The Holly chieftain., 1903-04-17
COLORADO BRIEFS.

Prof. w. ]. Whiteman of Denver will
train a chorus of GOO voices for the
coming Christian Endeavor convention.
The Fifth cavalry, headquarters and
band, now en- route from the Philip
pines, has been ordered to Fort Logan.
At a special election held April 1lth
the citizens of Rifle cast lS2 votes in
favor of incorporation and six against
]. Clark Wells of Denver has been
elected by the board of trustees to be
registrar of the State School of Mines
to succeed B. A. Amber. resigned.
At the annual meeting of the Acad-
emy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryn-
gology at Indianapolis, DR. Edward
Jackson of Denver was elected presi-
dent.
An act of the Legislature provides
that portrait of Hon. Otto Mears, the
Pathfinder of the San JUAN shall
adorn stained-glass window of the
Senate chamber.
The Logan County Cattle Growers
Association has raised nearly $4,000
for a breakfast and entertainment to
be given President Roosevelt ON the
morning of May 4th.
w. f. Pabor is still running the Pa
Dor Lake Pineapple at Pabor Lake.
Florida 1t has been discovered that
pineapples can be protitabiy grown un-
der cover and Mr. Pabor is again push
ing his colony plans.
Two men who blew open the safe in
the Longmont postotiice at a. m.
April 18th, failed to get any booty ex-
Mt fypn
followed by their tracks in the snow
to lumber yard and there arrested.
Reports of the recent municipal cleo
tions show: Delta, high license; Gun
nison, Citizens liberal ticket; Golden,
Republican; Redcliff, non-partisan;
Fort Collins high license mayor; AS
pen, Citizens ticket; Glenwood, Citi-
zens' ticket.
The University of Colorado has
placed the Loveland high school upon
the accredited list of high schools of
the state, This means that graduates
from the Loveland high school can en-
ter the university without examination,
their Loveland diploma being sufii-
cient.
The will of the late William N. By
ers was admitted to probate in the
County Court at Denver April 11th.
Personal property amounting to $14,-
900 Is left to his wife, son and daugh-
ter He had decided all his real estate
to them several months before his
death.
At noon April 18th, A. C. butcher,
the new warden at the State Reform
that institution. The former warden,
Joseph Smith, turned over the keys and
a number of the guards also quit, whose
places were taken by new men from
Denver and Colorado Springs.
Eleven citizens of Colorado Springs
have applied to the District Court for
an injunction to prevent the sale of
liquor by druggists The court is pc
titioned to restrain the company from
handling spirituous liquors in any
form The liquor clause" in all title
deeds to city lots is cited as grounds
for the injunction.
The Brown Palace hotel at Denver
may be sold at auction soon on mort
gage of $660,000 which was formerly
held by W. S. Stratton. but is now
owned by the Lockhaven Trust and
Safety Deposit Company of Connecti-
cut A decision of the Court of Appeals
is understood to have cleared away all
obstacles to the sale.
D. NJ Conway has been sentenced
in the District Court at Denver to a
term of from one year to eighteen
months in the penitentiary for selling
an imaginary dairy business. He is
said to have vctimized many purchas-
ers. who could never find what they
had paid their money to secure. His
attorneys may enter an appeal.
The tyo-fifths mill appropriation
made by the Legislature for the Uni
versity of Colorado was the occasion
of great rejoicing among the faculty,
students and friends of the university
in Boulder Visiting senator's and
representatives who had favored the
bill were given cordial reception and
talked to the students, being after
wards entertained at banquet by
President Baker.
The reward of $500 offered for the
arrest of Dinwoodie. who shot and
killed George Wright in Alamosa last
October, has just been allowed by the
Conejos county board of commission
ers Frank A. Hyatt of Alamosa and
Sheriff Stump of Creole were the Off
GERS who made the arrest and they will
receive the reward A similar reward,
offered by the business men of Alamo
sa, was paid at the time of the arrest.
G. o. Ferguson of Manitou recently
returned from New York. where he
personally interviewed Andrew Carne-
gle in regard to the proposed library
building for Manitou. Mr.. Ferguson