The Grit-advocate., 1903-02-13
COLORADO BRIEFS

ated In Denver tor the manufacture of
canes
The Colorado Kennel Club will hold
its annual Dog Show at Coliseum hall
in Denver on February 18th. Goth and
2lst.
ALeF long siege of snowslides, all
the railroads running into Silverton
were able to run trains regularly on
the slI inst
Meyer Friedman has been elected
presinent OF the Denver Chamber OF
Commerce. Arthur Williams will con-
tlnue to act as secretary
A meeting of hardware men will be
held IN Pueblo February 10th and 18th
for tn purpose of organizing State
Hardware Dealers Association.
Stato Bee 3pector James Mitchell
of Jefferson county died on February
4th. lie was widely kuo among the
agricuI,urists and bee keepers of the
state.
The managers of the Overland Cot
ton Mills Company at Denver have
been lln"d $50 and costs in the District
Court for employing boys and r, rls
under age. The defendants took an a.
peal.
After Withholding the donors name
for about six years, President Slocum
has just announced that the donor who
gave Ticknor Hall to Colorado Col
lege is lone other than Miss Elizabeth
Cady OF Wellesley Massachusetts
The first annual convention of the
Colorado Cattle and Horse Growers
Association will be held in Denver,
February 10Th, 9th. 18th. being pre-
ceded by the Denver Fat Stock and
Feeder show February 23d, 2lth, 25th,
The factory of the Colorado Portland
Cemept Company near Florence has
been closed. oyiLg to consolidation
of interests with the Portland Cement
Company, which has plant with sui
ficient capacity to supply the demand
David H. Moffat and the First Ma
tional Bank of Denver have been
grantcd Judgment for $56,973 and Sal
l66 respectively, against otto Mears
Chesapeake Beach railway, in the
Circuit Court of Calvert county Mary
land
The trial of Herman Anderson on
the charge of killing John Rabb, in
the District Court at Leadville, result
ed in verdict of murder in the sec
onI3 .ree. The tragedy took place in
saloon where the two men got into
a quarrel over a fnger-pulling con-
test.
Mrs. Laura f. Cranston. wife of
Bishop Earl Cranston of the Methodist
church and mother of District Attor-
ney Earl NJ. Cranston of Denver. died
in Silao, Mexico, February Tth. of ner
vous prostraton. Her health had been
failing since her terrible experiences in
Pekin, China. during the Boxer siege.
The first annual exhibition of the
Denver Fat Stock and Feeder Show
which will be held the last week of
this month in connection with the an
nual convention of the Colorado Cattle
and Horse Growers Association, is ex-
pected to bring several thousands of
stockmen to Denver during that week.
Holiness workers all over the state are
interested in the meetings to be held
at st. James Church in Denver, Feb
ruary 18th to 23rd, and there will be
state gathering on the 18th. The ser
vices will be conducted by Rev. Charles
j. Fowler of Boston. Mass, assisted
by Prominent evangelsts and evange-
listic singers,
As the result Of the breaking Of
chain suspendng huge ladle in which
molten metal was being conveyed from
the blast furnaces to the new Bessemer
converter at the Minnequa steel works
at Pueblo, three men were killed, two
probably fatally injured. and four 9TH
ers, including the superintendent of the
converter. were badly burned, on the
morning of the 9th.
John r. Dean. weaver in the Over
land cotton mills at Denver, was taken
from his home at ! O'Clock on the
morning of Sunday, February Sth, by
"whltecappers," or masked men, and
taken some distance in his night
clothes. After being badly beaten he
was turned loose. II is supposed to be
the result of neighborhoOd scandal in
which Dean was charged with talking
too much.
There have been numerous entries
to the Denver Fat Stock Show which
opens on the 23d instant, and as all
cattle west of the tooth meridian are
eligible the whole West is interested.
Several thousand dollars in prizes will
be gwen away and buyers are coming
from all over the East to purchase the
winners in the feeder classes. which
will be put on feed for the big shows in
the East next fall
Professor V. G.. Corbett of the chair
Of history and literature at the State
Agricultural College has been honored
by the Astrological Society Of Lon
don by the presentation of an elegant
engraving of the famous Rosetta stone
and plates explaining the method of
deciphering the inscriptions. 1t will
be placed in the department of his
tory
Tie Otero county Stock Association
at its meeting in La Junta February
18th recommended for appointment the
following officers: Robert Grant of
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