The Holly chieftain., 1908-04-10
COLORADO news

June goth Is the date nxe0 upon Io1
Strawberry Day at Glenwood Springs
this year.
Civil service examinations for clerks
and carriers In the post Once service
will be held at Grand Junction April
18th. -
Louis Weir. a North Longmoat "a
Iooukeeper. was sentenced to SIX
months in the county Jail and hnsd
5000 for keeping . disorderiy houss.
A cowboy tournament and Wild wseS
show is being arranged for In Denvsf
At the time of the Democratic national
convention. The managers expect to
rope in the delegates.
Samuel Richards, who has been run
ing q hack line from the coal camps
to Florence for twenty yeaJA has dis.
continued the service because q III
health and the fact that the hae does
not pay.
New patents issued to Coloradans
include the following: J. r. De Remer,
Glenwood, water wheel; L. Chapman.
Berwind, wrench; H. Lutz, Denver.
friction clutch; M. B. Smith. Gunnison,
folding umbrella.
Orders for 575 carloads OF coal per
month for the next three months have
been placed by Kansas and Nebraska
dealers with the Colorado Fuel & Iron
Company and will be filed from the
Rockvale mine at Florence.
| Sam F. Dutton, manager of the Al
bany hotel at Denver, is making ar
rangements to also conduct the new
Boulderado hotel at Boulder, which he
proposes to open about the July 1st,
In time for the Democratic convention
in Denver.
There were sixteen mining claims
located in one day recently in eastern
Weld county by Fort Morgan men who
believe that the gold mining district
said to have been discovered In the
Wildcat region in Morgan county ex.
tends over into Weld.
The school house at Watervale,
in Las Animas county, was de-
stroyed by fire on the night of March
30th, causing loss of $500. The school
building was completed and opened
five weeks before, and was the only
school house at that place.
Robert l.. Addington of Gardner,
Colorado. has been appointed forest
guard on the Wet mountain national
forest reserve, and Frank ]. BIoll ol
Sapinero, Colorado, has been appointed
an assistant forest ranger on the Gun.
nison national forest reserve.
The grain elevator at Erie was de-
stroyed by fire April LIST, causing loss
of $4,000. Three freight cars of the
Union Pacific, standing on the siding.
were also consumed. No grain waa
stored In the building, the only con.
tents being 10000 grain sacks.
The city of Denver maintains large
collection of wild animals at the City
Park and the park board has engaged
J. Alden lIoring at salary Of $1,000
to take charge Of them. Three beav.
ers, lately added to the zoo, are at.
tracing great deal Of attention.
The little town of Oak Creek, on .
the Moffat road is showing much activ.
ity. One hundred Japs and a camp OF
thirty teams is established there, and
the coal mines about the place arc
opening up. The men are grading the
Moffat road toward Steamboat Springs.
Miss Manning of Chicago, graduate
deaconess. has been employed by the
Methodist church at Greeley to assist
the pastor, Mr.. Davis, In his duties
with his congregation. This is the flrst
church to employ a pastors assistant.
She will oe paid regular salary by tho
church.
About 100 persons were present at
the annual reception given April Sd to
normal conductors and Instructions,
county superintendents and prominent
educators from all parts OF the state by
Miss Katherine l.. Craig, state superin-
tendent of public instruction In her of.
nee in the state house.
Work is being pushed in the con-
struction CT 1.900-foot tunnel through
the hogoack near the northern limits
of Canon City. This work is in con.
nection with reservoir which will
store the flood and seepage water OF
Sand creek to irrigate 600 acres of val.
liable lands near the fair grounds.
Fifty convicts are employed on road
work in the eastern end Of Fremont
county. New roads are being graded
and old ones improved. The state gives
the free use of the convict labor and
all the expense to the county is for
their board and guards while on duty.
Ihey will be worked all summer.
At the annual meeting of the North.
ern Colorado Power Company held in
Denver, April 4th, a 8, 3,00O, 900 bond is
sue was authorized, and It was an
nounced that the proceeds OF the sale
OF the bonds will be expended in COM
pleting the plans for the development
OF the COmnany'a wcrl In mouth 49,, r~I