The Holly chieftain., 1905-09-22
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

LAY a. A>ohkthoht oN "
tember 2Sth will be some pumpkins"
The wireless telegraph station at
Cripple Creek will soon be doing regu-
lar business.
The State University at Boulder
opened on the 11th inst. with an un-
usually large attendance.
The Ell Paso County Pioneer Society
had a big picnic at Stratton park Ia
Colorado Springs on the 10th instant.
A free basket picnic was given to the
visiting Grand Army veterans at Colo
rado Springs on the 18th inst.
Longnlont is preparing for big pa
rade on Pumpkin Pie Day, September
2Sth, in which a great number OF
floats will appear.
The name of The Polly Pry Maga-
zine at Denver has been changed to
The Saturday Sun since its purchase
by William G. Griffith.
The agents of the State Humane So
ciety will prosecute persons who snip
chickens in boxes too low to give
them room to stand upright.
The hotel men of Colorado Springs
have agreed to subscribe $500 a year
in furtherance of the work OF the Con-
vention League recently organized in
Denver
Joseph Heller, Jr.. the ten-year-old
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Heller OF
South Sahwatch street, Colorado
Springs, was run over and killed by a
hack on the night of the 10th instant.
Free pumpkin pie and cheap railway
rates are the attractions offered by
Longmont September 2sth. In addi-
ton there will be races and parade.
There will also be chance to inspect
the great sugar factory.
The Short Line management will en-
large and improve its Colorado Springs
shops, owing to its determination to
handle locally all repairs on its seven
Midland Terminal and twelve Short
Line engines, in addition to several
coaches.
The next annual meeting OF the i'm
migration agents of the Gould system
of railways will be held in Colorado
next May. There are some 600 agents
and their coming will be no small
event in connection with advertising
the state.
The State Bureau OF Child an Ami
NAL Protection is taking steps to stop
the sale of liquor to children at Louis
Vile The humane agents claim that
soma parents are in the habit OF send
ing small children-mere infants
into saloons for peer.
Governor Mcdonald has appointed
DR.. Josephine Peavy of Colorado
Springs to be a member of the board
Of control of the State Industrial
School for Girls Mrs. Peavy takes the
place of Mrs. Ina Thompson, who re-
signed about month ago.
]. NJ. Woodard, state game and fish
commissioner, is visiting the game sec
tions of the state and putting on extra
men in preparation for the game sea
son opening September 25th. A new
game station will be established at Pa
CODA Peaks in Rio Blanco county.
Forty acres of land near Brewster,
in Fremont county, will be planted to
fruit this fall, and irrigated by water
from a well. The water will come
from a never-failing source, the seep-
age from an artesian well drilled some
years ago by an oil company. Mr..
Smith has sunk deeply on his farm
and big pump fails to exhaust the in
flow.
President c. W. Sells Of the Pixies
Peak cog road has emphatically denied
report current in Colorado Springs
and Denver that three G. A. r. visitors
succumbed to the altitude of Pixies
Peak and died before they could be
brought down. Mr.. Sells said that
there had been no such case on the
peak this year or at any time since the
building of the cog road. No deaths
on the summit have ever occurred.
At a meeting of the State Land
Board President Fillius and other
members Of the Denver City Park
Commission made a formal bid of
100000 for 1872 acres of land owned
by the state, lying north of the pres
ent site of City Park. This Is the first
move made by the board since its re-
Gently announced intention to expend
some 100000 for parks. The state
board took the offer into consideration.
There were 677 prisoners in the state
prison at Canon City when the count
was made September 18th. Under the
Lewis bill passed at the last Legisla-
ture authorizing convict labor, a build
ing 2Ox3O is being erected Of red sand
stone for library. 1t is to be fitted
with shelving and tables. The library
now numbers 5000 volumes and addi-
tions are being constantly made. A
book bindery will be established in
connection with the library.
Through the generosity of Gen. w.
]. Palmer, three new sub-stations have
been established in connection with
the Colorado College weather bureau
at Colorado Springs The Instruments