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

died at Castle ROCK on the sd inst. Ct
cancer Of the face.
| Coyotes have taken to destroying
watermelons on the Stevens Markle
ranch near Greeley.
The new sanitarium of the Jewish
| Consumptives' Relief Society was ded
icated at Denver September 4th.
The county commissioners of Delta
county will appropriate funds to make
an exhibit OF fruit at the Worlds Fair
in st. Louis.
At the Methodist conference at Pueb-
10 the delegates presented a beauti-
fully engraved gold loving cup TO
Bishop Moore.
The Colorado Fuel and Iron Com
pany will put in plant for the manu-
facture of wire fence at their steel
works at Pueblo.
September nth will be Colorado
Day at the Worlds Fair in st. Louis.
1t is proposed to give away ten car
loads of melons.
One hundred thousand brook trout
fry from the state hatcheries have
ben placed in South Boulder creek
above Rollinsville.
District No rs of the United Mine
| Workers of America at Kansas City
has voted to give 81 900 to the striking
coal miners OF Colorado.
In the ten mile bicycle race at Den
yer on Labor Day there were eighteen
starters and a large crowd of specta-
tors. The sport seems to be looking
up.
George C. Cobb, Confederate vet
eran, who has been in Leadville since
'79. and in the county hospital two
symptoms and was ent to the Pueblo
asylum.
Attorney John Hipp Of Denver has
been selected by the national Prohibi-
ton committee to make number of
addresses in Wyoming in the interest
of the party.
President w. F. Slocum OF Colorado
College has received an invitation to
serve as a member OF the board OF
awards of the educational exhibits at
the Worlds Fair.
The corn roast at Loveland on Labor
Day attracted an unusually large at
tendance. The Grand Army gathering
was also a great success on that and
the following day.
The United Mine Workers have is
sued call for strike to all miners
now at work in the Trinidad district,
asking them to come out and join the
miners now on strike
Charles NJ. Carter, superintendent OF
drawing for the Denver schools. has
been appointed member of the inter-
national jury of awards for the depart
ment of education at the Worlds Fair.
Walker Morris, boy living in Spring
Valley canon. near Aguilar, in Las An
imas county, was dangerously injured
by stroke of lightning August 2Sth,
while riding horse. The horse was in
stantly killed.
The suit instituted by Judge Hallett
TO test the legality of the proceedings
in connection with the voting of bonds
for the Denver Auditorium will come up
before Judge Malone in the District
Court at Denver September 1Ith.
c. b. Monroe of Sterling had a leg
broken in the wild horse race at the
Cheyenne Frontier Day celebration, his
horse running into a fence. Even after
he was hurt he kept the saddle until
the animal stopped bucking.
The arbitrary action of the postoffice
officials at Washington in changing the
name of Canon City to Canyon City
has occasioned strong remonstrance
of the part of the municipal officers and
civic organizations of Canon City.
DIR. Henry A. Ruger, graduate OF
Beloit University. has been appointed
to the chair of philosophy at Colorado
College, made vacant by the resignation
of Professor E. G. Lancaster, who was
called to the presidency OF Olivet Col
lege. Michigan.
A large number of members OF the
tnterparliamentary Arbitration league.
q European organization to prevent
future warfare. which will close its ses-
sion at the Worlds Fair September
l4th, are expected to visit Colorado,
arriving in Denver on the 18th inst.
Another cottage is to be built at the
State Industrial School for Girls. The
contract has already been let. 1t will
cost $4,000 The cottage will be large
enough to accommodate about thirty
OF the inmates of the institution and
will be surrounded by beautiful
| grounds.
At the recent Denver civil service
| examination for patrOlmen for the pc.
| lice force sixty-fve applied, thirty-six
were found to be physically disquali-
fed, twenty-nine took the examination
and nineteen passed. Thirteen took
the examination for sergeant and
eight Of them passed.
The Rev. Kerr B. Upper OF Phila-
delphta, former pastor of the First
Baptist Church at Denver, who has re-
Gently been visiting in Denver, has be-
come much interested in the success OF