The Holly chieftain., 1904-12-16
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

20th.
During the year ending November
30th Otero county spent s3,s2350 in
caring for its poor.
Lester Mclean, a prominent Den
yer lawyer. died suddenly on the night
Of December 4th of heart disease.
Manual training departments are be-
inb established in many of the larger
district schools throughout the state.
There is = serious egg famine in the
Denver market and eggs have been re
failing At thirty-hve to forty cents .
dozen.
The Colorado & Northwestern is al
most into Eldora. and II is oMcially
announced that the road will be COM
pleted and trains running to Eldora by
Christmas day.
Edward e. Gilman, superintendent
Of the Silverton railroad, stated while
in Denver recently that the road
would be built over to Ouray during
the coming year.
The school at Marshall in Boulder
county, has been closed because Of the
prevalence of diphtheria. Marshall is
. coal mining camp and is inhabited
mostly by Italians.
John Hipp, state chairman Of the
Prohibition party. was somewhat badly
injured on the 7th inst. at his home
in Denver by falling through q trap
doorway into the cellar.
Four thousand one hundred men are
now employed in the Minnequa steel
works at Pueblo, and the force will
probably be increased to 1000 or more
during the next six months.
President slocum and the trustees
Of Colorado College at Colorado
Springs are starting movement by
which they hope to secure an endow-
ment Of 100000 for the college.
A movement has been started in
Denver to arrange for an extensive
display of electrical appliances dur
ing the convention Of the National
Electric Light Association in June.
1t is stated at Pueblo that John D.
d. Rockefeller intends to build homes
in the Lake Minnequa reservation for
the steel workers. of whom there will
be a large influx within the next six
months.
The First National bank Of Arvada,
Colorado, has been authorized to begin
business. with $4,000 as capital.
George c. Swadley is president, A. H.
Barth vice-president and D. H. Staley
cashier.
The United States Weather Bureau
in Denver is to be the central point
of river and food signal service,
which will be established in New
Mexico, western Texas and southeast
ern Colorado.
The following new postmasters have
been appointed in Colorado: Arlo,
Montezuma county. Henry Wagner,
vice J. r. Millspaugh, resigned; Mesa,
Mesa county, Lee l.. Prewitt, vice T. T.
Carr, removed.
w. w. Womack. aged fifty-nine
dent while at work in the Valley Forge
few days ago. A piece of rock fell and
fractured his skull.
In quarrel over the sale OF some
chickens, which took place on the road
near Littleton, December 9th, Simon
Miller was fatally stabbed by Elmer
Cobb. The ARRAY took place just in
the edge of Jefferson county and Cobb
was taken to the Jail at Golden.
1t is claimed that one million pieces
of mail matter. each telling about Colo
RADIO and Denver, will be sent out to
boom the convention of the National
Electric Light Association. which will
be held in Denver in June. Excursions
will be run to different parts of the
state.
Judge Lindsey of Denver has re-
ceiyed q personal letter from Presi-
dent Roosevelt, commencing the work
OF the Denver Juvenile Court and ask
ing him to come to Washington and
deliver an address on the work accom-
plShed by the court among the boys of
Denver.
Francis Droney, who was elected
city clerk OF Salida fifteen years ago
and had served the city in that capac-
ity continuously since that time, pre-
sented his resignation to the council q
few days ago. He was forced to re-
sign on account of Ill health and will
go to California to recuperate.
The new court house OF Phillips
county, at Holyoke. has, been com.
pleted and is now occupied by the
county officers. 1t was formerly the
B. & M. eating house, and was pur-
chased by the county for small sum
and reconstructed SO as to make 1t q
fine and commodious structure.
Rosa Teppa, an aged Austrian
woman, was convicted in the District
Court at Durango Of petty larceny for
shoplifting. Some time ago she was
found to have about $500 worth of
goods, some of which were claimed by
Durango merchants. She swore she
was the mother Of twenty-four chill.
dren.
The sugar company now running a