The Holly chieftain., 1901-06-07
COLORADO NOTES.

tribe less than 500.
The order of May 18th disseminating
the postoffice of Granerss. Pueblo
county, has been revoked and the old
postmaster reinstated.-.
The following increase Of postmas-
ters' salaries are effective July 1: Del
"a. $1,5OO to 81 900; Independence and
Eaton, $1,000 to $1,1OO.
The Broadway Methodist Episcopal
Church society In Pueblo win sell their
present house of worship and erect .
new building to cost $4,000
Memorial Day was never more gen.
eraliy observed throughout the state
than this year, although in quite q
number of places the rain interfered
with the exercises.
The secretary OF the interior ON June
LIST approved thirty-nine permits to
Craze 7,I16 cattle and 494 horses in,
Colorado as recommended by the gen.
eral land Office.
1t is estimated that the honey ship
ments of Las Animas this season will
exceed 100 tons, an increase Of twenty
five tons from last year, this seasons
honey values being conservatively esti-
mated at $4,000.
Miss Margaret e. Stratton, a gradu-
ate Of Oberlin College and for some
time dean of the wOman's department
of Wellesley College, has been elected
dean Of the woman's department OF
the University of Colorado.
1t is said that the 1900 head Of
Mexican steers on the Las Animas
ranges belonging to the Ernest WILSON,
Towers syndicate are to be moved TO
Montana ranges this summer. the exc
dus beginning about the middle Of this
month.
Colorado Springs Is making exten-
sive Preparations for the quarto-cen-
tennial celebration August LIST, End
and 3rd. General Palmer has given
the committee his check for $500 and
other wealthy citizens have promised
substantial aid
Some of the Denver newspapers, as
well as base ball fiends, are chagrined
because the Denver team has 80 low
rank in the Western League. As an
old player puts It. they seem to be
trying to lower their record every
time they play ball"
Horticultural Inspector Palmer Of
Arapahoe county has announced that
shade trees infested with insect pests
must be sprayed by the owners, other,
wise it Will be done at their expense
as required by law and the cost
charged to the property.
Professor Murfree of the law depart
men of the University OF Colorado,
who has suffered long time with his
right foot. finally had 1t amputated
just above the ankle. There was q
diseased bone in the foot. The patient
stood the operation well.
May, 1901, was much heavier
month for tourist travel than May Of
last year. The records for the past
month in the baggage department OF
the Union depot at Denver show 6,O67
more pieces of baggage handled than
during the month of May, 1900.
The state treasury will be enriched
in the sum of $4,000 from the estate
of the late William Church of Denver.
1t will be the first payment, 1t is said,
under the Inheritance law enacted by
the last Legislature and Is based on,
an estimated valuation Of $1.O00,OO0.
On the Both ultimo, Frank N. Hunt,
a machinist employed at the Gold Coin
mine at Victor, was struck by cage
of the main shaft and his head entire
ly severed from his body. He was
forty-fcur years of age and leaves a
wife and two children living In Gold
field. s
The Pueblo Evening Star and the
Pueblo Daily Journal have been con-
solidated and are now printed as the
Pueblo Star-Journal, both plants hav-
ing been purchased by a syndicate Of
business men. Frederick w. White,
Jr, formerly Of the Western Press As
ISOLATION, is vice president and general
manager, while q. A. Bingham, weIl>
known in Denver and Laramie, heads
the editorial staff.
The number Of acres planted to sug-
ar beets In the immediate neighbor-
hood of Las Animas this season is
about 900, as against zoe acres last
year. The Oxnard beet sugar factory .
Mt Rocky Ford takes all of the Las
Animas beets at the same net price to
the beet growers that is realized by
the Rocky Ford farmer himself, this
encouragement to local beet culture be-
ing made possible by liberal Eapta
Fe railroad freight rate.
Joseph Osner, Edwin Gaylord, W. H.
Shuckman, Edward Chase and Robert
A. Austin have filed articles of incor-
poration Of the Overland Racing and
Driving Association, with q capital
stock Of $4,000. The objects of the
association are to lease in whole or In
part Overland park, in Denver, to buy
and sell trotting, pacing and running
horcoc tn nrn np 1o0no 'uuH ouorDtA