The Grit-advocate., 1903-05-01
COLORADO BRIEFS

a track team and enter the field OF out
door sport.
In the Denver Police Court recently
twenty-three persons were fined in one
day for riding bicycles on the side
walks
r. II. Martin, former warden of the
state penitentiary, has sold two bears.
a badger and fox, to be placed in the
City park at Denver.
Charles Dowdall. superintendent of
the state fish hatchery near Denver,
has placed 5000 small trout in Boulder
creek at Eagle Rock.
An automobile race will be run from
Denver May Both to some point in the
state and return. 1t is intended more
for an endurance test than for speed.
The Denver Conference of the Meth
odist Church will meet at Asbury
Church in Denver May 18th and 18th.
Bishop II. w. Warren will be among
the speakers.
During her recent visit to Denver,
Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. the poet and
newspaper writer. was given a recep-
tion at the Woman's Club Building by
the ladies of the Denver Women's
Press Club.
The town of Globeville has surren-
dered its books as well as other effects
to the officers of the City and County
of Denver, thereby establishing the
record of being the first suburb TO will
ingly enter the city.
Information was received April 18th
by Superintendent Rea of the American
Bridge Company at Pueblo to the effect
that the bridgemen's strike was settled
tied and the men were expected to go
to work May 1st under the old terms.
Tie annual State Fair at Pueblo will
be held September 14th to 18th. The
newly-elected officers of the assocla-
ton are: Aaron Sanneborn, president;
Asbury White. vice president; I. ii.
Deyine. treasurer, and J. X, Sullivan,
secretary.
The Inhabitants of the new town
called GAINESVILLE. situated twelve miles
southeast of Florence. have pctitioned
the government for pOstotlice. There
are fifteen or twenty families there
from California who are starting an
agricultural colony.
Following are the dates appointed
by State Engineer Carpenter to hold
engineers: Pueblo. April Goth; Dem
yer. May 9th; Alamosa, May 1lth;
Montrose May 18th. and Glenwood
Springs, May 18th.
The University of Colorado feels it.
self highly honored by the selection
by the council of Columbia University
of Fred C. Blake to a fellowship worth
$3.50 year. Mr.. Blake graduated from
the University of Colorado in 1901 and
is now teacher in the high school of
Leadville.
Vincent Lappin. captain and man
ager of the Leadville Blues of the
State Baseball League. was fatally in
jured by fall in the Meyer mine at
Leadville April 9th. He fell a dis
tance of fifty feet and his right leg
was terribly fractured, besides bruises
and internal injuries.
Manager Ridgway is said to have
given Instructions to the agent of a
Denver employment bureau to have
more than 900 men sent on the Mof-
fat road when requisitiOned by the
contractors. He started for the scene
of operations with Chief Engineer
Sumner and will personally investi-
gate the cause for lack of men.
The Woods Investment Company is
building its electric wire line from
Beaver to Pueblo, distance of twenty
eight miles. The poles and wire are
very heavy. and construction will cost
$1,000 per mile The work of construct
ing the power house will begin very
soon, so that greater power can be
supplied to the trolley lines at Pueblo
Colorado Springs was visited by a
terrific wind storm Saturday, April
straight from Pixies Peak. had We
locity Of fifty miles an hour. Trains
were delayed and the cog road to the
SUNNI: of Pixies Peak was again
blocked by snowdrifts. AT Windy
Point the train came near being blown
off the track
Contracts have been let for the be-
ginning of work on the beet sugar fac
tory to be constructed on the tract of
land south of Denver. which is irrigat-
ed from the Castlewood reservoir. A
brickyard will be established on a bed
of clay near the Clark reservoir. about
ten miles south of University Park,
and the brick will be made for the
walls of the factory.
Congressman BroOkS has received
word from the Agricultural Depart
ment at Washington that Professor A.
b. Waite. the specialist of the bureau
who recently investigated the pear
blight in this state, will accept the in
vitation to attend the convention of
the State Horticultural Society in the
fall and give demonstration of how
to treat the blight.
The land under the Gunnison tunnel
set aside by the order from Washington
embraces the land lying on the east
side of the Uncompahgre river. begin
ming at point about four miles east
and twelve miles south of the town of
Montrose, and continuing north fol-
lowing the contour of the mountain un-
til the Gunnison river is reached,
probable distance of about thirty miles.
Some time in June the addition of an
industrial training school for children