The Elbert County tribune., 1903-12-03
COLORADO BRIEFS.

The University OF Colorado is ar
ranging fsr a debate with the Univers-
ity Of Kansas.
The alumni association OF the State
Normal School will have a banquet in
Denver during the holidays.
A movement has been started among
the labor organizations of Denver for
the establishment OF a large co-operat-
i've department store.
AT jubilee meeting Sunday, Novem-
ber ed. Trinity M. K. Church. Denver
raised more than enough money to pay
OH It's entire Indebtedness OF SIS 900.
General Irving Hale declines to run
on the Denver charter convention tick
ct on account OF the pressure OF busi-
ness that accumulated while he was
on vacation.
The body OF Julian A. Kebler. ex-
president Of the Colorado Fuel and
Iron Company. who died at Denver
November goth, was cremated at Chi
cago November 23d.
The Arvada Lighting. Power and
Construction Company has broken
ground for the mains of the acetylene
plant that they are about to construct
for the Denver suburb.
| F. e. Robinson, for twenty-eight
years a druggist in Colorado Springs.
and one Of the leading business men,
died at San Antonio. Texas, November
24th. Of heart disease.
Reyes Samara, Mexican. was shot
and killed by constable Raman Espin-
osa, also a Mexican. at dance IN Rio
Grande precinct, Costilla county, across
the river from Alamosa, on the night
OF November 23d.
Frazier Brothers, renters on the
O'Brien farm, near Fort Collins. raised
twenty-nine acres of beets, which yield
710 tons. for which they received $3.195
from the factory. This is an average OF
$110 per acre.
Bishop Matz announces that the
building OF the new Catholic cathedral
at Denver will be commenced next
spring. 1t is proposed to make it one
OF the finest church buildings west OF
Chicago and st. Louis.
Charles Runyon, Colorado pioneer
and explorer, who first came west as a
member Of Col. John c. Fremont's ex-
pedition, died in the Lake county hos
pital at Leadville November Gath. at
the age of sevensy-nine years.
George B. Fravert, having charge OF
tho fruit exhibit for Colorado at the
Exposition. went to st. Louis recently.
where he will store five carloads OF
winter apples. These will be placed on
exhibition when the fair opens In May.
The United Oil Company. Of its own
motion, has again increased the price
of Boulder crude oil and is now paying
| e1.10 barrel. This schedule is retro
active and takes effect November LIST.
About ITO barrels of oil are shipped
daily.
The Clear Creek Valley Teachers
Association has been organized by the
teachers OF Giipin, Clear Creek and
Jefferson counties. with M. c. Potter of
Idaho Springs as president. The next
meeting will be held at Idaho Springs
in April.
Colorado Springs has been taking
stringent precautions In regard to the
purity OF its water supply and the dis
posai> of sewage. and 1t is now claimed
that the health OF the city is unusually
good at a season when typhoid fever
has been wont to prevail.
The funeral OF Tom Horn, who was
executed at Cheyenne. took place at
Boulder. Sunday. November 23d. 1t was
| not altogether a private one, MS his
brother had desired, two or three hun
dred people being permitted to view the
old-time scout, detective and outlaw.
Thirty members of the Pentecostal
| Union, otherwise known as Jumpers"
| were arrested in Denver last Sunday
night and taken to Jail for making a
noisy religious demonstration on the
street, occasioning street blockade.
They were released on promising to be
more quiet.
| A number of samples of marble which
is found In great abundance at Beulah.
are being prepared to be sent to Eu-
| khn lvxan nf ron nft to1 on
| who are interested in the Pueblo G
Beulah railroad. The quality is said
| to be very fine and more beautiful and
| varied in color than has been found
elsewhere.
| A call has been issued for the fourth
| annual convention for the Colorado
| Rctail Grocers and Butchers Associa-
tion. The convention will be held at
| Fort Collins Tuesday and Wednesday,
! the 18th and goth of January. and pre-
| parations for a most interesting gath
ering are in progress. The call is is
sued by the state president J. r. Gard
ner.
| County Commissioner James U. Har-
ris of Mesa county, stated while in
| Denver that when the season closes
Mesa will have shipped $500.o00 worth
, Of agricultural and horticultural pro-
| ducts. He added that II the similar
products of Delta and Montrose coun-
| ties are included, the product Of the
western slope this year will reach over
| 81, 100000.
Concerning reports lately current in
various newspapers that the Union Pa
| cific Railroad Company is about to
change its policy in the disposition Of
| its granted lands by offering to set
tiers only, on some homestead scheme.
Mr. B. A. McAllaster. land commission
| er of the Union Pacific Railroad Com
| many. states that such reports are
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