The Holly chieftain., 1901-05-31
COLORADO NOTES.


large wire and tin-plate plant al Pu-
eblo.
ST. Joseph's Catholic church at Gold
en- was dedicated Sunday. May 10th,
with impressive ceremonies by Bishop
Matz.
The school census just completed at
Colorado Springs shows an increase OF
S1S over that Of last year. the present
number of children of school age be-
ing 6,1O2.
The greatest gathering of high school
students ever held in Colorado re-
sponded to the invitation rendering
a reception by the State University at
Boulder May 18th.
Pueblo's first annual state fair Will
be held this year the last week In Sep
tember, opening Monday, September
23rd. and continuing until and inciud-
ing September 9th.
William Church, of the Golden
Pressed and Fire Brick Company, a
well-known heavy capitalist and prom
inent citizen Of Denver, died suddenly
of apopiexy May oath.
June LIST rural free delivery service
will be inaugurated from LaSalle,
Weld county. with II. A. Edie as car
rier. The route. 25a. miles long, is to
serve population of 4l5.
The Colorado & Southern will build
pavilion at Cycle park in Platte can.
on, and put in sidetrack. An unusual
amount of improvement Is promised
in the canon this season.
Professor +. w. Helmreich. who
went East with the "Helmreich fami-
ly' recently and appeared In an aero
batic turn In several prominent thea
ters. has returned to Denver. He VIII
take his team out again next fall.
Twenty-six persons have. given $1,000
each toward the erection OF the new
Garter museum building at the City
park in Denver, and it is expected that
work will be commenced on the struc-
ture in August.
There will be an examination for ad-
mission to the bar at Denver, June
18th and 10Th, in the capitol. Appli-
cnnts may register with the secretary
of the board, II. C. CharpiOt, at No.
432 Equitable building.
James II. Devore. who was shot by
his mother-in-law, Mrs. z. II. Perry,
in Harry's restaurant at Denver few
weeks ago, died Of his wounds at st.
Luke's hospital May 10Th. Mrs. Per-
ry will be tried for murder.
The public schools of Central City,
with the exception of the high school,
have been ordered closed for six
weeks on account of the prevalence Of
scarlet fever. The Sunday schools
will also be closed.
The contest naugurated by the Can
on City Record, by which two teach
ers will be given vacation trip to Salt
Lake City, resulted as follows: First,
Miss Victoria Rudolph, 04,G5O votes;
second, George E. Colgate. 92,9sO votes.
Mrs. Mary Frances Loring, an old
and respected settler Of Boulder coun-
ty, died at Longmont, May 23rd, aged
seyenty-seven. She leaves one son
who is East, and one daughter, Mrs.
Helen Grenfell, state superintendent Of
schools.
Hon. A. NJ. Stevenson has resigned
his position as attorney for the Denver
Tramway Company to resume the
general practice of law, giving as q
reason the fact that his private bust
ness requires the greater share Of his
attention.
By strictly party vote in the Den
yer Board of Aldermen two Demo
Gratis, Adolph Siebold and Theodore Nc
CURE, have been unseated and their
places filled by Andrew Horan and
John ID. Ross, Republicans. Election
frauds were charged.
Most of the teachers of Colorado
Springs and Colorado City recently
made an excursion to Cripple Creek
over the Short Line. A bontanical
party of thirty students of Colorado
College also went up to the camp and
spent he day at Point Sublime.
The American Association for the
Advancement of Science will hold its
annual meeting In Denver August oath
to August 31st. The association has
about 2.4OO members, among whom
are the presidents of most of the lead
ing universities and colleges.
The Pagosa Springs correspondent
of the Denver News says IT is report
ed that a syndicate has been organ
lied to erect a 1O0-room hotel at the
Springs, and that It is rumored that
McPhee & McGinnity of Denver are
thinking of purchasing the property.
The Colorado Springs team is stln
far ahead of the Denver team in the
Western League baseball games. Up
TO Monday, May 9th, Colorado
Springs had won ten games and lost
ten, while Denver had won eight and
lost twelve. Five teams were ahead
of both and two behind both.
A Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, dispatch
Of May 10Th. says that Rowe Pingrey