The Holly chieftain., 1905-03-17
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

to 18th.
The Mesa county fair will be held
at Grand Junction September 18th to
ed. the first day being entry day.
Azel d. Galbraith was executed at
Canon City on the same day that the
Supreme Court gave a decision sustain
ing the capital punishment act.
There are Ss,44G volumes in the Den
yer city library. By reading book
day person could finish them all in
little more than 242 years-if he
lived that long.
An organization has been incorpor-
ated by prominent Swedes at Denver
to build large Swedish Sanatorium
for consumptives. DIR. c. A. BrundseI
heads the list of trustees.
Geo. W. Baumhoff, who has secured
an electric railway franchise at Canon
City, will investigate the feasibility of
constructing an electric line from
Canon City to Cripple Creek.
The First National Bank of Fowler,
in Otero county, has been authorized
to begin business with $4,000 capital.
7. M. Weiland is presidSnt; j. F. Hall,
vice president; and l.. Butler, cashier.
The smokestack of the Grant smell
ter In Denver, which is 1853 feet high
and one of the tallest chimneys in the
world, will be used as a receiving mast
by the DeForest Wireless Telegraph
Company.
Simon Guggenheim' check for $780,
600 has been formally presented TO The
Colorado School of Mines trustees, to
be used for the erection of II new ad-
ministration building, as mas been pre-
VlouSly announced.
The Supreme Court of Colorado has
denied the petition for rehearing in
the case of Newton Andrews, one Of
the three young men convicted of the
| murder of Mrs. Amanda Youngblood in
| Denver. This decision sustains the
| capital punishment law.
| The body of Azel D. Galbraith, who
was hanged at the state penitentiary,
was buried in the prison plot of the
old city cemetery at Canon City. His
relatives will be permitted to take
the body away later If they wish to
| do so.
1t is understood that the postoffice
inspectors will recommend the estab-
| lishment of a new rural delivery route
south and east of Fort Collins by which
140 families will be served. This will
make four routes supplied from the
Fort Collins office.
Austin Marsh, the seventeen-year-
old son of the superintendent of the
Eyler smelter at Pueblo, fell sixty feet
| from the top of a cliff while out hunt
ing, on the 7tn inst, and hal one of
his legs broken in two places besides
receiving other serious injuries.
The Colorado Springs Y. NJ. G. A.,
with membership of ,057 members,
is said to have the largest enrolment
in the world in proportion to rorula-
| ton. This distinction until recently
had been held by jamestown, New
York, with a membership of $1,000.
1t is stated that Colorado people will
soon be able to talk TO people at Pa
cific coast points, an arrangement hav-
| ing been made between the Rocky
Mountain Bell Telephone Company and
the Pacific States Telephone Company
to connect the lines in Utah and Ne
vada.
The members of the Pueblo Typo
graphical Union have prepared a me-
mortal to the governor asking him to
select practical man when he ap-
points commissioner of printing. The
law requires the appointment of a
printer who has served a full appren-
ticesh1p.
The different railroads in Colorado
will grant half fare to number of
| conventions to be held in Denver this
season, including the Stock Growers
convention, the Eagles national gath.
ering, the Epworth League convention
'and the Grand Army of the Republic
encampment.
Three lecturers, Messrs. Branden-
burg, McClurg and Irwin, are travelling
in different parts of the country under
the auspices of the Colorado State Re-
| atty Association to advertise the state
They carry steroepticon views to H.
lustrate its scenery, agriculture, min
ing and manufacturing.
In the District Court at Cripple
| Creek Judge Lewis decided against the
unseating of Alderman Hanley and
Shultz, the Democratic candidates of
the Third ward, and the seating OF
4 Vanderweiden and Storey, on the
| ground that not sufficient fraud had
been shown. Notice of an appeal was
given.
The contract for the construction of
the new sugar factory at Holly has
| been let to c. Leonard of Los Angeles,
California, work to begin at once. The
building will cost about 100000. The
company which will construct the
plant is known as the Holly Beet Su-
gar Company and 1t has G,000 acres OF
beets contracted for next season.
The lecturers of the Colorado State
Realty Association are talking to big
audiences In the East and central West
about the state. The Iowa City Repub-