The Holly chieftain., 1909-03-26
COLORADO ITEMS

erected at MOntTOSe WITH capacity
of forty-tive thousand bricks a day,
The fourth class postoffices of
Cortez and Dolores will be made pres
idential after April LIST, with salary of
s1,l00 each.
A movement has been started at
Pueblo to secure large fund for the
erection Of a Young Mems Christian
Association building
The plant of the Colorado Briquette
Company at Grand junction Was de-
stroyed by fire on the 18th inst The
loss is estimated at $4,000.
Canon City has increased the salary
of its mayor from SIS a month to $50
per month Aldermen will hereafter
receive $25 month instead of $40
Ill. II. Tammen of the Denver Post
is building $4,000 residence on Cap
itol Hill in Denver Envious contem-
poraries insist that it should be
painted yellow
l.. H. Turner. president of the Com
mercial Savings bank at Trinidad, ard
pioneer of the city, died March 2lst
of pneumonia at the age of seventy
eight years.
The Denver Laramie & Northwest
ern Railroad Company will purchase
forty acres of school land east of Den
yer for town site, the cost, ii is said,
to be 5000 per acre.
The fifth Weld county man to re.
ceive appointment in the government
rnrln n
who has been appointed to assist in
teaching irrigation in the Glendive
district in Montana.
Plans are being drawn for a par
ochial school to be erected for st. Jo-
seph's Catholic parish at Fort Collins
at a cost of $4,000. The great influx
of population. especially of beet work
ers, has created demand for a Cath
olic school.
Active work was begun on the 18th
inst. on the Greeley Poudre Irrigation
system when engineers started final
surveys for the building of the Nc
Grew 4 Camfield reservoir and the ex-
tension of the Pierce lateral ditch east
ward.
The city of kersey mas issued bonds
in the sum of $4,000 at per cent, in
order to take over from the stockhold-
ers of the kersey Lateral Ditch Com
pany its water stocks, to be used in
providing water for the lawns, trees,
etc, of Kersey.
The state convention of the Farm
ers' Educational and Cooperative
Union at Pueblo passed resolutions
condemning the delay of the Legisla-
ture in acting on needed legislation
and telegram to that effect was sent
to the proper officials in Denver.
After an examination of the Grand
Junction office Postoffice Inspector
Frederick announced that the city is
now entitled to free delivery. An ap-
plication will be forwarded to the post
office department asking that the free
delivery system be Installed July 1st
United States District Attorney
Ward has started suit for the gov
ernment to recover $5S .S9S.60 from the
estate of Samuel A. Gutshall as an in
demnity for 3,926,440 feet of timber al.
legged to have been cut from govern
ment reserves in the Montrcse land Of
flee district between the year 1902 and
1908.
At an executive session of the Pue-
eblo Transportation Association and
Pueblo shippers to discuss alleged dis
elimination in freight rates against Pu-
eblo by the Denver & Rio Grande rail
road in certain district in southern
Colorado, a committee was named to
compile the facts in the case and pre-
sent them to high officers of the Gold
lines.
1t is stated that Frank Shercliffe,
alias Morris, now in the penitentiary
at Canon City, has employed a lawyer
to appeal his case to the Supreme
Court. Sutcliffe was convicted on a
charge of numbering a Leadville sa-
loonkeeper, fifteen years ago. On his
way to state prison he escaped from
Sheriff Bonner of Leadville, and was Il
few weeks ago brought back from
Minnesota, where he was acquitted of
charge of train robbing.
F. N. Pierce, a pioneer of California
Gulch in 1861, and for many years
prominent lumberman in the state,
died at his home in Denver on the 10th
inst He was brother-in-law of the
late Senator H. A. w. Tabor and foun-
der of the Tabor Pierce Lumber Com
pany, which operated saw mills at
Tennessee Pass, Breckenridge, Red
Cliff, Officers Switch and South
Platte, removing its business from