The Holly chieftain., 1904-04-15
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

will be unveiled in the City Park at
Denver next Fourth of July. The
statue is ten feet in height.
The Baird House at Durango, for
merly used as a hotel but of late rent
ed to housekeepers, was burned on the
afternoon of April 9Th, leaving eleven
families homeless.
Mrs. Mary Gillispie, who died in the
county hospital at Denver few days
ago at the age of eighty-six, was dur
ing her life time the mother of fifteen
pairs of twins.
Louis h. Blackstock, proprietor or
the Blackstock hotel at Fort Collins,
died on the 9Th inst. as the result OF a
surgical operation performed a few
days before in Denver.
The State University has begun the
publication of new periodical entitled
The University of Colorado Medical
Studies. 1t is proposed TO make 1t
high-class medical journal.
Winfield S. Hughes, ch<rged with the
embezzlement of So, 164 While acting as
clerk in the city water department at
Colorado Springs, has been bound over
for trial in the District Court.
DR.. Rose, a well-known veterinary
surgeon of Salida was found dead in
his room on the night of April 3rd. A
coroner's jury decided that his death
was occasioned by heart failure,
Texas Colorado railways will arrange
low excursion rate from various
places in Texas to St. Louis via Colo
rado points, giving tourists chance to
visit the mountains and cool off going
OF coming.
The statements of the two national
banks and one savings bank in Trini-
dad show that the total resources are
$25S2, ,075, and deposits aggregating ST.
,0S0. One of these banks has 4,20O
individual deposito.s.
Col. L. C. Ellsworth one of the pio-
neers and most prominent citizens of
Denver, having taken leading part
in many important public enterprises,
died at his home in Denver April 9Th
from paralysis.
1t is stated that Mary Rouse, the
twelve-year-ol girl who accidentlly
shot herself in the neck at Brecken~
ridge, and who was taken to Denver
hospital where the bullet was extract
ed, is doing well and will recover.
Little Ethelyn McGill, the threeyear-
old daughter of Representative and
Mrs. E. D. McGill of Wray, was badly
bitten by two vicious hogs few days
SINCE but her injuries were not con-
sidered dangerous.
DR.. N X. Morris and Frank A..
knight propose to erect a mill in Dem
Yer for the treatment of fuller's earth.
which they will procure from ranch
near Akron, where the deposit is said
to be of exceptional purity.
Prof. E. r. Wolcott of the State
School of Mines has found evidences of
radium in the hot mineral waters OF
Glenwood springs. He says the radio
activity of the waters is greater than
that of any that he has previously test
ed.
William Danner has just been elected
secretary of the Young Mems Christian
Association at Denver for the seventh
consecutive term. His work in connec-
tion with the establishment of the
health farm near Denver is attracting
| national attention.
The knights of Maccabees of the
World, at their state convention in
Denver elected j. A. Griffin of Denver
state commander for the coming three
years. The ladies of the Maccabees
elected Mrs. Murrea Marvin of Denver
as state commander.
At Breckenridge on the 4th inst
Mary Rouse, aged twelve years, acct
dentally shot herself with a revolver,
receiving a dangerous wound. On ad-
vice of her physician she was immedi-
ately sent to st. Luke's hospital at
Denver for treatment.
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made its report to Judge Halett on the
9th inst, and returned twenty-one in
dictments. Most of them are revenue
and timber trespass cases. Only a few
names of those indicted were given out,
because many arrests have not been
made.
The Anti-SaIoon League at Colorado
Springs is proceeding against a num-
ber of druggists for the sale of liquor
in quantities less than one quart. One
of the druggists. who has been fined to
the extent of $500. has appealed five
cases from the Police Court to the
County Court.
That Canon City has suffered very lit
tie loss from during the past year is
shown by the annual report given by
George Il. Cassidy, chief of Canon
City'S Fire Department, lor the munich
pal year ending March 31st Loss by
fire within the water district, was 1882;
number of fires, eighteen.
The loss by the fire at Granada on
the night of April 4th, which destroyed
the lumber yards of S. c. Gregory, is
estimated at $4,000 or upward, on
which there was $4,000 insurance.
Nearly the entire population turned
out and worked most of the night to
fight the fire and prevent it from
spreading.
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