The Meeker herald., 1904-01-02
COLORADO BRIEFS.

The successful bidder for the 100
coal cars for the MoHat road was the
Pullman Car company OF Chicago.
A dressed turkey weighing forty
pounds was raffled off at u Greeley
meat market on Christmas.
' The Denver lodge of Elks sent out
| 500 baskets full OF provisions to that
many poor families ON Christmas.
A justice of the peace at Colorado
Springs gives away snap shot photo
graph with each marriage certificate.
The date OF the state fair at Pu-
| eblo next fall has been fixed upon II
will begin September cath and CON
tinue until the close o. the 2Sth.
| William kammelar. Denver BIZ
! cycle thief. has been sentenced by
| Judge Malone to term of from five
to ten years in the penitentiary.
Recruiting for the . United States
Navy will be conducted in Denver dur
| ing the two weeks from January 4th.
Lieutenant George Pettingell is in
charge.
Members of the Pueblo Fire Depart
| ment were presented with medals on
Christmas Day by the city government
in appreciation OF their excellent work
! during the year.
County Assessor De Vault reports the
valuation of property in Teller county
| at I1,G72. 900. The valuation in Grip
4 pie Creek is $1,665, 900 and in the city
of Victor Sl,064.000
Richard Tremayne. one of the most
prominent citizens of Park, owning
large ranch and stock interests on
| West Four Mile, recently suffered
| severe stroke of paralysis.
| Russell Boles, who is charged with
the murder of Harold Friedborn on the
night OF December g. 1901, was ar
raigned in the District Court at Den
| ver December 18th and pleaded not
guilty.
The Rev. w. II. Jordan, pastor OF
J the Calvary Baptist Church in Denver.
| has resigned tor the purpose OF de-
| voting his whole time to the Work OF
thu Colorado Woman's College to be
! established at Denver under Baptist
| auspices.
| L. C. Dubois of Salida, a well-known
mining man and engineer. died at Salida
| Of pneumonia December 18th. He was
! a member of the American Institute
of Mining Engineers, the Masons, Elks,
| Woodmen, Maccabees and the Amerl-
| can Yeomen.
John Ryan and Miss Leonora Tor
mig were drowned in Berkeley lake at
Denver on the night OF Sunday, De-
cember Goth. They were skating on
the lake and broke through the ice.
| Their bodies were not discovered un-
| til Tuesday. Ryan was butler for
private family and Miss Zornig was
employed at boarding mouse.
l
| have greatly improved their service
during the past few months. By The
use of copper wires on their long-dis-
lance service one can talk two hundred
miles as easily as two blocks. Many
of the larger stockmen and farmers are
now using their service. and find it OF
| great benefit to their business.
The time for holding the Fremont
| County Farmers Institute has been
| fixed by the executive committee for
January 18th and 14th. Several mem
bers. of the faculty of the State Agri-
I. cultural College at Fort Collins will be
| present. as well as Hon. ]. w. Crow
/ ley of. Rocky Ford. all of whom will
address the institute on matters of in
terest.
| The Union reservoir, which has just
| northern Colorado's already splendid
system for storing water. Union res
eryoir is located three miles northeast
of Longmont. has capacity of $50
| 0OO, 600 cubic feet, covers $50 acres and
! will water the land under the Union
| and Latham bitches, something over
| 10000 acres. The cost OF building the
reservoir was $4,000.
A Washington dispatch says that
the division of the Southern Ute In
| dian reservation has been decided
upon. The dividing line runs north
and south following the course of the
Animas river. The eastern half re-
mains under control of Joseph Smith.
superintendent at Ignacio, and the
western half passes to the charge of
Superintendent Peterson of Fort
Lewis school.
After serving one year of a twenty
fve-year sentence for the murder Of
Charles j. Withern at Coaldale, two
years ago, Street Mccoy died in the
penitentiary at Canon City. December
22d. About Ave minutes after his
death a pardon arrived from Governor
Peabody. Mccoy had been sick for
some weeks. and an effort was made
to secure a pardon SO that he might
die at his home.
Attorney James II. Teller. Pueblo,
has directed an open letter to the Cit
liens Alliance, in which he condemns
the action of both the alliance and the
police department In ordering c. H.
Meyer. president OF the Western Fed
Grafton of Miners to leave the city.
He asserts that the rights of individ-
ual citizenship have been usurped and
hat r1h Fug~
of the monarchial rule that prevails in
Rn1Hfa