The Holly chieftain., 1905-02-17
COLORADO NEWS iTems

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Telegraph Company has begun the in
stsilatioo Of its plant Ut Denver.
A large Organization has been
formed At Nontrose TO build up Mont
rose county and advertise its 70
sources.
The Grand Aerie Of the Fraternal
Order Of eagles will be held IN Dea
yer next August and is expected 70 IT
tract nearly 5000 visitors
The Aohat road proposes to estab-
lish . daily milk train service early
next spring between Denver and the
big ranches in Middle Park.
Captain Winfield Scott Grove. for
nerly with the First Colorado and veil
known In this state, has recently been
appointed senior inspector at Leyte.
Philippine islands.
An eastern company is said TO be In
ve6tigating deposits OF salt said to ex-
ist east and north of Pueblo with .
view to building a refinery II results
appear to justify it.
The comptroller OF the currency has
authorized the Union National Bank Of
Greeley to begin business with $780,.
900 capital. B. d. Harper is president
and e. J.. Decker cashier.
The United States Senate has con-
hTmed the nominations Of F. NJ.
Dovnaf as superintendent, Wilbur
HOdgann assayer and j. W. Nilsson
Delter and refiner OF the Denver mint
Thirteen, members of the Gallaudet
College Alumni Association banqueted
at the Albany hotel in Denver on the
10th inst Some very eloquent
speeches are said 10 have been handed
out.
The Denver Chamber of Commerce
has reduced its initiation fee from s25
to $40 and removed all limitations as
to membership. An effort will be
made to increase the membership to
5000. ~.
Longmont died on the 9th inst. at the
age Of ~ years. He had been post
master for SIX years. During the civil
war he served In the Twelfth Illinois
cavalry.
The new Fremont county hospital at
the poor farm near Canon City has
been completed at a cost OF 100000. 1t
will accommodate sixty patients and
there are six padded cells for insane
patients.
At the recent first annual meeting
of the Phillips County Farmers Insti-
tute at Holyoke dry weather farming
was discussed and it was planned TO
make experiments of farming by wind
mill irrigation.
Captain John Brodie Brooks, vet
eran of the Civil War, died at Aspen
February 7th at the age of seventy
seven years. Captain Brooks came
to Colorado in 1880 and was builder of
the first smelter at Ashcroft.
The Amo Oil, Gas and Development
Company, comprised OF Ell Paso
county capitalists, has struck oil at
depth of ITO feet, seventeen miles east
of Colorado Springs. The extent of the
flow has not been determined.
At Denver, on the 5th inst, William
H. Tallman, a civil engineer, while
standing in a bath tub full of water,
reached up to turn on the electric light
and received shock of electricity that
caused almost instant death.
Fifty carloads, or 1880 head, of
lambs, the greatest shipment of the
season, left Greeley February 9th for
market. The lambs were from Greeley
and Lucerne, Eaton and Fort Collins,
and were destined for the Chicago
market.
A sad accident occurred at Crested
Butte on the Sd inst. when the 3-year-
old daughter of Ira A. Little, who is
superintendent of a coal mine in the
district, got hold of some tablets con-
tanning strychnine and was poisoned
to death.
Miss Katherine Craig, state superin-
tendent Of schools, and her assistants,
have just completed the compilation Of
book for the use of the public
schools OF the state in arranging
Lincoln and Washington birthday cele-
brations.
The Littleton postofice was burglar
ized on the night of February 9Th and
an unsuccessful attempt made to blow
open the safe, but the robbers were
frightened away after boring hole in
the side of the safe and filing 1t up
with black powder.
Trinidad is to have Its two principal
streets paved. Main street will be
paved from Walnut street west to Ami
mas street and Commercial street from
First street to the river. Two layers
of vitrifed brick, with cement foun.
dation, will he used.
The State Land Board at its meeting
February Sth sold $50 acres of land in
Prowers county to Sylvester Needham
at an average price Of IS per acre. The
Warren Live Stock Company leased
10000 acres Of state land in Weld
county at s cents per acre for ten
years.
The building committee Of the State
Board OF Agriculture has let the con