The Grit-advocate., 1903-08-21
COLORADO BRIEFS.

them suppressed.
Thomas Gordon of Cheyenne has
been appointed engineer at the Grand
Junction Indian School at a salary OF
$S40 per annum.
On the afternoon of August 18th .
cloudburst in the foothills between
Morrison and Golden did considerable
damage to roads and ditches-
The annual corn roast at Loveland
which has been omitted for several
years, Will be revived again this year
and celebrated September 3rd- Every
body Is invited.
Isaac P. Van Wormer. a weii-known
man, died at his home in Denver. Au-
gust 18th, at the age OF seventy-three
years.
The Arkansas Valley Fair will be
held at Rocky Ford September End.
3rd and 4th. Watermelon Day will be
celebrated on the second day OF the
fair. September 3rd.
An order issued by General Nelson
A Miles before his retirement COM
mands the presence in Manila OF Major
Daniel NJ. Appel. U. S. A., who has
been stationed in Denver on special
duty since June 4th.
The Pueblo Trades Assembly has
completed arrangements for the Labor
Day festival, September 7th. The cole
bration will be held at the fair grounds
where an extensive program OF racing
and athletic events will be given.
The work of the annual convocation
of the colored Masons at Pueblo came
to a close August 18th, by an open in
stallaton of officers and an elaborate
banquet More than 100 delegates
present.
Jefferson Fry, ranchman living
seven miles below Rife, was drowned
on the 9th inst. while bathing IN the
Grand river He was thirty-four years
of age and leaves widow and three
small children.
A rural free delivery route has been
ordered established at Brush, Morgan
| county, September 18th. There Will pc
one carrier, who will have route
! twenty-five miles long and serve GOV
| people.
Congressman Hogg will introduce
| bill at the next session of Congress to
forbid entrance into this country Of
! any who cannot show papers signify
| ing that he has not been prosecuted Tor
a crime for period of five years.
| DR.. Hindman of Trinidad has pur-
| chased the Staplin ranch, at the Ioot
| of Spanish peaks, and will erect $I5,-
600 summer hotel on the place. The
| sale price of the ranch, which contains
500 acres, was $4,000.
In the County Court at Pueblo .
| few days ago, before Judge Gibson, =
speedy divorce record was made when
a Jury was sworn in, the testimony
taken and verdict rendered in favor
| of the plaintiff in five and one-half
minutes.
| The election upon the electric light
ing franchise at Trinidad carried by a
vote of 500 for to 6 votes against. In
two precincts there was no opposition.
Seven hundred and twelve taxpayers
were eligible to vote. Work upon the
| $500 900 street railway was begun i'm
mediately.
The first carload of nails produced
| by the Colorado Fuel and Iron Com
pany at Pueblo was shipped August
| Sth. and j. w. Brooks, superintendent
of the wire mill. made an exhibit OF
| the first barbed wire manufactured in
the West. Samples of telegraph and
! telephone wire are also exhibited.
Werner Z. Reed and o. H. Shoup of
| Colorado Springs, and A. M. Johnson
of Denver have bought the interest of
Captain Arthur Hotchkiss in the State
Bank at Fort Morgan, and will reor-
| ganize the bank as the First National
| Bank of Fort Morgan rs soon as the
necessary proceedings can be com
| pleted.
DR.. George II. Stover of Denver has
| received a small quantity. about fif-
teen grains, in the form of chloride,
| of the new metal, radium. He will
| test it in the cure OF cancer and other
| diseases. The value of the specimen
is $115, and an ounce would be worth
$1,000. Pure radium would cost about
| ten times as much.
| Prof. George II. Rowe, dean of the de-
| partment of electrical engineering in the
| University of Colorado, has rendered
| his resignation to the board of regents,
to be effective at once. Professor
| Rowe's resignation is due to a call
from Leland Stanford J. University in
California, to occupy similar position
in the faculty there.
| The Colorado Midland railway has
settled with the different parties who
had secured judgment by stipulation
against them on account Of a wreck
near Cascade on June %. 1902. Miss
Mary ORourke of Victor was paid ST.
| 75O and Miss Estelle Lewis and her
mother, Mrs. Lewis, were handed a
check for $4,000.
| The Mormons of Denver are complet-
ing plans for the erection of a house
of worship at West Sixth avenue and
South Water street. The church will
| be a two-story structure, and besides
| the hall for religious purposes will
have also arrangements for an Office,
Sunday school rooms and housekeep-
! ing rooms for the resident elder
| Secretary Shireman OF the State
Fair at Pueblo announced that two
couples will be married before the