The Holly chieftain., 1902-08-01
COLORADO BRIEFS.

State School Of Mines at Golden on
July oath.
The ninth annual convention Of the &
Philatelic Sons of America will meet
In Denver August 7th and Sth 70 dis
cslss the subject of postage stamp col
lections.
The robbery of two powder houses
near Denver Is though. to indicate the
presence of a gang of train robbers,
who are laying in supplies Of dynamite
and caps.
The water shortage in Denver prom
ises to be serious until the water COM
pany can finish and I'LL its new rese.-
voir, which is not likely to be before
next spring.
The Garden of the Gods Chautauqua
Summer School at Colorado Springs
opened on June Odd with an attend
ance of fifty students, which will be
considerably increased.
While walking up the stone steps at
the Loretto Academy in Santa Fe. Ncw,..
Mexico, July 25th. Rev. Joseph Z. Cars.
rigan of st. Patrick's Church in Dem
Yer, fell and dislocated his hip.
Lieut.. Gov. d. c. Coates has started
on tour of several weeks through
interest of the Western Federation of
Miners and the 'socialistic movement.
According to the reading of bicy-
cler's cyclometer, the distance from
Aspen to Meeker, via the New Castle
road, is 40 miles-fifty-nine to New
Castle and fifty-one from New Castle.
TO Meeker.
Bob Reigan of Piceance creek. in Rio
iS wealth
by lassooing wolves and presenting the
pelts at the county treasurer's office
for the bounty. His lariat never
misses fire.
The State Association of District At
torneys was formed at G!enwood
Springs July 2Gth by the election OF
Henry Trowbridge of Cripple Creek
president, and II. G. Thurman of Cen
tral City secretary.
City Engineer Case of Colorado
Springs has recently returned from
Los Angeles, where he Investigated the
method of sprinkling streets with oil to
keep down dust. He will recommend
Its use in Colorado Springs.
Emile Berne. q striking machinist at
Denver, was fined So and costs by
Magistrate Thomas for applying the
word ''scab" derisively to John Farm
berg, a non-union boilermaker working
In the Union Pacific shops.
The Catholics of Victor have decided
to begin the construction Of new $12,-
900 church. The edifice will be forty
three by ninety feet, built Of pressed
brick, trimmed with cut stone, and will
have seating capacity Of about 500.
f. G. Whitney writes from Rocky
Ford to the mayor Of Trinidnd that
for the sum of $1,000 he will produce
three inches of rain in Trinidad within.
four days by an entirely new process
which uses neither prayer nor eSolos-
Ives.
The Colorado Terminal Lines -Asso-
citation has agreed to grant round trip
rates Of one fare plus So for the annual
state meetings of the Masons in Den
yer, the WoOdmen in Colorado Springs
and the Odd Fellows and Red Men in
Denver.
John Pallister. ranchman living on
Lake creek, in Eagle county. was shot
and killed few days ago by Bert
Siddell, living on an adjoining ranch
The quarrel was about some money
and Siddell Immediately surrendered
himself to a deputy sheriff.
Cheyenne park, Stratton's new public
villa at the mouth of Cheyenne canon
at Colorado Springs. was lighted by a
network of electricc lamps for the first
time on the night Of July 22d, in the
presence of several hundred people.
Band concerts will be inaugurated
three times week.
At Monument, July 23d. David c.
Guire was killed by a Denver & Rio
Grande passenger train while crossing
the tracks. His body was badly man
gled. Both his horses were killed and
the wagon smashed to pieces. Mr..
CURE was sixty-six years OF age and
one Of the old settlers
At mass meeting of colored citfxens
in st. Johns Baptist Church, under the
auspices OF the Young Mems Christian
Union (coIoredh resolutions were adopt
ed condemning recent cake-walk shows
and buck-and-wing dances, together
with all other ..'nigger" performances
that tend to degrade the race and hold
1t up to .ridicule.
A dam IL at once to be built across
the outlet of Lawn lake near Estes
Park. In order to hasten the work
and speed supplies several miles of
road has Just been completed to the
lake from Estes Park. The lake lies
at timber line on Hague's Peak, not
far from Hallet glacier, and for the fu-
ture Will be q storage reservoir.
On July oath three children, the old