The Holly chieftain., 1904-05-27
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

grounds this year.
There are now, or were a few days
ago, 716 prisoners in the state peni-
tentiary at Canon City.
The Denver High School Cadets will
hold their summer encampment at
Crystal Lake in the Platte canon.
Professor w. l.. Carlyle of the Agri-
cultural College has been appointed
deputy stock inspector at Fort Collins.
The annual convention of the Colo
RADIO State Realty Association will be
held in Denver on June 7th and Sth.
Rural free delivery service has been
ordered established June 18th at Car
bondale, Garfield county, with one car
rier.
The officers of the Western Fedora
ton Of Miners are making arrange
ments for representation OF 300 un-
ions at the convention in Denver May
29th.
Mrs. Martha Taft, member of the
governing board of the Industrial
School for Girls at Morrison, has been
appointed president of the institution
by the board
Edward R. Scott has been arrested
in Denver for forging passes on the
Denver & Rio Grande railroad. He is
said to have had large number of
blank forms printed.
Hearing on the claim of Leslie w.
Popejoy for $S,0OC>Q0O of the estate of
w. S. Stratton was brought up in the
County Court at Colorado Springs and
continued until June 18th.
Steps are being taken at Durango to
annex Brookside, a suburb between the
town and Animas City. With the rapid
growth of the town, Animas City will
naturally come in soon.
George o. Beal committed suicide at
Colorado Springs on the 18th inst, by
taking carbolic acid. He was only
twenty-four years of age, but had re-
Gently been in financial difficulties and
was separated from lis wife.
Fifty Colorado Springs high school
cadets will attend the annual encamp
ment, presumably at Palmer Lake,
from June 4th to 14th. The boys will
go in a special train and have secured
equipment from the state armory at
Denver.
Judge Frost of the County Court at
Cripple Creek is planning to send all
boys who desire employment during
the summer vacation to Rocky Ford to
work in the beet, watermelon and cant
aloupe fields. 1t is thought that from
80 to 100 boys will go.
The Colorado Promotion and Pub
licity committee will soon issue fine
ly illustrated par.phlet on "Agricul-
'ture' The headquarters of the COM
mittee in Denver are largely visited by
tourists who want information in re-
gard to different sections of the state.
Two young ladies recently killed
two bears on Oasis creek three miles
from Glenwood Springs. The members
of the party were Miss M. G. Bowers of
New York, Miss Annie Curtis Of Bos-
ton and Miss Livingstone of Canon
City. Miss Bowers shot the larger
bear and the other was shot by Miss
Curtis.
There are thirty rooms in the main
building of the new Deaconess hospital
at Colorado Springs, Of which Miss
Miss Caroline Rotis, an experienced
deaconess, is superintendent. She will
be assisted by corps of trained nurse
deaconesses. The institution is meet
ing with aid and sympathy from all de-
nominations.
According to letter received by
Walter c. Smith of Colorado Springs
from Superintendent Baker Of the Ma
tional Geological park at Washington,
d. c., the golden eagle sent there by
the former has grown to be one Of the
finest eagles in the cage. Young Smith
caught the eagle in scrub pine on a
cliff in North Cheyenne canon and sent
4 - ;t,,tt
Judge John l. Mullins of the District
Court in Denver has had Crawford
Hill, president and William Stapleton,
editor, of the Denver Republican, ar
rested for contempt of court in
printing a statement which says:
The Supreme Court assumes jurisdic-
ton, and no tool judge on the District
Court bench can hereafter interfere in
behalf of the election thieves"
A. c. Giller, T. P. Jackson and P. F.
Kaiser, three well known railroad men,
were drowned on the night of May 18th
in Owens Lake near Boulder by the
upsetting of a boat from which they
were fishing. Mr. Giller. who was with
the Rough Riders in Cuba, leaves a
wife and one child. T. P. Jackson
leaves wife and grown son. T. P.
Kaiser leaves a wife and three chill
dren.
Thomas Tobin, noted scout and In
dian fighter of the early days of Colo
RADIO, died at Fort Garland, few days
ago at the age Of eighty-seven. He
spent the declining years of his life on
his farm four miles from Fort Gar
lend, where his children were born.
They are Mrs. Breen of Silverton, Mrs.
William Carson Of Fort Garland, who
married Kit Carson's eldest son. Mrs.