The Holly chieftain., 1904-03-18
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

A fine pair of mountain liens have
Geen shipped to the Worlds Fair at
81. Louis from New Castle
Rural free delivery service has been
ordered at Manzanola, otero county,
April 18th with one carrier
The Ministerial Alliance of Denver
has arranged TO take a religious cen
sus OF the city next month
The baseball season is beginning
early this year. ALREADY many match
games have been played in different
parts of the state
The United Oil Company is making
extensive improvements in its retiner!
al Florence and is also building ma
chine shop for its own work
At Durango on the 9Th inst. Ben
Beatty, a tourteen-yearold boy. fell
over cliff on the mountain above the
smelter and was instantly killed.
District Attorney Trowbridge at
Cripple Creek has nOlied the remain
ing cases against Sherman Parker ara
Thomas Foster for train wreckins.
The two Grand. Army posts at Pueb-
10 have been consolidated under the
name of Pueblo Post No. s, Depart
ment of Colorado and Wyoming, &. 4
r.
The Pueblo Fire Department is in
sailing a new switchboard in its fire
alarm telegraph system at a cost oi
about $4,000. 1t will be thoroughly up
to-date
The county assessors with the state
board of equalization will hold meet
ing in the state houhe on March u TO
discuss the assessment on state proper
ty for the year.
The corner stone OF the church
building of the United Brethren
Church at Berthoud was laid March
18th. The new edifce is to be con-
structed of red pressed brick and is II
cost about $4,000.
John c. Reagan of Merino. Colorado.
has sold his ranch of 1d,0eO acres in Lo-
gan, Morgan and Washington counties
to the Coe & Steadman Realty Com
pany and S. d. Hanna OF Denver, the
price being 100000.
The pipe line which supplies Primcro,
in Las Animas county, with water was
dynamited on the night of the 1lth
list. just outside of Segnndo. There
was water enough on hand to supply
the place while the pipe was being re-
paired.
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Agricultural College al Fort Collins
was formally opened on the Sth inst.
The gymnasium has floor space Of
54xS3 feet. with ceiling twenty-one
feet high, and is excelleDtiy equipped
throughout
The sum of $4,000 is bequeathed TO
the home for consumptiyes at Denver
by the will of Sarah Schermerhorn
daughter of w. c. Schernerhorn OF
Newport and New York. in her will re-
Gently filed for probate at Newport,
Rhode Island.
Jasper Hartley fifty years OF age and
unmarried. committed suicide near
Brighton on the 9th inst by shooting
himself through the heart with a shot
gun. The act is attributed to des-
pondency occasioned by incurable
heart disease
The confessions of six boys arrested
in Pueblo for petty larceny indicate
that gang numbering as many as thir-
ty-five boys has been engaged for some
time in plunderng vacant HOUSES of
lead pipe, gas fixtures, etc, which they
sold to junk dealers.
A movement is on foot to organize
Young Mems Christian Association in
Secretary Bilheimer advises that no de-
cisive action shall be taken until the
money is in sight for $50, 600 building
and $1,000 year for expenses.
The application of NJ, r. 10y Of Flor
ence, R. j. Morse. Charles E. CAST, W.
L. Mitchell and NJ. D. Thatcher to Or
ganize the San Luis National bank
OF Alamosa. Colorado. with $50. 600 cap
ital, has been approved by the comp
t-oller of the currency
The annual tournanen, of the Den
yer Trap Club will be held on July 5.
and Z, Immediately following the
close of the races at Overland park
The main event of the tournament viii
be the grand western handicap al
inanimate birds, to be shot ever en-
Pert traps.
A letter has been received by mem
bers of the library beard of Boulder
from James Bertrand. private secretary
to Andrew Carnegie, offering $4,000
for public library for that city, condi-
toned upon the City Council providing
for a suitable site and for 500 per an
mum for maintenance
A Pueblo dispatch says that Miss
Elma Chilson is suffering from in
juries received March 9th when the
school building at Over.ou blew down
upon the teacher and twenty pupils.
She was struck on the head by falling
brick and bruised by falling timbers.
Several OF the pupils sustained slight
injuries.
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