The Grit-advocate., 1903-10-23
COLORADO BRIEFS.

"A" ~N.'th u Hldl mas llteu an dppllCd-
ton VII De Denver Chamber OF Com
merce To- assistance to start a file fac
tory.
On IN 18th inst. the taxpayers of
ort collins voted In favor OF bonding
the CIT! Tor slb0, 600 for the construc-
ton OF NWcrw0rks.
James laundry was instantly killed
at Silver Plume on the 10Th inst. by the
falling .. a rock in the Baltimore tun-
mel. Hc was twenty-one years Of age
and unmarried
A pagAs flow of oil is reported in
the NO well OF the Otero company
near Boulder Other companies are
actively ,agaged in drilling in the vi
.cinity
AmohE Il" vice presidents elected by
the Arm Of the Tennessee at its recent
meeting are Captain George Ady Of
Denver and General w. r. Clark. also
credited To Colorado
Thomas j Hunter for fifteen years
residenr OF Larimer county. died at
Fort Collins on the 18th inst. at the
age OF eishty-sx years. leaving wife
who is eighty-tive
DR. Rosc Kidd Bcerc has been ap-
pointed 'mancy officer for the city of
Denver. This is said TO be the first
case in 'ae West where woman has
held the position
The handsome new opera house at
Loveland was opened on the night OF
October l'u, the play being "On the
Hills of california" The seating ca
pacity is about 800.
The second annual meeting of the
Rocky Mountain Hotel Mems assOcia-
tion will be held at the Adams hotel in
Denver, November 5th. There Will be
a banquct al night
Farmcr, have begun delivering beets
at the longmOnt sugar factory. The
plant VIII not be finished ready for
work foT several weeks. but the sheds
Will be ti.I"d 10 full capacity.
Nincent Walsh. son of Thomas F.
Walsh Of Colorado, had the bones of
his right arm badly fractured by the
crank OF his automobile while out rid
ing at Washington on the 1lth inst
Harry Davies. the snake charmer re
ceived his tenth snake bite few days
ago, from a rattlesnake at his Denver
Snakery but did not take it seriously.
He had only recently recovered from
I thc pieS % d 'oppel H'ad'
Henry Carr Ferris has been appoint
ed superintendent Of the Union Pacific
railro. ,~,ynes IN cnlgET2G - sa7'. -
w. A. Deuel. who goes to Omaha to
takc The position of superintendent OF
| The cumpany's lines in Nebraska.
T. h A. Cockerell. Of London, later
secretary Of the Colorado Biological,
Association. and one of the most noted
biological scientists in the world, has
been secured by Colorado College to
compile the fauna and flora OF Colo
rado.
A. B. Frenzel of Denver has offered,
| through the Colorado Scientific Socie-
ty. a cash prize of $3.50 to the student
OF the state School of Mines who shall
write the best paper on Tungsten in
Colorado" the prize to be known as
the Frrnzel prize
The students of the University of
Denver were so elatcd Ivy the fact that
that their football team was only beat
en- ~ 10 . by the Nebraska team that
| they lOok a whole day off and paraded
the streets in trolley cars with tin
horns and college yels.
Dr. J Grafton Jones of Buffalo, \.
Y, is anxious to locate two boys in
Colorado and has sought the assistance
of III" state Humane society. The boys
are SONS of Thomas McDougal. now
living n Buffalo. Their names are
John Patrick and William Albert Nc
Dougal,
The roops from Fort Logan, LOO
strong started October 18th for the
army raneuvers at Fort Riley over the
Union pacitic. The fort is left without
a garrison except a detachment of cav
airy or the Tenth regiment. which
came 'r take the places of the infantry
while he maneuvers were on.
Prot Clarence p. Gillette of the State
Agricultural college has been notified
of his aDpointment by Director True as
chief @Npert in charge of all the eX-
hibils IN entomology made at the
Louisiana Purchase exposition by the
government experiment stations. He
will soon begin the work.
The omptroller of the currency has
approved the application of Charles
Rucker Humphrey Best, NJ o. Coggins,
l. Deuuep, A. Nichols and |. l.. McGee
to urgauiZe new national bank, to be
know as the First National bank of
Rock FORD, Colorado The new bank
will employ a capital OF $4,000.
The telluride mill at Colorado City
startcl Up on the 18th inst with full
force ut men, according to the state
ment ,u the operators. The mill began
bv treating 200 tons of ore day, but
eXpecr- 10 increase to 300 tons in few
days Striking millmen asserted that
no union men had returned to the mill.
City chemist Frank II. Martin of
COLORADO Springs has completed a
rhemica. analysis of the water which
was th9Ight to have caused the Illness
of siXry eight soldiers at Camp FL rasu
in Cripple Creek on the Sth inst. The
anaIys.z shows the presence of cobalt
in the lrinking water, the exact pro-
portion icing one and one-half grains
to the -allon.
\. Underhill. commissioner of the
Colora41 Terminal Lines association,
-.,ap-. .t stated that according fC the