The Holly chieftain., 1909-05-14
COLORADO ITEMS

Grand Junction electric line and Nav
18th has been set for the formal open
ing. Free rides will be given the first
three days
Another municipal playground has
been opened in Denver, at Lincoln
Park in West Denver, and 5000 chill
dren took advantage of il on the open
ing day.
May 18th and 18th will be designated
by Mayor Eusard of Pueblo as clean
up days. The action of the mayor
was taken on recommendation of the
Pueblo Real Estate exchange.
The county commissioners of Bou-
der county have voted not to issue
license to conduct a bar in the hotel
at Eldorado Springs. No licenses will
be granted anywhere in the county.
While carrying a quantity of dyna-
mite through drift of the Yak tunnel
at Leadville, Andrew Person, aged for
ty-two, fell. and with sufficient force
to explode the powder, which killed
him instantly.
The Rev. Father Francis A. O'Neil,
for six years pastor of St Dominic's
church. and one of the most popular
Catholic priests in Denver, died at his
home in Denver on the 9th inst, from
valvular disease of the heart.
The Denver chamber of commerce
has decided to offer two cups worth
500 each for the best fat cattle, fed in
the state, and the best Colorado swine
bred and fed in the state, the cups to
be presented at the next show of the
Colorado Live Stock association.
The Denver & Rio Grande has put
into service four new observation cars,
built in the Pullman observation shops
at cost of 100000 each. The cars
are of superior type of construction
and will be operated on the through
trains between Denver and Ogden.
Over 5000 acres belonging to the
Lupton Land company has been cut
up into five, ten and fifteen-acre
tracts, each provided with water, by
Ex-Governor Bailey of Kansas and H.
j. Bone, attorney general of Kansas,
who will bring in colonists this spring.
The twentieth annual convention CT
the Colorado Christian Endeavor I'm
ion will be held in the Central Pres
byterian church at Denver July ] to
4, 1909. William Shaw of Boston. sen.
eral secretary of the United Society
speakers, will be present.
H. r. West. j. Max Clark, Robert
Steele, Ovid Plumb and B. d. Sanborn
have taken action to continue the cor
for twenty years, made possible by
law passed by the last Legislature. 1t
is kept up to correct errors in deeds
and for the purpose of keeping sa-
looms out of Greeley.
The congregation of the First M. E.
church at Colorado Springs will ten
der an elaborate reception June in
honor of DR.. James B. Gregg, who re-
Gently resigned after twenty-seven
years continuous service, to live with
his children in Boston. Mayor Spur
geon. President Slocum of Colorado
Springs and President Dodge of the
Y. M. C. A. will speak
Plans are completed at Greeley for
the new training school to be erected
on the State Normal school cam
pus east of the library. This building
will cost 100000 and will be COM
pleted by the fall of 1910 The State
normal has the largest enrolment now
in its history, having about 1900 pu-
pills. Dr. r. E. Winship, editor of the
New England Journal of Education of
Boston, will deliver the graduation ad-
dress.
Denver. = Governor Shafroth has
raised the estimate for the general
revenues of the state $120,O00 because
of the splendid showing made by in
comes from the Inheritance tax law
The original estimates placed the in
come from the inheritance tax law at
100000. Governor Shafroth added
100000 to this. The result will be
that many legislative appropriations
may be saved by this fact which would
otherwise have been vetoed by the
governor.
Edwin A. Brown, wealthy Denver
man, who is interested in the estab-
lishment of municipal lodging houses,
visited Pueblo, represented himself as
a poor man out of work and was cour-
teously received at the "bull-pen" and
given a nights lodging in what he af-
terward described to Mayor Fugard as
the most damnable place he had ever
seen outside of Mexican prisons. He