The Holly chieftain., 1901-12-13
COLORADO NOTES. .


hall
Charles H. Springer has been ap-
pointed engineer in the Pueblo public
building.
Senator Teller has taken his seat on
the Democratic side Of the Senate
chamber.
Work on the new beet sugar factory
at Greeley Is being prosecuted with
great rapidity. The smOkestack will
be 100 feet high
George Winston and L. A. Williams
I OF Muskogee, Indian Territory, have
purchased a controlling interest in the
stock Of the Mercantile National Bank
OF Pueblo.
Chancellor e. Benjamin Andrews Of
the University of Nebraska, will pre-
side at the laying of the cornerstone
of the new science building at Colo
RADIO College, Colorado Springs.
Many of the Cripple Creek gamblers
have left for other points throughout
the state and country, as they are said
to believe that gambling has heen
closed for good in Teller county.
For the month of October the Cofd
RADIO & Southern Railway Company
> earned $497 pa, an increase of SD, I27.
-,
SIG; surplus $132, ,OG6, an increase o
$s,723. -
The postoffice order establishing d
free delivery service. at Grand juno
tion has been postponed to the 10Th
inst. The occasion for the delay Is the
failure Of supplies to reach the ofhce
in season.
The ladies' OF the Norton Art Club of
ot1Io ,r{
bition and sale of pictures on the Bird
inst. The proceeds will be devoted to
a fund for founding an art gallery in
Pueblo.
G. Campbell Morgan, the English
evangelist who has charge of the
North field extension work and is
therefore In a measure the successor
of Mr.. Moody, conducts a series of
meetings in Denver, beginning Decem
Der 9th.
zee Chow Jung, Chinaman, died in
Denver on the 7th inst of leprOsy. The
doctors call 1t anaesthetic leprosy and
say there is no danger of contagion.
Yee was starting for China and faint
ed at the depot us he was about to
take the car.
An Albuquerque, New Mexico. dis
pdtCl says tudl SllAIltS L. <AulcIso
young man in the employ of the
Santa Fe Pacific, who was killed by Il
dynamite explosion near Williams on
the 7th inst, has a mother and sister
living at New Castle, Colorado.
At Leadville few days since. ham
dozen gamblers We're given the full
extent of the law by District Judge
: Overs The judge read the gamblers
int
he was thoroughly in earnest in his ef-
fort to suppress gambling in Leadyillel ,
1t is said that the recently elect6G
county, officers of Pueblo county have
stated that there will be no changes in
the present force of clerks and depu-
ties at the court house. All the pres
ent incumbents were reelected, and
: give 1t out that they will make no
changes.
At Denver on the night Of December
2nd a fire in the establishment of
the Croke & Thome Carpet and Furni-
ture Company resulted in loss of
about $4,000 on the stock and $4,000
on the building, which was insured for
3O,5OO, and the insurance on the build
ing will cover the loss.
AT Ward on the 9Th inst. Justice of
the Peace Gibbons fined John Field, a
farmer living near Longmont, the sum
Of $500 and sentenced him to the
county jail for ninety days for stuffing
.twenty-six turkeys with stones while
the birds We're still living, and selling
them, dead but undressed to a butcher,
at Ward.
About 1900 acres of a plateau seven
miles from Montrose, locally known as
Bostwick park, has been filed on un-
der the desert act by prominent busi-
ness men Of the valley, with the ulti-
mate purpose of using it for an ip-
mense stock ranch. 1t will be WA
cred by an eight-mile lateral of the
Cimarron ditch now being built.
w. s. Stratton has accepted the invi-
tation of the Colorado Springs Mining
Stock Exchange to be the guest Of hon
or at a banquet at the Antlers hOtei,
January 18th, to commemorate the eL.1l
trance OF the association into the Strat
ton Mining Exchange building. and aA
an expression Of the public spirit
shown by the millionaire.
The resignation of G. H. Middleton,
assistant chief engineer of the Denver
& Rio Grande. has been announced.
Mr.. Middleton has another position
awaiting him. 1t was announced that
no successor would be appointed and
that the place would be abolished.
This is taken to mean that the Rio
fSronao outborftIoe oro nnufomr1 q tin o