The Holly chieftain. (Holly, Colo.) 1897-1987, 1904-09-02
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

lat ROAD at Denver has DttH NOHlpltitu.
The Colorado & Southern has ordered
new railroad automobile for the use
of its bridge inspector
Dennis ]. Donnelly has been appoint
ed postmaster at Lawson, in Clear
Creek county, succeeding n. F. Hazen.
The Business Mems association of
Pueblo will publish $1,000 copies of an
illustrated pamphlet to advertise the
city.
The date of the national encampment
of the Grand Army of the Republic at
Denver next summer has not yet been
fixed.
E. G. Cluss was drowned in a stream
near Canon City the other day, 1t was
very high at the time he attempted TO
ford it.
Colorado Springs will have no official
celebration of Labor Day, the local I'M
ions preferring to join in the observ-
ance at Denver.
Bishop Warren dedicated the Metho-
dist church at La Junta Sunday, August
2lst, and enough money was raised TO
clear the debt.
A fully-equipped government weather
bureau has been installed at Durango
in charge of Wayland Bailey, recently
from Portland, Oregon.
The night of August 22nd was very
cold in many sections of eastern Colo
RADIO and light frost was reported at
Wray and few other places.
In the annual report of the commits
sloner of pensions, just made public,
Colorado is credited with S,251 pension
Iyau wi
The Denver & Rio Grande Railway
Company has contributed $1,000 addi-
tional to the fund being used to search
for victims of the Eden disaster.
A report has reached Rawlins, Wy
oming, that the village of Slater, Colo
RADIO, just over the line, was struck by
a washout, and much damage done.
So far the Denver and Colorado
Springs teams of the Western Baseball
League have had no difficulty in keep
ing well ahead of the other four teams.
Elisha Higgins committed suicide at
Longmoat August 25th by taking
laudanum. He had been working on
ranch near LOngmont and was formerly
miner.
Judging from the applications so far
School of Mines that institution will be
worse crowded the coming term than
ever before
The annual statement OF the General
Land Office shows that in Colorado
during the past year l4,SO9 entries were
made comprising 1,629,9O5 acres, from
which s523,11S was secured.
Through the explosion Of 1900
pounds of molten metal in a ladle at
the Radrorf foundry in Trinidad Abram
Garcia was badly burned amout the
hands and legs.
Several thousand dollars will be eX-
pended by the Denver & Rio Grande
Railroad Company in the improvement
of the grounds around the depot at
Colorado Springs.
Thursday, September sth, will be
Watermelon Day at the big fair in
Rocky Ford. The first day, September
9Th, will be Old Settlers Day, the fair
lasting four days.
A mail pouch containing many let
tiers, some of them highly valuable,
from Colorado Springs and Pueblo,
was badly damaged by fire August Sth
in railway wreck in Indiana.
Harry Davis, the snake handler, who
was bitten in Denver in July by arattle-
snake and a ella monster has had his
right hand removed at, the wrist and is
in danger of losing his entire arm, If
not his life.
The annual convention of the Colo
RADIO Log Rolling Association of the
Modern Woodmen of America finished
it's doings at Colorado Springs, August
tn OF
year.
The Colorado Crude Rubber Com
pany has begun preparations for the
installment of its rubber extraction
plant at Saida. 1t will use the build
ing formerly occupied by the Salda
Creamery Company.
Prof. William Elzinga, formerly OF
the Pennsylvania State College, has
been engaged as an assistant professor
in the department of mechanical engi-
neering at the State Agricultural Col
lege at Fort Collins.
A number of centipedes have made
their appearance in Barnum, Denver
suburb. and the wife of Special Police
man Hardman was dangerously sick
for several days on account of poison
ing by one of them.
Judge Malone has appointed his
brother. r. H. Malone, to be joint re-
ceiver with Judge ]. c. Helm for the
Fidelity Savings Association at Den
YER The petition for the removal OF
Judge Helm was denied.
Details of the cloudburst which
flooded the town of Slater Colorado
have been received at Dillon, Wyoming
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thousands of tons of ranch property