The Holly chieftain., 1903-07-24
COLORADO BRIEFS.

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serve 575 patrons
Prof H. NJ. Hart. principal of the
Centennial high school. has resigned TO
go to the Butte, Montana. high school.
The labor unions of Denver are al
ready beginning extensive preparations
for the celebration of Labor Day Sep
tember 7th
l.. X. Enrich, Gen. w. J. Palmer and
Leslie j. SHELTON, the artist are said
TO be associated with movement to
erect an art galley in Colorado Springs.
Charles NJ Schwab, president of the
United States Steel Corporation, re-
Gently spent three days at Manitou
Park leaving for the East on July 18th.
The Great Council of Colorado, I'm
proved Order of Red Men, and the
Great Council, Degree of Pocahontas,
will be held at Idaho Springs August
10th to 18th.
General Palmer has purchased the
Bear Creek toll road near Colorado
Springs, and proposes to give it TO Ell
Paso county if the commissioners will
take care of it.
Heavy fires or the 18th and 18th inst.
did considerable damage to timber
above Empire, in the vicinity OF Ber-
thoud pass For some time the fire
was remarkably fierce and utterly de-
fed control.
Nathan Adams. a ranehman living
near Snrbar, small town twenty-five
miles east of Colorado Springs, was
struck and instantly killed by light
ming about 2:3O O'Clock on the after
noon OF July 18th.
Otto Fl. Wangelin and his wife, the
former being the proprietor of the
Boulder Daily Herald and president of
the Colorado Editorial Association,
celebrated their silver wedding July
18th, at Michillinda, Michigan, where
they were staying, together with their
children, for vacation.
The newly incorporated Trinidad
Electric Railroad Company has let the
contract for the construction of its
lines to w. C. Whitescarber. Work
will begin August 18th. He will re
ceive something like $35,0Uo for grad
ing, excavating and placing bridge tim
bers, etc
Work has begun on the grade for the
proposed Wellington extension Of the
Colorado & Southern railway out OF
| Fort Collins The line will be twelve
| miles in length and must be completed
| by September 18th in order to handle
[, the immense crop of beets that is being
raised in the Wellington district.
Grand Army men are delighted by
the promotion of Col Charles A Cool
| idge to be brigadier general AS cap
tain in the Seventh infantry when that
regiment WIS in Denver. General Cool
idge, who is a veteran of the Civil War
and an enthusiastic Grand Army man,
became very popular in Colorado.
| William Olsen, car repairer en-
| ployed by the Denver and Rio Grande
| at Pueblo, lost both hands on the 18th
\ inst. when they were run over by a
| freight car under which he was work
! ing. An engine accidentally struck the
| car and his hands were SO badly crush
| ed that amputation was necessary.
Many complaints of the scarcity of
water in Morgan, Logan and Sedgwick
| counties are being received at the state
| engineers Office. The Arkansas is very
| low. Inasmnch as crops are generally
| pretty well along, drouth will not be
| attended with as much damage as 1t
| would have been a few weeks earlier.
The Blue Ribbon Mining, Milling
| and Investment Company, at Idaho
| Springs. has made arrangements for
| the erection of bath house at the
| mouth of it's tunnel. For some time
| past the company has been bottling
| the water from its springs, where the
bath house is to be built and sending
| it East
The stock books Of the Colorado Fuel
| and Iron Company were closed at noon
| July 18th for the annual meeting of the
stockholders. which will take place in
Denver. August 10Th. The proxy COM
| mittee is composed of John D. Rookie
feller, Jr., George Gould and J. c. Os-
good, and blanks for the giving of
| proxies are being mailed to all the
stockholders.
Tent Endeavor, which blew down at
Denver, the property of the United
| Society OF Christian Endeavor was
| brought from Boston by the commit
tee. 1t was considered worth between
| $4,000 and $4,000. The freight charges
| from the East to Denver were $500. The
| tent was insured against fire for $500,
but no provision was made for such an
accident as occurred.
Daniel w. Page, seventy years old,
vce-president of the Hoeckel Blank
book Company of Denver, and the old
est travelling man in this section OF
the West, died at Salt Lake City July
10th. Mr. Page gained his title of the
Oldest travelling man in Colorado be-
cause for the last thirty years he has