The Holly chieftain., 1904-07-22
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS


The farmers clubs of Garfield coun'
ty have fixed the date for the county
fair at September 22d. 23d and Path.
United States Senator Carmack OF
Tennessee will deliver an address at
the Boulder Chautauqua on Democrat.
ic Day.
4 relief fund has been started for
the benefit of the victims of the lnde-
pendence depot explosion in the Grip
pie Creek district.
Peter Bloom an old prospector liv.
ing at Empire station, committed sui.
eide at Idaho Springs on the 11th inst
by taking carbolic acid.
Four white women and fourteen
colored women confined in the county
jail At Denver are reported to be nurs-
ing a race feud.
The Rocky Mountain Chautauqua at
Glen Park began its summer session
July 11th Rev. B. T. Vincent, ID,
presided and made the principal ad-
dress.
The Denver team of the Western
Baseball League has been playing well
in the lead for some time, wiln Colo
RADIO Springs second. Colorado Is in
1t this year.
The people of Greeley have started
a crusade against the cotton-bearing
cottonwood trees and are marking a
great number of them to be cut down
at later date.
DR.. Ellsworth Gage Lancaster, as
sistant professor of philosophy and
pedagogy at Colorado College, has for
mally accepted the presidency of Oil
vet College at Olivet, Michigan.
The body of John Owens, who was
drowned in the Cache la Poudre food
of May 2lst, was found near Fort Col
Inns July 18th. Owens, who was sew
enty-three years of age, lived in dug
out on the river bank.
Secretary Henry Russell Wray Of
the Colorado Springs Chamber of Com
merce has inaugurated movement to
celebrate the centennial anniversary
of the discovery of Pixies Peak in 1906
by Lieutenant Zebulon Pike,
The relief fund for the benefit of the
families of victims of rne Independ-
ence dynamite outrage, is increasing
rapidly. Already s3,635 has been do
mated in cash. The picnic for the re-
lief fund will be held August list.
On the evening of the 18th inst.
fire in the sulphide fiber plant of the
Rocky Mountain Paper Company at
| Denver caused damages estimated at
about $4,000. The plant was insured
and will be rebuilt at once.
| State Senator Cashmere Barela and
eighty-four other former Democrats of
Las Animas county have issued a
statement telling why the? have trans
ferred their allegiance from the Dem
ocratic to the Republican party.
A notable gathering of workers will
meet in Denver September 10Th, wnen
the general board of managers OF the
Woman's Home Missionary Society Of
the Methodist Episcopal Church opens
in Trinity Church its twenty-third an
nual convention.
President J. E. Topping OF the State
Fair Association at Pueblo is uaking
tour Of the western part of the state
for the purpose of securing live stock
entries for the fair. At present the
entries are coming in as rapidly as
they can be cared for.
Mayor Speer of Denver has appoint!
ed an art commission of six members
who will have control of all public
monuments and decorations. Hereafter
the city cannot become the owner OF
any such work of art until it has
been approved by the commission.
Before the adjournment Of the Dis
trct Court at Central City July 18th,
District Attorney Thurman nolled the
cases against Ross Sanborn, Frank
Carbonetti and Joseph Napoli who
=, were charged with arson and destruc-
ton Of the Sun and Moon transformer
building.
DR.. e. H. Scarf, who died at Salida
July 18th at the age of eighty-three
years, had been paralyZed and unable
to move his body or speak for thirty
years, although he had the partial use
OF his hands and could write some. He
was a former college president and
had lived in Salida five years.
A small run was begun on the Bank
OF Victor on the 18th inst, it being re.
ported that David II. Moffat, the prin-
cipal stockholder was about to with.
draw his support He settled the mat.
ter by telegraphing that he was the
sole owner and If necessary would
send money to pay all depositors.
Probably the Oldest book of records
existing in Weld county has been un-
covered from heap of books and rub
bish in the court house at Greeley. The
book records the meeting of the set
tiers of the St. Vrain country at old
Fort St. Vrain, October G. 1859, for the
| purpose CT founding claim club.
The jury in the condemnation suit
! at Greeley, brought by the Boulder
and Weld Reservoir Company to Sc
cure right OF way for the outlet
ditch of the reservoir from John God
| ding, banker of Rocky Ford, who
wanted $4,000 damages, returned YER
dict giving the defendant $1,000 dam