The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1903-12-04
COLORADO BRIEFS.

The University of Colorado is ar
ranging for 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-
Der 22d, Trinity NJ. L. Church, Denver.
raised more than enough money 10 pay
Off its entire Indebtedness of $1,000.
General Irving Hale declines to run
on the Denver charter convention tick
ct on account of the pressure of bust
ness that accumulated while he was
on a 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
tor 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 a Mexican. was shot
and killed by constable Raman Espin-
osa, also n Mexican, at dance in flo
Grande precinct, Costilla cou1.iy. across
the river from Alamosa, on the night
of November 23d.
Frazier Brothers, renters on the
!, p,-ia far I',r Collins
twenty nine acres of beets, which yield
10 tons, for which they received 81, l95
from the factory This is an average OF
$40 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 1t one
of the finest church buildings west OF
Chicago and st. Louis.
Charles Runyon, a Colorado pioneer
and explorer who first came west as a
member of Col John C. Fremonts ex-
petition died In the Lake county hog
pital at Leadville November oath, at
the age of seventy-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
.
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
Sli0 barrel. This schedule is retro
active and takes effect November list.
About 40 barrels of oil are shipped
daily.
The Clear Creek Valley Teachers
Association has been organized by the
teachers of Gilpin, Clear Creek and
jefferson counties. with NJ. 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
posal of sewage, and it 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. II was
not altogether n private one, as his
brother had desired, two or three hum
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 We're 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-
rope for the inspection OF capitalists
who are interested in the Pueblo &
Reulsh railroad. The quality is said
to be very fine and more beautiful and
varied in c"!or than has been found
elsewhere.
A call has been issued for the fourth
annual convention for the Colorado
Retail Grocers and Butchers Associa-
ton 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 'all is is
sued by the state president j. r. Gard
nor.
County Commissioner James U. Har-
ris of Mesa county, stated while in
Denver that when the season closes
Mesa will have shipped 100000 worth
of agricultural and horticultural pro-
ducts He added that If 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
cfic 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