The Holly chieftain., 1900-02-16
DOINGS AT DENVER.
Items of Intsrest From the City and tho
State Capitol

are being made here.
The Denver Real Estate Exchange
| Is to undertake the task OF raising
large sum of money with which 10
provide a handsome and expensive
/ dinner service for the new cruiser
/ Denver
The State Land Board has granted
the request of the Memorial Park AS
sociation of Pioneers for part OF the
state land on Beecher island, 10 pe
| used for national park ana cemetery.
This site Is on an island in III Repupii-
can river. and the governor and otner
prominent men in the state are taxing
personal interest," in the scheme,
which has been hanging fire for years.
Richard HoImes. the color bearer of
] the First Colorado is in the employ OF
the Portland Mining Company al We
tor. says the Denver Republican. his
work at the Portland is sorting ore.
That is not exactly the sort of work
for which college graduate puts III
four years or more Of study, but 1t Is
the line of work that Holmes desired.
He Is reported TO he doing his duty at
the mine just as conscienuously ana
with the same vein as when he bore
the hrst United States flag into Manila
Major Henry b. Mccoy OF the Forty
( fourth infantry. formerly colonel OF
the First Colorado infantry, u. S. ",
has been made military governor of
the island Of Cebu in the Philippine
archipelago. The city of Cebu, the
capital Of the island. is surrounded by
a. wall much like that at Manila. 1t
mas 1900 Inhabitants and is famous
on account of the fact that the first
people in the Philippine islands who
became converts 10 Christianity were
those of the city of Cebu. 1t is beau
hful city. well laid out in parks and
with plenty of shade tees and good
drainage.
James Rice. gambler. who dropped
dead Tuesday night in the InterOcean
Club on Curtis street, has been found
to have been counterfeiter-a manu-
facturer of spurious quarters and
dimes. A considerable quantity of bad
money was found in his room at the
European hotel on Market street and
the secret service officials say that
coins evidently of the same manufac-
ture have been in circulation in the
city for several weeks and they have,
been endeavoring to trace them to their
source. In Rice's room was found
about $40 in quarters and about $40 in
dimes. Nons of the coins were finished
and the counterfeiting is poor.
A federal inspector for outgoing
sheep, to be stationed in Denver, is
what the State Veterinary Board has
decided to urge upon the federal au-
thorities Immediately. Senator Evans
and other large owners form the vicin-
ity of Fort Collins asked for such
action. The state board decided that
1t had no power to inspect sheep be-
ing sent out of the state, although it
inspects the incoming sheep. In addi-
ton to what appears to be lack of pow
er as to inspecting incoming sheep,
the board also decided that the mere
fact that 1t had insufficient funds was
enough to prevent 1t from going ahead
In the matter. SO the field is an open
one for the federal authorities, and
federal inspector for Denver Is one OF
the events of the near future, say mem
bers of the board.
People living along the banks of the
Arkansas river, from Granite to Canon
City, are preparing a petition to the
state fish commissioner asking that
steps be taken to compel owners of
mines along the river to refrain from
running the tailings from mills and
mines into the river. The petitioners
probably will deal particularly with
the Granite Placer Company, and the
attempt will be made to compel the
company to provide settling tanks into
which the talings will be run before
going into the river. AT Buena Vista,
Salida and other towns the river wa
tiers are used for domestic purposes,
and, it is alleged, are made impure
through the refuse from mines and
sawnills. 1t is also proposed TO make
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trout. which 1t is said cannot live in
the water now.
The Southern Pacific is the first of
the railroads TO disclose that 1t will not
live up to the terms of the agreement
made before the Interstate Commerce
Commission AT Washington. This
agreement was that Denver should
not be Disseminated against in cast or
west-bound freight rates, and that Mis-
souri, river rates should be in effect in
Denver. The Southern Pacific, accord
ing to the report of Attorney w. b.
Harrison, who represented the Cham
Der of Commerce before the commits
sion in the Kindel case. promised that
Denver should have the same advant-
ages as eastern and western competi-
tors. From dispatch received from
Washington 1t appears the Southern
Pacific has repented this promise. The
Chamber of Commerce has asked for
another hearing. which will probably
take place In Denver in April.
L. G. Caldwell, the Seventh Day Ad-
ventist, who appealed from the decis-
ion of Superintendent Knapp of the
county schools. failed TO change the
ruling Mr.. Knapp insisted that the ex-
animation must be taken on Saturday
In conformity with the rules of the
.