The Holly chieftain., 1900-02-23
DOINGS AT DENVER.
Items Of Interest From the City - -
State Capitol.

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with snow during the past few days.
| The western railway officials have
decided that unlocked baggage shall
not be checked. This means that tele-
| scopes and bundles must be sealed, or
secured in some manner to conform to
| checking regulations. Claims for heavy
losses are the causes Of this decision.
The State Supreme Court will be ask
ed to decide whether students in the
State School of Mines are entitled to
vote in Golden. The question comes to
the court through the contest In JEFF
ferson county between William H. Bar
rick and John Nichols for the Office Of
sheriff.
The annual oratorical contest be-
tween representatives Of the University
of Colorado, the University Of Denver
and Colorado College was held Friday
night The awards were as follows:
First place-Omar E. Garwood. Uni
versity of Colorado, Boulder; second
place-Wayne c. Williams, University
of Denver: third place.. Vaughan
Sickman, University OF Colorado, Boul-
der.
sink over the cavity and seal II mp and
thus aid the healing Of the diseased
part. The subject upon which this op-
Grafton was performed at the Jewish
Home was an eighteen-year-Old boy
from Cleveland, whose name is with /,
held for professional reasons. Two
and one-half inches OF rib over his
left lung was removed. The boy came
here in the third stage of consumption,
but the doctors express hope thnt
they may save his life. 1t Is too early,
however, to speak definitely on this
point. Dr. Leonard Freeman per-
formed the operation. others assisting. Z
special dispatch from Grand juno
ton to the Republican says: kidnapped I
by four desperadoes who forced her
husband to keep quiet by forcing gun
in his face and drove her two children,
into their wagon at the point of re-.
yolver. Rescued after. a hard ride Of
sixty miles over rough roads, with the
stolen horses most of the time on the
run. This is. in brief, the experiences, :,
OF Mrs. John Cooper, wife of n ranch-I
man living near Bovine. Mesa county.
Not shot was fired, either at the kid
MAPPING or in the capture of the four
desperadoes who tried to break up the ,
Cooper family. They are believed to
be members of the gang Of robbers who
have been operating in the La Sal
mountains.
Notwithstanding the fact that the
grand jury declared last week that the
gambling and saloon laws are not vio-
lated, the district attorney has filed In 3
formations against n large number Of
men for breaking the law, and sayy
that he has ample evidence to convict
Gamblers are charged with operating
in some of the big office blocks and
largest hotels. Evidence against them
was secured by Rev. r. A. Chase and
other officers of the Anti-SalOon
League. 1t Is now charged that one or
more OF the grand jurymen are inteB4
ested In saloons or own buildings Oc-
cupied by them. The general feeling
that some of the jurymen violated their !.
oaths in voting against indictments
was evidently shared by Judge Butler,
who made some sarcastic remarks to
the jury when 1t reported. Nearly ev-
cry minister in the city preached upon
the subject last Sunday. n
petition to Congress asking that a
tract of public land be set aside suffi-
cient to reimburse the state for Beech
er Islsnd and the surrounding lands
required by the Beecher Island M
mortal Association will be sent to WASH
ington this week. The State Lan0
Board has agreed to deed the land re-
quired by the association, provided Con-
gress will give like tract of publNl
land to the state. Representative
ShafrOth will introduce the bill In
congress. II is the purpose to create
park and erect on the little sand is
land in the Arickaree river In the east
end of Arapahoe county a monument
in memory of General George A. For
syth and his fifty followers, who, in
September. 1863, wthstood for eight
days the siege of Chief Roman NosQ
and nearly one thousand braves.
From September 18th to 26th
the white men held in check
the army of savage warriors. There
was incessant fighting. during which.
only five Of the besieged white mel
We're killed, although they inflicted
heavy LOSSES upon the Indians. The
Indians had been gathering In the
country for several weeks Their de-
predatiOns were directed against hhe
settlers on the plains. and General For
syth learned that 1903 settlers had
been massacred. when he set out win
a company of fifty scouts to drive the
Indians out of the country. He had
underestimated the strength of Chief
Roman Nose, and before he could re-
treat to Fort Wallace was surrounded.
Reaching the little island in Arickaree
river. he formed breastwork of the
horses, picketing them to form a hollow
square, within which his men took ri
uge, firing from under the animals. But
the horses We're soon shot down, wfnp
the men dug holes in the sand, burying
themselves TO their arm pits, and IN
that position fired and held back Tue
savages. They lived on the flesh OF
their horses, finding water by digging
In the sand. Two men succeeded one