The Holly chieftain., 1905-09-15
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS


Governor Mcdonald has made an
order that the state house Offices may
be closed at noon every Saturday dur
ing the year.
Rev Henry ]. c. Gerland, pastor of
the German Evangelical Lutheran
church ON Evans avenue, died on the
9th inst.
w. Van Austen of Crested Butte.
who marched in the Grand Army pa
rade at Denver. is past eighty-three
years of age.
Victor was pretty badly flooded by
an electric storm on the night of the
9th inst. There was a heavy fall OF
both rain and hail.
Gilbert McClurg has been employed
by Denver business men to give
twenty lectures on Colorado at the
Portland exposition.
The success of the recent Harvest
Day festival at Greeley has resulted
in the formation of an organization to
make it an annual affair.
Mayor Connor of Cripple Creek ap-
pointed a committee of 500 citizens to
entertain the visiting members of the
Grand Army of the Republic.
James Alvord, miner working the
Mammoth shaft at Leadville, was
killed on the 9Th inst. by the falling of
a rock from car above him.
The City Council of Colorado Springs
appropriated $500 for the entertain
ment of visiting G. A. r. veterans and
the citizens raised 81 200 more.
Prizes have been awarded to chill
successful competition in raising flow
, ers and vegetables the past summer.
Major F. F. Foote, G. A. r. veteran
and pioneer resident Of FL Paso county,
| fell down an elevator shaft at Colorado
| Springs on the I'd inst. and suffered a
fracture of the left thigh
Dean Richardson of the Harvard
| Medical school has notified the author
/ tiles of Colorado college that work
done in the college will be accepted in
the Harvard Medical school.
Walter G. Bradshaw, who was en-
| ployed at the ]. G. Reynolds livery,
was struck by lightning and killed on
the 9Th inst. while walking on East
| Moreno street in Colorado Springs.
w. H. Tabor, for several years head
| of the police department at Florence,
died at Folsom, New Mexico on the
! 9th inst. of strangulation of the gall
duct. He was forty-four years of age.
| Gen. A. ]. Sampson, formerly of
Colorado and now envoy extraordinary
| and minister plenipotentiary for the
! United States to Ecuador, was present
at the Grand Army encampment in
Denver.
| Lightning struck the engine room Of
the Pueblo Chieftan on the morning of
| the LIST inst. and filled the composing
and editorial rooms with smoke from
burning fuses, but the blaze was soon
extinguished.
The South Cheyenne Canon COM
pany at Colorado Springs offers to re-
duce its admission charges from so
cents to 25 cents il the city will grant
franchise for a trolley line TO the
entrance gate.
A run of the Denver fire department
on Fourteenth street, with red fire and
Roman candle aecompaniments, was
one Of the most striking features OF
the entertainments offered to the
Grand Army visitors at Denver.
The annual report of Commissioner
]
June 80, 1905 there were on the pen
sion rolls s,4S4 residents of Colorado,
who, during the fiscal year ended June
30th, drew pensions aggregating ST.
1874, ,402.
DIR. Ella Mead has been appointed
city physician for Greeley. This is the
first time in the history of the town
that a woman has been appointed to
serve in this capacity. Dr. Mead is
graduate of the Greeley high school
and the medical department of the
University of Denver.
The Trinidad City Council paved the
way for a permanent water supply for
| Trinidad. An option was secured for
| $4,000 from Charles Francis Adams of
Boston on North Lake. The site of
the lake covers 800 acres and it will
make an ideal reservoir. 1t is be-
lieved the council will take up the op-
| ton.
The application of o. H. Shoup of
| Colorado Springs, Max Buchanan, J.
l.. Warren, J. r, McKinnie, A. j. Ben
die and " H. Reed to organize the
American National Bank of Alamosa,
Colorado, with $50 900 capital, has been
dHpEONtu ny the CDHpIioileI VI tlt
currency and the bank authorized to
commence business.
At Durango on the Sth inst Judge
Russell sentenced Robert J. Taylor to
not less than three years nor more
than five years in the penitentiary and
Mrs. May Wilson to not less than two
years nor more than three for the
crime of robbery. Taylor and Mrs.
Wilson last June held up F. ]. Parker
and took $25 from him.