The state herald. (Holyoke, Logan County, Colo.) 1887-1921, 1903-12-04
COLORADO BRIEFS.

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| ity Of Kansas.
The alumni association of the State
Normal School will have banquet in
Denver during the holidays.
| A movement has been started AM ,ng
the labor organizations of Denver Tor
the establishment OF large co-operat-
i've department store
AT a jubilee meeting Sunday, Novem-
Der 22d, Trinity NJ e. Church, Denver.
/ raised more than enough money to pay
Off its entire Indebtedness OF $25,0Oo.
General Irving Hale declines to run
on the Denver charter convention tick
ct on account of the pressure OF BUSH
ness that accumulated while he was
on vacation.
The body of Julian A. Kebler. ex-
president of the Colorado Fuel and
| Iron Company, who died at Denver
November Goth, was cremated at Chi
| cago November 23d.
The Arvada Lighting, Power and
| Construction Company has broken
ground for the mains of the acetylene
plant that they are about to construct
, Tor the Denver suburb.
+. Il. Robinson, for twenty-eight
! years druggist in Colorado Springs,
and one of the leading business men,
died at San Antonio, Texas, November
2ith, of heart SiiSssass.
Reyes Sahara, Mexican, was shot
and killed by constable Raman Espin-
osa, also a Mexican, at a dance in Rio
Grande precinct, Costilla county, across
! the river from Alamosa, on the night
of November 23d.
| Frazier Brothers, renters on the
| O'Brien farm, near Fort Collins, raised
| twen.y-nine acres of beets, which yield
10 tons, for which they received s3.l95
from the factory. This is an average OF
/ $40 per acre.
Bishop Matt announces that the
building of The new Catholic cathedral
at Denver will be commenced next
spring. 1t Is proposed to make it one
of the finest church buildings west OF
i Chicago and St. Louis.
Charles Runyon, Colorado pioneer
and explorer who first came west rs a
member of Col. John C. Fremonts ex-
petition, died in the Lake county hos
pital at Leadville November oath, at
the age of seyenty-nine years.
George b. Fravert, having charge of
tho fruit exhibit for Colorado at the
Exposition, went to St Louis recently.
where he will store five carloads OF
winter apples. These will be placed on
exhibition when the fair opens in May.
The United Oil Company, of its own
motion, has again increased the price
of Boulder crude oil and is now paying
Sl.1O barrel This schedule is retro
active and lakes effect November LIST.
About 40 barrels of oil are shipped
! daily.
Tho Clear Creek Valley Teachers
Association has been organized by the
teachers of Gilpin, Clear Creek and
Jefferson counties, with NJ. c. Potter of
Idaho Springs as president. The next
meeting will be held at Idaho Springs
in April
Colorado Strings has been taxing
stringent precautions in regard TO the
purity of its water supply and the dis
posal of sewage. and It is now claimed
that the health of the city is unusually
good at a season when typhoid fever
has been wont to prevail.
The funeral of Tom Horn, who was
executed at CHEYENNE, took place ut
Boulder. Sunday. November 23d, 1t was
not altogether a private one. as his
brother had desired, two or three hun
bred people being permitted to view the
old-time scout. detective and outlaw.
Thirty members OF the Pentecostal
Union. otherwise known as Jumpers"
were arrested In Denver last Sunday
night and taken to Jail for making
noisy religious demonstration on the
street. occasioning street blockade.
They were released on promising TO be
more quiet.
A number OF samples OF marble which
is found In great abundance Mt Beulah
are being prepared TO be sent to Eu-
rope for the inspection Of capitalists
who are interested In the Pueblo a
Bculah railroad. The quality is said
TO he very fine and more beautiful and
varied In color than has been found
elsewhere.
A call has been issued for the fourth
annual convention for the Colorado
Retail Grocers and Butchers Associa-
ton. The convention will be held at
Fort Collins Tuesday and Wednesday.
the 18th and Goth Of January. and pre-
parations for u most interesting gath
iliHE hi' III pi'ElhENt Nv VIII N 10
sued by the state president, ]. Il. Gard
ncr.
County Commissioner James U. Hnr-
rls OF Mesa county. stated while In
Denver that when the season closes
Mesa will have shipped 100000 worth
OF agricultural and horticultural pro-
duets. lie added that II the similar
products OF Delta and Montrose coun-
ties are included, the product OF the
western slope this year will reach over
81. 0O0.OO0
Concerning reports lately current IN
various newspapers that the Union Pa
| cifc Railroad Company is about to
change its policy In the disposition OF
it's granted lands by offering 10 set
| tiers only, on some homestead scheme,
MIR. u. A. McAllaster. land commission.
| or OF the Union Pacific Railroad Com.
nany, states that such reports are
| wholly and entirely visionary and I'M
warranted. No land will be given
away,
Thirty property owners along Monu-
ment creek In Colorado Springs gath
cred nj Colorado College recently Ia
| meet General William j Palmer aud
| e. W, Icayitt Jr. Of New York. to In.
Hpect aud discuss the generals plans
for the parking OF his and other lands
along the banks OF the creek ucnrrA
Palmer intends TO cNpond 5000, 900 on
the first parking project. with 100000
~ n secondary expenditure. The parked
tract will extend from the Denver a
Rio Grande depot north TO Monroe
street