The Holly chieftain., 1902-05-16
COLORADO BRIEFS.

The postoffice at Barela, Las Animas
county, has been re-established with S.
d. Benton as postmaster.
The United States navy recruiting
station In Denver was open for a weeA
and secured twenty nine enlistments.
Civil service examinations will be
held at Leadville and Pueblo, on May
18th, for the purpose of filling positions
in the postoffices of the two cities.
Civil service examinations will be
held in Aspen md Fort Collins on May
18th for the purpose of filling the posi-
tiOns OF clerk and letter carrier in those
places.
On May 9th the Denver baseball
team stood third in the Western
League and the Colorado Springs team
seventh. There are eight cities in the
league.
Postmaster L. c. Dana of Colorado
Springs has received notice from Wash
lngton that his request for four extra
clerks during the summer season would
be allowed.
The civil service commission will
hold an examination at Denver on June
18th, 18th and 10Th, for the purpose of
filling the position of cadet in the reve-
nue. cutter service.
One hundred and ten bakers went on
strike in Denver on the 11th instant.
They want their wages increased from
30 cents an hour to 35 cents, also half
an hour for lunch
The faculty of the State Normal
School at Greeley decided that out of
the senior class of seventy members
sixty-eight are entitled to graduation
from the institution June LIST.
There are nineteen students from
Colorado in the University of Michi-
gan, divided among the departments as
follows: Literary, 4; law. 8; engineer
ing, medicine and dentistry, one in
each,
The Leadville Christian Endeavor So
ciety has appointed its committees and
Is making preparations for the four
teenth annual state Christian Endeay-
or convention to be held at Leadville
July Sth.
The members of school board No. .,
Pueblo, have accepted the offer of the
Mtnnequa Town Company to donate
eight lots if the board would erect "A
$4,000 high school building within n
reasonable time.
In the District Court at La Junta
Seaman and Hannahan, the confessed
bank robbers who dynamited the vault
In the Bank of Fowler and got away
with $1,000 last month, We're given
from four to. ten years each in the peni-
tentiary.
Mrs. Martha A. Shute, secretary of
the Board of Agriculture has been ap-
pointed superintendent of the horticul
tural display at the state fair in Pu-
eblo. The premium fund for this dis
play has been increased this year from
500 to $500.
1t is reported that Pueblo is likely to
have genuine .'sky scraper." Charles
Henkel In association with New York
people, is said to be planning the early
erection of ten-story steel building
at the southeast corner of Third and
Main street.
The executive board of the Western
Federation of Miners will meet i'll Den
yer on May 22nd for prolonged ses-
sion. The convention does not open
until May 26th. President Boyce an
ticipates the largest convention in the
history of the organization.
Chancellor Buchtel of the University
of Denver announces that he has Sc
cured pledges for $4,000 of the
amount needed to place the institution
free from debt. Only 100000 remains
to be raised and the prospect of getting
that soon Is very encouraging.
Bishop Henry w. Warren has tele-
graphed from Chattanooga, Tennessee,
announcing the conferences over which
he will preside this summer as follows:
Wyoming, August 7th; Utah, August
14th; Colorado, August 21st. He will
preside over two Ohio conferences also.
The Rev. Bruce Brown, pastor of the.
Central Christian Church in Denver,
has offered the use of the church free
to the labor unions of the city for such
public meetings as they may wish TO
hold. The building is fine one, and
is not rented for less than $50 night.
The city of Boulder owns Its own
water works, which cost about 500, 900,
and is receiving enough for water to
pay Off Its Indebtedness ut the rate
of $4,000 year. Boulder's municipal
affairs are operated on an 8-mill rate,
inclusive of provisions for its sinking
fund.
]. H. Crowley of Rocky Ford,
member of the State Board of Horu-
culture, has written Secretary Shute
that never in the history OF the state
have the fruit trees been as heavily
laden with blossoms as they are this
spring. He predicts crop never be-
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