The state herald., 1904-03-11
COLORADO BRIEFS.

A large and characteristic education
al exhibit is being prepared at tho
University of Colorado to be displayed
at the st. Louis Exposition next sum
| mer.
David De Graft of Colorado Springs
has just celebrated his eighteenth
| birthday anniversary, yet he is eighty
years old. He was born February 20,
1924.
The new S65, 900 addition to St Fran
cis's hospital at Colorado Springs VIII
| be formally opened with appropriate
exercises On April, 18th. The equip-
ment will bring the total cost to $780,
OO0.
Less than an inch of snow fell at
Colorado Springs during the month Oh
| February. Last year the fall for the
same period was ten and one.half
inches. The weather was unusually
warm.
! The Denver Horse Show Association
has decided not hold horse show this
year on account of the Worlds Fair
The finances of the association are In
good shape, there being $4,000 in the
| treasury.
The option given to Pueblo parties
six weeks ago on the Colorado Springs
! Western League baseball team expired
March list and the team will remain at
| the Springs. Players have been ordered
10 report on March 2lst.
A great wind and dust storm ragged
March End all the way from Cheyenne.
Wyoming, down to Trinidad. Colorado
| 1t was fearfully bad at Denver, Colo
rado Springs and Pueblo. At Colorado
| Springs the wind reached a velocity
oi sixty-six miles an hour.
The big steel bridge of the Trinidad
electric railroad across the Las Animas
river, just above Jansen has been fin
| ished and accepted from the contract
ors by the company. All of the thirty
| two trestles and small bridges on the,
line between Trinidad and Sopris and
Starkville have been completed.
George Bernard has purchased n
3,75O.acre ranch northeast OF Colorado
! Springs which he will stock with a fine
herd of thoroughbred Galloway cattle.
blooded horses and Berkshire hogs.
| In addition he will erect $4,000
dwelling for his amily. He will sell
| his fine residence in Colorado Springs.
Miss Jennie l.. Potter and Miss Eva
Potter. twin daughters of DIR. j. II.
Potter of Longmont. although twenty
years of age, have had but four birth
| day anniversaries. They were born
! February 20. 1884. At their last birth.
! day celebration they received several
| gifts appropriate to four-year-old chill
dren.
The Overland cotton mills at Denver
were started up on the ith inst. with
a force of twenty-five men for the pur-
pose of finishing up the cloth left In the
, looms when the works closed for want
of coal last fall. When this work is
] done, and II will only last few weeks.
It is expected that the mills will be per
manently closed.
On March 2nd fire near Glenmore
lake, about two miles west OF Pine
! Grove. In the Platte canon, burned all
the buildings on the Maui ranch. in
Guiding hay. buggles, wagons and farm
implements. st. Marks church in
Denver had an option on the ranch
for use In connection with their sum
mer home.
II Is reported that Rev. c. W. Bride
well, the ex-preacher who gave street
fermons in Denver and other towns
/ of Colorado since he was relieved of
! regular charges by his church. was re-
Gently tarred and feathered at Bride
, we'll. Montana, where he was accused
Of preaching doctrines calculated TO in
duce wives to leave their husbands.
| Lulu Adams. who shot and killed p.
II, King. Jr., n few days since. was
given q preliminary hearing at La
\ Junta before Judge Clark and bound
over to the District Court In tho sum
Of $1,000, in default 4 which she was
remanded to the county Jail there 10
await the conyening of the District
Court. the second Moniay in June.
A Denver commission nrm recently
received a carload Of cabbages import
ed from Denmark. Tn, cabbage crop
In the United States last season Is said
/ TO have been the shortos ever known.
| The drouth In California has cut on
the supply from that stise, usually in
I the market about this time and the
Texas crop will not begin to come In
rEtil April.
Dallas NJ. Gurney. siXtr'one years
old. killed himself at a station twelve
miles east Of Durango, February 2gth.
-, when last seen. at $3.50 In the morn.
ing. he had one OF his children In his
lap In the barn door. Al 40 o'clock
his wife found him dead, Coroner
Hood said he was shot with } 3s.Colts.
his own gun. lie leaves SIX children,
aged from two to twenty-five years.
The State Hospital, which 1, support
ed by the city and county of Boulder.
and is conducted by the mtical de-
partmont Of the University Of Colorado
has grown 20 such proportlonsf that the
regents Of the university haf esthb-
lished n training school for. nurses
MlfH Anna T. Harris, n gradunt of the
polycllHic hospital NJ Philadelphia,
has been appointed superintendent Of
the school.
The Colorado delegation 10 tie an-
nual conference Of the Methodist
Church nt Los Angelica. California. In
May. will travel west In n special train
on the Santa Fc route. leaving lsnyor
April 20. Rev II. a. Chase ls ,hair-
nan Of the transportation committee
and he says the delegation wil b, the
largest one ever leaving from Colo
rado for n convention oi church people
The party will return via the Ugion
Pacific
The Austrian laborcrs Of Pueblo and
southern Colorado arc making Arrange
mcnts through Attorney Joseph bye 10
mako formal demands on the govern,
mcnt Of their native land throughout
master General Payne for n sum nyrrr.
FatluF moro than 10000 which thoy