The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1903-03-13
COLORADO BRIEFS.

| started q movement to raise money
and build an entertainment hall.
The president on March I'd sent to
the Senate the nomination of John F..
Vivian to be surveyor general Of Colo
RADIO.
| A Board of Trade has been organ
lied at Brighton and an effort will be
made to secure the building of q beet
sugar factory.
Hon. Edward O.Wolcott has returned
to Denver and it is stated that he in
tends to remain and devote his atten-
ton to his law practice.
The Pueblo Gas and Fuel Company
has made arrangements for improving
the Pueblo plant within the next six
months to the extent OF 100000.
Judge Orr of the County Court OF Ell
Paso county has issued an order for a
special election in Fountain to decide
the question of incorporating the town.
Miss Cora Peabody will christen the
| cruiser Colorado, Governor and Mrs.
Peabody having accepted in her behalf
the invitation extended by the build
7, ers.
| 1t is stated the office of the Colorado
G. Southern at Pitkin will be closed
| until the opening of the Airline tunnel
after the heavy SHOWS Of spring have
melted.
While John d. Rockefeller was in
| Colorado, ]. Pierpont Morgan was
| junketing at Havana. Hence, the
| Rocky Mountains were enabled to re-
| main perpendicular.
On March 25th seven companies Of
the Eighteenth Infantry will leave Fort
Logan. near Denver, for San Francis
CO, from which point they will sail for
the Philippines.
Citizens OF Littleton do not like to
live in South Arapahoe county, In
which they are placed by the Rush
amendment, and will try to have the
name changed to Arapahoe.
l. Harry Stratton. who is contesung
the will OF his father, the late w. S.
Stratton. has taken a position with the
Shields-Morley Wholesale Grocery
Company of Colorado Springs.
A statue OF Robert Burns is to be
placed in the City Park at Denver. 1t
Is being made by sculptor in Edin-
burg, and II received in time. will be
unveiled next Fourth OF July.
As discourager OF saloons Carrie
Nation is not In the same class with
the Denver hold-ups, who have robbed
fifteen saloons since last October. ev-
cry one at the point of the revolver.
Three buildings at the mouth of the
Pennsylvania tunnel of the Smuggler-
Union Mining Company at Telluride
were burned on the night OF March
3rd. the fire being caused by some de-
feet in the electric apparatus.
Colorado Springs typographical
Union No. SO will ask the Chamber OF
Commerce for a donation OF $4,000 to
assist In t1e movement that nas been
started to secure for the Springs the
headquarters OF the International
, union.
The members OF the Arkansas Val
| ley Press Association will be the
| guests OF the Bessemer and Minnequa
Board OF Trade on Saturday. March
| 14th. The business and literary ses-
sion will begin at 10 a. IN. and ldey
will be entertained at q banquet at
night.
Chaplain Henry C. Gav!tt. who was
tried by a court-mavtial at Fort Lo-
gan on the charge OF conduct unbecom-
ing an ofilcer and gentleman. for fall
ure to pay debt contracted by an
| eloping daughter. was acquitted. the
verdict being considered q compi ate
vindication.
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DR.. H. l.. Richardson. six miles south
west OF Fountain. The company cen
| templates an expenditure OF more than
$35O, 900. the object being to secure suf-
| fcient water to irrigate the entire
| Fountain valley.
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abandoned. owing to the fact that an
auditorium has not been built. and that
present conditions are not favorable to
the holding Of such q show this sea-
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