The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1903-02-28
COLORADO BRIEFS.

| The postoffice department has issued
orders establishing free delivery SER
vices at Rocky Ford, June /.
| General Funston and his aldo, Lieu.
tenant Burton Mitchell. will leave
Denver for Vancouver barracks,
March Z.
The present bonded Indebtedness of
the city of Denver is $1,131,618, of
which amount $4,000 will be paid
during this year.
1t was cold day when st. Valentine
came to Colorado. Even Cupid must
have suffered unless he changed his
garb and wore an overcoat.
President Roosevelt has accepted the
invitation OF the Denver Chamber OF
Commerce to visit Denver during his
coming western trip In the spring.
The Lake Minnequa Park and
Amusement Company at Pueblo Is pre-
pairing to establish pleasure resort at
Lake MinneQua and build a SIT, 900 the
alter.
Several of the big department stores
| OF Denver have adopted the eight-hour
system for their employees, keeping
their stores open only from $3.50 a. nj.
to 8: 0.p. III.
Twenty horses were burned to death
in fire which destroyed the stables
| OF the Continental Oil company in
Denver on the night of Feb. 18th. The
entire loss was about $4,000.
Col. H. N. Chittenden of Denver. a
veteran of the Civil War. who was well
known in business circles and had
many friends Throughout the state.
died February 14th at the age Of sixty
one. g:
Frank r. Stockton. boy fourteen
years old. died in Denver on February
18th Of a disease pronounced by one
OF his physicians to be hydrophobia.
He was bitten by a shepherd puppy
| November 2sth.
The Park Center Land and Water
company has bought all the water
| flowing from the mouth of the Cripple
Creek drainage tunnel and will use 1t
to irrigate large tract of land south
of Canon City.
Rev. Marvin A. RAIDER. the young,
active and popular pastor of Grace M.
E. Church. Denver, has resigned to
| accept a missionary appointment In
the Philippines and will sail from San
Francisco April 4th.
The house judiciary committee has
brought in a report generating Judge
| William P. Seeds Of the Fourth Judi
cial District from the charges on which
his impeachment was sought. The
committee recommends that the
charges be dismissed and all proceed
ings in relation to them expunged
from the record Of the house.
| On the nigh. of February 18th a doc
tor was held up and robbed of 1892
on Champa street in the very heart
of Denver. 1t was before midnight and
several persons passed while he was
held in stairway and searched by
two men, who threatened to kill him II
he called for help. The Little Emma
saloon. in the lower part Of the city.
was robbed the same night
The total number OF deaths in Colo
RADIO during the month of January. as
shown by the report of the State Board
OF Health. was $50; total number of
still births. twenty-three; estimated
population, SCI 1876: annual death rate
/ per 1000, excluding all still births.
17.47; deaths from diphtheria during
the month, twelve: from scarlet fever,
seven; from typhoid fever. twenty
three.
| d. E. Newcomb Of La lara, special
| agent of the Humane society, sold 423
head of wild Texas ponies at Alamosa.
| Feb. 18th, getting for the first car
load $6.05 per head; second. $4.10;
third, $40, and the balance. $40. or
these 1853 head were sold for the own
| ers. So far Agent Newcomb has sold
1000 head Of these ponies. and there
are probably 1000 head still running
| wild in the San Luis valley. Five
| I, foH to- o In, ho
| pinon hills around La Veta. Many
horses are said to be suffering in t1e
| snow near Creole.
| According to the monthly bulletin
issued by the State Board Of Health
| for the month of January there was
| decrease IT diphtheria cases last
month as compared with December,
| the number being forty-three less.
\ There was an increase of scarlet fever
cases as well as smallpox cases. The
| decrease of typhoid fever cases was
| 1O7. The bulletin states that the quar-
| antine period for smallpox cases has
been placed ~ the board at not less
| than four weeks from the beginning
| of the eruption, and in any case not
| less than ten days after scaling is
completed.
The eighth state conference of Char
| tiles and Corrections will be held in
| Denver March list, End and 3rd. The
subject of all the sessions. four in
| rumber. will be child-saving. Every
body is supposed to be vitality inter-
ested in helping the little children. 1t
is hoped that all will prove their in
terest by attending the conference ses-
sions and by making suggestions as to
what should be done for the preven-
ton of Juvenile delinquency the care
of dependent children. and child labor.
The governor the mayor. the presi-
dent of the conference and other
prominent persons will open the con-
ference at the First Congregational