The Grit-advocate., 1903-07-03
COLORADO BRIEFS.


vention will be held in Denver July
9th TO lSth
The Pueblo Normal and Industrial
Institute met lune 18th with an at
| tendance of over loo.
The health commissioner of Denver
| Will have the weeds cut on vacant lots
| in the city as a sanitary measure.
Among the graduates at Wellesley
college June I'D were blanche Fay
Emmons Of Denver and Mignon Baker
Of Canon City
A Bible Students convention Of Be
levers in the Atonement Sacrifice OF
| Christ will be held in the Gettysburg
building i'll Denver June 10th. 1lth and
18th.
The first carload m Georgia water
melons arrived in Denver June 10Th
| This is the earliest by twenty days
| that Georgia melons have been seen in
Colorado.
Frank Miiithaier. superintendent Of
| the North Star Mining Company at
Woodland Park. fell down the main
shaft 165 feet ON June 18th. and was
instantly khed.
The National building Trades Coun
| ell convention will meet in Denver
August 10th Tor u two weeks session.
They will be isvishly entertained BY
! the Denver Council.
! The Denver park board decided to
employ the First Regiment band. un-
der the direction OF Albert Siggel. tor
series OF concerts ut City park
Twenty men will bo In the band.
Harvey W Green. well known as a
soldier. printer and newspaper man,
| died at the Old Soldiers HH;ne at Mon
te Vista June 10Th. He WAS employed
on the Denver News for thirteen years
DR.. and Mrs W. A. Bell have con-
tributed 5000 TO st. Andrews Epis-
copai church in Manitou. on condition
| that the church raise 81. 600 additional.
A new church will be built with the
| money.
Preston H. Hotchkiss died in Mont
rose June 18th. aged seventy years. Mr..
Hotchkiss was one OF the Oldest resi-
uents and his son Berry Was the first
white child born in the UncOmpahgre
valley
The uniforms rifles and ammunition
recently arrived ut Florence for Com
pany A. Second regiment. Colorado Ma
|
among the members Each man is pro-
vided with \ KragE-JorEenson rifle.
| The Lake County Cattle Growers
Association was recently formed at
Leadville with the following officers
President. John Weir: vice president.
f. J. Smith; secretary. T. Paddock;
treasurer. Dan Colahan.
The coroner's jury in the case of
Henry G. Wilde. who was shot and
killed by Oscar r. Ratclide In ditch
controversy at Denver. returned a ver-
dict that the shooting was done with
| felonious intent. and that Mrs. Rat
cliffe was an accessory to the shooting.
The thirty days Of rife practive re-
quired of the state troops each year be-
| gan June 29th. The troops at Denver
will practice at the rife range near
| Golden, which is owned by the state
! and rented each year to tho govern
ment for the use Of the troops at Fort
Logan.
Albion W. Toureee. author and lee
| turer, who was editor of the Denver
Times for q few months in 1880 under
Il. w. Woodbury.. and who has been
| for several years consul at Bordeaux.
! in France. has b0.n promoted to the
, position OF Consul general at Halifax,
Nova Scotia.
Probation Officer Willard Hatch OF
| the juvenile court of Denver, was in
the northern part OF the state few
| days ago and secured places for thirty
| five boys to work in the beet fields.
Judge Lindsey expects to have places
in the country for many other boys
during the summer.
w. X. Coughlin. son Of General Su-
perintendent Coughlin Of the Denver
and Rio Grande railroad. fell from a
freight train on the morning of June
Gath. and was Instantly killed. He was
but twenty years of age and had start
ed in to learn the railroad business
The accident occurred near Dresden.
Property owners in Trinidad have
given their consent to franchise for
an electric street railway and survey
ors will at once be put in the field and
the work of grading will begin. The
road will be built to different parts of
the city and will connect Trinidad
with the towns of StarkviIle and So
! pris
Patterson BroS-. structural iron con-
tractors. have begun the construction
d
Pueblo. This building will be 10Oxl36
feet and when completed will furnish
room for four seif-feeding spike ma
chimes. which will give a capacity of
12.O00 kegs of spikes. OR 24.0OO pounds
each twenty-four hours.
o. NJ KEN and family. living on
ranch near Montrose. had a narrow es-
cape from death by poisoning few
days ago Mrs. KEN boiled meat in a
porcelain lined Kettle which had CON
tanned az arsenical mixture for spray
frc,. and although she had cleaned the
utensil with great care. enough arsenic
remained to make them all very sick
In 1879 the City Council OF Colorado
Springs passed an ordinance which pro-
hibited the riding of any velocipede.
bicycle or similar vehicle or thing in
the civ II seems that at that date an