The Grit-advocate., 1903-11-13
COLORADO BRIEF S.

The work Of grading the line for the
new electric street railway al Trinidad
was begun November Sd.
The Denver Chamber of Commerce
has now a membership Of coo, which Is
the fUI! number allowed by its consu-
! tuition.
ora A Hattun. son of Daniel Hatton,
one Of the pioneers OF Denver. commit
ted suicide at a lodging house in Den
yer, on the 4th inst, by taking poison
A rural free delivery route has been
established. TO commence December
lst, at Trinidad. The proposed route
is twenty-five miles long and Will serve
Il population OF 32o.
The pay roll Of the Colorado Fuel
and Iron Company for October amounts
to 1898. 1921. being several thousand
| dollars more than has ever before
| been paid in on" month.
4 free employment Office has been
| opened in the Office OF the police ma
tron OF the ciry Jail in Denver. The
! services Of the office will be free to all
unemployed persons in the city.
The Wrman's Home Missionary So
! ciety of the NJ. L Church, which has
| just CLOSED its annual convention at
its next meeting in Denver III October
| 1904.
The young men of Holyohe and Vi
cinity pettiOnod Governor Peabody Tor
"a company OF infantry. and General
| Bell appointed Colonel Macdonald TO
muster the company into the NalionaI
Guard.
At Denver and many other places in
northern Colorado a brilliant display Of
aurora boreaIis was seen by the Few
people who happened to be ont OF doors
about O'Clock on the morning OF Sat
urday, October 3lst.
The Western Rubber Company vii!
open an office at 1913 Blake street Den
Yer. 1t has been incorporated to man
ufactIre rubber from species oil
shrub that grows wild on arid land and
| will, If it succeeds, open a new indus
try for the state.
Edward c. Bird has been arrested in
Denver for robbing mckel-in-the-s!oL
telephone boxes by means ui skeleton
keys 1t is stated that Bird has
served a term in the State Ponitenllary,
| under the name OF Edward q. Thomas
| for granu larceny
! At Denver a lew days ago, CLIFFORD
| Dunifor, siXteen-year-uld son Of +, \.
Dunifar, snapped an unload"d revolver
at his twu-year-OId bab' brother bul
there happened to b" Oae cartridge III
the cylinder and that went OFF and
! killed the baby.
Railway passenger agents estimate
that over 100000 strangers visited Col
! orado during the past summer Iher"
are 5000 unclaimed excursion tickets
.;,,i,, al nj
the Union Depot in Denver. Evidently
these people have concluded TO remain
in the state.
Daniel f Carmichael. in connection
with eastern and Denver men. is TAX
ing steps toward the construction OF an
electric railway line between Denver
and Greeley. Several OF those inter
ostcd visited Greeley a few days ago
and are said 10 have been pleased with
the outlook.
The Kilton mill in Boulder has been
purchased by the Great Western Brick.
Tile and Pottery Company, OF which
Professor A. b. Langridg" is president,
and will be utilized for the manu1ac-
ture of all kinds Of brick. tile and other
products of the fine clays found in lhy
Sunshine district.
Mrs. Soraldia NJ. Seymour. cOlorcd.
who would have been LOG years Old
next January. died November ID at
the home Of her son, William seymour,
ten miles northeast of Colorado
Springs Mrs seymour was formerly
a Kentucky slave and was the mother
OF thirteen children.
The county commissioners of Phil
lips county will purchase the hand
ala
used as an eating house by the Bur
Iington railroad and convert it into a
county building. 1t will be removed To
a suitabl" site and u 1ircproof vault
added.
At Delta October 2lst, at a special
meeting of the City Council, it was de
cidcd to purchase decree Of four feet
of water from George II. Whiteaw for
1000. The water is Tor the use of the
new city water plant which will be d
gravity system and will afford an am
pie supply for 5000 inhabitants.
The coroncrs jury at Denver in the
case of Charles Heyn who was shot
and killed by Humane Society Officer
Oliver f.. Turt. returned a verdict com
pIcteiy generating Tun, who was
found to have acted solely in self-de-
tense Tuft went to arrest Icyu for
cruelty in starving horse and lcyu
shot at him with Il rifle.
Thomas +. Walsh, former owner Of
the Camp Bird mine at Ouray. is said
to have iutimatcd to the Worlds Fair
Board that he will furnish the money
TO erect a Colorado building at the St .
Louis Exposition It is known that
he has had the matter under consider
alton and that the figures talked Of
were $2J, 900 or 100000.
Ex-Governor James B Orman re
turned from Mexico a few days ago
Governor Orman is Interested in the .
NacOzari railroad now being built from
Douglass, Arizona, to Cos, Sonora. F.
TNo terminus Of the road viii ha al !