The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1903-09-05
COLORADO BRIEFS.


Adelina Patti will sing In Denver on
January 20. 1904.
The annual Corn Roast will be held
at Loveland September I'd.
A Jewish paper. to b called tie
w Western Israeiite.' viii be started In
Lenvei September 9Th.
The cantaloupe season Is nov on In
the Arkansas Valley and large ship
rents are made daily.
Two companies Of the Fourteenth
cavalry started from Denver for the
philippines. August Esd. st
The annual Peach Day celebration
will be held at Grand junction Sept
ember 8th, Sth and 10th.
with the strikers the Portland mine II
Victor resumed operations August 70.
The coming charter election In Den
yer Is arousing great interest and
promises to be one Of the closest
fought contests ever held in the city.
The fall meeting of the Canon City
Driving Association will take place
September 9th, 10th and 18th. Prizes
amounting to 5000 will be offered.
The Denver Democratic city central
committee has placed Itself on record
a. opposed to the proposed new city
charter by q vote Of 173 to Z. Twenty
three members declined to vote.
A joint survey OF the line between
Giipin and BOULDER counties from Bea-
yer creek to the main range above Hol-
Inns pass, gives Gilpin \ strip about nj
ty feet wide for nearly the entire dis
lance.
At the Silver Bell mine at Ophir ON
the night Of August 2lst Steve Greig
fell straight down . timber chute
distance Of los feet and escaped with
only q broken thumb and 4 slight scalp
wound.
Fred Wild; q well known boiler-set-
ter, and inventor OF Wild's patent
smokeless furnace, was found dead IN
his room 1t Denver August 18th. He
was . mechanic Of great ability, but
addicted to drinking.
Thirty leading manufacturers and
wholesalers Of Denver have joined an
association which offer free railroad
fares to merchants who come to Dem
yer to purchase stocks of them to the
amount of u 600 or over.
There have been = large number Of
cases Of typhoid fever in Denver re-
Gently, and the health oficers think 1t
due In part to the poor quality Of milk
sold by many dealers and the use OF
formaldehyde as q milk preventative.
The annual reunion OF the early set
tiers of Trinidad, August 9th. was
largely attended DR.. n. Beshoar, who
has been president since the orsanixa-
tion Of the society. was reelected,
There were twenty-one deaths among
the pioneers during the past year.
The annual poultry show Of the Col
Orado Poultry Association will be held
1t Coliseum hall In Denver the week
beginning January IS, 1904. The com
mittee Of the association ID now at
work upon the premium list, which will
be larger than at any previous show.
A meeting Of business men was held
1t Boulder August 9th, to discuss. the
increased freight rates on the railroads
between Boulder and Denver, estimated
to average about nifty per cent. 1t was
decided to take vigorous action, and II
necessary haul freight BY wagon.
The Paseo, the sixty-foot boulevard
running two miles from Colorado
! Springs to Palmer Lake, has Just been
completed by Gen. w. J. Palmer and
is now open to the public. The road Ia
pronounced to be one OF the finest and
most picturesque in the West.
President Moifat Of the Denver.
Northwestern 4 Pacific is said to be
considering an opportunity to purchase
terminal facilities at San Francisco.
Z The franchise is that Of the Bay &
Coast Railway Company. which runs
from San Francisco to Monterey.
ia l<.vr
has raised prices. the schedule now be-
ing: To all customers using less than
seven quarts per week, ten quarts for
and over, fourteen quarts for 81. The
wholesale price Is 20 cents gallon.
The United States Civil Service Com
mission announces that an examination
for clerks and carriers In the postofiice
will be held In Denver November q,
1903 Persons who desire to compete
should at once apply to H. c. Hefner.
secretary, At the Denver postofice, for
application blanks.
1t is reported that the Denver, Lake
wood & Golden Railway Company will
reopen its Ralston branch. to Tindale
and extend the line to handle the pro-
duct Of the Carbon Fuel Company's
mines, ana also that IL 1S prOoaDle that
the entire Lakewood system will be
operated by electricity. giving Golden
|, two electric lines into, Denver.
>Locomotive Engineer James M.
Hotchkiss Of Denver lost his life in =
collision OF the Union Pacific Frontier
Day excursion train between Cheyenne
and Denver with q runaway lumber
car on the night of August 9th. He
stayed on the engine. to shut OF the
steam and apply the emergency air
pressure. and saved the lives of the
excursionists at the cost Of his own.
C. 8. Harrison. president Of the State
Park and Forestry Association of Ne
braska, and . noted horticultural, has
been in Pueblo making negotiations
with the Beulah Railroad Company and
interesting the citizens in project to
create n national mark west nf ,Re,,iah