The Holly chieftain., 1903-11-13
COLORADO BRIEFS.


for taxation in Colorado sp. ings is sl4.
700. 600
The work Of grading the line for the
new electric street railway at Trinidad
was begun November Sd.
The Denver Chamber of Commerce
has now membership Of 600. which is
the full number allowed by its consu-
tuition.
Ora A. Hatton son Of Daniel Hatton.
one Of the pioneers of Denver, commit
ted suicide at a lodging house in Dem
yer. on the 4th inst, by taking poison.
Order Of the American hoy, Chap
ter No. J., is the name OF an organiza-
ton formed in Pueblo in which the
High School boys are entered as MEM
bers.
A rural free delivery route has been
established, to commence December
lst. at Trinidad The proposed route
is twenty five miles long and will serve
a population OF 320.
The pay roll of the Colorado Fuel
and Iron Company for October amounts
to $333. 1924. being several thousand
dollars more than has ever before
been paid in one month.
The Woman's Home Missionary 60
ciety of the NJ. f. Church, which has
Just closed its annual convention at
Chattanooga. Tennessee, voted to hold
Its next meeting in Denver in October.
1904.
The young men of Holyoke and VI
cinity petitioned Governor Peabody for
company of infantry. and General
Bell appointed Colonel Macdonald to
muster the company into the National
Guard.
The Colorado Springs High School
will soon have a gymnasium and reg
ular director to take charge OF the
work. Work in the gymnasium, both
for young men and women, will be
compulsory.
Forty-one girls were received into
the Florence Crittenton Home at Den
yer during the past year. Five of the
girls married, a very few left without
permission, and many are now out
Going honest work.
The Western Rubber Company will
open an Office at 1888 Blake street, Den
ver 1t has been incorporated to man
ufacture rubber from species of
shrub that grows wild on arid land and
will. If it succeeds, open new indus
try for the state.
Edward G. Bird has been arrested in
Denver for robbing nickel-in-the-slot
telephone EoXes by means OF skeleton
keys. 1t is stated that Bird has
served a term in the State Penitentiary.
under the name of Edward G. Thomas.
for gran larceny.
At Denver. few days ago, Clifford
Dunifer, sixteen-year-ol son OF f. "A.
Dunifer, snapped an unloaded revolver
at his two-year-old baby brother, but
there happened to be one cartridge in
the cylinder and that went off and
killed the baby.
Daniel F. Carmichael. in connection
with eastern and Denver men. is TAX
ing steps toward the construction of an
electric railway line between Denver
and Greeley Several Of those inter-
ested visited Greeley few days ago
and are said to have been pleased with
the outlook.
Mrs. Seraldia M. Seymour. coiored.
who would have been JOG years old
next January, died November I'd at
the home of her son, William Seymour,
ten miles northeast of Colorado
Springs. Mrs. Seymour was formerly
Kentucky slave and was the mother
of thirteen children.
John f. Walker. the Santa Fe engi-
neer who was scalded in the wreck,
recently at Apishapa, died at La Junta
November 9th as the result of his in
juries. Walker was with the Rio
Granue for eleven years and at one
time was master mechanic of the COM
pany's shops at Leadville.
The Rev. Alfred Baxter, highly re-
spected citizen 6f northern Colorado
and an original Union Colonist, died
November 9Th at the residence of his
son Frank Baxter, two miles from
Greeley. at the age of seventy-eight
years He had been in good health up
to the day of his death, which resulted
in heart failure.
After several conferences between
the representatives of the Rio Grande
and the county commissioners of
Chaffee county, settlement
was effected whereby the two
roads paid into the county treas
ury $3S.ll0.C5 for their 1902 taxes.
The Denver & Rio Grande paid $780,
500 and thee Colorado & Southern paid
s7,6l0.65.
Thomas F. Walsh, former owner of
the Camp Bird mine at Ouray. Is said
to have intimated TO the Worlds Fair
Board that he will furnish the money