo-
dations for twenty patients. II will be
the frs. Institution Of It's kind in
northwestern Colorado.
r. r. Taylor. tried at Colorado
Springs for the murder of Frank II.
Shader last August. was acquitted.
Taylor's plea was self-defense. and evi-
dencc was submitted TO show that Sha-
der had threatened to kill him and was
in the act OF reaching for a revolver
when Taylor shot.
President Aaron Sonnebor OF the
State Fair Association thinks that the
last fair Just closed at Pueblo dem
onstratcs that successful state fair
can be held in Colorado" and that
..thc fair has shown that Colorado's
resources are more varied than most
OF its citizens believed
The Colorado Springs Street Car
Company has just inaugurated It's
transfer system. the privilege being al
lowed on all intersecting lines whose
general trend Is not parallel. w. s.
Stratton was responsible for the
change. which he decided upon after
purchasing control and merging the
two companies.
Ed oKelly. the slayer of Bob Ford
at Creede ten years ago. Ford being the
man who killed Jesse James. was re-
leased from the penitentiary at Canon
City October g He at once started for
Pueblo. his former home. O'Keliy was
sent UP from Creede for life. but his
sentence was commuted early this year
to twenty-five years Imprisonment.
With good time. the sentence has just
now expired.
At Cripple Creek. on the 4th inst. n
warrant wns sworn out by County
Treasurer Duncan Mcneil against the
Pullman Palace Car Company. II is al
legged In the complaint that the Pull
man company owes the county of Tel
Ter $663.2l on back taxes, Sheriff Rob-
ertson went to the Midland Terminal
depot and attached the Pullman car
"Chnmipi" and nut chains around the