The Holly chieftain., 1903-10-30

OF Colorado of 23.3sS acres located in
the Pueblo land district.
A requisition was honored October
cath by Governor Peabody for X. A.
i Chamness. wanted in Norton county,
| Kansas, fer criminal assault.
President John A. Martin Of the
state board of pharmacy is investiga-
ting cases of violation of the pharmacy
Jaw 1t requires that none but regis
tered drug clerks shall sell poisons or
put up prescriptions. The known in
stances of violation Of this law are
said to be numerous. Mr.. Martin has
! D long list of such offenders and is
about to bring the enforcement OF the
| law to the attention of the proper au-
thorities
The state board of equalization met
October 18th for the last time this
year. The board. after short session,
adjourned sine die without taking any
action in regard to the assessments
| OF the various counties of the state and
without changing the assessments on
| the railroads. The county commission
ers of two counties had recommended
| the reduction of the assessments on
certain railroads of the state, but no
action was taken
The Denever Chamber OF Commerce
was informed by letter which arrived
| recently that there has been estab-
| lished a museum of foreign products
| by the Chamber of Commerce of Jas
sy, Roumania. Its officers request the
Denver and Colorado business men to
| send specimens of their products for
avh h in, tS mn
hs result that European patronage
may be expected by the exhibitors for
such articles as are desired in Rou-
mania especially.
The sanitary bulletin published by the
state board of health for September
has been published. The report shows
| that there were 1872 deaths In the state
/ during the month. of which 252 were in
| the city and county of Denver In the
city and county of Denver during the
month there were fifty cases Of diph-
iberia, twenty-three of scarlet fever,
five of smallpox and eighty-nine of ty-
phoid fever Throughout the state,
there were 123 cases of, diphtheria.
sixty-two of scarlet fever. forty of
smallpox and 1856 of typhoid fever.
| State Game Commissioner ]. NJ
| Woodward has established small
park near the Denver fish hatchery for
| the purpose of receiving young deer,
elk and antelope, which will be taken
| from persons who have no right to
their possession. At present there are
| two deer in the park, and 1t Is expect
| ed that there will be about dozen of
them in the park before all the game
law violators have been rounded up.
| Certain persons in the state manage
| in some way each year to get possess
| sion of young deer and try to keep
| them for the purpose of tanning them
| This is strictly against the law, and
Mr.. Woodward, through his game war;
| dens, gathers these animals in and will
| place them in this park near the fish
hatchery.
| The Denver Board of Aldermen
| adopted the report of the Cherry creek
| commission on the title to lands along
! Cherry creek between Colfax avenue
| and the Platte river and with the ex-
| ception of three tracts of land which
| have been withdrawn, the city will at
once begin selling the property owned
by 1t along the channel In this way
the city will realize profit of SIS 900.
A resolution operating as substitute
to the one passed by the Supervisors to
sell all, was presented to cover the new
condition, by Alderman Ross, was
adopted. 1t authorizes the Mayor to
appoint an assistant to help him in
making the transfers of the property
| sold. 1t further authorizes him to give
quit claim deeds. This is preliminary
to building retaining walls to keep the
| creek In permanent channel
Secretary of State James Cowie re-
ceived letter recently from man in
Ell Paso county who is very anxious to
open saloon on the club plan. He
does not just know how he ought to go
about 1t and for that reason he has
written TO the secretary Of state to
learn just what steps he will take to
sell liquor "a la club" The letter it
self is an interesting document. 1t fol-
lows:
Secretary Of State. Denver, Colorado.
Dear Sir, your honor-Pleas, gave
me the laws which l will half to pro-
vide by to start club to sell liquor
and what will it cost me. want the
rules and the laws for so doing"
Mr.. Cowie sent him word that II he
wanted to incorporate club he could
do SO and that it would cost him $3.50,
and then told him to ask the state
treasurer what he should do to take out
a license.
Data has been received at the may
or's office showing that the first mayor
of Denver was John C. Moore. In the
work of gathering early history Of the
city government, Mr.. Moore's connec-
ton with it had previously been cloud
ed with uncertainty. His widow who