The Holly chieftain., 1901-04-05
COLORADO NOTES.

Mckinley TO visit the great gold camp.
A big apartment house to be built in
Denver will have n telephone to each OF
the apartments, of which there will he
twenty-four.
Nearly 400 acres of sugar beets have
been contracted for in the vicinity of
Fowler. being Il large increase over the
acreage of last year.
The Rio Grande saloon at Cripple
Greek was held up mt 1:30 a. m. on
March 25th and robbed of $37. Five
men We're in the place at the time.
President Packard of the Denver
Baseball Club is gathering In the men,
bers of the team and expects TO have
them all together before April 10th, the
day set for them to meet.
The loss of stock by the recent
storms in eastern Colorado is estimat-
ed in different sections at from one to
three per cent. 1t is generally reported
to be mostly young calves.
The agricultural department Of the
State Agricultural College has received
n very fine microscope for bacteriolog-
ical work. and also n two and half
horse power gasoline engine.
~ tdue LlHIe lToiu tie utbtOKlS SudI-
ter Oak at Hartford, Connecticut, has
been placed in the state museum of
war relics in the capitol building. at
Denver by William \. Fuller.
The valuation attached to De9yer
building permits for the month Of
March. 1901, was the sum of $4S4 ,SS2.-
94aa sreht Increase over the year 1900,
when the valuation was only $265,14O.
A short time ago it was announced
that the macaroni factory at Goal
Greek. near Florence wOTId be moved
to Pueblo. but the operators decided
that the plant should remain where it
is.
The Lamar Building and Loan As
sociation has been Incorporated with
capital stock of $3OOOOO by G. ].
Garvin. Morton Strain, C. c. Huddles-
ton. l. l.. Maxwell. A. E. Bent, I. H.
Myers and w. j. Johnston.
Benajah S. Phelps of Colorado
Springs celebrated his 1O1st birthday
March 9th. He is in very good health
and is believed to be the only person
in the state who has lived in the
eighteenth. nineteenth and twentieth
centuries.
Mayor johnson Of Denver has signed
an ordinance passed by the City Coun-
ell prohibiting storekeepers from ex-
changing candy. cigarettes. ETC., for
milk. bread, yeast and car tickets, post
age stamps and other articles offered
as barter b. children.
After being out twenty-four hours
the jury in the yanolia vs. Thompson
attempted murder, case Mt MOntrose
was dismissed and the prisoner bound
over to the next term OF court. The
jury could not agree, standing ten for
conviction and two for acquittaf.
In a rear-end collision between two
freight trains on the Rio Grande near
Apache, forty-five miles south Of Pueb-
10. March Both, at 9:O5 p. M, in fierce
SHOW. storm, Head Brakeman Edward
Miller Y4s killed outright and Conduc-
tor Goodlow Of train No. 422, WAS in
jured.
Professor Benjamin r. Gass,
prominent Denver teacher and prin-
cipal of the Hyde Park school, died
March 25th at the age of sixty-four
years. Before coming to Denver Pro-
fessor, Gass taught for some time at
Durango and was well known through
out the state.
1he receipts at the United States GUS
tom hOuse'in Denver from duties on
imported goods were twice us much
for the month just closed as for March,
1900. The greater part Of the revenues
come from taxes on whisky and tObac-
CO. and the rest mainly on silks and
other articles Of luxury.
]. F. Reynolds, the bigamist-preach
er of Green Mountain Falls was seh-
fenced to six months In the county jail
by Judge Hallett In the United States
court at Denver March 9th. He plead
ed guilty to the charge of embezzling
the. money order funds in the postolilce
In that town five years ago.
1t b reported that w. 3. styatton
has made an offer to Colorado college
at Colorado Springs to pay that inSti-
tuition $25. 600 in cash In return for the
right to build a line Of the Rapid
Transit system through tho college
reservation. This would make the Te-
jon street line continue straight north
across the college campus instead Of
turning Of to Nevada avenue.
The Florence field seems to be going
right ahead with Its production with
out any fear Of losing Its position at
the head of the list of oil producing
sections In Colorado. The field IL grad
ually extending. A few days ago 4
new well was struck about three miles
southeast of Florence and ON the ex-
treme limit OF the developed feId. 1t
produces 100 barrels day and was
struck at a depth Of 2.100 feet.
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