The Holly chieftain., 1902-07-11
COLORADO BRIEFS.

Meekcr wants lodge of Elks, 20 a.
not to feel lonesome when all the wild
ones are gone.
The pOstofiices at Barr. Gladstone.
Ili6, Roggen San Pablo and Thatcher
have been made domestic money order
Offices.
The Fourth Of July celebration at
Leadville wound up In lively snow
storm, the ground at midnight being ~
white ms In winter.
The Colorado Automobile Club has
recently been organized at Denver and
s expected to take In most of the lbs
owners Of automobiles in Colorado.
.About $50 members from all portions
OF the state attended the fifth annual
meeting Of the Colorado Bar Associa-
tion at Colorado Springs, July 1st and
End.
The first midsummer meeting Of the
Colorado Horticultural Society will be
held AT Boulder on July 23rd and oath.
Premiums will be given on the best
displays.
A carload of registered shorthorn
bulls, twenty-five in number. were re-
gently driven into Rio Blanco county
bby Foreman f. H. lines OF the Bar
Triangle ranch.
great army Of caterpillars has been
devastating the aspen trees south and
east Of Victor and has reached nearly
AL the mountains In the vicinity. On
several instances they have impeded
and stopped the progress Of trains.
Special rates will be made by the
Western Passenger Association for the
meeting of the National Irrigation Con-
gress at Colorado Springs October 9Th
to 9th. The National Forestry Asso-
ciation will meet at the same time
The Denver union stock yards last
month broke all records for cattle re-
ceipts. The total number received
during June was T5,491 head of cattle,
$500 hogs and 5.O29 sheep. This beats
any month in the history of the yards
Mrs. Hooper, the mother of Maj. s.
X. Hooper, general passenger agent of
the Denver & Rio Grande railroad,
died at New Albany, Indiana, June
3Oth, at the age Of eighty-nine years
Major Hooper had been In attendance
on her for two weeks before her death.
Charles F. Lacombe, president and
chief promoter Of the Lacombe Elec-
trio Company of Denver. attempted sui
eide on the morning of July Sd during
an attack of nervous prostration
brought on by business perplexities.
He cut his arm with razor, but failed
to reach an artery.
The colored citizens of Colorado
Springs are making elaborate prepara-
tions for the observance of emancipa-
etion day, September 22d. 1t is the in
; tention OF the committees to make 1t
a state affair, II possible, and send out
invitations to the various colored or
ganixations throughout the state.
F. R. Allen. one Of the pioneer saw
mill men of Lyons. was shot and In
stantly killed by Gus Plum, a ranch
man living fifteen miles west OF Lyons,
In Big Ell park. on the night OF June
3Oth. The shooting resulted from
quarrel over burned bridge. Plum
went to Estes park and gave himself
up. r
Gen. William j. Palmer has written
letter from Athens, Greece, to Cap
tain Watson Of Colorado Springs, ex-
pressing his aversion to becoming a
candidate for governor of Colorado, as
1t would be "to much like getting into
business harness again." General Pal
mer recently retired from active busi-
ness.
Miss Pauline L. Davidson, aged
twenty, beautiful and accomplished,
committed suicide In Denver on the
I'd inst. because Of unrequitted love
and poverty. She left letters to sev-
eral friends and one to the newspa-
pers, along with photograph which
they all used In their account Of the
tragedy.
The coroner's jury in the inquest
held over the remains Of +. r. Allen
at Big Elk Park returned a verdict
~ follows: THAT F. r. Allen, de-
ceased, came to his death on June 30.
1902, by gunshot wound In the head
made by a gun held In the hand of
Gustave Plum, and that said killing
was not felonious."
The business houses at Telluride
were closed on the afternoon Of July
Sd out OF respect to the memory Of
John Barthel, the union miner who was
killed during the Telluride riot Of July
3, 1901. Memorial services were held
over his grave and addresses were
made by John R. O'Neill OF Victor and
Father Hagerty of Denver.
The new First Methodist Church
building at Colorado Springs was ded-
icated by Bishop Henry w. Warren
on Sunday, July 9th, In the presence
NJ nm I'm m on~o uudtoucos Tho ncpo . yov,