The Holly chieftain., 1904-12-30
C( L ;RADO NEWS ITEMS

On December 21st, the Fort Collins
sugar factory finished slicing $4,000
tons of sugar beets, after a successful
run of seyentytwo days without in
4 Permission.
The prisoners in the city Jail at
Pueblo were given an excellent Christ
mas dinner and showed their breeding
by polite letter of thanks to Chief of
Police Shoup.
Alfred A. Thompson, an old resident
of Denver and formerly grocer, cele-
brated Christmas conyivially and came
TO his death by falling down flight of
stairs at the Apex saloon.
! New postoffice appointments In Colo
RADIO are: Fort Garland, Costilla
county. Helen c. Peters, vice Charles
John, resigned; Perigo. Rio Grande
county, d. Cronian, vice j. Moody, re-
signed.
Otto Mears is said to be preparing
to test track automobile on the Sill
verton Northern railroad between Sill
yerton and Animas Forks, with a view
of using automobiles for all passenger
business
A new machine works which will
make specially of manufacturing air
brakes of various patterns is to be es-
tablished in Denver within the next
six months. Half block of ground
has been purchased for the site in
West Denver.
The Uintah railroad, which has Just
been completed from Mack, Colorado,
into the Uintah reservation in Utah,
has ordered two large track automo-
biles to carry passengers. 1t has had
one automobile car in service several
months, giving excellent satisfaction.
Owing to stress of private business
Judge ]. C. Helm, co-receiver with
Richard M. Malone of the Fidelity Saw
ings Association at Denver, has re-
signed from the receivership and trans
ferred his entire responsibility for the
property of the association to Mr.. Ma
lone.
Mrs. Ann Thomas of Erie, who was
found living in apparent destitution
and tried before the County Court at
Greeley on the charge of insanity, was
declared sane by the jury and re-
turned home. She was found to have
$4,000 deposited in Boulder and Long
mont banks.
Mrs. J. w. GLADDEN. shot and killed
her husband at their home in Arequa,
Teller county, on the morning of De-
cember 21st They had been separated
for several weeks and GLADDEN. went
home drunk and violent after having
assaulted Frank Harris, a neighbor.
Sheriff Bell placed Mrs. GLADDEN. un-
der arrest.
George Walker, alias John Mayo, and
c. T. Putnam, awaiting trial on
charge of horse stealing, and John
Adolado, Greek, awaiting trial on a
charge Of stealing 5000 from persons
with whom he was boarding, escaped
from the county jail at Trinidad on the
evening Of December goth by tunneling
under the wall.
The direct and highly compliment
ary reference to the Colorado Juvenile
Court and Judge Lindsey's work made
by President Roosevelt in his last mes
sage to Congress has brought a food
of Inquiries from all parts of the ma
ton, asking for the Colorado juvenile
laws. the history of the court, its pro-
cedure and results.
Attorney George Morris has filed
suit in Denver against the Colorado
Midland railroad for 10000, which he
considers the value Of his vote. Mr.
Morris was in Glenwood Springs the
day before election and a wreck on the
Midland road delayed him twelve
hours, so that he arrived in Denver
after the polls had closed.
A Boulder gentleman of prominence
is quoted as saying that he has it on
the authority Of man connected with
the Moffat road that it will build
spur from Rollinsville to Nederland.
The distance between the two places
by wagon road Is about four miles. BY
rail 1t might be necessary to build
twice that distance because Of the
hflly nature Of the country.
The Anti-saloon League, Ministerial
Association and Christian Endeavor
Union of Colorado Springs have de-
cided to cooperate in the placing of
good government ticket in the field at
the spring election. A committee has
been appointed to report January End
upon the records of prominent persons,
with view to naming them as candi-
dates.
At the end of protracted spree Pat
rick Brennan shot and mortally
wounded Mrs. Lowney at Stockton,
about three miles from Leadville, on
the night of Christmas, Then he shot
himself, infiicting dangerous wound
Brennan, who Is twenty-eight years Of
age, had been engaged to Mrs. Low
ney, widow of thirty-three with three
children.
Secretary e. w. Palmer Of the
Pueblo Business Mems Association has
received letter from Gov. La Fol
lette of Wisconsin to whom he had
written for Information on the primary