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


Club of Denver. at recent meeting
decided that no more fights shall be
given at the club.
The fund that is being raised in
Denver to buy presents for the cruiser
Denver has reached S2,stD. The
amount wanted is $4,000.
The oil excitement in Boulder coun-
~ and throughout the state las caused
unusual activity al the federal land Of
flee. through the contests over home
steads
The Fost0tiice Department has or
dered the allowance of four additional
carriers at the Denver office, three to
be appointed on April 1st, and one on
April 18th.
The distributing station of the Colo
RADIO Springs Electric Company was
burned on the night Of March 18th,
leaving the city in temporary darkness
and involving loss of about $4,000.
President Baker of the University of
Colorado left Boulder March 24th for
Cleveland, Ohio, 10 attend an import
ant educational meeting. He Will
visit other eastern cities OH matters
connected with the university.
The Colorado & Southern will build
handsome club house this spring for
the use of its employees in Denver. 1t
| VIII have reading room, bath room,.
lecture hall, lunch room, kitchen, etc,
and Will be free to all employees.
The Head Camp of Pacific Jurisdic-
ton, Woodmen of the World, will meet
at Cripple Greek, August End. The date
has been changed from August 1lth,
so as not to interfere with the meeting
of the Grand Lodge of Elks later in
the month.
w. S. Martin. general superintendent
OF the Denver X Rio Grande railroad,
has resigned. 1t is said that +. w.
Egan, superintendent of the western
division of the Grand Trunk, with
headquarters at Detroit, Michigan, will
succeed Mr.. Martin.
At n meeting of the directors of the
Pueblo State Fair Association, Charles
Galloway was elected president to sue
ceed Paul Wilson, resigned. Mr.. Gal
loway is a newspaper man, having
been for many years connected with
the Pueblo Chieftain.
About seventy-fve school superin-
tendents and principals attended the
opening of the Superintendents' and
Principals Round Table at Colorado
| Springs, March 2Sth. The state super
intendent and most of the leading
teachers of the state were present.
Harvey A. Carr graduate student
at the state university, has just re-
| cciycd notice of his appointment to n
| fellowship in education in Chicago
| University, in the department which is
presided over by the noted DIR. Mel
vile Dewey. The fellowship pays
$500 n year.
The amended worlds fair bill, intro
duced by Representative Martin of
| Pueblo, has been signed by Governor
Orman. The bill appropriates $4,000
| for the use of the Colorado commission
| for an exhibit at st. Louis. OF that
sum 10000 Is available this year and
| $4,000 in 1903.
Sixty-three convalescent soldiers
from the Philippines arrived at Fort
Logan, near Denver, March 25th, be-
ing assigned quarters In the artillery
| barracks, which has been made u
temporary hospital. They could not
be provided for in San Francisco, as
the Preside Is overcrowded.
DR.. William Sparks. an old Civil
| War veteran, was brought to st. Vim
cents hospital at Santa Fe, recently,
with his left hand crushed. 1t was
necessary to amputate his arm near
the elbow. Sparks had been injured In
Hesch's saw mill on the upper Pecos,
near which he has . ranch home.
Jerry Simpson, the Kansas states
man, passed through Denver a few
days since and was interviewed by the
reporters. He has invested In cattle
ranch near Roswell, New Mexico, and
poses as a fuli-fiedged cattle man. He
goes so far as TO strongly oppose the
proposed bill TO tax oleomarsarine.
An application has been presented to
the Pueblo City Council by the Pueblo
Inter Urban Railway and Power Com
pany for a franchise to establish a
street railway and interurban electric
railway system. The plan is the great
est undertaking proposed In Pueblo in
years. and involves the expenditure Of
$1,0OO,0OO.
Andrew J. Ramsey. assistant fore
man of the big Kanawha Leasing
Company's mill at Creede, while look
ing after and cleaning one of the
screen on the Goth ultimo, was knock
ed of the platform. He fell two stories,
or a distance of thirty feet which re-
suited in his death at midnight, twelve
hours after his fall.
r. W. Woodbury. Of the board of
| fr,,xtaaa Of the Denver Public Library