The Holly chieftain., 1901-05-10
COLORADO NOTES.


MontrOse was opened with dance on
the night OF Mag LIST.
Herman Darling recently made fll-
sAEs at the Moutiese .land office pre-.
parntory 10 opening up two large saw
mills. ti.
The Stubbs capital punishment bill
4 did not contain an emergency. clause
and hence does not go into effect until
July LIST.
4 In the list of births during he
month OF April, filed. with the city
/ health commissioner of Denver, the
| girl babies outnumber the boys two to
one.
Leo Vincent. clerk of the District
Court AZ Boulder, says 1t cost the coun-
" over 5000 to prosecute the case
against the EldOra men accused Of kill
Ing n. B. Bailey.
Vice President Roosevelt is to be In
| vlted to visit the Festival Of Mountain
and Plain In Denver, October LIST, 2nd
and Bird. quite informally. ''incognlto,'
| as they say in Europe.
General Irving Hale and Henry T.
Rogers will represent Denver Unitar-
ians at the annual meeting of the
American Unitarian Association in
| Boston the last week in May.
| Denver building permits for the first
quarter of 1901 aggregate 71S buildings
to cost 81. 1.126, 1873, which is gain Of
$319.GO9 over the same period last
year. This looks like building boom.
Mr.. Bodine says the company ex-
poets to increase Its development
work rs rapidly rs possible upon the
advent of railroad which is expect
ed to reach CrestOne not later than
June 1st.
According to the reports which they
have filed with the city clerk, the Re
publican city committee spent $20,213
on the late city elections in Denver,
and the Democratic city committee
spent $50, ,127.
John c. Henry. who died at Denver
May Bird, is claimed to have been the
inventor of the overhead trolley for
electric railways, which was first used
in Kansas City in 1888. He made q
fortune out of his inventions.
d. C. Crawford, who was the first
auditor of the state of Colorado. died in
Denver May LIST. He was formerly
manager of the Crawford house at
Colorado Springs and the Lndell no
tel in Denver.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas F. Walsh are
preparing to return to Colorado from
Washington early in May. They will
entertain President Mckinley and the
presidential party when they reach
Glenwood Springs.
A report that an association of liquor
dealers had decided to raise the price
of beer to 10 cents glass and whisky
to 10 cents straight, caused great con-
sternation in Denver few days ago.
But the calamity was averted.
Hereafter Denver people who happen
to be down town at noon can get the
absolutely correct time. at exactly 12
o'clock to the fraction of second, a
large ball will drop from tall steel
shaft over the office of the Denver
Post.
B. S. Newland, lately appointed dep
/ uty dairy inspector, has arrived from
Victor and taken charge of his desk at
the capitol in Denver. J. T.. James,
his predecessor is now acting as in
spector of foods for the State Board of
Health.
Parson Uzzell of the Denver Taber-
nacle has arranged with the manage
ment of the Loveland beet sugar fac
tory to supply several hundred work
ers from his congregation for emerg-
ency labor in the beet fields this sum-
mer.
The recent heavy rains caused sew
eral large rock slides on the track of
the Denver & Rio Grande railroad
along the Grand river near Glenwood
Springs. The water in the river was
also at very high point, occasioning
good deal of anxiety.
With the recent. orders secured for
steel rails from the Colorado Midland
road, there is enough work on hand
to keep the rail mill at Bessemer busy
throughout the summer. At present
work Is being done on large order of
eighty tive-pound rails for the Santa
Fe road. 7
The school census just completed at
Central City shows a a,school population
OF Lib, as against 835 in 1900. This
puts Central City In the list OF first
class districts and entities 1t to school
board numbering five instead of three,
but no change will take place till next
year.
Minister Conger passed through Den.
yer April Goth on his return from Chi
ma, and was given quite an ovation,
In the party We're Mr. and Mrs. Con-
ger, Miss COnger and Miss Mary Con.
ger Pierce, his niece. who shared With 4
his family the terrors of the Pekip
siege.
Reduced rates have been made by
the railroads for the American FEEDER
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