The Holly chieftain., 1905-02-03
COLORADO NEWS TINES

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The President has nominated
Thomas A. Dayy for postmaster at
Fort Collins.
Andrew Carnegie Will donate $4,000
for public library building at Silver
ton, the town to appropriate LOCO a
year for its maintenance.
The Colorado Springs Carnegie Ii
brary board has already received $45.-
900 OF the $50. 600 donated by Mr.. Car
pegie. and the building is nearing
completion.
wung Lung. who presided over
the joss house between Blake and Mar
ket streets in Denver for thirty years,
died in the Denver county hospital q
few days ago.
Professor Paxson. who has been in
Europe for several months, has re-
turned to Boulder to resume his duties
as professor Of history at the Uni
versity of Colorado.
The members OF the Woman's
League Of the State University at
Boulder are raising fund to be loaned
to young ladies' who are working their
way through college.
Loveland has changed its classified
tion from city of the third class TO
city Of the second class. A census
taken by the city in December shows
a population Of z.457.
At meeting of passenger officials of
termined that hereafter all party busi-
ness from Colorado common points
must move on tariff rates.
The ore house at Stratton's Inde-
pendence at Victor was destroyed by
fire on the morning Of January 21st.
The structure and its equipments cost
between $4,000 and 100000.
The body Of Mexican found in
FourMile creek west of Florence,
could not be identified. The man was
apparently upwards of fifty years OF
age. A union labor card on his body
was water-soaked and illegible.
In the District Court at Trinidad
January Goth, Lazaro Trujillo was con-
victed of murder in the first degree for
the killing Of Joe Bosco, near Stark
vile, October 18th. The penalty was
fixed at Imprisonment for life.
Last year $50 arrests were made
by the police of Denver, of which S,523
were Of males and 1,047 Of females.
The number found drunk and taken to
the city Jail in the patrol wagon was
2.345.
Telegraphers from all over Colorado
are preparing to attend the first annual
ball Of the Denver & Rio Grande div
vision 8, Order of Railway Telegraph
ers, which Will be held in Woodman
hall at Pueblo. on February 2Sth.
Seventy-six cases Of burglary were
reported in Denver last year and Chief
of Police Delaney reports that the
burglars were captured in every case
and many Of them sent to the peni-
tentiary.
At recent meeting the Denver
Chamber of Commerce took action to
greatly increase its membership, 5000
active men are being pushed to the
change.
Pueblo authorities are Of the opinion
that fully 300 spurious SO bills have
been circulated in Pueblo. Some
woman passed many of these bills at
several dry goods stores. receiving a
large amount of change in each in
stance.
A Loveland special to the Denver
Republican January 9th says: The
Loveland Reporter. after being under
the management of w. L. Thorndyke
for the last twelve years, was sold to-
day to Frank McMeekin of Canon City,
who will take possession tomorrow.
Representatives of Frank P. Blair.
Post Of the Grand Army of the Repub-
lie at st. Louis have already been in
Denver to engage headquarters for the
post for the national encampment the
first week in September. They expect
an immense crowd and came early to
avoid the rush.
Considerable suffering among stock
has been reported to the State Humane
Society. There is four feet of snow in
places on the range and little feed to
be had. Conditions are said to be par
ticularly bad in some parts of the San
Luis valley region and around Fort
Garland.
Maxwell Price, well known miner
of Independence, has completed q
model Of q flying machine by which
he claims to have solved the problem
OF sustaining the machine in air with
out the aid of gas. The model is ar
ranged with reverse action fans Of
high gear.
United States immigration Inspect
ors Adams and Miller at Pueblo have
arrested Henry Noll and two women,
Josephine and Sarah. Berteaux, all
French subjects. for violation of the
immigration laws. 1t is charged that
the man is an agent for an organized
society for importing women into this
country for immoral purposes.
The Denver business mems excur.
sion to El Paso, Texas, and New Mex