The Grit-advocate., 1903-09-25
COLORADO BRIEFS.

srs and Aachmen. of Lead'flle, have
-Jmbined against Sunday funerals
Denver people are among the chief
mOurners over the fact that the early
,-Usts Will shorten the cantaloupe sea
son in the Arkansas valley.
In an attempt TO loop the loop on a
bicycle at Pueblo. a Iew days ago.
Frank Byers. Young Bessemer lad.
fell and received some bad bruises.
The Santa Fe has taken OFF its Colo
rado and Missouri river flyers after
losing the most successful season yet
experienced. These trains are run to
accomodate summer travel.
At n meeting Of the business men of
If Boulder September 18th a commit
zee was appointed 10 endeavor to Sc
cure a reversal of the order raising the
freight rates between Boulder and
Denver.
The comptroller of the currency has
authorized the Citizens National Bank
Of Glenwood Springs TO commence
business. The new bank will employ
a capital Of S25 600 and G. II. Bell will
be cashier.
DR.. Walter w. Branson formerly Of
Golden, died n few days ago at Palm
Beach. Florida. Dr. Branson served
lor some time as superintendent of the
state Industrial School for Boys, sue
reeding w. H. Myrick.
The march of improvement at Den
yer has driven the Volunteers OF Amer
ica out of their headquarters on Lari-
uer street, which the owners wish 10
remodel, and the Volunteers are now
searching for new location.
The men employed in six of the Den
yer custom clothing establishments
went out on a strike on the 18th inst.
one cause OF the strike is the demand
iOr free workshops. but other questions
are said to be involved.
Charles Woke. arrested together with
George Marshland and Kid Farmer
at Denver. is said to have confessed TO
the stealing of ore to the amount OF
81 500 worth from the Independence
mine in the Cripple Creek district.
\ Salt Lake dispatch says that C..
sum Nichols. a newspaper man who
started number OF papers in Kansas.
Colorado and Wyoming since the close
Of the Civil war, died in that city on
the 18th inst. at the age OF sixty years.
In Justice Ruby's court at Colorado
Springs, William Roberts was fined s.
and costs on each of three charges of
selling tobacco 20 children under six
teen years of age. Roberts pleaded
guilty TO all charges and paid total Oh
S33,75.
The Pueblo City Council has voted to
spend each year an additional $1,000
for the maintenance of the new Carne-
gle library. Carnegie having agreed to
increase his douation of 100000 to $40
coo if the council would make this in
crease.
The United Oil Company's well No. |
Oh the Anderson ranch, near Boulder,
IS now pumping about twenty-five bar
rcls of oil day. This is the first well
of the company that has been Success
1ul and it will probably lead to further
exploration.
The Rev W II. Marble, formerly of
he Congregational church at Boulder.
died at Boulder on the 18th inst, at the
age OF 81 years. leaving two children
not yet OF age. His wife, much young
er than he. died a few weeks ago OF
appendicitis.
The new Carnegie Library Board has
been organized at Idaho Springs with
Mayor George Riley as president.
Steps are being taken to go ahead with
the buildiag as soon as possible and
it is expected that the library will
open with 1000 volumes.
The International Onyx and Marble
Company, composed OF Denver and
English capitalists. has purchased the
Big Bug onyx fields for sl5O,00o. The
beds are extensive and furnish the
translucent sca-green onyx. They are
located near Mayer, Arizona.
In the District Court at Durango. on
September 2lst, Judge Russell sen
fenced a negro named Pervis to not
less than four nor more than six years
at hard labor and Ralph Snlailey to
fourteen to sixteen months for shoot
ing Ed Lazarus in the ankle.
A. Mccormick has been appointed
master mechanic of the Cripple Greek
Short Line, to succeed Owen Owen
who leaves to take a similar position
on the Moffat road. Mr.. Mccormick
comes from Fairbury. Nebraska
where he was master mechanic on the
Rock Island.
The Denver. Lakewood K Golden
Railway Company has secured a deed
20 strip of land needed by the Den
yer & Northwestern to effect an en-.
trance into Golden. The move is SAID
10 be in the interest of the Northern
Coal Company. The land is a 1i0fooi
strip adjoining the agricultural ditcf
on the south, near Coors' brewery.
On the night of September Goth Oil
yer Creswell clerk in Barnum & Girls
wuld's hardware store at Trinidad, was
awakened by Two burglars who hat
broken into the store. where he was
sleeping. He shot and killed one o.
them with a shotgun and wounded tbs
other, who escaped. A file and sonlt
steel saws were found on the person
of the dead burglar, but he was MOI
identified.
A New York dispatch of September
2lst says: The chief OF police OF Ne"
York has received a letter from Sheriff
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