Rocky Ford enterprise., 1903-12-04
COLORADO BRIEFS.

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ranging for debate with the uniyeEs-
Iy OF Kansas
The alumni association OF the State
Normal School will have banquet N
Denver during the holidays.
A movement has been started among
the labor organizations OF Denver Tor
the establishment of large eo-opesai-
i've department store.
Al a jubilee meeting Sunday. Soyem-
ber I'D. Trinity N. 4. Church. Denver.
raised more than enough money 10 pay
off its entire Indebtedness OF t.5.vvo.
General Irving Hale declines 10 run
ON the Denver charter convention tick
ct ON account Of the pressure OF busi-
ness that accumulated while he Was
on a vacation.
The body of Julian A. Ksbier. ex-
president of the Colorado Fuel and
Iron Company. who died al Denver
November goth, Was eremaied Al CHI
easo November sJd.
The Aryada Lighting. Power and
| Construction Company has broken
ground for the mains OF the ar-,ylehe
plant that they are about 10 construct
Tor the Dsnyer suburb.
=. = Robinson. for twenty-eisht
years a druggist in Colorado springs.
and one OF the leading business men.
died at San AnIonlo. Texas. SosempvF
.tth. OF heart disease
Reyes SamaEa. a Mexican. was shot
and killed by constable Raman Espln-
Osa. also Mexican. at a dance In hio
Grande precinct. costilla county, across
the river from Alamosa. on the night
Of November .1i.
Frazier brothers. renters on the
O'Bricn farm. near Fort Collins, raised
twenty mine acres of b-cts. which yield.
1lO tons. for which they received tj.lso
from the factory. This In an average os
$40 per acre
Bishop Maix announces that the
building OF the new Catholic cathedral
at Denver will DO commenced next
spring. Il is proposed TO make IL one
OF the finest church buildings ~cA, OF
Chicago and St. Louis
Charles Runyon. n Colorado pioneer
and explorer. who first came wcs, m
member OF Col. John c. frcmont's cA-
p-siition. died In the Lake county hos
pliai at Leadviiic November :t,h. nj
the a.c OF seycRty-ninc years.
George u. Fravcrt. hnvin. charge OF
tho fruit exhibit for Colorado at the
Exposition. went to ST. Louis rcccatly.
where he will store hvc carloads Of
winter apples. These viii 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 In now paying
St.i0 n barrel. This schedule ID retro
active and takes effect November LIST.
About i70 barrels OF oil are shipped
daily.
The Clear Greek Valley Teachers
Association has been organized by the
teachers OF Giipin. Clear Greek and
Jefferson counties. with N. c. Potter OF
Idaho Springs as president. The next
mcctin. will be held Mt Idaho Springs
In April.
Colorado Springs has been iaSing
stringent precautions In regard TO the
purity OF It's water supply and the dis
posai OF sewage. and II Is now claimed
that the health of the city IN unusually
good Mt season when typhoid fever
has been wont to prevail.
The funeral OF Tom Horn, who was
executed at Cheyenne. took place Mt
Boulder. Sunday. November 23d. II was
not altogether n private one. MS his
brother had desired. two or three hun
drcd people being permitted to view the
oid-time scout. detective and outlaw.
Thirty members of tho Pentccostal
Union. otherwise known rs Jumpers"
were arrested in Denver last Sunday
night and taken to jail for making n
noisy religious demonstration on the
street. occasioning street blockade.
They were released on promising to he
more quiet.
A number of samples of marble which
Is found In great abundance Mt Beulah.
hat
rope for the inspection Of capitalists
who are interested In the Pueblo &
BcuIah 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-
tion. The convention will be held at
Fort Collins Tuesday and Wednesday.
the 10Th and Goth OF January. and pre-
parations for a most interesting gath
erjng are in progress. The call Is is
sued by the state president. J. r. Gard
ncr.
County Commissioner James U. Har-
ris of Mesa county, stated while in
Denver that when the season closes
Mesa will have shipped $500.OOO worth
of agricultural ana 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
81 900, 900.
Concerning reports lately current in
various newspapers that the Union Pa
cific Railroad Company is about to
change its policy in the disposition of
its granted lands by offering to set
tiers only, on some homestead scheme.
Mr.. b. A. McAl!aster. land commission
er of the Union Pacific Railroad Com
pany, states that sucn reports are
wholly and entirely visionary and un-
warranted No land will be given
away.
Thirty property owners along Monu-
ment creek in Colorado Springs gath
cred at Colorado College recently to
meet General William J. Palmer and
C. w. Leavitt Jr. of New York, to in
spect and discuss the generals plans
for the parking of his and other lands
along the banks of the creek. General
Palmer intends to expend 100000 on
the first parking project, with 100000
as secondary expenditure. The parked
tract will extend from the Denver, &
Rio Grande depot north to Monroe