The Holly chieftain., 1904-01-08
COLORADO BRIEFS.

] During the past year $3.50 hunting
! licenses were taken out by Colorado
kportsmen.
| During the past year 2.Ss6. 900 trout
: fry we're turned loose i'll Colorado
, streams through public appropriation
| II is estimated that reservoirs now
| under construction in Colorado Will
add 100000 acres to the irrigabie area
The county house OF Weld county. at
| Greeley. recently finished, cost trine
| over $1,000 and will comfortably ac-
commodate the poor OF the county
The new county hospital of Weld
county. at Greeley. has been compie'-
ed at cost of $lO,700 and is now one
OF the best equipped hospitals IN the
state
The Secretary of tie interior has
approved the selections Of the state OF
Colorado of II $50 acres located in the
Akron land district tuT school pur-
poses.
The production of crude oil from the
Florence oil fields in 1909 was approx
imately 20,000000 gallons. or 5O0,0 600
barrels OF fortytwO gallons, which
were produced and refined.
Ralph Hammerslough. prominent
Trinidad merchant. dropped dead in
| store on Fifth avenue in Chicago De-
cember goth. He went to Chicago 10
be treated for Brigbt's disease.
Niagara w, Hall, prominent citizen
of Greeley, and one OF the pioneers
Of the Union colony. died at his home
in Greeley December 2ath Of neural
gia Of the heart, in the siyty-ninth year
of his age.
In xLn al f.x,1.I mt
wells are producing abcut 200 barrels
! OF crude Oil a day, and while the pro-
: duct Is small. the output t said to be
of the highest grade produced in the
world. Other wells will b% drilled.
The .coroner's jury which inyestigat
ed the death Of little Margaret Aims
worth, who was run over by an cleo
trio car at Colorado Srrlnga. stated.
in their verdict, that her death might
have been averted by greater care on
/ the part Of the motorIpan
NJ c. Parker, aged seventy-nve years,
father of the wife OF William A. Guz-
man, prominent Colorado Springs
contractor. was struck and instantly
! killed by a Rock Island train near
Roswell station, short distance from
Colorado Springs, December 31st.
The full force of the National Guard
now in the Cripple Creek district to-
tails 29O, distributed as follows: Head
quarters Teller county military dis
trict, 81 rank and file, Camp Goldneld.
155; Camp Libby, Cripple Creek. 81;
Camp Independence, "a. Camp Victor.
SO.
Work is going forward along the
Moffat road. near Denver, ON the arte-
sian wells to provide the engines with
water. One well has been finished at
Utah Junction. One is n0v under way
at Leyden Junction. Another well will
be constructed farther west as soon as
the one at Leyden Junction is COM
pleted
Bloodhounds have teen sent to Pa
gosa Springs Junction TO De used In
running down incendiarles who are be-
lieyed to be responsible for, three bad
fires which have occurred AT that place
entailing an actual loss m more than
s65 ,000 on the Pagosa Lumber Com
pany, of which Whitney newton state
treasurer, is president
Ora Rice, young man VINO owns
considerable property in live stock and
ranches. became insane at Fort Collins
a few days ago and terrorized the
neighborhood by display OF firearms.
He was arrested, after a severe conflict
by Deputy Sheriff Richart and Night
Watchman Ganders and his relatives
were notified of his condition.
A Detroit. Michigan. dispatch Of De-
cember 29th says: Jacos Houghton.
well known in Michigan snd Colorado
mining and railroad circlen, died at his
home here to-day. aged seventy-six
years. In 1878 he became manager of
the Moose mine, in Colorado. and presi-
dent of the Synclinal Mining Company.
In 1890 he returned TO Michigan.
A Colorado Springs correspondent
under date of December 10th says:
Mrs. Anthony Bot Of Colorado City,
wife of one of the earliest settlers of
Colorado City, is the proud possessor
of large bed of violets in full bloom.
So far as know this is the first case Of
. violets blossoming in the open air in
this state during the month Of Decem-
ber.
Among the notable pianrH established
in Denver last year WIS that Of the
Western. Rubber Company at 1888
Blake street This is the company
which is experimenting IN the manu-
facture of rubber out of the shrub
found in Chaffee county, which has
been called the rubber weed 1t is
hoped that this new industry may be-
come one Of the largest in the state.
Maj. M. " B. Wason died on the
night of December 9th at his ranch in