The Holly chieftain., 1904-07-01
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

The school census just completed in
Pueblo county shows 14,7s9 persons of
school age, being 45l less than last
year.
An immense cinnamon bear from
Pagosa Springs is one of the Colorado
exhibits at the st Louis Exposition.
Bruin weighs over 500 pounds.
The labor unions of Denver are ar
ranging for picnic on July I'd, for the
benefit of the wives and children of the
deported miners Of the Cripple Creek
district.
Strawberries and cream for all and
a free swim in the big pool at the hot
springs were the great attractions at
Glenwood Springs on Strawberry Day.
June 18th.
The heavy rain in Prowers county
on the night of June 21st did consider.
able damage 10 bitches and fumes in
some places, but it wet the ground
thoroughly.
The D. & r. G. railway eating house.
round house and machine shop at Sar-
gents, in Saguache county, were burned
June gath. Two locomotives in the ma
cline shop were ruined.
The annual death rate per thousand
for the month of May, as reported by
the State Board of Health was sixteen
aid one-third, or 500 out of an esti-
mated population of SCI 1856.
A large excursion of Denver printers
With their families and friends visited
the printers home at Colorado Springs
on Sunday the 18th inst. 1t was great
event in the history of the institution
The Santa Fe Railway Company is
making plans to relay its tracks be-
tween Pueblo and Florence. The pres
ont fifty-two--pound rails, laid fifteen
years ago, will be replaced with eighty
five-pound steel rails.
Mrs AL. Clark and daughter, Flor
ence, aged sixteen, drove into the Lari-
mer and Weld canal near Fort Collins,
June 23rd, and were both drowned. Mr..
Clark was in Ohio at the time. Two
children are left motherless.
A movement is on foot to hold a
northern Colorado fair in Fort Collins
next fall and temporary organization,
Of which Professor Carlyle of the Ag-
ricultural College is president, has
been effected for this purpose.
The saw mill industry has been re-
vived in the vicinity of Monument. Ell
lott and Danks have contract to saw
100000 feet of lumber for the Highly.
Mercantile Company, which has bought
several thousand acres of timber.
The report reached Wray June 23rd
that Ira Lamb, ranchman residing
just over the line in Nebraska, lost
thirty-one head Of cattle by lightning
in a thunder storm the day before.
From appearances all were killed by
enc bolt.
Russell Boles, convicted of the mur-
der of Harold Fridborn at Denver, is
now in the penitentiary. Unless some
outside force interferes or Boles is re-
prieved or pardoned he is doomed to
remain behind prison bars for the rest
CT his natural life.
Canon City is entering upon street
improvements on large scale. 1t is
proposed to lay about twenty-five miles
of artificial stone sidewalks. The work
is to be paid for in ten annual INSTALL
ments, bonds bearing five per cent in
iterest being issued on that account.
R. A. Leigh, general superintendent
OF the American Crude Rubber Com
pany, states that work will soon be
commenced on the water power and
factory of the company at Buena Wis
ia and that he expects to have 100 men
at work in the factory by October lst.
Requests for the special literature be-
ing issued by the Colorado Promotion
and Publicity Committee in its efforts
to make the resources, attractions and
industries of the Centennial State bet
ter known are being received from all
over the United States, and even from
Europe.
The Windsor town board has grant.
ed an electric railway franchise to the
Northern Colorado Electric Railway
Company 1t was stated to the board
that the company proposes to build its
main power plant at Windsor, operat-
ing lines to Fort Collins, Greeley, Love-
land, Cheyenne and Denver.
Patents issued to Colorado residents
June 21st are as follows: John w.
Bodge, Denver, wire fence clip; Erik
Johanson, Ouray, chalk. holder; Algot
Johnson, Denver. non-refillable bottle;
Phillip H. Kohler. Denver, jar closure;
Ira F. Mcneil, Boulder, ore sinner;
Lewen R. Nelson, Boulder, hose coup
ling.
The will of Charles NJ. Stebbins OF
Denver, who died in Berlin, Germany
June. 18th. practically disinher.ts his
three children and leaves the bulk oi
an estate estimated at $500, 600 for the
erection near Denver Of an orphanage
| for dependtn write children. 1t Is
expected that contest will be insti
| tuted.
Delos F. Powell, cemetery superintend,
ent of Colorado Springs. former
member of the City Council and q
prominent-figure in local politics, COM