The Holly chieftain., 1903-08-07
COLORADO BRIEFS.

Two Denver dairymen We're recently
fined for using formaldehyde 10 keep
milk from souring.
The Colorado Springs Brick Manu-
facturers' Association has been incor-
porated with $1,000 capital. 1t is in
the nature OF trust to regulate the
price and distribution of brick.
According to the figures of County
Assessor Strachen, the valuation of Ell
Paso county has increased $514, 900
over the assessment of last year. This
years valuation is s24 ,2g7 900
Sheds for passenger trains will soon
be constructed at the union depot in
Pueblo. The sheds will cost about $780,
600 and will extend $50 feet in each di-
rection from the ends OF the depot.
Harry b. Brentlinger. passenger
conductor on the Missouri Pacific,
dropped dead at his home in Pueblo
July 27th. His death was caused by
the breaking of blood vessel in his
head
Mrs. Alice d. Hart, formerly of
Texas, who has been arrested in Dem
Yer on the charge of stealing from the
department stores, lays her downfall
to the climate. The Colorado light air
seems TO have made her light fingered.
The Colorado Springs baseball team
closed It's series of home games at the
head of the Western League and went
10 st. Joseph to play July 2sth. AT
that date it had WOE 40 games and lost
only IS
John Barnes, a former town mar
shall of Wasenburg, had his leg bro
Nyh
track in the Walsen mine. He was
sent to the hospital at Pueblo for
treatment
The Last Chance boarding house, a
relic of Creede's boom and mammoth
structure, was entirely consumed by
fire July 2Sth, and only by the heroic
efforts of the Big Kanawha employees
was the shaft house saved.
William F. Garbe, of Fort Collins,
formerly instructor in molding and
machine work at the State Agricultural
College, is certain that he has invent
ed a perpetual motion machine. He
now wants some capitalist to help him
put it in motion.
The contract for the construction OF
the new civil and irrigation engineer
Hg building at the State Agricultural
College at Fort Collins has been let to
Brawner & Co. of Denver, for Si2, ,6O7.
The new building will be by far the
finest on the college grounds.
I. j. Hart. prominent man of Red
Cliff. whip was a member of the
Twelfth General Assembly, died at
Denver July 25th. On learning OF the
death resolution of coincidence was
introduced in the House by Represent
ative Fleming of Eagle county.
The coroner's jury in the case Of
William Armstrong, who was killed by
Edward Hickey at Denver, July 29th
for an alleged insult to Hickey's wife,
returned verdict that the deed was
done without justiflable provocation. :"
Hickey will be tried for murder.
Announcement is made of the ap-
pointment to the position of right-of-
way agent for the Moffat railway, of
c. C. Conkle of Canon City. Mr.. Con-
kle has held the position of local man
ager for the Colorado Electric Power
Company at Canon City since the
erection of its plant
County Assessor Webber has COM
puted the total of the assessment roll
of Boulder county and finds the valua-
tion to be $9,9G0,445, decrease of
s3635S from last year. This decrease
is due to L cut of the former assess
ment of the Colorado and Northwest
ern sailroad.
The jury at Cripple Creek that heard
the suit of Dr. Estelle Lewis for $780,
0GO damages against the Midland and
Midland Terminal railroads was dis.
charged by Judge Cunningham on the
evening of July 9th. The jury failed
to reach an agreement, having beer
out since Saturday afternoon.
Work of reconstruction of the peni-
tentiary water system >at Canon City.
was begun July Both. About $4,000
will be expended and the work will be
most thorough. Eight-inch iron mains
will be inaugurated to conduct the
water to the pumps, while the distrib-
uting pipes will be of small diameter.
The engineering corps of the Trim
idad electric railroad is working be-
tween Starkvile and Sopris. The per-
manent line is being rapidly located.
The grading contract will amount to
about $4,000 The line crosses the
river above Jansen and returns into the
city by way of the Bloom coal mine
camp.
Congressman Franklin E. Brooks of
Colorado Springs while out riding
August End, to inspect the Pixies Peak
forest reserves. accompanied by his
wife and daughter and several Colo
RADIO Springs people, was thrown from
his horse and sustained fracture of
his left forearm. His horse stumbled
l. L.