The Grit-advocate., 1903-08-28
COLORADO BRIEFS.

Labor Day will be generally cele-
brated throughout the state September
7th.
The Western Slope Fair will be held
at Montrose September 22d TO 18th. in
elusive.
A Jewish paper, to be called the
Western Israelite." will be started In
Denver September 5th.
The cantalUupe season is now on IN
the Arkansas Valley and large ship
ments are made daily.
Two companies of the. Fourteenth
cavalry started from Denver for the
Philippines. August I'D.
The annual Peach Day celebration
will be held at Grand Junction Sept
cmber 8th, 9Th and 10th.
Thomas G. Underhill. a prominent
business man of De Beque, was thrown
from his horse and killed August 20th
In a quarrel over a poker game Jerry
Kennedy shot and dangerously wound
er Arthur Bennett at Camp Bowerman
August Goth.
ranging for a minstrel jubilee and car
iAN al dl ItuNtI oCloDtI Ilu Win Billy
Williams in charge.
A company has been formed at Boul-
der for the manufacture of white brick
from deposit of white clay between
Boulder and Sunshine.
The State Land Board has ordered
the sale of forty acres of land to the
town of Monte Vista for public park.
The price is fixed at S2o per acre.
Leo w. Kennedy, clerk in the sur
veyor generals Office at Denver, has
been promoted to $1,000 per annum,
and ordered to duty at Montrose.
Rev. Abel X. Packard. for many
years pastor OF the Congregational
church at Greeley. died August 10th in
San Diego. California, at the advanced
age Of eighty years.
Professor J. Emmett Kemp. foS the
last five years principal of the Park
street high school at Trinidad, died of
Bright's disease at st. Anthony's hospi-
tai in Denver August Goth.
George l.. HORNE, a prominent resi-
dent OF Fairplay and member OF the
Colorado bar, having served Park coun-
ty as county judge. and clerk OF the
District Court, died August 18th. leav-
ing a widow and two little children.
At the Silver Bell mine at Ophir on
the night of August 2lst Steve Grelg
fell straight down a timber chute
distance Of LOG feet and escaped with
only a broken thumb and slight scalp
wound.
Thirty leading manufacturers and
wholesalers Of Denver have joined an
association which cffer free railroad
yer to purchase stocks OF them to the
amount of $1,000 or over.
The large sawmill plant OF the Pa
gosa Lumber Company at Pagosa
Junction in Archuleta county was
burned on the night of August 10th.
The lumber yards, which contained a
great amount of lumber, were saved by
hard work.
Mrs. Storer. wife of Bellamy Storer,
United States ambassador to Austria,
together with General Palmer and 9TH
ers, is considering project to estab-
lish fine art works at Colorado Springs
to utilize the valuable clays and native
gems of Colorado.
VII HAS Uttu Slluth oll lllt NtHnChf
ranch, about twenty miles east Of Colo
RADIO Springs. While sinking well for
water a flow of oil was encountered at
a depth OF 40 feet. The find has
aroused much interest in Colorado
Springs and capitalists are investigat-
ing.
Sylvester T. Smith, president of the
Colorado-Utah Construction Company.
81 expected to arrive in Denver from
the East by September 10th, soon after
which the contracts for the 81 900, 900
tunnel to be bored by the Moffat COM
pany through the continental divide
will be awarded.
Rev. David l.. Fleming of the Epis-
copal church of Leadville. formerly
chaplain of the First Colorado yolun-
teers during the Spanish war, has been
rendered commission as chaplain in
the regular army He is appointed to
the place declined by Rev. Bruce
Brown Of Chicago.
The United States Civil Service Com
mission announces that an examination
for clerks and carriers in the pos,otfice
will be held in Denver November u,
1903. Persons who desire to compete
should at once apply to III. c. Hefner.
secretary. at the Denver postofce, for
application blanks.
While going to his work at Pueblo
on the morning of August 22d Roy
Smith. steel works machinist. was
attacked by seven or eight striking
machinists and nearly beaten to death.
One of the men struck him on The top
of the head with large steel bolt,
cutting deep cash.
The proposed new city charter of
Denver. on which the people will vote
September 22nd. occupies more than
twenty-one columns of solid nonpareil
type in the eight-column daily papers
of Denver, or 5241a inches column
length. Specially patriotic citizens will
take a week off and read it.
The Colorado Medical Society will
meet in Denver October 9Th. 7th and
o.h. A talk on "Radium," with DEM
onstration, by DR.. Slower. will be a part