The Holly chieftain., 1904-04-29
OLORADO NEWS ITEMS

ect Salvation Army building in.
anyer.
The Colorado Telephone Company
has completed extensive improvements
at La Junta.
Kiowa county is II nave a hand
some new court house. two stories in
height and constructed of pressed
brick.
Leonard Cutshaw, well-known
Denver architect and engineer and
prominent Grand Army man, died at
Denver April 22d at the age OF sixty
one years.
Thomas Hamilton, aged seventy-siX,
a locomotive engineer who had lived
in the county for twenty-five years,
dropped dead in Pueblo April 18th OF
heart failure.
'Shanty," handsome Irish setter,
fell 100 feet down the shaft of the COLD
King mine, in the Cripple Creek dis
trict, few days ago, and still lives, not
exactly to tell the tale but to wag the
! tail
The Rev. George Edward Young
dahl, pastor of the Swedish Evangeli-
cal Lutheren Church of Colorado
| Springs. and president of the Colorado
| Luther league, died of consumption on
! the 18th inst.
| Bert Keller was accidentally wound
ed near Lake Minnequa at Pueblo on
the 10th inst, by ssot from a gun III
/ the hands of man who was shooting
at pelicans, and who was mile away
/ from where Kellar stood.
The principal business of the Colo
RADIO Springs Police Court appears to
| be fining Otto Fehringer for infraction
| of the law in regard to selling liquor.
! by druggists. Mr.. Fehringer makes it
! his business to appeal every case.
1t is believed in Boston that DR.. w.
F. Mcdowell, former chancellor of the
| University of Denver, will be elected
bishop at the Methodist conference in
Los Angeles next month. He is re-
garded as one of the best speakers in
the church.
Trembling and on the verge OF col
+; lapse, Seymour B. Wacaster, who shot
and killed his young wife at the Glen
arm hotel April 7th, pleaded not guilty
| when arraigned before Judge Carpen-
ter in the West Side Court at Denver.
Inc trial was set for May 18th.
Judge B. B. Lindsey, who conducts
the Denver juvenile court, has con-
ferred with Mr.. C. S. Morey in regard
to the work for boys in the beet fields.
Mr.. Morey. as president of the Great
Western Sugar Company promised to
do all he could to help place the boys.
State Live Stock Inspector Lebbey
and NJ S. Tillery and T. w. Monnell,
president and secretary respectively
of the Western Slope Cattle Growers
Association, have completed an exam
ination of the stock of Montrose coun-
ty and report that it is in excellent
condition.
The Colorado Promotion and Pub
icity committee seems to be meeting g
with good success in collecting fund
to advertise the state. Greeley and
Cripple Creek are recent liberal con
tributors. Colorado Outdoor Life"
and Mineral Resources" are being
sent out in large numbers.
Bishop Henry w. Warren sailed
from France April 10th for New York
on his way home from visit to
China, Japan, India, Korea and the
philippines. He expected to arrive in
Denver April 27th and will go on from
Denver to California to preside at the
Methodist conference In Los Angeles.
Mrs. Catherine Donaldson has been
granted divorce. in the District Court
at Fort Collins, from her husband, T.
j. Donaldson, who was sentenced to
the penitentiary for incest last fall
Mrs. Donaldson was also given the GUS
tody of her daughter, Violet, who is in
the House of Good Shepherd in Denver.
Frank Emerson, who two months
| n pnph1n
that he had murdered a man in Grip
pie Creek said that he wanted to be
punished for his wrong doing and will
be released in few days from the
Woodcroft sanitarium. DR.. Work
claims Emerson is cured of insanity.
The United States Court at Pueblo
| adjourned April 2lst and will meet
| again about October 10th by special Cr-
Ger, as Congress provides for but one
session annually in Pueblo a number
of criminal cases are carried over from
this term and several indictments by
the grand jury did not receive the at
tention of the court.
Active steps are being taken at Pu-
| eblo to locate the parties who have
sent Police Matron Hoover several
| threatening letters. The letters re-
ceived were unsigned. and threatened
Mrs. Hoover with death of she at
tempted to further interfere with the
conducting of dances at the Board of
Trade hall.
The News-Dispatch of Leadville sus-
pended its daily publication April 18th,
announcing that only the Sunday
morning edition would be issued for
the next thirty days, pending changes
in the plant. The Herald-Democrat ex-
presses its belief that the suspension
of the last daily rival of its two Ell.