The Holly chieftain., 1902-12-19
COLORADO BRIEFS.

A. r. Gumaer 10 planning to build
handsome opera house at Florence.
A cold storage company with . cap
ital OF $4,000 has been organized at
Rocky Ford.
Colorado Springs capitalists are said
10 be organizing another national bank
with capital Of 100000.
L. p. Bansback of Denver has been
elected captain OF the Stanford Univer-,
sity football team for 1908.
The postofnces at Berthoud. Pagosa
Springs and Rifle have been advanced
from the fourth class to the presiden-
tial class, to take effect January LIST.
In the District Court at Durango Q
White river Ute, who shot Navajo on
the reservation recently. was adjudged
guilty Of murder in the first degree.
The Elks of Fort Collins have decid-
ed to erect new block. the second and
third stories of which will be used ex-
clusively by that order. The ground
floor will be 50x90 feet in size.
A contract has been let to Captain
Boutell for the construction Of a beet
sugar factory at New Windsor, OF ca
pacity of 600 tons daily. for the sum of
$4,000. Work is to be begun at
once.
It is announced that the Santa Fe
Railway Company Is endeayoring to
purchase the old Copper King smelter
and some twenty-five acres Of land ad-
joining to be used as location for ex-
tensive railroad shops in Trinidad.
Several lessees Of state land in Baca
county complain that there are no sec
tion posts on q large amount OF the
school lands. An appeal for new sur
veys may have to be made to the
United States government.
Commercial gas is being manufac-
tured by the Boulder Gas Company
from combination Of Ignite coal and
petroleum. 1t is claimed that the pro-
cess, which is the invention Of General
Manager Peter English, Is entirely suo-
cessful.
Andria Offret Of Trinidad, accused
on four charges Of cutting timber on
government land, was found mot gull
ty" on the criminal charge in the
United States Circuit Court at Denver.
The other three were damage suits and
were continued.
The Colorado Section of the Insti-
tute of Electrical Engineers has been
organized in Denver with twenty-eigbt
members and limitations to join the Or
ganization have been sent to electrical
engineers throughout Colorado, Wy
oming and Utah.
]. F. Swank and Joseph Hunt, of
Lake City. who were arrested at YOU
mans. in Hinsdale county, November
9th, with nine whole deer and parts
Of two in their possession, were tried
before Judge Leahy at Gunnison on the
Sth inst. and on conviction were fined
5000 and costs, which they paid.
b. Frank Hunter, formerly of the
city council of Denver and a we'll
known Grand Army man, has lost his
mind and may have to be sent to an
insane asylum. He left his home in
Denver on the 11th inst. and wandered
about In the country for two days be-
fore he was discovered and cared for.
The county commissioners of Boul-
der county have effected compromise
with the railroad companies on the
taxes of 1901. The total amount of
taxes received by the county from rail-
roads is $22,133.58, or $1,698.08 more
than the railroad taxes received by the
county for 1900.
At Pueblo on the 7th inst, John w.
Frush. after desperate quarrel, in
which he tried to kill his wife and
grown son, placed revolver to his left
ear and fired a bullet into his own
brain. ending his life almost instantly.
He had been drinking. and 1t Is thought
he was temporarily insane.
Mrs. Laura McCready was run over
by the cars and killed while picking
up coal along the Rio Grande tracks In
Colorado Springs on the 9th inst. Her
daughter, aged nine, and another girl,
were with her, and 1t was while trying
to warn them of danger from an ap-
preaching train that she was herself
struck.
President Roosevelt on the sth inst.
sent to the Senate the nomination Of
Frank L. Downer for assayer Of the
mint at Denver and Of Joseph W. MIL
som for meter. Messrs. Nilsson and
Downer were appointed by the Presi-
dent before the convening OF Congress
and have been in possession Of the Of
nces for some weeks.
A recent dispute at Denver between
State Game Commissioner G. w. Har-
ris and Deputy Game Warden James g..
Bush on q matter of mileage resulted
in q demand by Harris that Mr.. Bush
should resign. Mr.. Bush would not
hand in his resignation to the commits
sioner, but offered 1t to Governor Or
man who refused to accent II and