The Grit-advocate., 1903-08-14
COLORADO BRIEFS,

The election at Denver for the adop
| tion OF the new city charter will be
held September 18th.
A full-blooded buffalo calf was born
at the City park in Denver few days
ago. 1t is the second that has been
| born there.
The contract for the erection OF the
i, new school building at Brush has been
| let to George Cudworth for $l3,OoO.
work to be compenced at once.
The Denver District Conference. OF
| Methodist ministers will be held Aug
| ust 2ith, preparatory 20 the annual
State Conference, which will begin
| August 24th, and at which BISHOP
| Cranston Will preside.
The short dove shooting season
! opened August lst and an astonishing
| ly large number of permits were taken
| out in many parts of the state. III
| Denver 800 permits were issued IN one
| day and l54 were issued il Pueblo up
to August End.
| The Colorado State Fair Association
| is preparing to give the State FAR at
| Pueblo this year during the week Oh
! September 14th to 18TH and the man
agement is now sending out premium
| lists and other information regarding
| the big exposition of 1903.
The Rev. Bruce Brown, now of Chi
cago but formerly the r:ru.ar pastor
of the Central Ctli.Nan Church in
Denver. beg Letn ordered before the
War D.partn. .ent for examination as to
Lls fitness for an appointment as CHAP
lain in the regular army.
| The Cripple Creek Short Line re-
ports that the tourist business to the
camp this summer has broken all pre-
vious records. Last months total ag-
| gregated $500 more passengers than
during July of last year. with August S
| business SO far in proportion.
II. II. Tompkins, member of tile
lower house in the Thirteenth and
Fourteenth Colorado General Assem-
| blies, who lives near Buena Vista, on
the 4th inst, took swallow of car
boic acid in mistake for cough medi-
! cine and came near losing his life.
! A trinidad dispatch of August 4th
to a Denver paper says: Sunday aft
ernOon at Beanea, in the Stonewall
valley, four inches of large hail fell.
| At Stonewall three inches of snow fell
and laid until sun-up next day. AT
Tercio il was so cold that people had
to wear overcoat collars turned up.
The cattle exhibit at the State Fair
at Pueblo this fall promises to exceed
anything of the kind ever before seen
in the state. Cattle growers from
Missouri, Illinois and other states, re-
alizing the Importance of reaching the
Colorado stock raisers, will be there
with their herds of fine stock.
Adjutant General Bell has returned
to Denver after visit to Washington and
to President Roosevelt at Oyster Bay.
He went for the purpose of trying to
make arrangements by which the fall
military maneuvers may be held as at
first proposed and hopes that his mis-
sion may prove to have been success
full
A Washington dispatch says that the
Secretary of the Interior has approved
the bond of William NJ. Peterson, the
newly appointed superintendent OF Ft
Lewis Indian school. AS soon as he
receipts to Superintendent Breen, who
is still in charge, for all supplies and
property at the school, Peterson will
assume charge.
The Miners Magazine. the official
organ of the Western Federation of
Miners. has absorbed the Colorado
Chronicle and the Socialist, and will
be issued weekly in magazine form un-
der the editorship of J. NJ. O'Neill.
Messrs. Thum and Coates, having sold
the Chronicle. will retire from the
newspaper field.
Permits were granted for lie dwell
irgs by the Denver building inspector
during July. This is considered the
most phenomenal record for this class
of houses in the history of the city.
! Nine-tcnths of these dwellings are be-
ing erected by the owners for personal
occupancy. The dwellings averaged
81, 600 each in cash.
| +. D. Pastorlus of Colorado Springs
has been appointed immigration com
missioner of Ell Paso county by the
Board Of County Commissioners. His
| duties in this position are to advance
| the interests of the county in every
possible way as a farming community
| and to attract desirable farmers to this
county for residence. He serves with
| out salary.
| Circumstantial evidence points to at
| tempts being made at an early day by
the American Smelling and Refining
Company to reopen the Globe plant at
! Denver, which was closed month ago
when members of the Smeltormen' S
| Union walked out A force of carpen-
ters and laborcrs is at work cleaning
up the place and making improve
ments, while gradually men are being
recruited for service at the furnaces
when needed.
City and County Attorney Lindsey
of Denver says the charter election
should be held September 22d. An
alyzlng the amendment, he says: THE
charter was, delivered to the clerk of
the city and county Of Denver on Au-
| ynSt 1St The amendment direct &