The Holly chieftain., 1905-09-08
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

in Pueblo during the month of August.
Judge Lindsey of the Denver County
Court has decided that the ordinance
prohibiting brickyards inside the city
limits of Denver is unconstitutional.
John Walker of Columbus, Nebraska,
who is seventy-nine years of age, re-
Gently walked from Manitou Springs
to the summit of Pixies Peak and back.
Burglars blew open the safe in the
postoffice at Falcon in FL Paso county
on the night of August 29th and Sc
cuerd about 5000 in stamps and money.
The Convention Amusement Com
pany has been organized in Denver to
give entertainments and exhibitions
during the conventions held in the
city.
Forest Inspector Smith Ri, :, who
has been temporarily placed in charge
of the Holy Cross forest reserve in Col
orado, has established headquarters at
Glenwood Springs.
Mrs Emma Herey-Meyer has retired
from the Office of county superintend.
ent of schools in Denver, Judge Palmer
having decided that Miss Lillian Field
Is the lawful incumbent.
The harvest festival parade at Gree
icy on the Both ult. was twenty-four
blocks long and consisted of decorated
automobiles, carriages. bicycles and
floats. The festival drew an immense
crowd.
A party of hunters from Iowa few
days ago paid the game warden at
Denver $l25 for hunting licenses. They
proposed to enter the mountains from
Buford, Routt county, for thirty
days hunt.
Miss Ruby l.. Carstens of Longmont,
graduate of the University of Colo
RADIO last June, has received an ap-
pointment of fellowship in the de-
partment of mathematics in the State
University.
The Denver & Rio Grande railroad
will build new machine shop, 63x297
feet in size, at its shops in Denver, to-
gether with a large addition to the
| blacksmith shop. The whole is to cost
about $4,000.
The general committee of the Boul-
der Commercial Association has de-
cided to make a safer passageway to
Boulder falls, one of the scenic at
fractions in the foothills above the city
| up boulder canon.
Attorney General Miller has an
| nounced an opinion to the effect that
the exemption of 5000 of personal prop
| erty from taxation under the law
passed last winter does not apply to
non-residents.
At Pueblo, on the 3lst ult., Mrs.
Maud Finch Haver, wife of E. B.
Haver, a real estate dealer, drowned
herself and five-year-old son in the Bes-
semer ditch. The act is attributed to
i'll health and dependency.
When finished, the reservoir of the
San Luis Land, Irrigation and Power
| Company on the Alamosa river above
Monte Vista will be four miles long
and half mile wide and the dam will
be 500 feet long and 1856 feet high.
Owing to the threatened epidemic
of scarlet fever at Leadville, the State
Board of Health has notified the local
/, authorities that the city must be thor
oughly cleaned Otherwise the State
Board will take the matter in hand.
The comptroller of the currency has
authorized the Commercial National
Bank of Salida, Colorado. to begin bus
mess with a capital of $50,000. ]. w.
Calhoun is president, S. w. Sandusky.
vice president, and c. w. Erdlen, cash
! ier.
There will be an examination for
stenographers and typewriters in the
federal building at Denver October
10th. For departmental stenographers
the salaries range from $500 to 81 200
a year, but for the Philippine service
they run from $1,000 to $1,000.
A contract has been let to Francis
Pastorus of Colorado Springs for the
construction of an irrigation storage
reservoir on Florida mesa, near Du-
range, designed to irrigate 1000 acres
of land in the C. M. Williams estate.
C. NJ. Williams died a few months ago
in Colorado Springs. The reservoir
will hold 1000 acre feet of water.
The State Land Board has acted ia
vorably upon the request of the Colo
rado Springs Merchants Association
and the chamber of commerce, seeking
to purchase $50 acres of state land
near the Union Printers Home, to lie
offered to the National Letter Car.
riers Association, soon to convene at
| Portland, as a site for the national
| home.
The State Land Board has issued a
deed to the land recently granted the
Beecher Island Memorial Association.
The land comprises 1G0 acres in Yuma
county, and covers the site of the fam
GUS Indian fight between Colonel For
syth and the hordes Under Roman
Nose, in September, 1868. The Legis-
latures of Colorado and Kansas ap-
propriated $4,000 each last winter to