The Holly chieftain., 1901-09-06
COLORADO NOTES.


creased to 1876.
The Socialist La Dor party in Denver
has nominated Il fun county ticket for
the fall campaign.
The Prohibitionsts of Colorado are
Preparing to agitate the submission
of temperance amendment.
Three thousand dollars has been
raised il subscriptions for the forma-
ton of pclo club in Colorado Springs
On his short private visit to Boulder
August 26th, w. ]. Bryan spoke TO
small impromtu gathering in the court
room.
Normal institutes throughout the
state this year report a large attend
ance and good work done. The profef-
sional spirit in teachers seems to be IN
creasing.
Francis Truth. the so-called "healer.
who has been operating in Denver and
who was arrested on several charges.
has agreed to go out of the business IN
Denver and endeavor to get heeled IN
some other vocation.
Mrs. Matte Wilson has been appoint-I
ed county superintendent of schools by
the county commissioners of Fremont
county. She succeeds the late super
intendent, ]. NJ. Hanks, who died re-
Gently, and is sister of Ne. Hanks.
Governor Orman has issued requi-
sition on the governor of Oregon for
the return to Fort Collins OF Mike Ber-
ry, the bicycle thief, who made his es-
cape from the Fort Collins Jail some
days ago. and is now under arrest in
that state.
"A grocery, boarding tent, book
store and postoffice, church, and
nearly 200 families living in tents fill
ed with several hundreds of people" is
the inventory a morning paper gives OF
the Seventh Day Adventists' camp
meeting in Denver.
If satisfactory arrangements can be
made with the American Sugar Beet
and Irrigated Land Company for 10000
acres of land under the reservoirs north
Of Lamar. colony of 500 families
from the eastern and central states will
be located there at once.
Richard Humphrey, an old resident
of Coal Greek, committed suicide Au-
gust 26th, by shooting himself through
the heart. He was sixty-one years Of
age and leaves wife and several
children. He had been suffering from
5uries received in a mine.
August was the heaviest month OF
tourist travel Colorado has ever known,
ii the baggage records at the union de-
pot in Denver are correct index. The
number of pieces handled was 103,56S.
while for July it was but 1O0,S30. THIS
is also an increase over August of laN
year of 1850 pieces. y
The Beaver Creek Reservoir Com
pany has been incorporated at Fort
Collins with Philip Wilson, &. ]. Greg
ory and Charles A. Button as incor-
poratOrs. The purpose of the corpora
ton is to construct and maintain six
reservoirs above the source Of BeaZ
er creek in Larimer county.
B. F. Rockafellow. proprietor of the
Fruitmere farm, recently sent q box
State Horticultural Board. After she
had selected a dozen for preservation
purposes, she sent the remainder to.
all the offices in the capitol building.
And when the woman had given them
apples they all ate.
John Bradford and Brick Price, cat
tlemen living six miles OF Erie, en-
gagged in an argument a few days
since. They exchanged blows and
finally resorted to firearms. A couple
of shots were exchanged but no harm
was done. Bradford is the man whose
cabin was riddled by bullets some two
months ago by unknown parties.
A Mancos dispatch to the Denver
News, dated August 26th. says: At
II 80 this morning an electric bolt
killed valuable horse ridden by Ar
thur Spencer and Spencer himself 10 at
the point of death. Hyde Fielding,
who was riding beside him, was
stunned and thrown from his horse
The accident occurred about one mild
east Of town.
A Colorado Springs dispatch says:
Definite plans have been finished y
the new $4,000 hotel to be erected T.
Werner Reed of this city at Grand
Junction, and the contract will soon be
let. Mr.. Reed ia now In Europe, and
will return about November The bo-
tel will be two stories high and contain
fifty rooms. 1t will be built Of brick 4
The beet industry in Grand Juncti6
is attracting local capital, many
Springs men being heavily interested.
Both Mr.. Reed and ]. r. McKinnie
have large interests.
At 2 o'clock in the morning, August
10Th, the cabin Of Sam Lecks, Just be-
low the dump of the Eagles mine on
Bull hill at Victor was blown up with
a charge Of dynamite and completely
demolished. The ruins caught fire and
were consumed. The escape from
doA TN nf Tack0 who xvac ocloon II, a.,