The Holly chieftain., 1903-02-06
COLORADO BRIEFk

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4. Z. Meyers, ef Antpuitp Will erect !
. e4e.Oo0 buildinS In Dsayer. says the
NeHs.
fhs Brown Palace hotel in Denver
win hereafter be run ON Tie European
plan only.
Tho Grand hotel ct Pueblo is to be
greatly improved and . large bath
house added.
The new reservoir md site in Colo
RADIO 8prings will cost about $500 600.
The capacity Of the reservoir will be
1880. 900 gallons.
Colombo Springs book binders are.
making efforts TO secure the location
OF the proposed home OF the Interna-
uonAi Union Of Bookeindefs for Colo
rado Spring..
The new buildings authorized by the
Denvef building Inspection department
during January aggregated in value
131o, ,63S. which was 494. $50 more than
/ Tor ths sane month Of 1909.
! The many friends Of Gen. H. c. Mer-
/ riam in Colorado will be pleased to
know that the United States Senate
has passed 4 bill advancang him to the
grade Of major general on the retired
list. q.
The Postofnce Department has A.
sured Representative Bell that Two
rural frec delivery routes will be es-
tablished at Montrose, April 1st, with
Charles H. Parrish and Herbert G. Gra-
ham - carriers.
r. M. Prior committed suicide by
hanging himself at the Rocky Noun
| tain hotel In Denver, on the End inst.
| after losing his last $45 ut gambling.
| He was a machinist and had worked
In Denver and Cheyenne.
| 1t Is announced that Mrs. Anna B.
Brandt, who was the Republican can
didate for superintendent OF public In
struction at the late election. has de-
cided to withdraw her contest against
Mrs. Helen L, Grenfell.
! The ten Denver lodges Of Knights of
| Pythias are making preparations for
great celebration on February 18th,
which is.the anniversary of the found
| ing OF the order. There will be q
grand parade and banquet In the Wom-
ans Club building.
| The factory and business of the Col
oraao Condensed MIX Company at
| Fort Lupton have been purchased by
the Mohawk Condensed Milk Company
of Rochester, New York. The business
will be continued under the corporate
4 name OF the Colorado company.
The Denver News. Of January 2Sth
says: Another carload of Austrians
from Minneapolis arrived in Denver
yesterday to work on the new Moifat
railroad, and a carload is due to arrive
every day this week from Kansas City
Omaha, Minneapolis. parts of Texas
and Missouri. ;s
Contracts pledging 10000 acres o1
beets for the Fort Collins factory have
been signed, and every week increases
this acreage Several hundred Rus
SLAMS have moved In within ths
last month from Sugar City, Colorado
Nebraska and quite number came d.
rect from Russia.
4 The Box Elder spur Of the Colorado
q Southern has been completed to the
sugar factory site at Fort Collins and
work has now commenced In earnest
in erecting q 1900 ton factory. The
work will be rushed from now on. al
the factory must be In working order
by September 18th.
Charles Zellers. a Denver grocer. has
sued the Denver Retail Grocers' and
Butcher Association for 5.O00 dam
ages. He alleges that he has been boy
cotted by the association because he
refused to close his grocery at O'Clock
in the evening. according to the rules
Of that organization.
The Denver Chapter q the Daugh.
!; tiers of the Revolution have raised and
forwarded 800 for the Thomas Jeffer-
SON monument fund. The money has
been raised In response to an appeal
sent out to the American public by the
Memorial Association, OF which Ad'
miral Dewey Is president.
Governor Peabody has appointed the
following named gentlemen to serve or
the State Board OF Medical Examiners:
DR.. David A. Strickler. to succeed him.
self: Drs. John Inglis OF Pueblo ant
George E. Steman Of Denver to succeed
DR.. w. W. Aowan of Ouray and Dr.
Frank s. Dulin of Denver. s
Seven persons, five Of whom are
girls, were severely injured ON the End
inst. by the falling of an elevator used
by the Troy laundry in the Creswel
building on Blake street. In Denver
Il The rope sustaining the elevator broke
at the third floor and the elevator and
its human burden came down with Q
crash.
The business transacted In tht
United States land Office in Denver dur.
ing January amounted to I'll 1.182.O7
which, while It did not break any rec
ords. il above that OF many recon,
| vnonths The land husinesg amounted