The Grit-advocate., 1903-07-24
COLORADO BRIEFS.

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go 70 the Butte. Montana. high school,
The labor unions of Denver are al
ready beginning extensive preparations
Tor the celebration of Labor Day Sep
tember 7th.
l.. H. Enrich, Gen. W. ]. Palmer and
Leslie J. Shelton, the artist. are said
10 be associated with a movement to
erect an art galley in Colorado Springs.
Charles NJ. Schwab, president of the
/ United States Steel Corporation. re-
rently spent three days at Manitou
Park, leaving for the East on July 18th.
| The Great Coupcil of Colorado. I'm
| proved Order of Red Men, and the
Great Council, Degree of Pocahontas.
will be held at Idaho Springs August
10th to 18th
General Palmer has purchased the
Bear Creek toll road near Colorado
Springs, and proposes to give 1t to Ell
Paso county if the commissioners will
take care of it.
Clark Dunn has been appointed
rural letter carrier at Hotchkiss, Col
orado, and William l. Barrow was
named as substitute, to commence
service September list.
Otto H. Wangelin and his wife. the
former being the proprietor of the
Boulder Daily Herald and president OF
the Colorado Editorial Association,
celebrated their silver wedding July
18th. at Michillinda, Michigan, where
they were staying. together with their
children, for vacation.
The newly incorporated Trinidad
Electric Railroad Company has let the
contract for the construction of its
lines to W. c. Whitescarber. Work
will begin August 18th. He will re-
ceive something like $4,000 for grad
ing. excavating and placing bridge tim
bers, etc.
Judge August Ortlot, a pioneer resi-
dent of Las Animas county, died at
his home in Sopris July 18th. For the
last eight years he had been justice Of
the peace at Sopris. He was a native
of Germany, sixty-eight years Of age,
and leaves a widow and several mar
rieG children.
An engine, coach and the train
she'd of the Colorado and Eastern rail
way, known also as the Scranton road,
line only sixteen miles long, built out
from Denver in 1895 to some mythical
coal fields, were burned July goth, de-
stroying almost the entire equipment
of the line.
Work has begun on the grade for the
proposed Wellington extension Of the
Colorado & Southern railway out of
Fort Collins. The line will be twelve
miles in length and must be completed
by September 18th in order to handle
the immense crop of beets that is being
raised in the Wellington district.
Grand Army men are delighted by
the promotion of Col. Charles A. Cool
idge to be brigadier general. AS cap
tain In the Seventh infantry, when that
regiment was in Denver. General Cool
and an enthusiastic Grand Army man,
became very popular in Colorado.
John B. Frasher committed suicide
at Telluride July goth by shooting him
self through the heart while seated on
the grave of his wife. who died seven
years ago He leaves four children.
Mr.. Frasher was postmaster in Tellu-
ride during both of Cleveland's admin
istrations and later served as county
treasurer.
Denver rejoices in lowering of the
death rate. In June there were but
1872 deaths, an average of 12 for each
1000 Of population per annum. With
out considering the deaths from i'm
ported cases of tuberculosis, the death
rate is only ten per 1000 per annum
In June, 1902, there were 223 deaths
The city is now free from typhoid
fever.
The stock books OF the Colorado Fuel
and Iron Company were closed at noon
July 18th for the annual meeting of the
stockholders, which will take place in
Denver, August 10Th. The proxy COM
mittee is composed of John D. Rookie
feller, Jr., George Gould and ]. c.. Os-
good. and blanks for the giving of
proxies are being mailed. to all the
stockholders.
A special election has been called at
Trinidad August 9Th to ratify the fran
chise granted by the council for an
electric railway and a lighting plant.
Meantime engineers will be busy max
ing the necessary surveys. A suffi-
cient amount of money to purchase the
right of way for the road between
Trinidad and Starkville and Sopris has
been raised by subscription.
Daniel w. Page. seventy years old,
vice-presdent of the Hoeckel Blank
book Company of Denver, and the old
est travelling man in this section of
the West, died at Salt Lake City July
10th. Mr.. Page gained his title of the
oldest travelling man in Colorado be-
cause for the last thirty years he has
consecutively travelled the states OF
Colorado, Utah and Wyoming.
A verdict for $4,000 against the Grip
pie Creek Sampling and Ore Company
was rendered on the 14th inst. by
Cripple Creek jury in favor of Joseph
Sousa, who brought suit to recover
$4,000 damages for injuries received.
last August. Sousa. at that time. was
dressing steel roller. when a silver
flew off. striking him in the left eye,
completely destroying that organ.
Denver will have another bronco