The state herald., 1903-09-04
COLORADO BRIEFS.

The annual Corn Roast will be held
at Loveland September Sd.
A Jewish paper, to be called the
western Israellte," will be started In
Denver September 9Th.
The cantaloupe 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 23d.
The annual Peach Day celebration
VIII be held at Grand Junction Sept
ember 9Th. 9th and 10th.
An agreement having been effected
with the strikers the Portland mine at
victor resumed operations August rs.
| The coming charter election in Den
yer Is arousing great interest and
promises to be one OF the closest
fought contests ever held in the city.
The fall meeting OF the Canon City
Driving Association will take place
September 9th, 10th and 18th. Prizes
amounting to $1,000 will be offered.
The Denver Democratic city central
committee has placed itself on record
as opposed to the proposed new city
charter by'a vote of l73 to Z. Twenty
three members declined to vote.
A joint survey of the line between
Gilpin and Boulder counties from Bea-
yer creek to the main range above Rol-
Inns pass. gives Gilpin strip about fif-
ty feet wide f9r nearly the entire dis
lance.
At the Silver Bell mine at Ophir on
the night OF August 2lst Steve Greig
fell straight down timber chute a
distance of LOO feet and escaped with
only broken thumb and slight scalp
wound.
Fred Wild, we'll known boller-set-
ter. and inventor OF Wild's patent
smokeless furnace, was found dead in.
his room at Denver August 18th. He
was mechanic of great ability. but
addicted to drinking.
Thirty leading manufacturers and
wholesalers Of Denver have Joined an
association which offer free railroad
fares to merchants who come to Dem
yer to purchase stocks of them to the
amount OF $1,000 or over.
There have been large number Of
cases OF typhoid fever in Denver re-
Gently, and the health officers think 1t
due in part 10 the poor quality of milk
sold by many dealers and the use of
iformaldehyde as a milk preventative.
The annual reunion of the early set
tiers OF Trinidad. August 9th, was
largely attended. DIR. NJ. Beshoar, who
has been president since the organiza-
ton of the society, was reelected.
There were twenty-one deaths among
the pioneers during the past year.
The annual poultry show of the Col
orado Poultry Association will be held
at Coliseum hall in Denver the week
beginning January is. 1904, The COM
mittee of the association is now at
work upon the premium list which will
be larger than at any previous show.
A meeting Of business men was held
at Boulder August eth to discuss the
increased freight rates on the railroads
between Boulder and Denver, estimated
TO average about fifty per cent. 1t was
decided 70 take vigorous action, and "
necessary haul freight by wagon.
The Paseo. the sixty-foot boulevard
running two miles from Colorado
Springs to Palmer Lake has just been
completed by Gen. W. j. Palmer, and
is now open 10 the public The road is
pronounced 10 be one OF the finest and
most picturesque In the West.
President MoirAt of he Denver,
Northwestern 4 Pacific is said TO be
considering an opportunity to purchase
terminal facilities at San Francisco.
The franchise is that OF the Bay 4
Coast Railway Company. which runs
| f,,,,, Can Ernnalagg o., Mnnsaf.y
The Denver Dairymen's Association
has raised prices, the schedule now be
ing: To all customers using less than
seven quarts per week. ten quarts for
81. to all customers using seven quarts
and over, fourteen quarts for 81. The
wholesale price Is 20 cents n gallon.
The United States Civil Service Com
mission announce that an examination
for clerks and carriers In the postoiilce
will be held In Denver November q.
1908 Persons who desire TO compete
should at once apply to H. &. Hefner.
secretary. at the Denver postoiiice. for
application blanks.
It Is reported that the Denver. Lake
wood a. Golden Railway Company will
reopen its RalsiOn branch to Tindale
and extend the line to handle the pro-
duet OF the Carbon Fuel Company's
mines. and also that It is probable that
the entire Lakewood system Will be
operated by electricity. giving Golden
two electric lines Into Denver.
Locomotive Engineer James NJ
Hotchkiss Of Denver lost his life In u
collision OF the Union Pacific Frontier
Day excursion train between Cheyenne
and Denver with runaway lumber
car ON the night OF August 9th. lie
stayed on the engine to shut on the
steam and apply the emergency air
pressure. and saved the lives of the
excurslonists at the cost OF his own.
c. S. Harrison. president, OF the State
Park and Forestry Association OF Ne
brnska. and noted horticnlturist> has
been In Pueblo making negotiations
with the Beulah Railroad Company and
interesting the citizens In u project to
create II national park west OF Bculah
In the heart OF the Grcenhorn range.
lie thinks that region SURPRISES the
Yellowstone National park In many re-
rpcc,s.
The dispute which has lasted over
twelve years bctween Father Cushing.
priest Of the dioccs. Of Denver. and
Bishop Matz, has finally been settled
by Archbishop Falconi0 OF Washing
ton. the aclcTato apostolic and highest
authority here in the states In all Cath
ole analrH ecclesiastical. Father
Cushing Will, Il is stated. 70 for n time
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