The Holly chieftain., 1900-12-21
COLORADO NUTE.

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Construction Company will build, I bee
| sugar factory ut Denver.
A Denver firm OF undertakers o9ea
| TO bury the paupers of Arapahoe counRa7
| ty Mt the rate OF 100 for cent.
4 movement is on foot mt Glenw0G1
| Springs to organize n home compa19H 4
and run prospecting tunnel into 60,
OF the mountains near the city.
The Razaar dry goods store on Ben
nett avenue. in Cripple Creek. was bar.
glarized on the morning Of Decembef
18th, and from 500 to $1,000 worth Of
/, furs We're stolen.
The Baxter shaft house, belonging to
the Utica mine at Ward, was burned
December 18th. together with eOnsid-
cradle valuable machinery, the loss ap-
proximating 1890.
The Eaton school has opened again,
after being closed a week on account
of scarlet fever. There are no new
cases in the district, and the few cases
were of mild form.
The tenth annual catalogue OF the
State Normal School shows total en-
rollment of 546 students at the institu-
ton. 234 being in the training depart
ment and 312 in the normal school pcD-
per.
The buttermakers have succeeded In
securing their one-way rate to the nA-
tfonal meeting of butter-makers to be
held in st. Paul, February 19th-2Sth.
The rate will be one fare for the
round trip.
The gun that wasn't loaded in tbs
hands of Frank Cox. ten-year-Old boy
living near GlenwOod Springs, shot his
little brother In the head, going through
an ear and circling around the base Of
the skull and intiicting u dangerous
wound.
The Board of Health Of Fowler Is
sued an order on the 11th instant clos
ing the schools on account OF scarlet
fever. One case was under quarantine.
All children are also required TO bring
certificates of vaccination when they
re-eDter school.
Fifteen horses We're burned to death
and three more injured beyond recOv-
cry in fire that restroyed the stables
of the City Package Delivery Express
Company. in the rear Of No. 1884
Champa street, Denver, on the night
of December 18th.
The discovery of nineteen-f0ot vein
of good coal near the surface is report
ty miles from any mine now opened In
Huerfano county. 1t is near the line
of railroad proposed by the Denver and
Rio Grande from Walsenburg to Silver
Cliff.
Everything seems to have risen this
year, even the thermometer. Up to
December 18th the weather bureau ut
Denver reports an excess of tenpera-
tnre amounting to eighty-seven degrees
since the first of the month and sur
degrees since the beginning of the
year.
John Craig, forty-one years OF age,
went to County Physician Harry c.
Brown In Denver for prescription to
control his thirst. From n quart to
two quarts of whisky and thirty glasses
of beer per diem is about Craig's av-
erage capacity, according to his own
account.
Scenery and climate are among the
most valuable assets of Colorado. This
fact is shown by the annual report of
the Western Passenger Association, a
total of PITTS tickets having been ex-
changed ut Denver, Colorado Springs
and Pueblo from May LIST to October
81, 1900.
A stock company has been organized
at Fort Lupton for the purpose Of erect
ing condensed milk plant to be oper-
ated by o. +. Frink of the Silver State
Creamery Company. The capitalize
ton will. be $4,000 This will be the
only condensed milk plant west Of the
Mississippi river. :
The Supreme Court has sustained the
right of the state to assess the cars OF
foreign corporations doing business In
this stnte. and thus upheld the State
Board OF Equalization, which has AZ
sumed to take the action questioned BY
the American Refrigerator Tralnsit
Company ms n test suit.
John Upton, living about seven miles
southwest of Ebert, had his right
hand crushed entirely on Mt the wrist
In hay baler. He bandaged the
wound and rode to Elbert In lumber
wagon 10 reach a doctor. He is man
of family. aged about fifty years.
The Rev. Thomas A. Uxzeli, who
has for years done a magnificent work
In the slums of Denver, appeals to the
public for funds to complete his new
tabernacle on which $27, 800 has a.
ready been expended. The sum of s.
600 Is needed to complete present CON
tracts.
George NJ. Huskins, for twelve years
associated with Frank c. Goudy in the
conduct of the affairs OF the Rio
Grande Valley Land Company and kim
dred companies, and who had served
as treasurer and deputy clerk in Mesa
county and deputy auditor OF state,
died In Denver December 18th, Of CON
sumption. He leaves wife and five
children.