The Holly chieftain., 1904-02-05
COLORADO RIEF S.

Science church in Denver.
Emmett Fox has been appointed
regular and Bessie Howe substitute
rural carrier at Fort Collins.
Additional rural free delivery service
has been ordered established March LIST,
at La Junta, with one carrier.
The President. on January 25th.
sent to the Senate the nomination of
Paul j. Sours TO be postmaster OF
Denver.
The next annual meeting of the Colo
RADIO State Federation OF Women's
Clubs will be held at Fort Collins next
October
Up to January 26th more than $4,000
had been pledged to the. Colorado Pro
motion and Publicity committee to
advertise the state.
I One battalion of the Second infantry
and the headquarters band. now at
Fort Russell, have been ordered 10
Fort Logan, near Denver
| John Powers, an old time miner of
Cripple Creek. was killed by the eN
plosion of missed shot in the Jerry
johnson mine January Gath.
A Leadville dispatch of January 29th
quotes DR.. Mcdowell OF the State
Board of health as saying that the ty
phoid fever epidemic is practically over
in Leadville.
| The commissioner of patents reports
to Congress that 404 patents and de-
signs were granted to Colorado people
during 1903, this being one for every
1885 people.
Flfty-fve sportsmen took part in a
rabbit roundup near Hooper in Cos
tlla county January z4th and. 1,167
rabbits We're killed. Two men killed
, sixty-four rabbits each
The ownership of the Denver and
Kansas City Baseball Club franchises
in the Western League by George Te-
beau was recognized by the league at
Its recent meeting in Chicago.
Officers of Fort Logan have so far
looked in vain for cannon range in
the foothills near Denver, where there
is room for target practice without in
terfering with anybody's safety.
Robert Youngblood, the young man
who WAS shot on New Years eve in
Denver in the affray with Arnold, An
drews and Peters, in which the rob-
bers killed him mother, has so far re-
covered as to be discharged from the
hospital.
The Colorado G. Southern Railway
Company has had $4,000 trout fry de-
posted in the Platte river at Bailey.
Tne trout are six inches long and will
be good size to catch when the fish
ing season opens.
Mrs. Arvilla Meeker of Greeley, wild
ow of N. c. Meeker, is recovering from
a severe attack of pneumonia. She is
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she would. not be strong enough TO
overcome the disease.
The trial of Newton Andrews and
Charles Peters. charged with the mur
der of Mrs. Amanda Youngblood, was
begun in the West Side Court at Den
yer, January 25th. 1t was decided that
Arnold should be tried separately.
Charles Beall of the confectionery
firm of Davis & Beall at Colorado City.
committed suicide January 25th by
shooting himself through the stomach
with shotgun. The deed is attributed
to despondeLcy occasiOned by i'll
health.
The Herman Reuter- residence at
Brighton has been leased for the next
two years as court house by Adams
county The contents of the safes
house fire were found in fairly good
condition.
Sheriff Struthers of Mesa county took
long ride from Green River into the
Robbers Roost" country in Utah and
arrested and brought back to Grand
Junction DIR" ]. D. Bee,. who claims
to be a quarter-breed Cherokee and
who is charged with horse stealing.
The religious census taken by the
united effort of the churches shows
Florence to have 1000 families, 4,0Oo
people and religious population of
about 1000. These religious people are
considered those directly connected
with churches of some denomination.
At Colorado Springs the other day
Rev. Duncan Lamont, in competition
with thirteen other members of the
Ministerial alliance, won the annual
woodsawing contest at the City hotel.
At the close fourteen hungry clergy
men sat down to dinner at the hotel.
Miss E. Whitney and Miss Carry
Echonohoff both of Denver, have pur-
chased what is known as the Pueblo
Children's Home at Peublo. The home
has been under the management of Mr.
and Mrs. w. A. Gray for the last elev-
en- years, and they retire on account OF
old age and i'll health. About 100 chill
dren are in the home.
Mrs. Helen L. Grenfell, state super
!ntendent of public instruction, has is
sued book in colors containing many
prose and verse selections suitable for
use on Washington's and Llncoln's
birthdays by pupils in the public
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