The Holly chieftain., 1904-04-01
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

Il game hlHItStid N4uu III bthNfAr. @.
, Idaho Springs is preparing for an en-
largement and improvement Of its va
ter supply system.
Gen. VIM. j. Palmer of Colorado
Springs is arranging to start soon for
a European trip, accompanied by his
daughters
A big convention of the Knights of
,Pythias will be held at Denver April.
18th. A banquet will be held at the
Windsor hotel
The pooling of the two electric light
systems at Victor has caused move-'
nent Of property owners to erect An in
dependent plant.
Prof. r. l.. Morrison, principal OF the
Brookside school in Fremont county
died suddenly of heart failure March
23rd. shortly after dismissing school in
the afternoon.
Admiral Dewey has written to Cover;
nor Peabody that he Will be unable to
accept the invitation to visit Denver
June l4th, as the guest Of the Sons oil
the Revolution
Judge |. E. Barnum, a prominent
Denver lawyer and pubic-spirited ciu-,
zen, died March 22d OF pleuro-pneu-
monia at the age of siXty-twO He came
tc Colorado in 1877.
Troops f and G of the Fifth United
States cavalry left Fort Logan. near.
Denver, March 22d. to march to Fort
Apache. New Mexico, 500 miles distant,
The ride is expected to take thirty-siX
days.
Congressman Brooks has appointed
Rex Evans of Holyoke to Annapolis as
a naval cadet Master Evans is high,
school boy and distant relative OF.
-'Fighting Bob" Evan of national
fame.
A United States grand jury has been
summoned to begin tWO-weeks' sit
ting at Pueblo April 9TH. Several cases
vii! come before it in relation to post
Office .embezZIement and misuse of the
mails.
Cattlemen at HOehne in the Suuilow-
er valley, below Trinidad, are reported
to be having a good deal of trouble
with mango among their stock, the dis
ease having been brought in from
Texas.
In the District Court at Canon City
March 2Gth, Judge Bailey appointed
George NJ. Lawrence as receiver for the
Canon City Gas Company. which has
defaulted in the payment of interest on
its bonds.
1t is stated that the farmers along the
valley road between Boulder and Louis
Vile will give fifteon-foot right of
way across the farms to the proposed
Denver-Boulder electric line if it can
lie induced to adopt that route.
Chief of Police W. S. Reynolds of
Colorado Springs went to St. Paul.
Minnesota, with requisition and
brought back w. S. Hughes on charge
of embezzling So 600 while clerk in the
Colorado Springs water department
Steps have already been taken for
starting the free delivery system
which Longmont is TO have by July.
The Council is to see that all the street
corners are furnished with sign boards
and citizens are having their houses
numbered.
The settlement of Ault eleven miles
north Of Greeley, will incorporate FIJI
ty-two citizens voted for Incorporation
and twenty-eight against it. The anti
liquor people voted to incorporate and
the opposing element threaten to COR
test INt GlectlOD.
Otto Fleck, a farmer living eight
miles north of La Junta. lost 100 tons
OF hay, his barn. and outbuidings q
few days ago, as the result of fire
which caught from sparks driven from
the kitchen stove by high wind which
was blowing at the time.
Eighty depositors of the Pueblo Title
and Trust Company, which concern be
came insolvent last December, have
failed to apply at the office Of the com
pany to receive a forty per cent divi-
dend on their deposits. An attempt will
be made to locate the depositors.
Omar +. Garwood for five years sec
retary of the University of Colorado at
Boulder, has rendered his resignation
to go into effect April 1st. He will re-
move to Pueblo and go into the practice
.of law His successor will probably be
Harry j. Kesner, the present assistant
secretary.
Carl Jung, one of the Oldest residents
of Phillips county, was buried March
18th under the auspices of the Grand
Army. He was veteran of the Civil
War and served under Siegel in the Re
hellion of the southern German prov
inces in 1S4S. He was seventy-nine
years old.
The Carnegie and Woods Library
Boards of Colorado City have agreed
that after the completion of the Car
negie library the respective claims of
the two boards will be submitted to ar
bitration and one or the other of the
boards withdraw in favor of its sue
cessful opponent.
Philip Tritch, brother of George
Tritch, the late Denver millionaire.
hardware merchant, is suing for an in
terest In the estate, which was estimat-
ed at s., 900 600. Philip Tritch claims