The Grit-advocate., 1903-11-20
COLORADO BRIEFS.


Street car service has been suspend
ed in Boulder on account OF the coal
strike.
The Denver postofDce has been al
lowed nine more letter carriers in ad-
dition to the present force.
Order of the American Boy, Chap
ter No. ], is the name OF an organiza-
ton formed in Pueblo in which the
High School boys are entered as mem
bers.
Arvada, Denver's jefferson county
suburb, has again voted not to incor-
porate, the ballot standing 9S to 94.
A previous vote stood 80 to ~ against
incorporation.
Mrs. Helen NJ Grenfell state super
intendent of public instruction. has re-
covered from her recent attack OF
bronchitis and resumed her duties at
the state house.
The secretary of the interior has de-
cided to allow the grazing of not TO
exceed 10000 head of cattle and horses
In the White River reservation, Colo
rado, during the season of 1904.
The Colorado Springs High School
will soon have gymnasium and reg
ular director to take charge OF the
work. Work in the gymnasium, Dolh
for young men and women. will be
compulsory.
What is known as the Garwood fac
ton Of the Republican party in Denver.
held a convention November 10th at
which full charter ticket was placed
in nomination, headed by II. NJ. Ora
hood and Oscar Reuter-.
Charles f. Sampson, one of the great
est and last of the time profession
al gamblers of Colorado, died in Den
at the age of sixty-seven years. He was
[ life member of the Elks.
Charles Kirkman, an employe in the
Resurrection concentrating mill at
Leadville, was instantly killed on the
10th instant by being caught in the
betting, which tore him to pieces and
completely severed his head from his
body.
The President has made the follow
ing postofiice appointments. Frank 4.
Songer, Crested Butte; Arthur +.
Brown, Berthoud; Robert w. Camp
bell, Brighton; George w. Miller,
Hotchkiss; ROLAND Oliver, Paonia;
Benjamin f. Niesz. Steamboat Springs.
A Kansas City dispatch of November
18th says: Col. Thomas Holland, head
of the Salvation Army colony at Amity.
Colorado, a victim of the Dean wreck
on the Santa Fe and who at first was
believed to be fatally injured, will
leave the hospital Friday and return to
Colorado.
The Colorado Springs Young Mems
Christian Association celebrated their
twenty-tifth anniversary November
18th and sent a telegram to President
Roosevelt who laid the corner stone
OF their building The President an
swered the telegram with message of
cOngratulation.
The corner stone of the Fort Collins
Carnegie Library building was laid
November 18th, with impressive cere
monies. The Hiding is being erect
ed of red sandstone, handsomely
trimmed. Completed it will cost near
ly $4,000. of which Andrew Carnegie
contributed $4,000.
John L. Walker, the Santa Fe engi-
neer who was scalded in the wreck.
recently at Apishapa, died at La Junta
November 9th as the result of his in
juries. Walker was with the Rio
Granue for eleven years and at one
time was master mechanic of the COM
pany's shops at Leadville.
The trustees of the State School of
Mines have purchased apparatus for
testing cement, SO that hereafter the
Colorado product can have the benefit
of official tests By the faculty experts.
Under Professor Fleck the school has
also undertaken the official analysis
of water for municipalities.
Two adroitN canvassers have been
swindling business men in the East by
soliciting and collecting money in ad-
vance for a bogus sheet, 1.-The West"
purporting to be published by the Den
yer & Rio GranGe Railroad Company
The railroad has become aware of the
scheme through letters of the victims.
A number of samples of marble which
is found in great abundance at Beulah,
are being prepared to be sent to Eu-
rope for the inspection of capitalists
who are interested in the Pueblo 4
Beulah railroad. The quality is said
to be very fine and more beautiful and
varied in color than has been found
elsewhere.
Ihe Rev. Alfred Baxter, highly re-
spected citizen of northern Colorado |
and an original Union Colonist, died
November 9Th at the residence of his
son Frank Baxter. two miles from
Greeley, at the age of seventy-eight !
Years. He had been in good health up
to the day Of his death, which resulted
In heart failure.
The following officers were elected
by the new.state organization CT Elks: |
President Judge N. Walter Dixon of |
Pueblo; frs1 vice president, c. E. Mich |
OILS, Central City; second vice presi-
dent, Phil T. Mcclure, Florence; secre-
tary E. F. Arthur. Denver; treasurer. |
Jesse J. May, Idaho Springs. The next |
meeting will be at Glenwood Springs !
next June.
William Marshall Colorado Springs |
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