The Holly chieftain., 1903-09-04
COLORADO BRIEF S.

A Jewish paper, to be called the
Western Israelite," will be started in
Denver September 5th.
The cantaloupe season is now on in
The Arkansas Valley and large ship
nents are made daily.
Two companies of the Fourteenth
cavalry started from .Denyer for the
Philippines, August 2Sd.
The annual Peach Day celebration
will be held at Grand junction Sept
ember Sth, 9Th and 10th.
An agreement having been effected
with the strikers the Portland mine at
victor resumed operations August 70.
The coming charter election in Den
YER is arousing great interest and
promises TO be one of the closest
fought contests ever held in The city.
The fall meeting of the Canon City
Driving Association will take place
September 9Th, 10th and lllh. Prizes
amounting to $4,000 will be offered.
The Denver Democratic city central
committee has placed itself on record
as opposed TO the proposed new city
charter by vote of l73 to T. Twenty
three members declined to vote
A joint survey of the line between
Gilpin and Boulder counties from Bea-
Yer creek to the main range above Rol-
Inns pass, gives Gilpin strip about fiji
ty feet wide for nearly the entire dis
tance
At the Silver Bell mine at Ophir on
the night of August 2lst Steve Greis
fell straight down timber chute
distance OF lO6 feet and escaped with
only broken thumb and a slight scalp
wound.
Fred Wild, a well known boileT-set
ter, and inventor of Wllds patent
smokeless furnace, was found dead in
his room at Denver August 25th. He
was a mechanic of great ability, but
addicted to drinking.
Thirty leading manufacturers and
wholesalers of Denver have Joined an
association which offer free railroad
fares to merchants who come to Den
yer to purchase stocks of them to the
amount of 81 900 or over.
There have been a large number Of
cases of typhoid fever in Denver re-
Gently, and the health officers think it
due in part to the poor quality of milk
sold by many dealers and the use OF
formaldehyde as a milk preserVatiVe.
The annual reunion of the early set
tiers of Trinidad, August 9th, was
largely attended. DR.. NJ. Beshoar, who
has been president since the organiza-
tion of the society, was reelected.
There were twenty-one deaths among
the pioneers during the past year.
The annual poultry show of the Col
orado Poultry Association will be held
n "a n a /,
beginning January IS, 1904 The COM
mittee of the association is now at
work upon the premium list, which will
. be larger than at any previous show.
A meeting of business men was held
at Boulder August 27th to discuss the
increased freight rates on the railroads
between Boulder and Denver, estimated
to average about fifty per cent. 1t was
decided to take vigorous action, and II
necessary haul freight by wagon.
The Paseo, the siXty-foot boulevard
running two miles from Colorado
Springs to Palmer Lake has just been
completed by Gen. w. J. Palmer, and
is now open to the public The road is
pronounced to be one OF the finest and
most picturesque in the West.
President Moffat of the Denver
Northwestern & Pacific is said to be
considering an opportunity to purchase
terminal facilities at San Francisco.
The franchise is that of the Bay &
Coast Railway Company, which runs
from San Francisco to Monterey.
The Denver Dairymen's Association
has raised prices, the schedule now be-
ing: To all customers using less than
seven quarts per week, ten quarts for
81; to all customers using seven quarts
and over, fourteen quarts for 81. The
wholesale price is 20 cents gallon.
The United States Civil Service Com
mission announces that an examination
for clerks and carriers in the postotiice
will be held in Denver November 81.
1903. Persons who desire to compete
should at once apply to H. c. Hefner,
secretary, at the Denver postoiIice, for
application blanks.
While going to his work at Pueblo
on the morning of August 22d Roy
Smith, a steel works machinist, was
attacked by seven or eight striking
machinists and nearly beaten to death.
One Of the men struck him on the top
of the head with large steel bolt,
cutting deep cash.
Sylvester r. Smith, president of the
Colorado-Utah Construction Company,
81 expected to arrive in Denver from
the East by September 10th, soon after
which the contracts for the $1,000, 900
tunnel to be bored by the Moffat COM
pany through the continental divide
will be awarded