The Holly chieftain., 1902-06-27
COLORADO BRIEFs.

: A great number Of settlers are NOV
ing into Middle Park this summer.
A forest fire on Tenderfoot mountain
near Dillon has destroyed nearly 5000
acres of timber.
The teachers institute Mt Colorado
Springs will begin on the first Monday
in August and last for two weeks.
W. II. Moore, the defaulting city
clerk of Durango. has been held for
trial at the September term Of the Dis
trict Court. .
The Grand Junction School Board
has purchased sites for two new school
buildings and will erect handsome
structures.
Arthur Arterburn the twelve-year-
old son of Charles +. Arterburn OF
Colorado City was killed June 21st by
the kick of a horse.
Department Commander ]. w. Hun,
G. A. r.. has established headquar-
ters at Victor with w. w. Ferguson as
assistant adjutant general.
1t Is stated that w. s. Stratton pro-
poses to build club house and gym>
nasium for the benefit Of his Colorado
Springs street car employees.
The Denver base ball team by repeat
edly defeating Omaha has reached sec.
ond place in the Western League and
is crowding Kansas City for first
President Benjamin E. Andrews OF
the University of Nebraska delivered
the address on the occasion of the
graduating exercises of the Leadville
high school.
The regents of the University of Col
orado have appointed Prof. George II.
Rowe, n graduate of the University OF
Michigan, to be dean of the School OF
Applied Science.
Mr.. John B. Langs of New York City
has been appointed instructor in music
for the University of Colorado at Bonl
der, and director of the Colorado
School Of Music. -.
The next session of the University
of Colorado will begin on Monday. Sep
tember 8, 1902. Registration will com
mence on the Friday previous and con
tinue on Saturday.
The property Of the Jarvis Hall
school for boys at Denver. has been
sold by the Episcopal Church author
tiles and no attempt will be made TO
revive the institution.
yer Fire and Police Board, who has
been dangerously sick for long time,
is reported to be much improved and
in fair way to recover
Denver's lack of an auditorium is
emphasized by the meeting of the In.
ternational Sunday School. convention,
which has to split up into sections that
cannot at any time meet All together
There will be mo- more electric light
competition IN Denver. The managers
Of the Denver G6x and Electric Com
pany have pyrenased Asnatorfty Of the
stock of Ns rivzl. the :Lacombe Elec-
trio Company. 4
Rev. Canon Bywater Of Grace Cafhe-
dral, Topeka, and member Of the fac
ulty Of Kansas Theological Institute,
has been appointed by Bishop Olmsted
archdeacon Of the Denver diocese of
the Episcopal Church.
James f. Secrest, formerly banker
of South Side Camp No. II, Woodmen
of the World. In Denver was arrested
on the 18th inst. on a warrant charg
ing him with embeZzling $1,J04.45 Of
the funds of the camp.
A Chicago dispatch says that men,
bers of the Interstate Commerce Com
mission will go to Leadville, Colorado,
where an inquiry will be made con-
cerning charges filed by the Board of
Trade of that city against the trans
continental lines.
Former Sheriff Joseph Yates and
William Mott, two well known mining
men Of Boulder County. have returned
from the Thunder Mountain country
in Idaho and report that 1t has been
greatly overestimated and has no at
fractions for prospectors.
John Brisben Walker, editor and
publisher of the Cosmopolitan maga-
zine, has been elected president anG&
Mortimer F. Taylor, formerly of the
law firm Of Wells, Taylor & Taylor OF !
Denver, secretary, of the Colorado So
ciety recently organized In New York.
The public meeting planned by the
Denver Chamber Of Commerce to cali
attention to the claim of Colorado for a
liberal allowance of the national irriga-
tion fund, will probably be held late
in July. when 1t is expected that Gov
ernment photographer Newell viii be
present.
Supervising Architect Taylor has re-
jected the bids Of the Congress Con
Company for the interior fn-
Ish of the Denver mint. This bid,
to $219,326, was the only
one furnished in response to the adver-
tisement. New bids will be called for.
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