The Holly chieftain., 1904-03-25
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS


The members of the Durango City
Council has united in requesting Con
| gresham Hog to support the forest re
| serve bill.
The Denver team OF the Western
| Baseball League Will be brought to-
| gether in Denver, March 18th TO be
! gin practice.
The shaft house of the Gunnell mine
near Central City was burned on tho
/ 18TH inst. The loss is estimated At
$4,000 OF upward.
1t is expected that as many as TWEEN
ty-fve Colorado high schools will be
| represented at the state interscholas-
tic athletic contest this spring.
Roy NJ. Rose. aged nineteen years.
who lived with his father +. NJ. Rose,
four miles from La Junta, shot and
killed himself on the evening OF the
18th inst.
The State Preparatory School ca
diets at Boulder have been granted per-
| mission to use the tents and equip
/ ment of the state militia for a spring
encampment.
The University of Colorado has fin
ally decided to send a track team of
twelve men TO compete at the inter
collegiate athletic meet at Colorado
Springs May Tth.
1t is reported that the Steamboat
Springs Town Company has giyeIf an
option upon its interests in the town.
which include all the hot springs and
much other property.
A company from Kalamazoo, Michi-
gan. has taken long lease on the
Manhattan Beach summer resort in
Denver and proposes to make exten-
sive improvements.
The oldest inhabitant has (been)
| turned up at Durango Workmen in
excavating for building found what
| is believed to be the fore-crown and
! face of an Aztec skull.
The bucket tram at the Sufiield coal
| mine. near Bowen, Las Animas coun-
ty, has been completed. 1t is 5000
| feet long and has sixteen buckets, 200
| feet apart, with a capacity of half
| ton each.
| Samuel Wade, who for several years
| represented the counties OF Gunnison,
Pitkin, Montrose, Delta and Mesa in
\ the Colorado Legislature, died at his
B home in Blaine in the state of Wash
| ington on the 18th inst.
| At a wedding celebration in Denver
where liquor was provided for the
| guests, two fourteen-year-old boys
| stole in and took enough to become
I drunk, which led to their arrest and
/ confinement in the city jail
| The Loup Reservoir Company has
| been incorporated by John E. Law,
| Bruce G. Eaton and Ellis Smith, to
build a reservoir covering ninety-two
! acres near Greeley. the water being
| taken from the Cache la Poudre river.
| There is said to be a prospect of the
early resumption OF the Overland Cot
! ton Mills at Denver which went into
| the hands of trustee in bankruptcy
J January 21st. When in full operation
1 the mills can give employment to 500
people.
The Pueblo City Council grant
ed an extension of the franchise
of the Pueblo and Interurban Railway
Company. which secured a franchise
about year ago to build and operate
street railway along Mesa avenue
and other streets.
At a meeting of the farmers of
SsAth Boulder and Boulder valley ct
Jackson's Resort, two miles east of
proving the application for right of
way for the proposed Denver Boulder
street car line.
Frank Gill. who Is being held to the
July term of the District Court to an
swer to charge OF numbering Alfred
Sayles on February 7th, has been re-
moved from Sterling on account of the
weakness of the Logan county jail and
| I'm No in tot ot
Mrs. Myra R. Sprague. wife of Colo
onel Wellington G. Sprague. died at
her home in Denver on the 10th inst.
Mrs. Sprague was prominent in tenn
perance and charitable work and was
state treasurer OF the Woman's Chris
tian Temperance Union, having held
the office for ten years.
The parents of Dorothy Soper and
Donald Soper. two Colorado Springs
childen who were badly burned by
coming in contact with live wire
of the Colorado Springs Electric Com
pany, have been awarded s9.750 dam
| ages-$6.O0O in the case of the boy
and s3,75O for the girl.
]. r. Harris, convict at the State
Reformatory at Buena Vista. escaped
on the afternoon of the 10th inst. dur
ing a binding snow storm. He was
working in the carpenter shop and had
asked permission to put on pair OF
overalls over his stripes. This done.
he went outside on some pretext, and
disappeared.
The Henry Electric Equipment Com
pany owner of the Henry patents for
self-lighting railroad and street cars
by electricity. will erect a large fac
tory in Denver for the manufacture of