The Holly chieftain., 1908-06-19
COLORADO news


brations.
The great electric fountain at the
City park in Denver is now in oper-
alton every night.
A postoffice has been established at
Brandon, kiowa county, with Charles
d. Blanchard as postmaster.
Fifty-one students were graduated at
Colorado College, Colorado Springs on
commencement day, June 10th.
The Colorado Springs High school
has just graduated sixty-six pupils, OF
whom forty-four are girls and twenty
two boys.
The Camp Bird mine, near Ouray, re-
ported a net profit of $1lS,70O for the
month of April. Who wouldn't call
that "bird?"
The American Bankers Association
will hold its convention at Denver Sep
tember 9th and an attendance OF
5000 is expected.
The State Bank of Gilcrest has been
organized and is capitalized for $4,000.
M. A. Selby president, w. H. Gilcrest
vice president and H. U. Keasey cash
Ter.
Bourke Cochran, the celebrated New
York politician and orator, has en-
gagged rooms at the Albany hotel in
Denver during the Democratic conven-
tion.
]. McGahen will build the McGahen
reservoir, 80 miles east of Ault 1t will
be filed from South Pawnee and
Crabb creeks and have capacity OF
30,000,000 cubic feet of water.
The Fort Morgan chamber of COM
merce wants the city to purchase a
sixty-five acre tract one mile out for a
park. 1t has a natural reservoir site and
with lake will make a fine resort.
John Blaizen, Russian, was cleo
trocuted at the western entrance of
the Gunnison tunnel on the 18th inst.
He was pushing motor car into the
tunnel when the accident happened.
The forest service announces the fol-
lowing appointments on national for
ests in Colorado: John Story, guard,
White River; Joseph w. Palmer, guard,
Pixies Peak; c. T. Burroughs, guard,
San Juan.
Judge Gamble is too i'll to preside
over the postponed session of the May
term of District Court at Greeley and
Judge Hubert Shattuck of Denver will
hold court and probably be assisted by
Judge Burke of the Thirteenth dis
trict.
The El Paso. county baseball team,
composed of county officials, has is
sued a challenge to the court house
Tigers of Pueblo for a match game
Of ball to be played in the near future
for charity. The Tigers will accept
the challenge.
A petition to organize an irrigation
district south of Virgins has been
granted by the county commissioners
of Morgan county. 1t embraces about
10000 acres of land known as the Up
Ler Bitou. The company will begin
active work soon.
Patrick Walsh, an inmate of the in
sane asylum, escaped Tuesday morn
ing at 1880 o'clock and created con-
siderable excitement as he ran
through the business section of Pueblo
attempting to evade his pursuers. One
of the men in pursuit stopped him by
hitting him on the head with stone,
after which he was returned to the
asylum.
The present faculty of the Colorado
School Of Mines at Golden has been
reelected for another year, although
it is probable that after the opening of
the fall term there Will be several ad-
ditions to meet the demands of the new
post graduate courses. At the regular
meeting Of the trustees resolutions
were passed thanking Hon. Thomas F.
Walsh for his donation of $1,000 to the
students loan fund.
Senator Henry NJ. Teller and Mrs.
Teller have returned from the session
of Congress just concluded, and the
| senator will remain in Denver
now until July 18th, or after the Dem
ocratic national convention. He will
go East July 18th to attend the meet
ings of the national currency commits.
| sion, Of which he was appointed a
member after the passage of the new
currency law.
The new interurban electric road be-
tween Denver and Boulder will make
a seventy-five cent rate between the
two cities and $1.25 for the round-trip.
The service will be hourly, one hour
via the university and Marshall, the
other via the "Y" and Louisville. The
steam train which leaves Boulder for
Denver at 1925 p. m. and returning
reaches Boulder at 1886 p. M, will be
abandoned after June 14th.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry T. West, both
"a years old, Union Colony pioneers
who have resided at Greeley continn.
uously for thirty-eight years, cele
brated the sixty-third anniversary OF
their marriage on the 10th inst. They
had expected to spend the day quietly