The Holly chieftain., 1904-05-13
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

The May term of the federal court
in Denver opened May Sd, with Judge
Hallett on the bench.
Rural free delivery service is Or
dered established June 1st at Dolores,
Montezuma county, with one carrier.
The new electric railway at Trini-
dad is starting out with large busi-
ness, thousands riding for pleasure on
Sunday.
Mack KuntZ, a noted pigeon fancier,
is preparing to make a carrier test
with sixteen pigeons from the Worlds
Fair to Pueblo.
The track of the new Moffat rail
road has been laid to short distance
beyond Rollinsville, and the ballasting
is being completed as fast as may be.
When Governor Peabody got home
from the ST. Louis Exposition he felt
SO good that he at once ordered the
dome of the state house to be illu-
minated.
N. NJ. Johnson, prominent livery
man OF Boulder, dropped dead in his
stable on the mornig of May I'd. He
was apparently as well as usual just
before his death.
Ex-senator Edward o. Wolcott and
oSAdIol IlShl LUIGI ppsii uiAA'Su
IN Denver on the 4th inst. The former
mer came from the East to attend the
Republican state convention on the
9th.
The ministers of Denver, at a recent
melting of the Ministerial Alliance,
passed resolutions deprecating Sun
day funerals and saying that services
at the grave should be omitted in such
cases.
The Colorado Federation of Woman's
clubs will hold it's annual convention
this year in Fort Collins from Octo-
Der 1st to 9th, and the Fort Collins la
dies are already making preparations
for it's reception.
Postmaster L. c. Dana of Colorado
Springs, the newly elected president OF
the Postmasters' Association, has ex-
| tended an invitation to the letter car
riers to meet with the postmasters, at
Colorado Springs, on May 30th.
The Secretary of the Interior on
the 4th inst. issued permits permitting
the grazing of l,050 cattle and horses
in Pixies Peak forest reserve, and ,4S1
cattle and horses in Plum Creek re-
serve during the coming season.
| The Fort Collins district made the
banner shipment of lambs for the
Eastern market May End, when sev-
enty-four cars were started for Chlca-
go and river markets. The shipment
was divided between eighteen ship
pers.
| The Colorado Springs Chamber Of
Commerce asserts that WITHIN the
have located at the Springs, and that
past year about fifty wealthy families
the average amount invested by them
in residence property has exceeded
$4,000.
| Sixteen striking miners, who had
been arrested by the military, were
placed on a Colorado & Southern
special train at Trinidad May End and
taken south of the New Mexico line,
where they were put off with orders
not to return.
The annual high school oratorical
contest of Colorado, inaugurated by
the State University, will take place
at Boulder on the night of May
18th. There will be eight speakers. On
the same day eight girls will read es-
says for prize.
t The Western Unions new telegraph
line which is being built from Omaha
to Los Angeles reached Denver May
End. 1t follows the Burlington from
Omaha to Denver, and will take the
Santa Fe and the Denver and Rio
Grande to the coast.
BY the burning of Hotel Turret at
! Turret mining camp in Chaffee coun-
ty on the night of May 5th, Raymond
Zook, miner, was burned to death
and H. ]. Gregory perhaps fatally
burned and suffocated. Six other men
I,,,,I< h,r
capped with their lives.
The examining board of the State
Normal school has been appointed and
will consist of State Superintendent
Helen L. Grenfel, County Superintend-
ent w. D. Thomas Of Boulder county,
and DR.. Snyder, president OF the
school. The examinations begin May
18th, and continue one week.
The Rev. Frost Craft, pastor of Trim
ity Methodist church. Denver, has
greatly surprised his congregation by
I rendering his resignation without as
signing any special reason. The So
ciety has the finest church building
and the largest congregation of any
Methodist church in the state.
The summer school Of the University
of Colorado at Boulder will be In ses-
sion from June goth to July 30th, un-
der direction of Prof. Fred B. r. Hell
lens. Instruction in all the depart
ments will be given by recognized spe-
cialists, brought together from lead
ing institutions Of learning. East and
| West.
While Mrs. Eva Parkinson, who
lives about six miles east Of Fort Col
Inns, alarmed by break in the banks
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