Idaho Springs siftings., 1903-12-05
COLORADO BRIEFS.

Miss Martha T. Combs. a prominent
business woman of Boulder. died No
yember 2ith.
The University OF Colorado is ar
ranging fer debate with the Univers-
ity OF Kansas.
The alumni association OF the State
Normal School will have a banquet In
Denver during the holidays.
A movement has been started among
the labor organizations of Denver for
the establishment OF large co-operat-
i've department store.
AT jubilee meeting Sunday, Novem.
Der 22d. Trinity NJ. E. Church. Denver.
raised more than enough money to pay
off its entire Indebtedness of $25.000.
General Irving Hale declines to run
on the Denver charter convention tick
ct on account of the pressure OF busa-
ness that accumulated while he was
on vacation.
The body of Julian A. Kebler. sx-
president of the Colorado Fuel ana
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.
F. E. Robinson. for twenty-eight
years a druggist in Colorado Springs,
and one OF the leading business men.
died at San Antonio. Texas. November
24th, of heart disease.
Reyes Samara. a Mexican, was shot
and kflIal hr cnpEfa tla Raman ESDln-
osa. also a Mexican. at dance In MO
Grande precinct, Cosulla county, across
the river from Alamosa. on the night
of November 25d.
Frazier Brothers, renters on the
OBrien farm, near Fort Collins, raised
| twenty-nine acres of beets. which yield
| TO tons, for which they received $3.50
from the factory. This is an average o9
| s1l0 per acre.
Bishop Matz announces that the
| building of the new Catholic cathedral
| at Denver Will be commenced next
spring II is proposed to make 1t one
OF the finest church buildings west OF
Chicago and st. Louis.
Charles Runyon. a Colorado pioneer
and explorer, who first came west as q
member OF Col John c. Fremonts ex.
| pedition, died in the Lake county nos
pital at Leadville November 2Ath, n
| the age OF seventy-nine years.
George B. Fravert, having charge OF
the 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
81. 10 a barrel. This schedule ts retro
active and takes effect November 1se-
About 10 barrels Of oil are shipped
| daily.
| The 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 Springs has been taking
stringent precautions In regard to the
purity OF its water supply and the dis
posal OF sewage, and 1t IL 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 at
Boulder. Sunday. November 23d. 1t was
not altogether a private one. as his
brother had desired. two or three hun
dred people being permitted to view the
oid-time scout. detective and outlaw.
| Thirty members OF the PentecostaI
/ Union, otherwise known as Jumpers.
were arrested in Denver last Sunday
night and taken to jail for making a
noisy religious demonstration on the
street, occasioning a street blockade.
| They were released on promising to be
more quiet
| A number OF samples OF marble which
is found in great abundance at Beulah.
are being prepared to be sent to Eu-
rope for the inspection Of capitalists
| who are interested in the Pueblo &c
Beulah railroad. The quality is said
to be 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-
1. tion. The convention will be held at
Fort Collins Tuesday and Wednesday.
the 18th and goth Of January. and pre-
parations for a most interesting gath
| ering are in progress. The call is is
sued by the state president. J. r. Gard
ner.
County Commissioner James U. Har-
ris Of Mesa county. stated while in
| Denver that when the season closes
Mesa will have shipped $500, 900 worth
| Of agricultural and horticultural pro-
ducts. He 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. .000.0 900.
Concerning reports lately current in
various newspapers that the Union Pa
| cific Railroad Company Is about to
change ifs nolicY In the dfanosifion of