The Holly chieftain., 1904-07-08
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS


home at Boulder was laid June 30th
with impressive ceremonies.
Reports received at the state engi-
neer's once show that this has been an
unusually good year for water all over
the state.
There were 1870 enlistments in the
navy from Colorado last year-and
hardly water enough in the state for
single heavy dew.
The Colorado Springs and Denver
| teams OF the Western Baseball League
| continue handsomely in the lead over
their four eastern competitors.
Wallace Colby, fifty-four years of age
| and one of the pioneer mining men of
the district was killed in a runaway
accident at Leadville, June 27th.
| An immense alfalfa crop is being cut
in all parts of Colorado. The present
I condition of the soil nearly everywhere
is such as to insure another good cut
1 ting
The Colorado Springs City Council
passed an ordinance making it mis-
demeanor to use, sell or give away toy
' pistols or giant crackers. The penalty
is "a fine of from IS to $40.
Raymond Wolf, the eight -year-old
son of c. w. Wolf, manager of the
Greeley Tribune, was seriously injured
/ by being run over by the wheels of
moving machine June 29th.
All the damage suits arising out of
the disaster of last January at STRAIT
, tons Independence mine have been
! settled excepting two cases and nego-
/ tations for the settlement of these are
in progress.
The cottony maple tree scale is doing
! great damage to the shade trees in GER
tain parts of Denver. Mrs. Shute, sec
: petary of the State Board of Horticul-
! ture, says they can only be saved by
thorough spraying at least once year.
| Bert Hughes, Roy Reeves and Will
lard Felton, three lads who found the
I body Of Pearl Holland aged eight, in
! the Royal Gorge June cath, are entitled
to the $50 reward offered by the Salida
City Council shortly after the accident
on Memorial Day.
Charles He'll is in Jail at Denver
charged with having killed James Hen
ry in fist fight. beating in the face and
kicking him until he died. Henry was
employed as fireman at the Globe
smelter and He'll was engaged as clerk
in the smelter store.
The body of Esther Morgan, one of
the victims of the Salida footbridge
accident, was found in the river few
miles above Canon City, June 30th, by
party of young people walking alonG
the river bank The body was caught
on some trees near the bank.
The Caledonian Club of Denver
unanimously voted to select John d.
,f Ca ~
Of Denver, as the chief orator at the
unveiling of the statue of Robert Burns
in the City park July 4th. The statue
is OF bronze, heroic size, on pedestal
of solid gray granite.
Fritz Asmus aged sixty-two years
and for score of years a resident of
the mountains in the vicinity of Colo
RADIO City, committed suicide June 25th
by shooting himself through the head
al his cabin three miles southwest of
the town. Remorse following weeks
spree caused the action.
The Empson Packing Company at
lIongmont will give reception July
9Th to which everybody is invited. The
capacity of the plant for canning peas
has been increased to 10000 cans an
hour and the machinery used is well
carry Denver visitors.
Gilbert McClurg of Colorado Springs,
who has just returned from a six
months trip East, where he lectured
on the attractions of Colorado, de-
clares that agriculture and irrigation
are the two topics to which eastern
audiences are attracted in the discus
sion of the Centennial State.
Mems Association are advocating a
plan for another excursion around the
circle, taking in Las Anlmas, Lamar
and Rocky Ford fairs with large del
egation of professional and business
men. Such trip was taken last year
with excellent results.
Thomas w. Dougan, member Of the
Victor Miners Union, is in Boston in
the interests of the Western Fedora
ton of Miners and for the next fort
night will address the boston unions on
the situation in that state and request
financial aid for men who have been
arrested or deported, and their fam
lilies.
Warrants were issued from the Unit
ed States Court at Denver July 1st for
the arrest of A. Woop, San Juan, Pa
tricio Conach and Siwaw, four Indians.
charged with the murder of a medi-
cine man, Wap, in the southern part of
the state The case has been once be-
fore the state courts. but was dismissed
, for lack of Jurisdiction.
Work has begun on the new $1,000
| 600 cemetery and crematory to be con-
structed by Philadelphia capitalists
| near Monument mark north of Colo
rado Springs. H. d, Patton sent from