The Holly chieftain., 1904-01-29
COLORADO BRIEFS,

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II is expected that the Moffat road
viii be completed 10 Boulder Park,
| torty-fiye miles from Denver, some
| lime in February.
Colorado railroads will do an extra
| amount OF eastern advertising this
! year. The new Moffat road will issue
| several publications.
The county commissioners Of Pueblo
| county have voted 81 900 for the pur-
pose of preparing a marble exhibit to
| represent the county at the St. Louis
| Fair
The Colorado College of Osteepathy
| At Denver has consolidated with the
! American School of Osteopathy at
kirkville, Missouri, and will be moved
TO Shat place.
! The Denver Choral Society, under the
direction of Professors Houseley and
Thomas, is arranging two choruses OF
25O voices to sing at the World 5 Fair
at st. Louis.
Joseph Pearce city street supervi-
scr of Leadyille, died January 10th OF
pneumonia. Mr.. Pearcr was one o1 the
earliest pioneers and built the first
| hotel at ORC city.
The fifth annual exhibition of the
! Colorado Poultry Fanciers' Association
! Vas opened in Denver on the 18th inst
With a remarkably fine display Of all
! the leading varieties.
The State Board OF Health, after
visiting Leadyille, reported that an cpl
! demic of typhoid fever existed in the
| city. There are several hundred cases
! but the mortality has been low.
i Colorado's death-rate per 1000. for
month of December on the basis Of an
estimated population of SCI, 1876 was
1913, excluding still-births. There
were 800 deaths during the month.
The Colorado & Southern railroad
| has secured 10000 trout, averaging
| six inches in length, and will place
| them in the streams tributary to the
| Platte near the headwaters of that
| river.
A number of Russians formerly en-
ployed at the Pueblo steel works have
formed military organization and be
gun to drill. They intend to go into
the Russian army in case of war with
Japan.
d. J. Prdham. who was Denver
agent for the Chicago, Milwaukee g.
st. Paul railroad from 1873 to 1892
died in Chicago January 22d at the age
Of seventy-three. The cause of his death
was pleurisy. .s
1t is suspected that radium exists in
several of the large springs at Glen
wood Springs, and portions Of the dried
sediment have been sent to prominent
chemists and photographers for the
purpose of having them tested.
II. S. Vaughn, commander of the de-
Dartment Of Colorado and Wyoming,
G. A. R., who has been i'll at St Luke's
hospital in Denver as a result of an
attack of appendicitis, is improving
rapidly. successful operation was
performed.
A company has been incorporated at
Pueblo with a capital stock of 100000
to establish railroad cooperative
store. The store viii be under the
control of the railroad broth erhood of
Pueblo and the ownership OF stock is
limited to labor unions.
+ Homer H. Hayes, thrty-six years OF
age, swallowed pin while in Kansas
| City, several months ago. and died from
The effect of it at his home in Colorado
Springs on the 18th inst The pin was
removed by an operation, but it had
torn the lining of his stomach.
George A. Toof, one of the oldest
settlers in Fremont county, died at his
home on lower BeaGseF creek January
22d at the age of sixty-seven years. Mr..
Toof settled on Beaver creek very early
and had one Of the best developed
farms and orchards in the county.
A few days ago b. c. Boyd, a wool
contractor at Bailey in the Platte
canon, took seventeen shots at a
mountain lion that has been stealing
his beef, which he hangs in tree.
Boyd saw it standing under the tree
and opened fire, but the lion got away.
Compared with November, 1903. ac-
cording to the report Of the State
Board of Health, December shows an
Increase of tWenty-One cases of diph
iberia, forty-nine cases Of scarlet fe
yer and forty cases of smallpox, and
decrease of 244 cases of typhoid fever.
Bids have been called for for the
construction of the new court house at
Walsenburg to be opened February Is.
Inc bonds were voted last fall. Every
Thing is to be modern and the building
will cost 900. 1t is TO be built of
white sandstone from quarries near
town.
After spending twenty years in a
dug-out in the mountains few miles
south of Buena Vista, w f. Artiund, a
Swcde prospector, was found dead on
the morning Of January I'D. He was
seventy-nine years of age and had no
relations in this country so far as
known.
The grand total valuation of Boul- |
der county for the year 1903 is s10,-