The Holly chieftain., 1903-05-15
COLORADO BRIEF s

] At the school election in Boulder
May 4th,- it was voted to issue $50 0ov
in bonds for the erection of two new
school buildings.
President Roosevelts fifteen-minute
stop at Hugo and cowboy breakfast
with tin plate and cup. was the most
picturesque feature of his tour through
Colorado.
The total number of pieces of bag
gage handled IN the Union depot at
Denver during the month OF April was
71,941, as compared with 66,955 in
April 1902.
All the cables of the Colorado Tee-
phone Company in Pueblo which have
been erected on poles. have now been
transferred to an underground system
of conduits.
Nearly all the inhabitants of Colora-
do Springs. Colorado City and Mani
tou greeted President Roosevelt at
Colorado Springs and the city was pro-
fusely decorated.
Citizens of Orchard Place and Cher
relyn, adjoining Denver on the south,
have petitioned the County Court OF
| Arapahoe for incorporation as town
to be called Englewood
The Ell Paso County Humane Society
has decided to give a. silver medal TO
the police officer or agent of the So
ciety making the best record during
the year for humane acts.
Miss Dora Moore, principal of the
Corona school, in Denver, has been
presented by the mothers of some OF
her pupils with a sufficient sum to de-
fray her entire expenses on a trip to
| Europe the coming summer
w. c. Caldwell, who operated small
distillery near Aguilar, was caught in
the machinery on the Sth inst. and had
one arm nearly torn from the socket.
He refused to have the arm amputated
and died from loss of blood
| Special Agent Tuft of the Humane
Society at Denver has taken charge of
ffteen-year-old japanese girl, said
to have been purchased in Japan and
| brought to Denver for immoral pur-
poses by q Japanese woman.
| Edgar R. Downs, formerly principal
of the North Side high school, Denver,
| but for the past three years superin-
tendent of the city. schools of Durango,
has been re-electeb for fourth year
by the Durango School board,
| There was very large attendance
|
trict of the State Federation Of Wom-
ans Clubs at Longmont May 9Th. Ar
rangements were made to select def
mite lines of work for the ensuing year.
The comptroller of the currency has
issued a certificate authorizing the
First National Bank of Fountain, Colo
RADIO, to commence business. The bank
has capital stock of $4,000. Gordon
| Jones will be president and Clifton
George cashier.
Rural free delivery service will be es-
tablished July 1st from Lcngmont on
routes 4 and s. The length of the
routes is forty-seven miles, the area
covered sixty-nine square miles, the
population served 1886, and the num-
ber of houses on the routes 1877
T, Attention of the federal aYborculture
experts has been called by the custo-
dians of the South Platte forest reserve
to scourge that is destroying the pine
trees 1t is supposed that some insect
is destroying the trees, of which hun
dreds are turning yellow. The blight
appears to be spreading.
The War Department at Washington
has rejected all bids for the driving OF
an artesian well at Fort Logan, near
Denver, the cost Of which was to have
been about $4,000. 1t is stated that
none of the bids were In compliance
with the specifications, and that new
proposals will be asked for.
Prospectors and miners who have re-
mained in the La Plata mountains all
winter estimate the snowfall at from
twenty-five to thirty feet, probably one
third of this having fallen since the
| first Of March. There 10 said to be
a greater quantity of snow In the
mountains now than at the same date
TOR fifteen years.
The Citizens Protective League has
been organized at Idaho Springs. Its
object, as announced, is to protect its
members and the community at large
and all persons who desire to work,
from unlawful interference and the evil
effects of strikes, lockouts and boy
colts, and all other movements unnec-
essarily or unreasonably interfering
with labor and business.
Jamestown, in Boulder county, is the
home of new social lodge This is
called the Grand Order of Antelopes
Incorporation papers for the grand
lodge have been filed with the secre-
tary of state. According to the papers,
the lodge intends to organize subordi
nate bodies in all parts of the country.
Members will be required to be eight
cen years of age. Social and benefit
features are embodies in the order.
! F. R. Woodward and Lee A. Rey-