The Grit-advocate., 1903-06-12
COLORADO BRIEF S

| Colorado and veteran OF the civil
war. died at Idaho Springs June 9Th.
In the Cripple Creek district June
was ushered in by a fall of several
inches of snow on the night OF May
3lst
The Denver Chamber of Commerce
has raised a considerable fund for the
Kansas flood sufferers. Lawrence Z.
Phipps gave 800.
The annual shoot of the Colorado
State Rifle Association will be held on
the grounds OF the Denver club on Au-
gust 23rd and oath.
A state convention of the Democratic
party will be held at Denver Septem-
Der 9TH to nominate a candidate for the
Supreme Court bench.
AT Gunnison June 4th Thomas Trea-
size and Mrs. Hope Poos, charged with
the murder of John Poos, were bound
over without bail until the next term
OF court.
At a meeting of the Methodist Min
isters Association it was decided to
take up collection in all the Meth
odst churches in Denver for the flood
sufferers in Kansas.
1t is stated an anti-mashing league
is to be started in Denver. Its object
will be 10 smash the features of the
| silly would-be mashers who annoy la
dies with their impudent attentions.
This has been one of the coolest
springs ever known in northern Colo
rado, and the crops in consequence of
the cold weather have made but little
growth, compared with other seasons.
Leonard Carpenter of Colorado
Springs. has been elected editor of the
Harvard Lampoon. the famous humor-
Gus weekly of Harvard University. Car
penter is junior in the academical de-
partment.
Reports received by Mrs. Martha
| Shute. secretary of the State Board
of Horticulture, in response to letters
sent out some time ago. indicate that
the losses in fruit are not nearly as
great as was supposed.
James Bolinger. an old timer in the
/ Cripple Creek district was killed by
lightning on the afternoon of June 9th.
He was walking from Victor to Divide
and was about four miles south of
Divide when struck
July 1st the salaries of the following
Colorado postmasters will be in
creased; Delta, 81 900 TO sl,700; Trim
idad. $500 to 81 500; Grand Junction.
$4,000 to s2400. Cripple Creek will be
reduced from $2,SO0 to $1,000.
The Union Pacific to-day awarded to
Fitzpatrick Bros & Collins of Denver
the contract for grading for double
track sixty miles of roadbed between
kearney and Silver Creek. Nebraska.
The contract involves s20O0,000.
The Colorado College baseball team
defeated the University of Colorado
team June I'd, winning the Colorado in
tercollegiate championship over the
State University. Agricultural College.
School of Mines and University of Den
yer.
The Normal Institute of the Fourth
district of Colorado opened in the high
school building in Golden June Sth
with large attendance of teachers
from Clear Creek. Gipin and Jefferson
counties, of which the district is com
prised.
morphine fiend who had been sent
to the Denver county Jail for term of
ninety days for vagrancy, found on his
release that ha was not cured of the
habit and voluntarily sought another
months confinement, which was duly
awarded.
Out of respect to the late Hon. w. n.
| Byers, who founded, plated and owned
this town. the town council of Hot
Sulphur Springs. has passed an ordin-
ance changing the name of the prin-
cpal residence street from Pine street
to Wv N. Byers avenue"
Judging by the condition of the play
ers of the Denver team of the Western
League, several of whom are entirely
disabled, while nearly all are battered
and bruised until they are hardly fit
to take the field. base ball is only
little less strenuous than football
The weekly report of the Department
of Agriculture pertaining to Colorado
brings out the fact that the unprece-
dented long period of rain and cold has
done much damage to fruit and veg
etables, and has retarded the growth
of grain. On the other hand the ranges
have been much benefited.
The body of Mrs. Mary F. Ryder,
who died at New Windsor June 1st
under peculiar circumstances was
brought to Greeley and an inquest was
held. the verdict being that death was
caused by an overdose Of patent
celery" medicines which she was in
the habit of using freely.
The Pueblo and Suburban Traction
and Lighting Company offered 81 900
reward for the arrest of the two street
car robbers. The first robbery was com
mitted May 29th, when about $50 was
secured. The second occurred on the
night Cf the 31st when $3.50 was
taken from the conductor
Hon s. A. Griffin of Boulder, who has
kept a record of the weather for the
| government for seven years, says that
| in all that time last month was the
coolest May experienced by an average
of four and one-half degrees The
water fall amounted to 2.O2 inches dis
| tributed in frequent small showers.
George H. Kimball president of the
: | lanL,.a 1.f lrnS cn of tho ut I1a4lI