The Holly chieftain., 1902-04-25
COLORADO BRIEFS.

| Raymond and Whitcomb excursion
parties have begun passing through
| Colorado. Look out for bad weather.
While in apparent health, Frank
| Sinner. a prominent hardware mer-
| chant at Creede, suddenly fell dead of
| heart failure on the morning of April
| Goth.
AT Canon City. April Goth, Rev. W.
II. Hightower. n widower, aged eighty
three years. was married TO Mary
Goodwin, a widow. aged siXty-three
years.
William L. Pabor the veteran Colo
RADIO editor and colonlzer has revived
his PabOr Lake colony in Florida and
is again publishing the Pabor Lake
Pineapple.
-Four hundred workers in the planning
mills of Denver have been granted an
! Increase i'll wages from 2Tla to 80
cents an hour. The eighthour day is
still under discussion.
An advance of wages. averaging
about twenty per cent. has been re-
Gently granted employees by the Griffin
Car Wheel Company operating plant
in southwest Denver
The following new postoiices have
been established in Colorado: Boyero
Lincoln county Christ b. Hoenehs,
postmaster: Pandora, San Miguel coun-
ty, Alexander ii. Wood, postmaster.
William Crebo, who was charged
with stealing cattle, had his trial in the
District Court at Golden April IA, and
after hearing the evidence, the judge
instructed the jury to bring in YER
dict Of acquittal, the evidence being in
sufficient
At Cripple Creek April 10th, Judge
Seeds denied n motion for new trial
In the case of s. T. Miller, convicted of
embezzlement of funds of the Estey-
Miller Investment Company, and SEN
fenced him TO not more than five nor
less than three years in the peuiten-
tiary at Canon City.
Aurelio Espinosa, senior in the
State University at Boulder. has been
appointed TO the chair of romance Ian
guages at the University of New Mexi-
co. He has filled the position of in.
structor in Spanish and French at the
State University for two years. He be
gins his duties next September.
The Gem Gold Mining Company has
secured judgment in the District Court
at Cripple Greek against the town OF
Altman for $1,000. During the small
pox epidemic last year the town seized
the claim owned by the mining com
pany and established pest house
there, preventing mining operations
and damaging the company.
Throughout Colorado the bridge and
structural iron workers have demand
ed. and expect, better pay and shorter
hours, to begin OH May LIST. The union
which is in Denver, with members in
other counties, submitted demand
yesterday for an increase from 30
cents to As cents an hour, and an eight
instead Of a nine-hour day.
In the District Court at Meeker,
James Wallace, a wealthy cattleman
Of Rio Blanco county, was acquitted
on charge Of cattle rustling. William
Farley was sentenced to eighteen
months In the penitentiary for steal
Ing number of watches, amounting
to $500, from A. Oldland & Co. The
court adjourned to September 18th.
Mayor Wright of Denver has re-
ceived the badge which his daughter
Miss Roberta Wright, will wear when
she christens the cruiser Denver. 1t Is
beautiful sample of the goldsmith's
art and is valued at $500. 1t is made
Of gold from the famous Camp Bird
mine md imbeided in the yellow met
al are two diamonds and a sapphire.
Charles II. Pierson of Idaho Springs,
veteran of the Civil War, who has
been trying for several years to secure
pension on account of injuries re-
ceived, has just been Informed that his
application has been granted, with
back pay to be allowed from the time
Of his ability. The amount to which
Mr.. Pierson is said to be entitled is
about $1,000.
Governor Orman VIII ask the COVER
nor of Washington for the extradition
of Pug" Ryan. alias L. A. Scott, alias
]. c. Moore, the notorious Colorado des-
perado wanted in Summit county to
answer the charge of killing Sheriff n.
u. Conrad, and for whose detention
there is reward Of $1,000. Ryan was
captured few days ago by the off,
GERS ut Seattle.
G. II. Smith, one Of the men found
guilty for being implicated in the re-
cent Colorado Fuel and Iron Company
pay check forgeries, was sentenced In
the District Court at Pueblo to not less
than one year nor more than eighteen
| months in the penitentiary. Smith
pleaded guilty and turned states evi-
dence. but was not allowed to testify
on legal technicality.
"Within three months we shall have