The Holly chieftain. (Holly, Colo.) 1897-1987, 1904-09-16
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

ranch near Greeley.
The Yuma County Fair at Wray pre-
scented a fine exhibition and drew an
unusually large crowd.
Mrs Margaret Pollock Of Greeley has
been picking her second crop Of straw
berries, and good crop, too.
Adjt Gen Sherman Bell rejoices in
the advent of daughter and proposes
TO name her after Helen Gould
The new sanitarium of the Jewish
Consumptives Relief Society was ded-
icated at Denver September 4th
State Treasurer Newton and his fam
lily have forsaken Pueblo and intend to
make their permanent home in Den
Yer.
The county commissioners of Delta
county will appropriate funds to make
an exhibit of fruit at the Worlds Fair
in st. Louis.
The Pullman Car Company has or
dered its shops in Denver closed. 1t Is
not stated when, If at all, they will be
reopened.
At the Methodist conference at Pueb-
10 the delegates presented beauti-
fully engraved gold loving cup to
Bishop Moore.
Miss Minta Elmer has been appoint
ed postmaster at West Fork, Monte
yuma county. Colorado, vice f. II. Ell
mer, resigned.
The wire mill at the Minnequa steel
plant, which was shut tdown recently
for repairs, is running again and the
force has been increased.
Engineer AL Philliber of the d. &
r. G. lost his left eye at Red Cliff on
the Sth inst. by the bursting of the
water gauge of his engine.
David NJ Harris, former proprietor
of the Commercial hotel at Fort Col
Inns, died at San Diego. California, on
the 7th inst, of paralysis.
The Grand Army encampment at
Loveland, in Connection with the corn
roast celebration, was a great success,
about 200 veterans being registered
In the ten mile bicycle race at Den
Yer on Labor Day there were eighteen
starters and large crowd OF specta-
tors. The sport seems to be looking
, up.
Three branch postal stations have
been authorized for Pueblo by the Post
Office Department at Washington. 1t is
expected that they will be in operation
by October LIST
The Colorado Futurity race for grey
hound puppies will be run on Septem-
Der 25th at the Mcconnell ranch, south
Of Denver. There will be twenty-four
entries.
Attorney John Hip of Denver has
! been selected by the national Prohibi-
ton committee to make number of
addresses in Wyoming in the interest
| of the party.
The new bridge over the Arkansas
river at La Junta is TO cost 81 600 The
sum of $4,000 was appropriated by the
Legislature and the county commits
sioners will furnish an additional
$4,000.
President W. F. Socum 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 United Mine Workers have is
sued call for a strike to all miners
now at work in the Trinidad district,
asking them to come out and join the
miners now on strike.
John Mosley, who came to Colorado
Springs from Lonuon few months
ago, will tour the mountains with his
family in a ''palatial" camp wagon. fit
ted with electric light, gasoline heat
ers, etc.
Adolph Anderson, thirteen-year-old
boy employed to tend door in coal
mine at tSar,1ville, Las Animas county,
was burned to death on the 5th inst.
by his clothes catching fire while he
was entirely alone at his post.
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 18th.
President Moffat of the Denver,
Northwestern & Pacific railroad, who
has recently returned from the East,
says that work will soon be COM
menced on the Salt Lake City end Of
the line to meet the grade from Den
Yer.
Mrs. Priscilla Baker, died at the John
Reed place, several miles west of Long
mont, on the 9Th inst. She was sew
entyone years old, and was Familiarity
known to all old settlers as "Aunty
Baker" She was the first white
woman to live in the ST. Vrain valley.
The state engineer has let contract
to the Pueblo Bridge Company for the
construction of a Routt count" bridge
over the Yampa river at Steamboat
Springs, to cost $4,000. The county
commissioners will furnish the abut-
ments, which will cost $500 extra.
The hunting season for wild ducks,
geese, snipe, curlews. brants. swans
and other water fowls, opened in all