The Holly chieftain., 1908-04-24

he annual conference OF the mis-
/ sionaries of the southwest district OF
the American Sunday School union
VIII be held in Colorado Springs next
October, with number of the national
officers, as well as representatives of
the northwest district and New York
in attendance.
A golden eagle, supposed TO be the
Oldest ever captured in Weld county,
was recently shot by George Bates in
the Crow creek district. From the tail
feathers of the bird and other charac-
teristics, Curator Adams of the State
Normal school believes the bird at
least seventy-tive years old. 1t meas
ured over six feet from tip to tip, and
Will be mounted.
State Auditor George D. Statler has
announced that the $4,000 appropriated
by the last Legislature to buy a silver
service for the cruiser Colorado is now
on hand for immediate use. Former
Governor Jesse F. Mcdonald is chair,
man Of the committee which is TO pur
chase the service. The money has new
er been available before. 1t will be
turned over to Goernor Mcdonald as
soon as he requests it.
The grocers' trust has filed an ap-
peal in the Supreme Court from the de
cision of Judge Allen of the District
Court at Denver wherein, on the ap
plication of the attorney general, an
Injunction was granted restraining the
trust from squeezing OUT. the small
dealers and thereby making the people
pay more for their food than they
should. Numerous errors are alleged
in both the hearing and the decision.
Following is the program at Fort
Logan, near Denver: Regimental pa
rades will be held at 4:i5 p. m, Fri
day of each week, instead of Wednes-
day. Guard-mounting at 11:3O a. m.
daily excepting Sunday. when it will
be held at $50 The Twenty-tirst in
fantry band will play open air concerts
on Monday, Wednesday and Friday
afternoons at $3.50 and in the post
gymnasium at 7:30 every Tuesday ev-
ening until further orders.
Amid the greatest excitement the
Fort Collins Y. NJ. c. A. on the night
of the 14th, just as the clock was strik-
ing 12, succeeded in raising $50, ,045 for
its fund, $45 over the amount required.
The evening was one of much en-
thusiasm, and at o'clock the teams
were still s3,500 short of the total
amount Then for three hours every
body worked and at IL O'Clock the fund
was Still $3.50 short. Judge Fred w.
Stover urged the folks to come up with
their funds, and just as the clock was
striking it was ANNOUNCED that the en-
tire sum and Si5 over was raised The
campaign was remarkable one and
teams of the members of the aSsoca-
ton We'd with each other in securing
the money.
Contracts have been let by the An
tero & Lost Park Company for the
building of the Antero reservoir and
dam in South park. D. A. Camtield
of Greeley and s. H. Shields of Fort
Morgan, will do the work at a cost
of something over $125 900. Operations
will be started within ten days and the
contractors are under bonds to finish
the job by November 1st The reser-
voir and dam will be among the largest
in the state. The former will have a
capacity of $4,000 acres. 1t will cover
G,000 acres in South park seven miles
west of Hartzell and about 100 miles
southwest of Denver. The dam will
be forty.six feet high, sixteen feet
"lut VII up anu dboul d ullle lOuS.
The land to be irrigated by the waters
stored in the reservoir will be under
the high line ditch. AS soon as the
reservoir is completed, work will be
begun on the Lost Park reservoir
which will irrigate 10000 acres of land
The two reservoirs will bring thou
sands to colonize the land made fer
tile by their waters. The land sur
rounding them is now practically
worthless.