The Holly chieftain., 1901-05-17
COLORADO NOTES.

school teacher who mysteriously de1U
peared some two weeks ago. mas eos
yet been found. M
An attempted auction of real estate
In Denver few days ago did NOT
prove successful. Only two lots were
sold and those at less than their value
The Denver Real Estate Exchange
mas voted to employ competent experts
ana arrange some plan for boring q
well in the Denver basin to ascertain II
there is any oil to be found.
Denver building permits for the first
quarter of 1901 aggregate 11S buildings
to cost $1.126, 133 which Is a gain OF
*5o9.6O0 over the same period last
year. This looks like building BOOM
recent dispatch from Hastings,
slams, or two carloads, have just left
here to work in the beet fields at Su-
gar City, Colordo."
The senior class OF the University Of
Colorado, at Boulder, Is now rehears-
ing Much Ado About Nothing"
which Is to be given on the University
campus next month.
Governor Orman has named Friday,
June 18th. as Flag Day. The S1Ps
and Daughters of the American Re
luton are preparing an extensive pro-
gram in Denver and will ask all the
school children to assemble in the City
park.
The people of the Cripple Creek dis
trict are not very we'll satisfied witt
the fact that President Mckinley, ;N-$
cording to the present. schedule, Will
only spend about an hour and half
In the town of the district.
Elaborate preparations are being
made for Denyer's annual Festival Of
Mountain and Plain. More money Is
being subscribed than ever before and
more varied and interesting program
is being arranged. The railroads
promise the usual low rates.
Jesse A. Moore, convicted in the
District Court at Glenwood Springs
of the murder of Walter Phillips, was
sentenced to the penitentiary for life.
Moore received his sentence with ap-
parent Indifference. This is the first
criminal sentence passed by Judge
Shumate.
G. L. Gafford, well-known physi-
clan of Buena Vista, was instantly
killed on the 9th instant, by accident
ally taking hold of a brass hook that
supported a number Of electric wires.
He was supposed to have been arrang-
ing a curtain and was unaware Of the
danger.
In the new science building at Colo
RADIO College in Colorado Springs there
Will be a department for the accommo-
dation of the museum, recently much
enlarged by the purchase in California
of the Coronado collection. secured 1or
the college through the generosity dN
w. S. Stratton.
nvv,n I, MN fnd
following water commissioners: Dis
trict "a, Melton Albert, Costilla county;
District "a, Lewis Jarratt, Montezuma
county; District 35, Charles MACMILLAN,
Costlila county; District 81, A. Kal-
quist, Eagle county; District 3a
George w. Hull, Eagle county.
There are said to be few Denver
people left who have not yet been ap-
pointed on the committee to receive
President Mckinley June 5th. They
can doubtless figure in the committee
Of the whole, even they don't get their
names in print in small type in q
crowded column of the blanket sheets.
Professor E. B. T. Spencer Of the
Latin department in the University of
Denver, who has been with the UNI
versity eight years, has been given 4
leave Of absence for, year and will 60
East for study. He will spend year
in Harvard doing special work in
Latin and Greek.
A Denver News special says that Pa
gosa Springs is to have a second lire
OF railroad, which will be completed
before the first of the year. Itwill I've
an extension of the Rio Grande and
Pagosa Springs railroad, which is op-
Grated by the New Mexico Lumber
Company, and will come by way Of
Coyote park.
In the District Court at Boulder,
Bryant N. Newby of Longmont was
found not guilty of assault with intent
to kill Benjamin Calkins, n neighbor's
son, after the jury was out all nighs
This was the third trial of the case.
Mr.. Calkins has begun a suit for dam
ages against Newby for $25. 200 be-
cause of the wound received in the ad-
mitted shooting. The affair grew out
of a dispute over headgate.
Reduced rates have been made by
the railroads for the American FEEDER 4
alton OF Musicians convention at Den
yer, May 14th to Goth, for the annual
meeting of the Western Federation Of
Miners to be held ut Denver May 9th
to June 4th. for the racing meeting at
Colorado Springs May Both to June
3rd, and for the annual convention
Colorado Federation of Labor at Lead
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