The Holly chieftain., 1909-12-24
COLORADO ITEMS


ing all records for high prices up TO
that date
The Postal Telegraph Company has
shipped material to Fort Morgan and
is preparing to establish an uptown OF
flee January LIST.
Repairs ON the Rio Grande Southern
having been completed, Telluride is
once more in direct railroad connec-
tion with Denver via Montrose.
After the first of the year every
doctor in the state must report to the
registrar of vital statistics in his dis
trict each birth which comes under
his observation.
At conference of the five executive
officers of the state, it was decided to
close all offices in the state capitol at
Denver at 1880 o'clock each Saturday
afternoon from now on.
Despite the cold weather, work on
the Standley lake ditch from Beebe
Draw to Hudson, 100 miles, is pro-
crossing with big steam plows and
about ! 900 men engaged.
William ]. Palmer post of the Grand
Army of the Republic has been organ
lied at Colorado City, the officers be
ing formally installed by Department
Commander j. w. Wingate.
The Colorado Springs Company is
taking steps to park forty acres Of
land lying between Wood avenue and
Monument valley park. The land is
valued at s20O,Oe9 and is situated in
the north end residence district.
The citizens and farmers in and
around Hillrose in Morgan county have
organized company for building a
$50 900 alfalfa meal mill. Construction
is now under way and they expect to
be grinding alfalfa within sixty days.
John w. Nesmith, president of the
Colorado Iron Works, one Of the enter
prising pioneer business men and man
ufacturers of Colorado, died at St.
Luke's hospital at Denver on the 18th
inst, of heart disease, after an Illness
of only thrty-six hours. He was sey-
enty-six years of age.
The. Rev. Dr. Kerr B. Tupper, for
merly pastor of the First Baptist
church in Denver and a pulpit orator
of note, has been lecturing throughout
the West, but will resume active pas
toral duty again next year. At pres
ent he is in Philadelphia. 1t is his in,
tention to continue his lectures this
winter and to enter pastorate some
where next fall.
The Santa Fe is receiving in install
ments the several million dollars
worth of equipment recently built for
it in the East, and designed to facili-
tate operations on its western division
west of La Junta. New equipment in
cludes thirty-seven new engines, 100
passenger, baggage and mail cars, sew
eral hundred refrigerator cars and
about 1000 freight cars.
While at Denver few days since
f. l.. Harvey, secretary of the Wash
ington National Monument Society,
said that of all the states in the Tn.
ion, Colorado, South Dakota and Ok,
lahoma are the only ones not repre-.
sented by a tablet in the Washington
monument at the national capital
Such a tablet could be placed in the
monument at cost of about $500.
The Grand junction budget ordi,
nance as adopted by the city commits.
sioners appropriates over 100000 for
municipal expenses for the ensuing
year. This is an increase of $4,000
over last years appropriation, which
was then the highest on record. The
question of street paving and noun.
tain water system confront the com,
missoners and the budget includes an
item Of six months interest on $780,,
900 bond issue expected to soon be
made for the new water supply.
John Hopkins, the first man to drive
the famous pony express from st.
Louis to San Francisco, hero of ma
tional reputation in the terrible Chi
cago fire, and for thirty-two years one
of the best known prospectors and
hunters in Colorado, died few days
since at the Ell Paso county poor farm,
aged eighty-seven. Hopkins was born
in Illinois and came to Colorado in
1878, where he had since made his
home.
With a record breaking output this
year of 100000 bags of sugar, the fac
tory at Grand Junction, built ten years
ago by Colorado Springs capital, and
controlled by ]. r. McKinnie, r. P.
Davies and E. G.. Sharer, all of Colo
RADIO Springs, will produce SS00,00O
worth Of sugar, net value. In order
to increase the output next year, the
company expects to eXpend nearly
100000 in improvements and enlarge