The Springfield herald., 1903-02-06
COLORADO BRIEFS.


The Brown Palace hotel in Denver
Will hereafter be run on the European
plan only.
The Grand hotel at Pueblo is to be
greatly improved and a large bath
house added.
The President has reappointed Lee
Fairbanks to be register OF the land
Office at Del Norte.
The will of the late DR.. F. ]. Ban
croft of Denver gives $1,000 to the
Denver Old Ladies' Home.
Representatives of Colorado College
and the University of Nebraska Will
meet in debate some time next
spring.
AT the annual meeting of the Colo
RADIO Springs Chamber of Commerce,
January Gath, the old board of directors
was reelected.
The dog license inspector OF Denver
Reports that there has been a whole
sale poisoning of dogs in many parts
of the city during the last six months.
The football team of the University
of Colorado is making arrangements
for a ten-day's trip through Kansas
and Nebraska during the spring vaca-
ton.
|
Denver building inspection department
during January aggregated in value
$379.635, which was $94,OSO more than
for the same month of 1902.
] The Denver Box Company's plant at
Tenth and Wazee street. in Denver,
was burned January 23rd, occasioning
a loss of over $4,000 and throwing for-
ty people out of employment.
Miss Cora Fay of Colorado City. now
a government teacher in the Philip.
pines, has been given three months
vacation owing to the prevalence OF the
| plague in the islands. She is now In
Japan.
The Postofice Department has as
sured Representative Bell that two
rural free delivery routes will be es-
tablished at Montrose. April list, with
| Charles II. Parrish and Herbert G. Gra-
/ ham as carriers.
1t is announced that Mrs. Anna B.
Brandt, who was the Republican can
didate for superintendent Of public In
struction at the late election, has de-
cided TO withdraw her contest against
Mrs. Helen l.. Grenfell.
The Colorado Telephone Company
will extend. its line from Florence 10
the agricultural regions of Hardscrap-
BILE and Wetmore, distance OF hfteen
miles, establishing toll stations at
| Wetmore and Greenwood.
The ten Denver lodges of knights or
| Pythias are making preparations Tor
great celebration on February 18th,
| which is the anniversary of the found
| ing of the order There will be
grand parade and banquet in the Wom-
! ans Club building.
| The factory and business of the Col
orado Condensed Milk Company at
| Fort Lupton have been purchased by
| the Mohawk Condensed Milk Company
| of Rochester, New York. The business
will be continued under the corporate
name of the Colorado company.
The American Bonding Company of
Baltimore has paid to the city attor-
ney of Goldfield s1,142.6o, being pay
ment in full Of the shortage OF G. J. NJ.
Hambaugh, ex-city treasurer. Ham
baugh went South. and later, 1t is al
legged, caused his death to be reported
The Denver News of January 2Sth
SAYS: Another carload of Austrians
| from Minneapolis arrived in Denver
| Yesterday to work on the new Moffat
railroad, and carload is due to arrive
every day this week from Kansas City.
Omaha. Minneapolis. parts of Texas
! and Missouri.
James Marshall, who lives near the
| mouth of South Boulder canon, be-
tween Golden and Boulder, put out
some poisoned meat for coyotes not
long ago and in the course of few
days found six dead coyotes and the
half-eaten remains of a monster gray
| wolf near his place.
| Governor Peabody has appointed the
following named gentlemen to serve on
| the State Board of Medical Examiners;
DR.. David A. Strickler, to succeed him
self; Drs. John Inglis of Pueblo and
| George e. Steman of Denver to succeed
DR.. w. w. Rowan of Ouray and DR..
Frank s. Dulin of Denver.
The business transacted in the
| United States land office in Denver dur
| ing January amounted to Sll,lS2.Oi,
1 which, while 1t did not break any rec
ords. is above that of many recent
months The land business amounted
to $4,000 for timber lands alone. One
item was $1,000 for coal lands, bought
| in three tracts.
The twelfth annual meeting of the
Colorado State Equal Suffrage Associa-
ton was held in Denver January Both.
Professor Theodosia Emmons OF Fort
Collins was reelected president. Dur
ing the last year there has been nota-
| BILE gain in membership, so much so
that the membership of the association
is now larger than at any time since
1896.
The demand of the union bricklayers
of Denver for an increase of wages
| after March list from S5 a day to $3.50
| ly 10 brick