The Holly chieftain., 1903-10-09
COLORADO BRIEFS.

| from the top OF the range on the Monat
| line to the company's Offices in the Ma
testic building at Denver. The length
pf the line is sixty miles.
| ID. II. Moffat emphatically denies the
| rumor that his line Is in some way to
be connected with the Western Pacific
| railway project. He has no thought
Of any extension beyond Salt Lake.
Allen B. Seaman, prominent attor-
ney of Denver. died of heart disease
| on the night of Sept oath. He went
| to bed apparently in his usual health
| and was found dead in the morning.
Edwin J. Eaton of Colorado Springs
has been appointed by Governor Pea
body as trustee Of the State Home
Tor the Deaf and Blind. He takes the
place of w. G. Rice. recently deceased.
John Crump, negro who claimed to
be l04 years old. died at the Denver
county poor farm and was buried un-
der the auspices of the G.. A. R.. Octo-
Der 1st. He was in the service at Mo-
bile.
Miss Alfredo Stebbins, late of Lin
colr. Nebraska, has been elected IL
bralian at Fort Collins. She is an ex-
perienced librarian, having taken a
regular course in library work in Phil
ade,phia.
BY the caving in of the earthen roof
OF house eight miles east of Aguilar.
short time since, Elferino Aguilar,
aged 13. was killed and six grown peo-
pie more or less injured. The boy
died from suffocation.
A commission appointed by Mayor
Wright is at work in Denver investi-
eating titles to land along Cherry
creek. 1t is proposed to wall the banks
and construct boulevard along at
least one OF the walls.
Mrs. Samuel E. Ward of Boston. died
ct the home of her sister, Mrs. R. H,
WI.lely, in Boulder, September Both.
Mrs. Ward, formerly Miss Lillian Ty-
Ter, was the first woman graduate of
the University of Colorado.
C. NJ. Bader, formerly an oil pro-
moter and real estate man, was de-
clared insane by jury in the County
Court at Boulder, October I'd. At times
Bader has been so irrational as to
threaten to shoot people.
William F. Wallace and Lawrence
p. Korr have been appointed
rural letter carriers at Rocky Ford.
Colorado, to begin service November
I'd. and Mabel Wallace and Jennie
korr are named as substitutes.
During the month of August twenty
three men were enlisted for the regu-
lar army in Denver and seventy-six
rejected. At Pueblo eight were en-
listed and forty-two rejected, and at
Trinidad three were enlisted and
twenty-three rejected.
James Hugo, foreman of the Mar
tells & Mcdonald gang of graders on
the Moffat road, while at work about
six miles northwest of Marshall, Sep
tember 30th, was killed by falling
rock from a blast, having failed to &C
far enough away for safety.
Rocky Ford is soon to have a new
bank known as the First National
Bank of Rocky Ford. The charter has
been applied for to the Washington
authorities and the bank will probably
be in operation inside of thirty days.
1t will have capital Of $4,000.
The Live Stock Company, corpo-
ration, has sold its ranch lands, six
miles northwest of Fort Collins, to s..
H. Clammer and John Schwartz. The
total embraces 4,20O acres of pasture,
| meadow and cultivated land, carrying
water rights for all the meadow and
cultivated land.
Word was received few days ago
at the Denver Office of the Santa Fe
| line that four new 143-ton engines were
on their way to Denver for service be-
tween Denver and Palmer Lake. The
new engines will pull seven coaches
up the grade there at the rate of fly
miles an hour.
Loveland calls attention to the fact
that the foundations are being laid for
two large business blocks, new
church building and $1,000 residence
within the radius of less than two
blocks. The old town hall is being
torn down and plans are being pre-
pared for new one.
The Democratic judicial district con-
vertion at Colorado Springs nominated
G. l.. Mckesson for district judge by
exclamation and unanimously adopted
| The report of the committee on resolu-
lions condemning Governor Peabody
Tor his action in sending the troops to
the Cripple Creek district.
The Wray Telephone company is in
stallirg a new exchange and the capt.
tai sGjck of the company will be in
creased $4,000 The company has al
ready purchased the Neb-Kan- Rado
line that runs from Haigler, Nebraska
to st. Francis, Kansas, and Idalia, Col
orado, and will make it a part of the
system.
Ray R. Jackson, employed in the