The Holly chieftain., 1901-07-26
COLORADO NOTES.

The President has appointed W. d.
Ogle postmaster at Lake CITY.
The new Antlers hotel at 'Coloraoo
Springs will be run strictly on the
European plan.
There are many more people Oh .ne
Chautaqua grounds In Bouiuer
on any previous year
The newsboys Of Denver propose te
give fair August 18th to nth to raise
money to pay for uniforms.
A new pOstoftice has been estap
lished ut VOna. Kit Carson county
with Sarah c. Webb as postmistress.
The Woman's Club of Boulder mas
placed wire settees in various paris q.
town in shady Places for the peneen.
.Of strangers.
While drilling well twenty mlee
south of Granada, II, ,ProyeIA -co1RIy, +
Ley Blackwell struc4 Z heaxy ,noS
of artesian water at Aadeptn oi ~
feet. ~
The fact that there were tnlie8W
Rocky Ford melons on sale IN Lex
before the vines at Rocky Ford We
fairly in blossom Is troubling the "ei-
on growers.
Peaches from Gra Junction anO B
other parts of the Grand River VsHey
are now on the market throusno9
most Of the non-peach growing ~
tions of the state. sS,
Running races will be held at Glen.
wood Springs August 21st. IND, lbrc
and oath at which $1,000 in prizes
will be offered A cowboys tourna-
ment will conclude the races. in whicn
the entire western slope will particf
pate.
While John Mosconi, Ed. Gabalsky
and party of dog fanciers from CEN
tral CITY. were out east of Denver
hunting coyotes one Sunday recently,
Mr.. Mosconi had his right arm badly
bitten by coyote that had been
brought to bay by the dogs.
The Pueblo Single Tax Club has
been organized with b. ID. V. Reed as
president and j. W. Printlinger as sec,
retary. j. X. Herman. who has been
giving lectures on the street corners IN
Denver and Pueblo on the single tax,
has gone west to continue his ledurlne
in other cities.
Aided by the use of electrical min
ing machines lately installed by the
Fremont coal mine at Williamsburg,
better known as Bear gulch, the Colo
RADIO Fuel and Iron Company is said to
be producing as much coal with sixty
men as 1t did las; fall with 40.
The net earnings of the Denver d
Rio Grande in the second week in July
were $3.50, 200. an increase of $41O
over the corresponding week of LAD
year. The first two weeks of July the
net earnings We're $4ti4, 800. an increase =
of $GOSO0 over the corresponding two
weeks of last year. ~
= The Pullman company in its repair
shops at Denver will pay the LIST and
10th of each month, conforming WI
the new state law calling for N-
monthly payments of employees. There
are 300 men now employed, but it is
expected that the number will be
raised to between 100 and 500.
Colored members OF the knights of
Pythias from Colorado Spripgs, Cripple
Greek and, Leadville met III Pueblo re-
Gently and founded the first AFRO
American Pythian grand lodge in Colo
RADIO. There are some 24O members
among the colored people of the state,
but no hitherto recognized lodge.
Long mountain trips on foot, on
horseback and by wagons are one Of
the popular features Of the Glen Park
Chautauqua at Palmer Lake this sum-
uleT. "A TettuI tudybi Trip IuGluu-a
ed Manitou park, Woodland park, Ute
pass. Green Mountain falls. Cascade
canon and the Garden of the Gods.
James Page, postmaster at' White
water. Colorado. has informed Postof- !.
fice Inspector Sullivan at Denver that
his office had been burned on the night
of July 18th. The loss was somewhere
between 500 and $15 in stamps burned,
just the amount could not be deter
mined until the safe was recovered and :
opened.
The Pueblo Press Club will kheD
open house in Colorado Springs to fneA
editors of the state during the Quarto-
Centennial celebration. August 1st, 2nd
and Bird. Joseph d. Glass, the repre-
sentative of the club. has secured, sub
ject to the approval5of the Press club. =.
ut its next meeting, headquarters in
the Antlers hotel
The manager Of the Arkansas Valley
Electric Company at Florence announc-
es that the concern will at once spend
5000 in improving the local plant by
adding machinery and rebuilding the
works. BY the addition of the ma
chinery the lighting capacity Of the
plant will be increased fully one-third.
1t is the intention of the company to
arrange the plant SO that day SER
vice can be inaugurated.
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