The Holly chieftain., 1904-01-15
COLORADO BRIEF S.

recruiting office for the United
States navy will be kept open in Den
yer until January 18th at NO. s Lewis
block
The city council of Boulder has vot-
ed to purchase of James p. Maxwell
what are known as the Goose Lake
reservoirs at the foot OF Arapahoe
peak =
The Pentecostal Union, also known
as The Jumpers" has nearly complet-
ed handsome four-story building in
central part of Denver at a cost Of
$40 900.
George S. Phelps, prominent attor-
ney of Denver and Leadville, died at
his residence in Denver on the Ith
| inst, after an illness of ten days of
pneumonia.
Helen Fisher Bagley, aged seven
tenn, and Lilly Power, ager seventeen.
both residents of Pueblo, We're victims
! Of the lroquois theater fire in Chicago.
/ Both girls were attending school in
Chicago.
Representatives of the Russian gov
srnment have contracted with the
Colorado Packing and Provisica Com
mess beef, TO be delivered at the op-
ton of the purchaser.
| On the 7th, at Central City, Ernest
! Bishop and James Doyle were killed
by the explosion of a missed shot into
which they drilled while at work in
the Cook shaft on Bobtail hill. Doyle
was forty-fiVe years OF age and Bishop
twenty.
| Mr.. and Mrs. George C. Batchelder.
aged respectively ninety and eighty-six
years, celebrated the siXty-third ami
versary of their wedding at Boulder
on tn 5th instant, four generations OF
! the family being present. The aged
couple are still hale and hearty.
A tally-ho coach, in which a party
of Boulder young people were out rid
ing on the night Of January 9th, was
| upset and several of the party injured.
Miss Nelena Newman, daughter OF
State Senator Newman of Durango, a
student at the university had her left
ankle broken.
F. The house of j. NJ Crawford in Hay
gulch, fourteen miles from Durango,
was burned on the night of the 9th
inst while Mr.. Crawford was absent.
capped, the latter with severe burns,
but Mrs. Crawford's father, Peter Nor
ris, was burned to death.
1t is stated at Colorado Springs that
negotiations have been practically
closed by j. r. McKinnie of Colorado
Springs and N. H. Stewart and H. b..
Coleman, both Of Kalamazoo, Michi-
gan, for the erection of a $1,000OO0
beet sugar factory at Las Animas, and
to acquire $500 acres for cultivation.
Glen F. Carnes, former secretary of
the state Republican central commit
tee and secretary of the State Board
of Arbitration, died at his home in
Denver January Sth of heart disease.
Mr.. Carnes was thirty-one years of age
and came to Colorado from Missouri
five years ago on account of lung trou-
BILE.
The body of Robert Green, the
twelve-year-old boy who was missed
from his parents home in Cripple
Creek August 18th, was found on the
7tn inst. 225 feet underground in the
Bob Womack tunnel at the Ell PasO
Gold King mine in Poverty gulch. He
had evidently fallen through an old
q stope and mill hole.
| z. A. Tulian. superintendent of the
government fish hatchery at Leadville.
has been offered a commission by the
Argentine Republic in South America
to establish a fisheries bureau in that
country. The commission guarantees
a five years contract at large salary.
Mr.. Tulian has gone to Washington to
confer with his superior about the Of
fer.
A. c. Glenn, who has been dispatch
er in the Pueblo postoffice, has been
named as superintendent of station A,
which will be open for business in Bes-
semer about January 20th The force
will consist of al assistant supern-
tendent and nine mail carriers and will
handle all the mail in Bessemer and
what is known as the Upper Mesa, in
cluding Minnequa.
The longpending wine rooms case
was settled January 4th in Denver by
decision of the United States Su-
preme Court, which holds that the
maintenance of wine rooms for women
in the Denver saloons is unlawful un-
der the ordinances of the city of Den
yer. The decisions of both the Dis
trict Court and the State Supreme
Court are affirmed.
An order was issued at Leadville
on the Sth inst. by Judge Overs clos
I ing all poker games which are conduct
ed in saloons and cigar stores. This
follows on the heels of the courts
general crusade against gambling. The
court also ordered the deportation of
quartette of dance hall girls who had
been working in the hall where TEN
perance drinks are served.
The January term OF the County
Court at Trinidal hppan on the 1th