The Holly chieftain., 1908-10-09
COLORADO lTEMS',..: !.

The Longmont Business Mems club
has been organized, with membership
of 116.
+ Senator Albert j. Beyeridge Of Hi
nois is expected TO speak in Denver
October 18th.
Deputy. Sheriff Peterson captured a
large porcupine on one of the principal
streets ,offGreeiey a few mornings
since. s 81
The Master Builders Association of
Denver has endorsed the proposed erec-
tion OF fourteeh story skyscraper.
They hold that il would benefit the
city. 5,
Petitions from nine city precincts
nave been filed with the county clerk,
asking for special election on local
option in Pueblo at the election Novem-
Der Sd. ~
Denver is investing money in new
buildings at the rate of over million
dollars a month. The building per-
mits for September call for an expen
diture Of 81 ,006, e25. n,
The gross earnings OF the Denver
City Tramway system for the year
ending August 81, 1908, are reported at
S3,O6l ,902.64. an increase over the pre-
yious year of S22l .653.90
The International Women's Chris
tan Temperance Union will hold it's
annual convention at Denver October
23d to Both. Several hundred delegates
are expected to be in attendance
John Susick, aged nineteen, was in
stantly killed in the mine of the Colo
rado Fuel 4 Iron Company at Ber-
wind Tuesday morning by being caught
in cavern of rock and dirt.
Gov. j. Frank Hanly of Indiana will
be in Colorado October Sth, 9th and
10th and will deliver addresses under
the auspices fthe Anti-Saloon league.
He will speak.i in Denver October 10th
Seventy-five thousand trout fry from
the state hatchery at Glenwood Springs
have been received by Sam w. Vidler,
deputy game warden at Cripple Creek,
and placed in -Four Mile and Oil creeks.
The Eastern Colorado Poultry Asso-
citation has been formed at Fort Nor
gan. Sterling, Akron Yuma and Wray
will be invited 10 join the association.
which plans a poultry show in Decem-
ber.
The engineers of the Denver City
Tramway Company are preparing
plans for extending its present car line
system to Valvende, !, Overland park and.
Fort Logan, districts. These lines were
provided for in franchise voted by the
taxpayers of the city in 1906.
On the opening day of the Eistedd-,t
fod at Salt Lake City the ladies' quar-
tette .of. Denver, composed of Mrs. F.
J. Houseley, Mrs. H. S. Cooper and
Misses BERTHE Berlin and Ivy Matteson,
won first place, and Charles Brown of
Denver took second prize in the violin
competition.
George Sauer, recently convicted in
the county court at Fort Collins of run
ming bootlegging establishment, was
sentenced to term of six years in the
county jail. This will be his second
term in prison for similar offense, in
addition to which he has paid many
hundreds of dollars in fines.
According to the annual report Of;
the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company
now in the hands of the printers, the
corporation has earned net surplus
of approximately 100000. after hav-
ing paid all fixed charges The an
nual stockholders meeting will be
beld in Denver October 49,
Cooperation in road building is ex-
emplified at Eaton in the opening, grad
ing and graveliug of regular county
road through the Bruce Eaton land,
east of town The road saves nearly
half mile to farmers. The land was
| decided to the county by Bruce Eaton,
the Great Western Sugar Company do
mated the fencing, and the county road
overseer and farmers furnished men
and teams to build the road.
Professor Bennett of the Colorado
Agricultural College proposes to make
an exhibit at the Farmers institute at
Greeley next winter of potatoes grown
In Maine Minnesota, Wisconsin and
other states and also those grown in
foreign countries. The exhibits will be
OF marketable potatoes only and will
be Of great value to the Greeley farm
er in showing them with what quail
| ties they must compete in growing. no