The Holly chieftain., 1903-06-12
COLORADO BRIEFS

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In the Cripple Creek district June
was ushered in by a fall of several
inches OF snow on the night of May
3lst
The open season for trout, not less
than seven inches long, and other fish
began June / and will last TO Octo-
Der 81.
The Denver Chamber of Commerce
has raised considerable fund for the
Kansas flood sufferers. Lawrence c.
Phipps gave 500.
The annual shoot of the Colorado
State Rifle Association will be held on
the grounds of the Denver club on Au-
gust 23rd and oath.
The Palm well, the first of four wells
! beeing drilled by the Boulder-London
Gold, Land and Development Company
at Boulder, came into oil May goth.
At Gunnison June 4th Thomas Trea-
size and Mrs. Hope Poos, charged with
the murder of John Poos, were bound
over without bail until the next term
of court.
Fruit growers of Garfield county who
have visited Denver predict heavy
, crop of peaches this year. The apple
crop WILL they think, be little shorts
, owing to the heavy yield last year.
This has been one of the coolest
springs ever known in northern Colo
rado, and the crops in consequence of
the cold weather have made but little
growth, compared with other seasons.
Leonard Carpenter of Colorado
Springs, has been elected editor of the
Harvard Lampoon, the famous humor-
GUS weekly of Harvard University. Car
penter is junior in the academical de-
partment.
President James H. Baker began the
commencement exercises of the Uni
versity of Colorado at Boulder, Sum
day, May 21st, by the delivery of the
baccalaureate address in the Presby-
terian church.
The Gunnison County Stockgrow-
ers' Association met in Gunnison June
9Th, and elected officers for the ensu-
ing year. w. A. Gillaspey was re-
elected president of the association for
the fourth time.
Reports received by Mrs. Martha
Shute, secretary of the State Board
of Horticulture, in response to letters
sent out some time ago, indicate that
the losses in fruit are not nearly as
great as was supposed.
James Bolinger, an old timer in the
Cripple Creek district was killed bA
lightning on the afternoon of June 9Th
He was walking from Victor to Divide
and was about four miles south of
Divide when struck.
July 1st the salaries of the following
Colorado postmasters will be in-
creased: Delta, 81 900 to $1,7O0; Trim
idad. $2,500 to $4,000; Grand Junction,
$4,000 to $2,400. Cripple Creek will be !
reduced from $2,80O to $500.
The Union Pacific to-day awarded to
Fitzpatrick Bros. & Collins of Denver
the contract for grading for double
track sixty miles of roadbed between
Kearney and Silver Creek. Nebraska.
The contract involves $2.000,000.
The Colorado College baseball team
defeated the University of Colorado
team June I'd, winning the Colorado in
tercollegiate championship over the
State University, Agricultural College,
School of Mines and University of Den
yer.
Out of respect to the late Hon. W. N.
Byers, who founded, plated and owned
this town, the town council of Hot
sulphur Springs, has passed an ordin-
ance changing the name of the prin-
cipal residence street from Pine street
to wv. N. Byers avenue
Justices Sweeney and Byers approved
the bond of w. 7. Downing at Grand
Junction and he was given his liberty
pending the trial in October Down
ing's neighbors and friends at White
water are his bcndsmen. Downing shot
District Attorney S. G. McMullin sew
eral weeks ago. I
The weekly report of the Department
of Agriculture pertaining to Colorado
brings out the fact that the unprece-
dented long period of rain and cold has
done much damage to fruit and veg
etables, and has retarded the growth
of grain. On the other hand the ranges
have been much benefited.
The body of Mrs. Mary F. Ryder,
who died at New Windsor June LIST
under peculiar circumstances, was
brought to Greeley and an inquest was
held, the verdict being that death was
caused by an overdose of patent
celery" medicines which she was in
the habit of using freely.
A horse was killed by bear in Bison
park, near Gillett, on the night of May
81. The bear was evidently driven
down by the heavy fall of snow from
| Pixies peak. A number of men went
out and followed the tracks of the
| bear, but could not locate it, as the