The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1904-01-09
COLORADO BRIEFS.

during tne past year 2.o3o,OuU tTout
fry were turned loose in Colorado
streams through public appropriation.
1t is estimated that reservoirs now
under construction in Colorado Will
add l,00O,U0O acres to the irrigaDe area.
The county house of Weld county, at
Greeley. recently finished. cost trihe
over $1,000 and win comfortably &C.
commodate the poor OF the county.
The new county hospital of Weld
county, at Greeley. has been compiet-
ed at a cost of $4,000 and is now one
of the best equipped hospitals in the
state.
The Secretary of the Interior has
approved the selections of the state OF
Colorado of 1920 acres located in the
Akron land district for school pur.
poses.
The production OF crude oil from the
Florence oil fields in 1903 was approx
imately 20,000,000 gallons. or 100000
barrels of forty-two gallons, which
were produced and refined. =.
Ralph Hammerslough, prominent
Trinidad merchant. dropped dead In
store on Fifth avenue in Chicago De-
cember 10Th. He went to Chicago to
be treated for Bright's disease.
Niagara w. Hail. prominent citizen
OF Greeley, and one of the pioneers
of the Union colony, died at his home
in Greeley December 29th of neural
gia of the heart, in the sixty-ninth year
of his age.
In the Boulder oil field twenty-six
wells are producing about 200 barrels
OF crude oil day. and while the pro-
Il to, tIo fy,ty 10, In hn
of the highest grade produced in the
world. Other wells will be drilled.
The coroner's jury which investigat
ed the death of little Margaret Aims
worth, who was run over by an cleo
trio car at Colorado Springs, stated.
in their verdict. that her death might
have been averted by greater care on
the part of the motorman.
M c. Parker. aged seventy-tive years.
father of the wife of William A. GuZ-
man. prominent Colorado Springs
contractor, was struck and instantly
killed by a Rock Island train near
Roswell station. a short distance from
Colorado Springs, December 3lst.
Bloodhounds have been sent to Pa
gosa Springs Junction to be used in
running down incendiaries who are be-
lieved to be responsible for three bad
fires which have occurred at that place
entailing an actual loss of more than
sos 900 on the Pagosa Lumber Com
pany, of which Whitney Newton. state
treasurer, is president.
Ora Rice, young man who owns
considerable property in live stock and
ranches, became insane at Fort Collins
a few days ago and terrorized the
neighborlood by display of firearms.
He was arrested, after a severe conflict
by Deputy Sheriff Richart and Night
Waterman Ganders and his relatives
were notified of his condition.
A Detroit. Michigan, dispatch of De
cember goth says: Jacob HOughton.
well known in Michigan and Colorado
mining and railroad circles, died at his
home here to-day. aged seventy-slx
years In 1873 he became manager OF
the Moose mine, in Colorado, and presi-
dent of the Synclinal Mining Company.
In 1890 he returned to Michigan.
A Colorado Springs correspondent
under date of December 18th says:
Mrs. Anthony Bot of Colorado City.
wife OF one of the earliest settlers OF
Colorado City, is the proud possessor
of large bed of violets in full bloom.
So far as know this is the first case of
violets blossoming in the open air in
this state during the month of Decem-
Der.
Among the notable plants established
in Denver last year was that of the
Western Rubber Company at 1888
Blake street This is the company
which is experimenting in the manu-
facture of rubber out of the shrub
,,,l; !,
been called the rubber weed. 1t is
hoped that this new industry may be-
come one of the largest in the state.
Maj NJ " B. Wason died on the
night of December 9th at his ranch in
Mineral county, two miles below
Creede,, from pneumonia. at the age of
seventy-two years. Major Wason has
been for many years one of the most
prominent men in that part of the
state and will be greatly missed. He is
y;Irvived by his wife. Mrs. H. Wason.
the wel-known poet, and an adopted
son.
Colorado College, Colorado Springs,
has completed it's new laboratory build
ing, which 1t has taken two and one
half years to construct. q 1t is regard
ed as one of the best structures for
scientific purposes in the country ana
it is to be dedicated with a series OF
scientific conferences Feb. % and %,
which will be attended by a large num-
Der of the leading scientific men of the
country.
In the act of turning off an electric
light in the greenhouses at Elitch's
Gardens in Denver. Thomas Wooden.
keeper of the animals there, received an
ol ri, cbpck which rendered. him nm
conscious for several minutes. Shortly
after recovering he took hold of an
other electric light to show compan-
ion how he had been shocked the first
time, and received a current which
caused instant death.
At Colorado Springs December goth.
while here parents were busy packing
their trunks preliminary to departure
iIo..I L..