The Holly chieftain., 1905-04-14
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

Depot at Grand Junction.
This has been an excellent spring
for filling irrigation reservoirs in Colo
Iado. In this state water is money.
Thomas W. Jaycox has been ap-
pointed state engineer by Governor
Mcdonald to succeed Prof. l.. C. Car
renter.
F. S. Mcnamara, purchasing agent
OF the Colorado & Southern at Denver,
has been appointed purchasing agent
OF the Cripple Creek Short Line.
movement has been started to en-
large the Florence Crittenton Home in
Denver, which is devoted to rescue
work for women. The home is now
crowded.
NJ. L. Sloan, official OF the federal
census bureau. is in Denver. directing
and supervising the work of making a
census of the manufacturing industrial
business of Colorado.
The Department of Colorado and
Wyoming, G. A. R., will hold its an
nual encampment at Denver May 18th
to 18th. National Commander Black
mar is expected to be present.
Governor Hoch. the fighting" Kan
ers at the Epworth League convention
in Denver this year. His subject will
be THE Problems We Face"
Benjamin Franklin of Fort Collins
will enter the employ of the reclama-
tios service May 18th as masonry in
spector and will be detailed to the
Belle Fourche project, South Dakota.
c. E. Peters. manager of the Duran
go power plant, while riding on the
front end Of a street car at Durango
on the 4th instant, was injured by
striking his head against bridge and
died next day.
The country newspaper that James
Barton Adams is about to establish
in his mipd-will be described in a pa
| per to be read by the celebrated
Postscript Man. at the newspaper
gathering at Montrose next June.
Spontaneous combustion among a
| new lot of green" Easter celluloid
novelties in the stock room of the Den
yer Dry Goods Company at Denver
caused $4,000 fire and endangered a
stock worth several hundred thousand
dollars.
|. Five thousand electricians from all
over the United States will attend the
| annual convention. of the National
Electric Light Association in Denver,
| beginning June 9th. The last two days
of the session will be spent in Colorado
Springs.
A southern Colorado interscholastic
oratorical contest vii be held under
the direction of Colorado College and
| Cutler Academy in connection with the
| first annual track meet. which takes
place at Washburn field, Colorado
| Springs, April 2Sth.
William Webster, postmaster at
| Box Elder. in Larimer county. died
| suddenly on the 5th instant at the age
| of seventy-three years. He had been
postmaster through several admins
trations and vas probably the Oldest
postmaster in Colorado.
The Lincoln County Cattle Growers
Association held its regular quarterly
meeting at Hugo, April 5th, which was
we'll attended. Loco weed is flourish
| ing in some parts of the county to such
an extent that the associations time
was taken up mostly with this ques-
| tion.
By ar appeal to the District Court,
ceeded in getting representation on
| the list of judges of election at the
| spring election. 1t was shown that
only two parties were in the field last
year and the Socialist party was one
of them
Mrs. Birdie Meats. accused of kid
naping. was acquitted in Justice Ru-
by's court at Colorado Springs, the
by's court at Colorado Springs, the
Judge holding that the mother had an
equal right to the child with its NJ
ther, who was recently divorced from
the defendant.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Platt celebrated
their golden wedding at Greeley April
7th and Mrs. Platt received letter
of congratulation from her mother at
Mendoza, Illinois, who is ninety-seven
years old. 1t is not often that a
mother survives the date of her daugh-
| ter's golden wedding.
The Denver art commission has ad-
vertised for designs for an ornamental
wrought iron arch to span Seventeenth
| street in front OF the union depot. A
prize of $500 is offered for the best
design received by April 21st. The
arch will be ablaze with colored cleo
tric lights at night.
| Ninety.flve carloads of fat sheep
and lambs were Shipped out of Lari-
mer county April 4th. OF this number
forty-two carloads were billed to
Cleveland, Ohio, Buffalo, New York.
and Jersey City, New Jersey. 1t was
estimated that about 125,000 fat sheep
and lambs were left in the county.
w. H. Copeley is under arrest and
held for trial at Colorado Springs on
the charge of defrauding Mrs. Emma