The Holly chieftain., 1903-02-13
COLORADO BRIEFS

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A new company has lsen incorpor-
ated In Denver for the aapfacture Of
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The Colorado Kennel club viii hold
its annual Dog Show at Coliseum halt
in Denver on February 18th, goth and
21st
After a long siege of snowsiides. all
the railroads running into Silyerton
were able to. run trains regularly on
the 7th.inst $.
Meyer. Friedman. has been elected
president OF the Denver Chamber of
Commerce. Arthur Williams will con-
tinue to act as secretary
A meeting OF hardware men will be
held in Pueblo February 10Th and 18th
for the purpose Of organizing State
Hardware Dealers Association.
State Bee Inspector James Mitchell
of Jefferson county died on February
4th. He was widely known among the
agriculturists and bee keepers Of the .
state T.
The managers of the Overland CotN
ton Mills Company at Denver have
been fined $50 and costs in the District
Court for employing boys and girls
under age. The defendants took an ap-
peal.
After Withholding the donors name(
for about six years, President Slocum
has Just announced that the donor who
gave Ticknor Hall to Colorado Col
lege is none other than Miss Elizabeth
Cady of Wellesley, Massachusetts.
The first annual convention of the
Colorado Cattle and Horse Growers
Association will be held in Denver,
February 2Gth. 9th. 2Sth, being pre-
ceded by the Denver Fat Stock and
Feeder show February 23d oath. 25th.
The factory of the Colorado Portland
Cement Company near Florence has
been closed, owing TO consolidation
Of interests with the Portland Cement
Company, which has plant with suf-
ficient capacity to supply the demand.
David H. Moffat and the First Ma
tional Bank of Denver have been
granted judgment for $56.979 and $751;
166 respectively, against Otto Mears'
Chesapeake Beach railway, in the
Circuit Court of Calvert county, Mary
land.
The trial of Herman Anderson on
the charge of killing John Rabb. in
the District Court at Leadville, result
ed in verdict of murder in the sec
ond degree. The tragedy took place in
saloon where the two men got into
a quarrel over a finger-pu!ling con.
test.
Mrs. Laura E. Cranston, vile of
Bishop Earl Cranston of the Methodist
church and mother of District Attor-
ney Earl M. Cranston of Denver. died
in Silao, Mexico, February 7th, of ner-
vous prostration. Her health had been
failing since her terrible experiences in
Pekin, China. during the Boxer siege.
The first annual exhibition of the
Denver Fat Stock and Feeder Show.
which will be held the last week Of
this month in connection with the an
nual convention of the Colorado Cattle
and Horse Growers Association, is ex-
pected to bring several thousands OF
stockmen to Denver during that week.
Holiness workers all over the state are
interested in the meetings to be held
at ST. James Church In Denver, Feb
ruary 18th to 23rd. and there will be
state gathering on the 18th. The SER
vices will be conducted by Rev. Charles
]. Fowler OF Boston. Mass. assisted
by Prominent evangelists and evange-
listic singers,
AS the result OF the breaking of
chain suspending huge ladle in which
molten metal was being conveyed from
the blast furnaces to the new Bessemer
converter at the Minnequa steel works
at Pueblo. three men were killed. two
probably fatally injured. and four 9TH
ers. including the superintendent of the
converter, were badly burned, on the
morning Of the 9Th.
John T. Dean, a weaver in the Over
land cotton mills at Denver, was taken
from his home at l o'clock on the
morning of Sunday, February 9Th. by
"whitecappers," or masked men, and
taken some distance in his night
clothes. After being badly beaten he
was turned loose 1t is supposed to be
the result of a neighborhood scandal In
which Dean was charged with talking
too much.
There have been numerous entries
to the Denver Fat Stock Show which
opens on the 23d instant. and as all
cattle west of the Tooth meridian are
eligible the whole West is interested.
Several thousand dollars in prizes will
be given away and buyers are coming
from all over the East to purchase the
winners in the feeder classes. which
will be put on feed for the big shows in
the East next fall.
Professor v a Corhett nj the chair