The Holly chieftain., 1901-05-03
COLORADO NOTES.

Clara Whitmore has been commits
stoned postmistress at Valyerde. and
John Dietz as postmaster at Overland.
The postoftice at Curtis, Washington
county. is ordered discontinued. Mail
for this office will hereafter go to Ak
ron.
The attorney general says that the
new revenue bill does not repeal the
military poll tax. Hence it will be col
lected as usual.
A new magazine. called Agrlcoio
Aridus. will be published by the stu
dents Of the State Agricultural Col
lege at Fort Collins.
The Colorado Springs reception COM
mittee will arrange to take President
Mckinley up to the Cripple Creek gold
camps and back on June 1th.
The Supreme order of Married
Mems League, a fraternal and benen-
ciary society organized in Missouri
has filed its incorporation papers IN
Colorado.
The recent school census in Love
land shows 9I3 pupils Of school age,
an increase of 167 over last year.
Additional school buildings will have
to be erected.
The recent wolf roundup near Holly
resulted in the capture OF two large
wolves. There were about 200 horse
men and quite u number of carriages
in attendance.
John F. Farley, the recently retired
chief of the Denver police force, will
return to his former occupation as
general agent of the Thiel Detective
Agency in Denver.
The Union Pacific is said to be pre-
pairing to spend $4,000 in Denver to
build car cleaning shops at twenty
sixth street The cars will be clean
ed by compressed air.
The Woman's Club Of Longmont
has completed stone walk TO the
cemetery, north of town. The work
was undertaken a year ago and has
just been finished The walk IL about
half Il mile long and four feet wide.
The hearing in the case of William
Witt and Tony Lepage. at Ouray. hc-
cused of forgery, resulted in both be-
ing bound over 10 the District Court
on 500 bond each. They failed to
give bonds and We're placed in jail.
The county commissioners of Gilpin
county in April took up Sl3,5oO coun-
ty bonds. This cleans up the entire
indebtedness of the county. There is
yet remaining in the hands of the
county treasurer the sum of $4,000
The office of State Treasurer Chip
ley bids fair 10 be swamped with
liquor license fees. the clerical force
being hardly sufficient to receive and
register them as fast as they come In.
The receipts for one day were over
s.. 1000.
William H. Davie has been appoint
ed postmaster at Florence. He is a
druggist and has resided in Florence
about five years. DIR. j. w. Rambo,
Tne retiring postmaster, is company
physician for the +. x e. C. road and
has held the office about two years.
Game Warden Harris recently re-
ceived a letter from W. C. Cove, Of
Creede. stating that seven mountain
sheep We're recently killed by a SHOW
slide near Amethyst. Colorado. The
heads are said to be intact and will be
preserved by the state.
The Colorado Springs lodge Of Elks
wants to have hand in making an
Elk of President Mckinley, who is
said to have been recently elected a
member of the Older by Washing
ton lodge. 1t is 10 be feared that he
will think they are trying to make
game of him.
Dean Samuel Blakeslee of the School
OF Music of the University of Denver
is preparing for musical festival
May Goth. 21st and 22nd. The ora
toro of Elijah" will be sung, and a
chorus of several hundred voices made
| up from the various choirs of the city
and students in the school will sing.
r. j. Holland has been reappointed
1 superintendent of the state fish hatch
/ cries by Fish and Game Commission
| er Harris. and +. L. Hager has been
reappointed superintendent of the fish
hatcheries at Denver by the same Of
fetal. w. r. Callicotte was an appli.
cant for the position of superintendent
of hatcheries.
Edward j. Sexton, the Denver in.
surnnce man. who shot himself with
suicidal intent at the room of friend
in the National hotel at Cripple Greek
April oath, died at the Sisters hospi.
tai two days later. Death was direct.
ly due to hemorrhage resulting from
the bullet wound through the left
lung. Mrs. Sexton was down from
Denver and remained at his bedside
to the last.
Under the new Colorado revenue law
an inheritance tax is levied on all
estates valued at 5000 or over at the
rate of SO per hundred on property
| which shall pass for the use of any