The Holly chieftain., 1901-12-20
COLORADO NOTES.


Of lot in Denver
Colorado Springs capitalists talk Of
building a summer concert hall at La
Vergne. new suburb just south of
Colorado City.
The Brighton Vegetable Growers
Association has been organized by the
gardeners living in the Platte valley
near Brighton.
Michael Ambro. aged eighty-four,
was struck by a freight train and in
stantly killed at Colorado Springs on
the 18th instant
HOlyoke people now hello" on a new
telephone line which they hope TO have
connected with the long-distance line
before long.
Hosea Townsend of Colorado has
been reappointed judge Of the United
States Court tSouthern districD Of In
dian Territory.
President Roosevelt has reappointed
Walter s. Clark postmaster at Aspen,
and Amelia Williams postmistresA at
Glenwood Springs.
The City Council of Victor refusss
TO grant license for saloon in the
Richilieu hotel on account Of it being
close to church.
The butchers of Florence have or
ganized to combat an alleged traffic ts
horse flesh, which, it Is asserted, is befss
ing sold by peddlers as beef.
Judge J. L. Semmes. adjutant of the
department Of Colorado. Patriarchs
Militant. l. o. o. F.. died suddenly at
Colorado Springs on the 18th instant
Of heart failure.
The Railway Mems Cooperative
Supply Association will start Il coop
erative store in Denver with a cash
capital OF $4,000. c. NJ. Hubert is
president. of the association.
The enrolment of students mt the
State Agricultural College, Fort Col
lins. has reached 42S. This Is the larg-
est number registered at a single
term in the history OF the institution.
Mrs. Psko. who has just returned
from trip to the Pacific coast, made
for the purpose of soliciting funds for
the establishment of national Jewish
hospital in Denver. collected the sum
Of $4,000. Last year she raised $40
600 In the East
Thomas Preston Brooke, Chicago
man, is said to be planning telescope
that will. he predicts, bring the moon
to an apparent distance of only eight
miles from the earth. He proposes to
build an observatory for 1t on the top
Of Gray's peak. Colorado.
Lawrence Hex. n negro, on trial at
Pueblo for the murder of Lizzie Al.G
and William White. both colored. waS
found guilty by the jury. who also
agreed upon the death penalty. His
was the first murder trial In the Pueblo
fc tin hn N$ fho
tai punishment law
Members of the Denver Restaurant
Keepers Association have devised a.
scheme to buy farm and raise onioIR
on cooperative plan for use in their
restaurants. The farm. 1t Is said,. will
soon be purchased. Every kind of ta-
BILE delicacy that may come under the
head of vegetables will be raised.
A. II. Gumaier. purchaser of the Por-
ter stock Of thoroughbred horses In
Denver. Inst week, is preparing to
build rnce track on his land south of
bles He has already fenced in several
thousand acres. The animals will ar
rive soon. They were purchased at II
cost OF $4,000.
The recent death of Rev. r. NJ. Adj
dhS ut Sduou SNy udb dtudCttu SuH-
siderable attention throughout the
state. Mr.. Adams was eighty-four I.
years of age and established the Bap-
tist church in Fort Bent, Laveta and
Durango. He travelled all over the
southwestern part Of the state in the
early days. before there were any
roads, making his trips In the saddle.
The Colorado State Grange, Of the or
der of the Patrons Of Husbandry. will
meet In Twenty-eighth annual session
in Lincoln hall, No. 1415 I.arimer
street. Denver. on Tuesday. January
14th, at 10 o'clock a. M, and cOntinu6A
In session three days or until the busi-
ness of the meeting shall be concluded.
The fifth and sixth degr .es Of the or
der will be conferred Wednesday even
ing, January 18th. .
At Burlington, December 10th, Fred
Douglass, James W. Jones and Ed
ward Harrington were arraigned be
fore Justice Boyler on information of
D. II. Jones and Il. w. Morgan charg-
ing them with having stolen fourteen
head of horses. The defendants each
in turn waived preliminary examina.
tion and In default OF $500 bonds
were remanded to Jail to await trial In
the District Court.
A party Of distinguished steel mag
mates visited Pueblo on the 18th In
stant, among whom were John W.
Gates Of Chicago. Colonel John Lam
bert, Chairman J. C.. Osgood of the