The Holly chieftain., 1900-11-02
COLORAUO NOTES.

The annual Pioneers Society ball will
be given in Kassler's hall. Denver, In
the first week in December.
Thieves broke into 'Parson" Uzzells
new tabernacle building in Denver and
robber the carpenters chests OF tools
worth ST5.
On the evening of the oath the shaft
houserecently built at the EithOn tun-
mel at kokomo was burned, practically
destroying The plant Of machinery.
Donacio Trujillo. boy eighteen
years of age, was run over by coal
car and killed nj the Starkville coke
ovens, near Trinidad October 18th.
In honor OF Mrs Carr of Longmont,
| tional President of the W. X. c., and
Mrs. Hardin OF Denver. national sec
retary. the ladies of Nathaniel Lyon
Post. No. u. q. \. r.. OF Boulder. held
! reception and banquet October 23rd.
The net earnings of the Denver 4
Rio Grande for the third week in Oc-
rober Were S244. 400. an increase OF
$4,000. The net earnings from July
lst were S3.GJl 500. an increase OF
S535.TOO
Ross Miller, the Denver & Rio
Grande brakeman who knocked a
would-be train robber OF the car with
his lantern. has been taken care of by
the company and placed ON a good run
near home.
William T.. Pabor, the veteran Colo
RADIO cOlonist and newspaper man, who
had become nearly blind from cata-
racts in both eyes. underwent an opera
tion for the removal of the cataract in
one of his eyes October 23rd.
The school board of District No. !.
Denver. known as the East Denver
district, has arranged to have children
in certain remote parts of the district
taken from their homes to school in
the morning and back at night in om-
| nibuses
Professor Walter II. Nichols has
been appointed 10 the chair Of history
and political science in the University
of Colorado made vacant by the resig-
nation of DIR. MacLean, who leaves to
accept the position of president of
Idaho University.
Captain John b. Bcnnet. Sixteenth
infantry, has been relieved from duty
as acting judge advocate of the Depart
inent of the Colorado. and from other
duties AT headquarters in Denver, and
has been ordered to join his regiment.
now campaigning in the Philippines.
The much-ratfiedfor big COW. that
earned so much money for the Old La
dies Home in Denver. has been pur-
chased by the International Stock
Food Company aud taken to Mime
npolis. Her weight before she started
for the city Of big mills was 2,67O
pounds.
1t is expected that the government
will convey all Christmas boxes sent
to soldiers In the Philippines free of
charge from San Francisco. Two
years ago several carloads OF delica-
cies and clothing We're shipped from
Colorado to the Colorado First regi-
ment in the Philippines.
The companies controlled by the Gug-
genheim brothers at their various
plants in Pueblo. Old Mexico, Perth
Amboy, New Jersey. and Chill, South
America. are said to employ about
twenty of the graduates OF the Colorado
State School of Mines many Of them
in leading positions.
Thomas Holland, state superintend-
ent of fish hatcherics who has been in
the western part of the state where he
went in company with State Game
Warden Johnson. says the late move
ment of the game from the north alone
saved a most frightful slaughter from
the invading lndians.
A gallon jug full of corn whisky was
recently received at the revenue office
in Denver as proof that an Illicit dis
tillery formerly existed In that section
\ of Elbert county. near the Arapahoe
line. known us THE Breaks" The
still, however. seems to have disap-
peared.
An additional rural delivery route
/ has been established at Greeley, Weld
county. to go into effect November 1st.
The route is fifty miles long and
will supply n population Of 1855,
scattered over an area OF seventy-four
square miles. J. +. Smith and C. b.
kimball have been appointed carriers.
An important amendment to the con-
stitution Of the state Of Colorado is to
be voted on this fall. This amend
ment to the constitution Is to allow six
amendments to be made at once. At
present the constitution permits only
one amendment bienially, 70 that the
voters may not he confused by any
multiplicity of issues.
Harold J. Bell. a civil and mechani-
cal engineer. died at Denver, October
2sth. Mr.. Bell was Of an inventive
turn Of mind and had taken out more
than 400 patents on various articles Of
| general or special use. He was a ma
tive Of Ireland. but had resided In
America since boyhood and had lived
In Colorado since the early 70's.
At the annual meeting Of the interde-
nominational missionary societies OF