The Holly chieftain., 1909-11-26
STATE NEWS ITEMS

$4,000.
President F. r. Bartlett, OF the Den
yer Chamber of Commerce, received
from Baron Shibusawa, of the Japa-
nese Honorary Commercial Commits
sioners, en- route to San Francisco,
check for $1OO to be donated to the
House of the Good Shepherd in Den
yer.
AS a token of the regard in which
he is held by the members of his pro-
fession throughout the state and in
Denver the state board OF architects
has issued the first architects license
to Robert S. Roeschlaub. Mr.. Roesch-
laub is the Oldest architect in Denver
in a professional way.
Andy j. Smith, of Kansas City, has
invented process for manufacturing
a new kind of food that he calls "arti-
ficial bananas" from beet sugar pulp.
He believes that the pulp, as he pro-
poses to prepare it, is as good food
for people as it is for cattle, and is
said to be planning a factory for its
production.
building, to cost $1,000, was laid at
the corner of Logan avenue and Speer
boulevard, in Denver, Sunday by the
Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ OF
Latter Day Saints. This society is
not affiliated with the Mormons of
Utah. Bishop Richard Bullard, OF
Boston, delivered the principal ad-
dress.
Rock Island engineers are reported
to be making progress in their inVes-
tigation of the Moffat road, having
visited Steamboat Springs, Craig and
other towns along the survey OF the
western extension of the Moffat. 1t
is believed probable in Denver rail
road circles that the Rock Island will
bid very high for the Moffat road If
given an opportunity.
The three Falconer brothers, of
Granada, attracted considerable atten-
ton at Pueblo a few days since. The
combined height of the brothers is l9
feet 224 inches. Ed Falconer, the
youngest, is the tallest. He stands
feet Z. Eugene measures feet Az,
while William is feet 31a. The
brothers have adjoining ranches and
are almost inseparable.
Since the recent announcement that
the government is willing to furnish
blueberry plants to Colorado people
who wish to experiment at raising
them in this state, Mrs. Martha Shute,
Secretary Of the State Board of Hor-
ticulture, has received letters from
people all over the state, offering to
take the plants and do everything in
their power to coax them to grow.
Sister Superior Kunigunda, who has
been connected with st. Francis hos
pital at Colorado Springs since it's
erection, twenty-five years ago, and in
charge of the institution for nine
years, has been transferred to Denver
to become sister superior at st. An
thongs hospital. She will be sue
ceeded at Colorado Springs by Sister
Superior E,merentia, who has been in
the hospital fifteen years.
State Game and Fish Commissioner
Thomas Holland has received a
unique souvenir that he is utilizing as
a penholder on his desk. 1t is the
skull of large gray wolf that was
killed sixteen miles north of De Beque
a few days ago by George Newton.
The specimen is one of the largest
ever killed III the state and the ami
nal had record of having destroyed
a large number of cattle and sheep.
The proposal to consolidate three
outlying school districts in Mesa
county was carried by good major
lty and immediate action will be
taken to bond the consolidated dis
trict and raise $4,000 for a new
school building. The site has been
statistics recently compiled, has a
larger percentage of children of
school age attending school than any
other part of the state.
Lack of funds to continue the con.
struceticn of the new state highway
between Canon City and Colorado
Springs may delay the work, according
to a letter received by the Ell Paso
county commissioners from Warden
lyman OF the penitentiary, who was
permitted several score of conyicts to
do the work. The legislative appropri-
alton is tied up in the fifth class of
the state funds. Possibly the Good
Roads Association may help to raise
the needed money.
The annual report of the Denver
Jewish hospital made a most credita-