The state herald. (Holyoke, Logan County, Colo.) 1887-1921, 1903-08-21
COLORADO BRIEFS.

l $500
been appointed engineer at the Grand
Junction Indian School at a salary of
$S40 per annum.
On the afternoon of August 18th a
cloudburst In the foothills between
Morrison and Golden did considerable
damage to roads and bitches.
The annual corn roast at Loveland
which has been omitted for several
years, will be revived again this year
and celebrated September 3rd. Every
body is invited.
Isaac P. Van Wormer, well-krown
Denver pioneer and prominent cattle
man, died at his home In Denver. Au-
| gust 18th, at the age of seventy-three
years.
The Arkansas Valley Fair will be
held at Rocky Ford September End,
3rd and 4th. Watermelon Day will be
fair. September Srd.
An order issued by General Nelson
A. Miles before his retirement COM
mands the presence in Manila of Major
Daniel M. Appel, U. S. A.. who has
been stationed in Denver on special
duty since June 4th.
| The Pueblo Trades Assembly has
completed arrangements for the Labor
Day festival, September It'll. The cele-
bration will be held at the fair grounds
where an expansive program OF racing
and athletic events will be given.
The work Of the annual convocation
of the colored MasoIis at Pueblo came
to close August 12th. by an open in
stallation of officers apd an elaborate
banquet. More than 100 delegates
present
Jefferson Fry, a rahchman living
seven miles below RIA was drowned
on the 9Th inst. while bathing in the
Grand river He was thirty-four years
Of age and leaves a widow and three
small children.
A rural free delivery route has been
ordered established at Blush. Morgan
county. September 18th. There will be
one carrier. who will hate route
twenty-five miles long AMI serve 450
people.
Congressman Hogg will Introduce a
bill at the next session of Congress to
forbid entrance into this country of
any who cannot show papefs signify
ing that he has not been prosecuted Tor
a crime for period of five years.
DIR. Hindman Of Trinidad has pur-
chased the Staplin ranch. at the foot
of Spanish peaks. and will erect $685.
900 summer hotel on the place. The
sale price Of the ranch. which contains
500 acres. was $4,000.
In the County Court at Pueblo a
few days ago. before Judge Gibson. a
speedy divorce record WAS made when
jury was sworn In, the testimony
taken and a verdict rendered in favor
Of the plaintiff in Ave and one-half
minutes.
The first carload of nails produced
by the Colorado Fuel and Iron Com
pany at Pueblo was shipped August
8th. and J. W. Brooks. superintendent
of the wire mill. made an exhibit OF
the first barbed wire manufactured in
the West. Samples OF telegraph and
telephone wire are also exhibited.
Werner z. Reed and O. II. shoup OF
Colorado Springs. and A. NJ. Johnson
Of Denver have bought the interest OF
Captain Arthur Hotchkiss In the State
Bank at For Morgan. and will reor.
sani@o .hs bsnh NO shc First National
Bank OF Fort Morgan as soon as the
necessary proceedings can be com
pleted.
DR.. George H. Slower OF Denver has
received a email quantity. about M
teen grains. In the form OF chloride.
OF the new metal, radium. He will
test II In the cure OF cancer and other
diseases. The value OF the specimen
is sl75, and an ounce would be worth
5000. Pure radium would cost about
ten times as much.
Prof George II. Rowe, dean OF the de-
partment OF electrical engineering In the
University OF Colorado. has rendered
, his resignation TO the board Of regents.
TO be effective at once. Professor
Rowe's resignation is due to a call
from Leland Stanford J. University In
California. to occupy similar position
in the faculty there.
The Colorado Midland railway has
settled with the different parties who
had secured judgment by stipulation
against them ON account OF wreck
near Cascade. on June 30. 1902. Miss
Mary O'Rourke OF Victor was paid 81
| 100. and Miss Estelle Lewis and her
mother. Mrs. Lewis. were handed u
check for $1,000.
The Mormons Of Denver are complet-
Ing plans for the erection OF house
OF worship Mt West Sixth avenue and
South Water street The church will
be two-story structure. and besides
the hall for religious purposes will
have also arrangements for nm Office.
Sunday school rooms and housekeep-
Ing rooms for the resident elder.
Secretary Shircman OF the State
Fair at Pueblo announced that two
couples will be married before the
grand stand during the State Fair.
The ceremony performed last year was
40 popular that the management will
give two at the coming State Fair.
One wedding will be on Wednesday. or
Labor Day, and the other ON Thursday.
or Pueblo Day"
S,cps are being taken ut Greeley to
organize a Farmers Association. The
object OF the organization will be to
further the interests of the farmers OF
Weld county by securing competent la
Dor for the harvest fields and To estab.
llsh uniform scale Of wages, Much
trouble has been experienced In former
years In securing men FOR the potato
digging which begins September 18th
and Is NJ IT, height during the month
OF October.
q. W. Paterson. director OF the
Physical Culture Club OF Depyor. re.
Gently made reoord.brcaking trip
from the depot OF the cogwhocl rail.
road nj Manltau 10 the top OF pixies
Peak and back, He made the ascent