The Holly chieftain., 1899-09-22

has accepted the presidency of the
United States Monetary League ana
will soon reopen headquarters in Den
YER
1t is estimated that fully 5000 cars
of potatoes will be shipped from Gree
ley district this season. Some OF the
| freight agents place the output as high
rs 1900 cars.
An old-fashioned right-of-way con
/ test is on at Leadville The Colorado
| Southern and Rio Grande are laying
branches to the big mines and crossing
contests result.
Joseph r. Johnson Of Victor has COM
menced n war against dance halls and
other places of i'll repute in the city up
on the ground that he is kept awake
nights by the noise.
Greeley and Boulder gave a royal
welcome 10 their returned volunteers
when they arrived Friday. Parade.
speech making and Il dinner Were the
features of the day and there was
great turnout of people from the sur
rounding country.
The Pacific Express Company has
forwarded to Governor Richards OF
Wyoming a check for 81 600 as its coll
tribution to the relief fund being raised
for the family of Sheriff HazeI. the
/ Wyoming officer who was killed while
in pursuit of the Union Pacific train
robbers.
While there are 100 artesian wells in
the town of Roswell. New Mexico. it
is but recently that efforts have been
made TO secure shem upon farms. On
the Chisum farm. the pioneer ranch of
tne valley. II spouter was obtained re-
Gently that flows l.20o gallons per min
ute.
President Osgood of the Colorado
Fuel and Iron Company. acting for
the board of directors, has sent the
stockholders circular explaining the
use TO which the proposed increase of
S12.ooO.noo capital stock is to be put.
1t is proposed to increase the present
output 5J0,000 tons of finished products
annually.
The Denver x Rio Grande roads fin
ancial report continues to show in
creases. For the first week in Septem-
Der the earnings We're S4S.641. compar-
Ell with SAT, ,7SJ for the corresponding
week of last year. Since July / the
earnings have been S4,T02,0OO, COM
pared with 81 GA 800 for the same per-
iod last year, an increase of SS7, 800.
bad freight wreck on Sherman hill
west of Cheyenne delayed freight and
passenger trains Friday. The accident
occurred shortly after o'clock in the
morning. Train No. 10. the Pacific
coast fast freight. IN charge of Conduc-
tor Woolston and Engineer Hodgeman,
nj Low ,at do
of the hill when n wheel broke at the
Harney side track. Ten heavily load
ed cars We're thrown into the ditch and
the track badly torn up. No one was
hurt.
Arrangements have been made and
Longmont will celebrate October 9TH
as Pumpkin Pie Day. 1t will occur
on the first day of the Agricultural
Fair and race meeting. Mammoth ia
bles will be spread in the City park
and the people will be RECALLED on
pumpkin pie. apple cider and sand
wiches. The railroads will make lib
eral rates from all points in northern
Colorado and arrange schedule so all
can return home on the day of the
feast.
A very successful reunion of the San
Juan Pioneers Association was held at
Telluride on the 18th. Many pioneers
came across the. ranges from Silver
ton and Ouray on horseback. others
came around in wagons and more
came on the trains from each way. The
reception committee, composed of all
the resident pioneers. met the trains
with n band and escorted the visitors
to the new Sheridan hotel, until that
M fol xryac IN, lty
limit. Papers and talks upon the early
history of the region made up an in
teresting program.
There is more trouble between the
cattle men and sheep men OF Logan
county. A courier reached Sterling
Monday morning from the northern
part of the county with the report that
sixty sheep, the property of the War
rem Live Stock Company OF Cheyenne.
had been killed Sunday evening, the
herders being seriously beaten and
other damage done. Sheriff Ayres left
for the scene of the trouble with war
rants for the arrest of Hunter Smith.
viii Reagan and two McIndaffer boys,
all said tothave been implicated in the
killing. The complaint was filed by C.
c. Lemm, foreman for the Warren com
pany In Logan county. More trouble
is expected to grow out OF this.
AS n car on the Cripple Creek Dis
trict Electric Railway came speeding
down Battle mountain and was about
TO enter the short tunnel under the
MOhlcan dump, just outside of Victor
on Sunday night, the motorneer saw
the PROSTATE form of a man lying
across one of the rails near the mouth
of the tunnel. He applied the brake
and brought the car to standstill
within few inches OF the figure. The
man was taken up from his perilous