The Holly chieftain., 1905-03-10
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

Twelve nurses were graduated AT tue
nurses training school OF the Mercy
hospital in Denver on the 9Th inst.
| The Mesa county fair will be held
at Grand Junction September 18th TO
22d. the first day being entry day.
Thomas OHara. trammer. fell 800
feet in the working shaft Of the Dillon
mine at Victor February 2Sth and was
instantly killed.
Azel ID. Galbraith was executed at
Canon City on the same day that the
| Supreme Court gave decision sustain
ing the capital punishment act.
There are ISAAC volumes in the Den
yer city library BY reading book
a day person could finish them all In
| little more than 242 years--f he
lived that long.
Fitzpatrick Brothers & Collins OF
Beatrice, Nebraska, have been granted
| contract by the Denver L. Rio Grande
railroad 10 build the new branch line
from Durango to Pennington, New
Mexico.
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.
The Denver chapters of the Sons and
| Daughters of the American Revolution
have given their hearty Endorsement
| to the bill now before the Legislature
| granting 120 acres of land at Beecher
island and So 900 to the Beecher Island
Memorial Association.
| The Supreme Court of Colorado has
| ienied 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.
| Receiver Malone of the Fidelity Saw
lngs Association at Denver has re-
ceived an order in the district court
authorizing him to borrow $135,OOO
with which to pay the vendors lien on
the Concordia lands, the largest asset
of the defunot association.
The advertising department of the
Colorado Midland railway has received
letter from President Roosevelt stat
| ing that he cannot give permission for
the use of photographs of himself
while on his hunting trip in the state
in the advertisements of the route.
1t was decided by the Hibernian So
ciety of Denver not to hold celebra-
tion on the anniversary of the birthday
of Robert Emmet, the great Irish ma
tionalist, but join in celebrating st.
Patrick's Day, March 18th, in which
honor shall be done to both of lreland's
heroes.
The members of the Pueblo Typo
/ graphical Union have prepared me-
mortal to the governor asking him to
select practical man when he ap-
I points commissioner of printing. The
law requires the appointment of
| printer who has served full appren-
ticeship.
| A letter written ninety-eight years
ago, and Introducing Capt. Zebulon
Pike, the discoverer OF Pixies peak, has
I been presented to President w. F. Slo-
cum Of Colorado College by President
D. c. Gilman of John Hopkins Univer-
sity, to whose ancestor. Hon. Nicholas
Gilman, it was addressed.
The Edison Electric Company has
been granted an eight-year franchise
by the Salida City Council to furnish
the city with lights. The company has
| commenced work on a large power
plant which will require the expendi-
ture of 100000, and the machinery is
en- route from the factory.
The Denver Press Club was organ
| lied at a luncheon held at the Albany
hotel in Denver March 9TH. The Of
| ficers are: Edward Heating of the
| Times, president; Raymond A. Eaton
of the Post, vice president; Harry Rob
inson of the News, secretary, and w.
| Clyde Spencer of the Republican,
| treasurer.
Mr.. Culbertson has been appointed
| by the federal court at Pueblo as re-
receiver for the Lyon Cattle Company,
| whose headquarters are at Ordway.
Colorado. The company has 5000 head
of cattle in Colorado and about $4,000
head at Silver City, New Mexico. The
company is incorporated under the
laws of New Jersey.
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 it has 5000 acres of
beets contracted for next season.
The Denver Country Club intends to
hold a polo tournament some time in
/ September, all of the teams of the
West to be invited to take part. Teams
from Fort Logan. Colorado Springs,
Glenwood Springs and other Colorado
towns will be invited, as well as those
of the military posts Of the West, es-
pecially Fort Niebrara, Nebraska.
The Colorado National Life Insur-
ance Company has been organized at