The Holly chieftain., 1900-03-30
COLORADO NOTES.

Quired BY the new law. and says the
work will be finished about the middle
of April. He has already turned into
the treasury from this work more than
$1,000 in fees.
James F. Burns has Contributed Co.
coo toward The 10000 10 be raised by
Colorado College before the first OF
April. and Frank Peck $1,000. This
leaves to be raised $1,000 in order 10
secure the gift of q friend Of the col
lege Of $4,000 for the endowment OF
a scientific building. II is expected
that the full amount viii be raised in
. few days.
A person convicted OF a crime less
than a capital offense may have re-
course TO only one writ of error, says
the Supreme Court This statement Is
made in connection with the refusal by
the court 10 consider the case of Ed
wand Caviness. The crime Of Cayiness
was murder in .-Ie second degree As
his counsel applied for a writ of error
a year ago. then refused 10 prosecute
it. the court denied him privilege OF
again attempting a similar action
That the shipments of meat sent to
the penitentiary have not been full
weight, but have been from fifty TO
100 pounds short on almost every
shipment, is claimed by d. Coguevich.
the former steward OF the place He
was relieved from duty as steward
last month and transferred to the yard
work This work he refused TO do,
and left the penitentiary. The stew
ard has memoranda OF the weights of
the meat and says he has shown them
TO Warden Hoyt. each of the peni-
tentfary commissioners and the gov
ernor. According to Cogneyich. who
says he was discharged from his place
as steward because he brought the at
tention of the commissioners to the
meat question. there have been differ
ences in the weights for some months.
The Loder pyritic smelter is now
handling about forty tons day of
low grade ore from the dump of the
Ballard mine on Breeze hill. When
the Ballard begin shipping about
eighteen months ago il ran into large
bodies Of material which did not carry
over half an ounce in gold, so that 1t
could not be shipped protitably to the
smelters About 5000 tons were piled
on the dump waiting for some method
to be adopted so that the value could
be saved. The Loder people decided
that their new hot blast furnace would
do the business, and a trial shipment
was made, with such satisfactory re-
suits that the whole dump will now be
shipped to this plant. In fact, there is
such rush Of all sorts of low grade
material to the plant that its capacity
will have to be materially increased.
DR.. Tilney. an alleged wonder
worker in medicine. was arrested at
Grand Junction as he and his business
manager We're about 30 board train
for the East. A warrant was sworn
out against DR.. Tilney by the widow
of Edward Skinner, an old-time resi-
dent who died at Whitewater Sun
day morning, charging him with being
responsible for the death of her hus-
band. Tilney has been touring the
state with great financial success. He
arrived In this city from Telluride
about week ago and hired the Park
opera house for the purpose of de-
livering free lectures The people
fiocked to his parlors in the Grand
hotel and he did land office business.
Last Thursday Edward Skinner.
sprighly man. aged fifty-six, was in
parlors' and got some medicine, pay
ing $50 for it and Tilney's attention.
Skinner went home and sent for more
medicine. He grew worse and died
suddenly Sunday morning. An inquest
was held but the verdict was not given
to the public. IL is claimed that the
medicine given contained large Quan-
titles Of aconite and other drugs.
The first session of the state confer
ence Of charities and corrections at
Pueblo was filled with enthusiasm and
many important questions pertaining
to the betterment of Colorado state
institutions Were discussed. The ses-
sion was called to order by Judge LIE
Feyre. John II. Gabriel of Denver. E.
o. Pfeiffer of Cripple Creek and Rev.
Z. p. Newton of Pueblo We're appoint
ed a committee to name a time, place
and officers of the next meeting Of the
conference. The committee recon-
mended Boulder, November IS to 20,
1900. with James II. Baker, president,
and c. l.. Stonaker, secretary. This
was unanimously adopted. W. L.
Rees. chairman of the board of county
commissioners of Pueblo, read paper
on County Charities, or the Admins
tration of the County Poor Farm"
Mr.. Rees mentioned where women
had applied to the board for aims who
had been deserted by their husbands,
some of them with large families to
provide for. He recommended that a
whipping post be established for this
class of men. Some time was taken
up in discussing the feasibility of the
present law which provides for the
and morphine habits at the expense OF
the counties. Chairman Pfeiffer of
Teller county said that his county had
prnenla1 So oDD foward fh. ,.afnr,,o