The Holly chieftain., 1903-06-19
COLORADO BRIEFS.

DR.. Florian Cajori has been appoint
ed dean of the new school of engineer
ing at Colorado College.
The Western Publisher for June con-
tains a fine portrait of Otto H. Wan
gelin. president of the Colorado editori
al Association.
A class of fourteen graduated at the
Leadville High school June 18th. Pres
ident Slocum of Colorado College de-
livered the address.
The new $260.GO0 science building Of
Colorado College at Colorado Springs
palmer HalD will be ready for occu-
pancy next September.
A state convention of the Democratic
party will be held at Denver Septem-
| ber 7th to nominate candidate for the
Supreme Court bench.
The Retail Coal Dealers Association
of Denver met few days ago and
agreed to an increase of twenty-five
cents a ton on the price of Ignite coal.
The postoftice at Steamboat Springs
will, on July 1st, be advanced from
the fourth to the presidential class
and the postmaster receive 81 200 per
year.
Land owners in the Platte valley
above Denver are organizing to fight
alleged encroachments on their water
rights by the Denver Union Water
Company.
At a meeting of the Methodist Min
isters' Association it was decided to
take up collection in all the Meth
/ odist churches in Denver for the food
sufferers in Kansas.
Judge Orr of the County Court at
Colorado Springs has appointed George
Irwin administrator of the estate OF
the late Alyaro Hemeneway. His bond
is fixed at 100000.
July l the salary of the postmaster
at Telluride will be increased $1OO.
The salaries at Amethyst and Victor
will be reduced 500 each and at Flor
ence will be reduced $500.
1t is stated an anti-mashing league
is to be started in Denver. Its object
will be to smash the features of the
silly would-be mashers who annoy la
dies with their impudent attentions.
On the night of June 18th Governor
Peabody delivered an address to the
graduates of the Centennial High
school in Pueblo. There were thirty
FIVE graduates, of whom twenty-four
were girls.
In suit before justice of the peace
in Denver a few days ago, over the
ownership OF certain piece of prop
erty known and designated as one
queen bee, hive Of bees was brought
into court and speedily removed
The Normal Institute of the Fourth
fofr Inf 0f C11O An in t0h
school building in Golden June Sth
from Clear Creek, Gilpin and Jefferson
prised.
A morphine fiend who had been sent
to the Denver county jail for term of
ninety days for vagrancy, found on his
release that he was not cured of the
habit and voluntarily sought another
| months confinement, which was duly
awarded.
The county commissioners of Weld
county awarded the contract for the
construction of the county poor house,
to be erected about mile and half
northwest of the city, to Chancellor &
Robinson Of Greeley for the sum of
i $500.
Mrs. James H. Baker, wife of the
president of the University of Colo
rado, has been presented beautiful
pin set with diamonds and pearls by
the Woman's club Of Boulder in Sac-
acknowledgement of her services to that
| organization.
The High School Cadets of Denver,
sixty strong, went into camp at Ly-
ons on the 10th inst. Lieutenant Har-
tung of the National Guard of Colorado
is in command. Companies A and B of
East Denver school and G of West
Denver are represented.
William M. Morris of Monte Vista
has applied to the Colorado Worlds
Fair Commission for financial aid in
| the construction of an airship to be
exhibited at st. Louis next year His
plans call for a structure thirty feet in
| diameter and $50 feet long.
Judging by the condition of the play
ers of the Denver team of the Western
League, several of whom are entirely
disabled, while nearly all are battered
and bruised until they are hardly fit
to take the field, base ball is only
little less strenuous than football.
Tama Umemura, little Japanese
| girl who was stolen and brought to
, Denver for a life of shame, has been
rescued and placed in the House of the
Good Shepherd, where she is great
favorite. She is learning English and
Is being taught sewing, cooking and
| houseWOrk