The Holly chieftain., 1904-09-30
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

Der 2lst.
The Colorado Iron Works at Denver
has secured a contract to equip
smelter in Japan.
At Golden. September 2lst, Earie
Peck, aged twenty-three years, was in,
stantly killed in a runaway accident.
Pumpkin Pie Day will be celebrated
this year at Longmont, October 18th
and 14th. There will also be races By
the Longmont Driving Association.
When the sheriff of Weld county
catches tramp, he sets him at woyL
on the county road. Six in one da"
were sentenced to seventeen days
work each.
The law school of the University q
Denver has established a department,
or dispensary. where people too poor
to pay attorneys fees can obtain le-
gal advice free.
Six freshmen of Colorado College al
Colorado Springs, were recently con
victed in the Police Court OF an at
tempt to rush a sophomore party ana
fined s. and costs each for assault.
The officers of the American Mining
Congress. which at the recent meeting
in Portland, Oregon, voted to estab-
lish permanent headquarters in Denver.
will be located in the Denver Chamber
of Commerce building.
The firm of Orman & Crook, of Pu-
eblo, has been awarded big contract
on the new Gunnison tunnel project.
The contract was let in nine sections
and the Pueblo firm has secured three
Of these.
George Hit and Harvey Beaumont,
two of the eight prisoners who escaped
from the county jail at Trinidad Sep
TENDER 10Th, were recaptured on the
Goth at Clayton, New Mexico, by Dep
uty Sheriff Wootton.
Mrs r. A. Curtis, aged sixty years,
was struck by Midland engine at
Victor September oath and almost in
stantly killed. She was walking on
the track in a cut where the road
curved Mrs. Curtis had family of
nine children.
At the recent convention of the
United Brotherhood Of Carpenters and
Joiners in Milwaukee, resolution was
passed requesting the executive board
to investigate the matter of establish
ing home at Denver and report at the
next biennial convention.
The county commissioners of Lar-
mer county haze ordered an election
to be held November 9Th to vote on tho
proposition to create bonded indebt-
edness of $4,000, the money to be used
in replacing bridges carried away and
repairing public highways damaged by
last springs flood.
Practically opening the social sea
son OF the woman's clubs in the Mas
sachusetts state federation will be the
breakfast to be given in honor OF Mrs
Sarah Platt-Decker OF Denver, recent
ly elected president OF the General
Federation of Women's Clubs on Oc-
tober LIST.
Judge B. B. Lindsey Of Denver will
address the semi-annual rally of the
Ell Paso County Anti-Cigarette league
at Colorado Springs on October It'll.
The league numbers 1900 boys. being
comprised of seventeen leagues. On
the afternoon of the rally field meet
will be given al Washburn field.
The widows and children of the Den
yer flremen who died, or may die from
the effects of their exposure to the
fumes of nitric acid at the fire in the
rooms OF the Denver Post, will receive
pensions from the city. The pension
| is one-half the amount of the fireman's
pay for the widow and ten per cent.
for each child under fifteen years of
age.
There are three outfits of men pros
pecting for coal in the fields south OF
Durango between the La Plata and San
Juan rivers. One outfit numbering
about forty men is supposed to be EN-
ployed by the Rock Island. Another
about the same size is said to be work
ing for the Colorado Fuel and Iron
Company. A third company has about
twenty men at work.
Orman & Crook have been awarded
the contract for grading the roadbed
of the Moffat line from Arrowhead to
Hot Sulphur Springs, distance OF
about twenty-three and one-half miles.
The cost will be about 100000. About
500 men will be put to work immedi
ately. Chief Engineer Sumner thinks
the grading will be completed long be-
for the time limit, next June list.
The Denver, Northwestern and Pa
cific railroad Che new "Moffat Short
Line'), from Denver, Colorado, to Salt
Lake City, Utah, will construct its own
telegraph line, and thus be independ-
ent of the telegraph companies. Later
contracts probably will be entered
into with one of the big companies for
service, and the cost of construction
assessed against the company receiv-
ing the contract.
Steps have been taken to annex the
National Union Printers Home, near
Colorado Springs, to the city. This
will be an advantage TO both the in
stitution and the municipality. The
trustees of the home have accepted
plans for the Cummings Memorial LII
brary and work will bepin IN tho