The Grit-advocate., 1903-12-18
COLORADO BRIEFS.

| Jd'oo =. tlIlS. the noted felorNel'
soclolos anu author. is coming West
and WI. lecture in Denver February
1st.
hugh a. Elwood. a pioneer of Gilpin.
Weld aud summit counties. died at
Boulder december 18th at the age OF
seventy-Ihree years.
The new Palmer hall at Colorado
Collese III Colorado Springs is now
in actual Use but the formal opening
Will not AXE place until January.
AccorIIag 70 the report of Secretary
HltchcoDk 4 there are 81 ,y2G6l6 acres OF
unapproprated government land IN
Colorado, being considerably more than
One-hali the area of the state.
William Miller, Il youth of seventeen.
sat on a Ecs of powder to smoke his
pipe in hr Tynon coal mine, near Erie.
He was blown up, but came down
again. ana it is thought that he will
recover
Percy Brillhand had a part of his
left ioot and leg torn OFF by the chain
OF oa-.utting machine in the Simp-
son min at Lafayette and was taken to
the umi|sty hospital at Boulder on
the 1lth inst.
The walls of Il large apartment
house III Denver are being constructed
of cemcht blocks, which. it is claimed
by the builders. are a cheaper build
ing mateg1l than stone or brick and in
every way as good.
The dr.oution home in Denver for
juvenile leinquents is now in oper-
alton, The first installment Of five boys
having been sent to the home by Judge
Lindsey vn the 18th inst 1t preserves
the boy rom Jail associations.
The fist collection Of the Denver
Saturd2g and Sunday Hospital AssO-
citation, organized to take up collec-
tion in all parts of the city two days
in each year in aid. of the city hospl-
tails, netted the sum of So2i.IG
The Denver Union Water Company
has purchased the Du BOis ranch Of
600 acre in the Platte valley, twenty
two milo above Denver. for the sake of
its valuable water rights, which are
said to ,nount to 10,OOoOOO gallons a
day.
Trelis Ward. or Nellie Cummins, the
young oman who has gained consid-
cradle no.Oriety by her unfortunate
habit Of falling off street cars. was
declare sane by the County Court at
Pueblo and at once left for Texas,
where Size has relations.
r'5t houses of the Democratic and
Republican delegates 70 the second
Denver charter convention met on the
18th INST. and agreed upon the Rev.
Charles II Marshall. pastor of st.
Barnabas Episcopal church, for prest-
dent # the convention
E X Whitehead. secretary of the
Humane Society. has invited the Den"
Yer Wholesale Produce Association to
cooperate with the society to proven.
the Shipment of poultry by express in
crates that do not permit the fowls to
stand erect while in transit
Al organization was formed at
Glenwood Springs on the 9th inst to
work for the development of the natu-
raj resources of the valleys of the
Grand. White, Eagle and Roaring Fork
rivers. w. S. Parkinson of Glenwood
SpIIugs was elected president
Paul Richter, proprietor of the Rich
ter ron Works in Denver. while on a
huUItng excursion near Brush, was ac-
cidegtally shot and killed on the 18th
ms by the discharge of a gun in the
han is of a companion while both We're
engaged in examining their weapons.
The two coored companies recruited
for The National Guard at Denver were
not mustered in DecemDor l4th, as had
been arranged. When they discovered
thai H. was the purpose of the govern
or Fl, appoint white officers the men
declined to proceed with the muster
Tie members of the Denver police
fore. have formed a civil service club,
An eNecutive committee was appointed,
witt instructions to wait upon the
ChaEer convention when it convenes
and ADVANCE the civil service idea and
insisi upon it being embodied in the
charter.
Five dollars a ton for beets delivered
al III" Greeley sugar factory and 81 10
a 1uu for all beets delivered on the
cars are the prices that are announced
by he company for the next years
CROP Unrestricted delivery of bcets
thai are UP to the standard may be-
gin october 30th.
The jury in the case Of A. j. Eli
son at Cripple Creek, who brought suit
against Stratton's Cripple Creek Min
ing nnd Development Company for in
jurIc5 received on one of the properties
on AIgust 2. 1902. found a verdict for
the p.aintitf. damages being awarded
| to rHa amount of $4,000
THE new Standard club house. erect
ed cost of $4,000 by the United
Sta.- Reduction and Refining Com
| PAM at Colorado City for The benefit
OF Standard mill employees, was for
ma opened with "A reception to the
| men uers. their wives and friends on
the ght of December Sth.
T mas r. Tonge. civil engineer. son
| of tomas Tonge. the well-knOwn
new aper correspondent and Industrial
| wrIrur. died at the home of his parents
! in .'"nver on the nth inst OF con-
| sun ion. He contracted the disease
at lFanide, South Dakota. and came
| hon last August too late for relief
| : 5. Stewart of Colorado Springs
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