The Grit-advocate., 1903-08-07
COLORADO BRIEFS.


ton of the new city charter will be
held September 18th
The contract for the erection OF the
new school building at Brush has been
let to George CudwOrth for $4,000,
work to be commenced at once.
The Colorado Springs Brick Manu-
facturers' Association has been incor-
porated with $1,000 capital. 1t is in
the nature of a trust to regulate the
price and distribution of brick.
According to the figures of County
| Assessor Strachen. the valuation OF Ell
Paso county has increased $5l4OOo
over the assessment of last year. This
years valuation is $24.297. 900.
| The Denver District Conference OF
| Methodist ministers will be held Aug
ust 24th, preparatory 20 the annual
i State Conference. which will begin
August 24th. and at which Bishop
Cranston will preside.
Mrs. Alice ID. Hart. formerly oil
Texas, who has been arrested in Den
YER on the charge of stealing from the
| department stores, lays her downfall
to the climate. The Colorado light air
seems to have made her light-fngered.
| John Barnes, a former town mar
shal of Wasenburg. had his leg bro
ken July 18th while helping to lay
track in the Walsen mine. He was
sent to the hospital at Pueblo for
| treatment
The short dove shooting season
opened August LIST and an astonishing
| ly large number of permits were taken
put in many parts of the state. In
Denver 800 permits were issued in one
day and 154 were issued in Pueblo up
40 August End.
The Colorado State Fair Association
is preparing to give the State Fair at
Pueblo this year during the week OF
September l4th to 18th, and the man
agement is now sending out premium
| lists and other information regarding
the big exposition of 1903.
The coroner's jury IN the case or
| William Armstrong, who was killed by
Edward Hickey at Denver, July 29th
for an alleged insult to Hickey's wife,
returned verdict that the deed was
done without justitiabe provocation.'
Hickey will be tried for murder.
Announcement is made of the ap-
pointment to the position of right-of-
way agent for the Moffat railway, Of
g. c. Conkle of Canon City. Mr.. Con
IIle has held the position of local man
Rger for the Colorado Electric Power
Company at Canon City since the
erection of its plant.
County Assessor Webber has COM
puted the total of the assessment roll
of Boulder county and finds the valua-
ton to be $9,960, ,445, decrease of
$3G35S from last year. This decrease
is due to a cut of the former assess
mcnt of the Colorado and Northwest
ern railroad.
The cattle exhibit at the State Fair
at Pueblo this fall promises to exceed
anything of the kind ever before seen
in the state. Cattle growers from
| Missouri Illinois and other states, re-
alizing the Importance of reaching the
Colorado stock raisers, will be there
with their herds of fine stock.
Work of reconstruction of the peni-
tentiary water system at Canon City,
was begun July Both About $25. 900
will be expended and the work will be
most thorough. Eight-inch iron mains
will be inaugurated to conduct the
watSr to the pumps, while the distrib
uting pipes will be of small diameter.
Adjutant General Bell has returned
TO Denver after visit to Washington and
to President Roosevelt at Oyster Bay.
lie went for the purpose of trying to
make arrangements by which the fall
military maneuvers may be held as at
first proposed and hopes that his mis-
sion may prove to have been success
full.
The engineering corps of the Trim
idad electric railroad is working be
tween Starkville and Sopris. The per-
I ;r, l,;,
The grading contract will amount to
about $50 900. The line crosses the
river above Jansen and returns into the
city by way of the Bloom coal mine
camp.
The Miners Magazine. the official
organ OF the Western Federation of
| Miners. has absorbed the Colorado
Chronicle and the Socialist, and will
be issued weekly in magazine form un-
der the edtorship of J. M. O'Neill
Messrs. Thum and Coates, having sold
the Chronicle, will retire from the
newspaper field.
Permits were granted for lie dwell
ings by the Denver building inspector
during July. This is considered the
most phenomenal record for this class
of houses in the history of the city.
Nine-tcnths of these dwellings are be-
ing erected by the owners for personal
| occupancy The dwellings averaged
s.. 900 each in cash.
+. d. Pastorius of Colorado Springs
has been appointed immigration COM
! missioner of Ell Paso county by the
| Board of County Commissioners His
duties in this position are to advance
the interests of the county In every
possible way as farming community
and to attract desirable farmers to this
county for residence. He serves with
| out salary.
Circumstantial evidence points to at
tempts being made at an early dav by
the American Smelling and Refining
| Company to reopen the Globe plant at
| DnnNer which was closed a month npn