The Grit-advocate., 1903-05-29
COLORADO BRIEFS


tain uniform prices.
The annual convention of the State
Realty Association will be held in Pu-
eblo June 9th, 10th and 11th.
There is a great demand for boys
from fourteen to seventeen years OF
age to work in the beet fields at Rocky
Ford and Sugar City.
The great International Christian
Endeavor Convention will be held in
Denver July 9th to 18th. 1t is ex-
pected that ten thousand delegates will
be present
Smith Riley Of the bureau of fores-
try at Washington is in Colorado to
make a general survey of vacant lands
10 set aside for a new reservation on
the north side of Platte canon.
An anonymous donor has made of \
gift of SIS 1000 to the Denver Real Es-
tate Exchange for the erection of an
ornamental gateway at the Eighteenth
avenue entrance to City park in Den
yer.
Cherry Creek. the dry steam which Is
one of the most unsightly features OF
Denver, may be walled and improve
ments made along its banks if the
plans of the board of public works do
lot miscarry.
A new building Is being erected in
Denver for the Working Boys Home,
which was founded in 1891 by Mrs. w.
n. Byers. The home will occupy ten
lots at the corner of Broadway and
Alameda avenue
Frederick Vanderford, formerly of
Pueblo, where he belonged to the
Plumbers Union, committed suicide in
the stockyards of the Union Pacific at
Henderson, east of Denver, on May 10.
He took morphine and died in convul-
sions.
The United States Reduction and Re-
fning Company has begun work on the
erection of an $4,000 club building for
the use of it's employees in Colorado
Springs. A similar club building will
be erected by the company at Flor
ence.
The silver bell for the cruiser Den
yer was shipped to Philadelphia May
Goth, and in less than two weeks it will
be hung in place on the vessel. The
silver service will not be sent until
the ship is in commission and ready
to receive the gift.
The annual Strawberry day festival
at Glenwood Springs will be held this
year on June Goth. The day will in
clude, besides the usual big free
strawberry feast. the features of free
admission to the big swimming pool
and free open air dance in the even
ing.
Louis F. Block, the Denver business
man who killed r. H. Jones in
fight in the formers Office at 1925
Champa street on September 8, 1902,
has been sentenced to one year in
the county Jail by Judge Johnson of
the West Side criminal court. This
was the limit of the law.
The board OF the Colorado Chautau-
qua at Boulder has received furniture
sufficient to accommodate all guests
of the great summer school. The as
sociation has purchased outright $2,500
worth of beds, cots and commodes.
Guarantors of the Chautauqua fund
have advanced to the association the
money required to meet this bill.
Secretary of Agriculture James Will
son and son visited the State Agricul-
tural College at Fort Collins May 25th
secretary declared himself highly
pleased with the college and farm work
and promised to deliver the graduating
something unforeseen occurs to pre-
vent
The Methodist ministers of Denver a
few days ago honored Rev. J. H. Mer-
ritt. one of the oldest ministers in the
state, with purse of $1O0. He has
been in the service in Colorado contin-
uously for thirty-two years, with the
exception of one year spent abroad.
For two years he has presided over the
weekly deliberations of the Methodist
ministers of the Capitol city.
The largest mountain trout ever
seen in Trinidad was brought to the
city by H. Russell few days ago.
The fish, which is of the speckled
variety, was caught May 18th in the
Stonewall country. 1t is thirty inches
in length and weighed 17A pounds as
it came from the water, and 14h
pounds dressed. Mr.. Russell refused
several offers of IS for the skin.
General William ]. Palmer has in
creased his original gift of $4,000 for
a library for the State School for the
Deaf and Blind at Colorado Springs, to
approximately $21,0 900, the additional
SILL 900 being the means to acquire a
tract of eight acres Immediately east
of the school, near Willow street. The
land will be used as a playground. the
two institutions to be known respect
lively as Palmer field and Palmer IL
brary.
George B. Fravert, one of the lars-
est and most successful fruit growers
on the western slope, in writing to
Secretary Shute of the Horticultural
Society. from Rifle. says: THE fruit
crop in this section is not damaged in
the least We have prospects of the
largest crop of pears. plums. cherries,
peaches and apricots in the history of
Garfield county The apple crop is
light. on account of over-production
last year"
1t is proposed by Colorado College,
at Colorado Springs, to establish a