The Holly chieftain., 1903-12-18
COLORADO BRIEFS.

EAoo springs.
The Senate confirmed the nomina-
don OF John p. Dickinson to be receiv-
er Of public moneys at Hugo.
The secretary of the treasury In his
annual report recommends an appro-
priation of $33. $50 for the public build
ing at Colorado Springs.
The new Palmer hall at Colorado
College In Colorado Springs is now
In actual use but the formal opening
Will not take place until January.
The State University football team
beat the State School OF Mines team in
post-seasQn game at Denver Decem-
Der 9Th. by q score of 23 to 5.
The pulp silo at the Loveland sugar
factory is already filled to overhowing.
The demand for the product Of the fac
tory Is not. SO far. 30 great rs In for
mer years.
1t is stated that the Colorado rail-
roads have adopted the western pass
agreement and will, after January LIST.
cut off all passes to shippers of freight
and to politicians.
Two immense sheet iron tanks are
being erected at the Fort Collins sugar
factory for the storage Of molasses.
which will be converted into sugar by
the Steffens process.
Colorado took seven prizes for car
load lots of cattle at the International
Live Stock Exhibition in Chicago on
the 9TH inst, the prizes going to Dem
yer. Montrose and Trinidad.
The first collection of the Denver
Saturday and Sunday Hospital Asso-
citation, organized to take up collec-
tion in all parts of the city two days
In each year in aid of the city hospi-
tails. netted the sum of $52476.
1t is said to be practically decided by
the directors that no state fair will be
held in Pueblo in 1904 on account of
the. Worlds Fair at st. Louis, which
will largely take up the attention Of
those interested in the state fair.
The Denver Union Water Company
has purchased the Du Bois ranch of
600 acres in the Platte valley, twenty
two miles above Denver, for the sake of
Its valuable water rights. which are
said to amount to 10,00O000 gallons a
day.
William w. Pickett has been ap-
pointed postmaster at Deep Creek,
Routt county, vice G. w. May, resigned.
Percy l.. Woodgate has been appointed
regular and Melville B. Woodgate sub
stttute rural free delivery carriers at
Delta.
Governor Ferguson Of Oklahoma has
Lonored the requisition from Governor
Peabody of Colorado for the return to
Prowers county of Jesse Tanner, ac-
cused Of larceny of live stock commit
ted in June, 1908 Tanner was under
arrest at Kenton, Oklahoma.
E. X. Whitehead, secretary of the
Humane Society, has invited the Den
yer Wholesale Produce Association to
cooperate with the society to prevent
the shipment of poultry by express in
crates that do not permit the fowls to
stand erect while in transit.
An organization was formed at
Glenwood Springs on the 9th inst. to
work for the development of the natu-
raj resources of the valleys of the
Grand, White Eagle and Roaring Fork
rivers. w. 8. Parkinson of Glenwood
Springs was elected president.
Paul Richter, proprietor of the Rich
ter Iron Works in Denver, while on a
hunting excursion near Brush, was ac-
cidentally shot and killed on the 18th
inst. by the discharge of a gun in the
hands of companion while both were
engaged in examining their weapons.
Miss Elizabeth Ryan of Michigan,
q graduate of Pratt Institute, New
York, has been selected to fill the po-
sition of first assistant in the Depart
ment of Domestic Science in the State
Agricultural College at Fort Collins.
Miss Ryan comes highly recommended.
The members of the Denver police
force have formed civil service club.
An executive committee was appointed.
with instructions to wait upon the
charter convention when it conyenes
and advance the civil service idea and
insist upon it being embodied in the
charter.
Five dollars ton for beets delivered
at the Greeley sugar factory and $4.75
a ton for all beets delivered on the
cars, are the prices that are announced
by the company for the next years
crop. Unrestricted delivery of beets
that are up to the standard may be-
gin October 30th.
The jury in the case of A. ]. Eli
son at Cripple Creek, who brought suit
against Stratton's Cripple Creek Min
ing and Development Company for in
juries received ON one of the properties
on August 2, 1902, found verdict for
the plaintiff, damages being awarded
to the amount of $4,000.
The new Standard club house, erect
ed at a cost of $4,000 by the United
States Reduction and Refining Com
pany at Colorado City for the benefit