The Holly chieftain., 1903-04-24
COLORADO Briefs

All last winter the people of Victor
drank heavily mineralized water. They
were all taking gold cure.
Prof w. j. Whiteman of Denver will
train a chorus of 600 voices for the
coming Christian Endeavor convention.
new ordinance in Denver requires
the owner of an automobile to take
out license and display the number
of tie vehicle in large figures.
j. Clark Wells of Denver has been
elected by the board OF trustees to be
registrar of the State School of Mines
to succeed b. A. Amber, resigned.
The hospital equipment of the Colo
RADIO National Guard at Denver will be
placed at the use of the international
Christian Endeavor convention in next
July.
Plans are being perfected to reor-
ganize the Denver Gas and Electric
Company and take it out of the hands
of the receiver. A stockholders meet
ing will be held May 18th.
An expert accountant who has been
examining the books of z. G. Coray.
building inspector at Colorado Springs,
finds that officer to be short in his ac-
counts to the extent of $l,203 AZ.
A colonization scheme is being
planned in Pueblo by c. G. Nikirk.
city agent for the Santa Fe railroad,
and others, by which 100 Swedish fam
lilies will be placed on farms in Pueblo
county.
The annual joint midsummer meet
ing of the Colorado Editorial Associa-
ton and the Arkansas Valley Press
Association will be held at Glenwood
Springs on Monday and Tuesday, June
Sth and 9th.
The Ouray Business Mems Associa-
ton has been organized with large
membership to protect the merchants
of the city against the danger of strikes
and boycotts. E. H. Powell is president
and William Storey, Jr, secretary.
The land office at Washington has
confirmed the transfer of the Denver
Pacific railroad land grant in Colo
RADIO to the Union Pacific. The amount
involved is about 5000 acres. The
transfer was made at the Hugo office.
John K. Shireman was elected secre-
tary of the Colorado State Fair Associ-
alton at meeting of the directors at
Pueblo April 18th. He succeeds
Charles A Galloway, who becomes
manager of the Minnequa Amusement
Company.
Doc Baggs, the famous confidence
man who once ran things pretty much
his own way in Denver, and OCCASION
ally extended his activities to other
parts of the state, has recently been op-
Grating in Omaha. His bait there was
bogus mining stock
Bradley and Morrison, the men ar
rested for dynamiting the Longmont
postoffice safe, are now in custody in
Denver. They confessed the crime to
the United States marshal and postof-
flee inspector. Three other men arrest
cd on suspicion were released.
The state land board, after hearing
the protest of the New Century Light
and Power Company against granting
the Denver, Northwestern and Pacific
Railway Company the right of way
through Gore canon, decided the con-
troversy in favor of the Moffat road.
The George w. Cook drum corps of
Denver has changed its title to the
Cook band. 1t is now seventy strong
and is equipped as full military band
and drum corps. The band will have
a conspicuous place in the coming ded-
site at st. Louis.
The University of Colorado has
placed the Loveland high school upon
the accredited list of high schools Of
the state, This means that graduates
from the Loveland high school can en-
ter the university without examination
their Loveland diploma being suffi-
ciemt.
John Trusty, a colored bootblack,
was arrested at Colorado Springs on
the night of April 18th on the charge
of having murdered his wife. His
story is that he returned home at IL
o'clock at night and found her dead
body. Her death was caused by a
gunshot wound in the head.
At noon April 18th. A. c. butcher,
the new warden at the State Reform
atory at Buena Vista, took charge of
that institution. The former warden,
Joseph Smith, turned over the keys and
number of the guards also quit, whose
places were taken by new men from
Denver and Colorado Springs.
The United Presbyterian presbytery
of Colorado met in Loveland April 14th
and 18th. Ministers and elders were
present from Greeley, Fort Morgan,
Denver, Colorado Springs, Pueblo and
Canon City. An increase in member
ship and general interest all along the
line was reported.
A large number of reservoir COM
panies in the state of Colorado have
not complied with the statute requiring
them to have written statement from
the state engineer. accepting the reser-