The Holly chieftain., 1908-06-12
COLORADO NEWS


their yards and carry away poultry.
A baby lion has been born at the
Colorado Springs ZOO. The cub. which
is splendid specimen of the African
lion, is named "Zoolita" in honor of
its birthplace.
What is said to be the largest fish
ever taken out of the Twin Lakes,
weighing twenty pounds and four
ounces, was caught by Edward Lay
cock of Denver few days since.
While placing revolver in it's hol-
ster on the Bird inst. Roy Campbell,
aged twenty-one son of a well-tOdo
ranchman near Collbran, was accident
ally shot through the heart and killed.
Reports show that for the year
l9O7-OS exactly 200 cars of potatoes
were shipped from Eaton on the Union
Pacific and 632 cars on the Great
Western, making total of 1882 cars.
Aided by their wives and daughters,
the officers and directors of the First
National Bank at Fort Collins, enter
tanned over 5000 visitors at the formal
opening Of their new building Satur-
day.
Greeley men are proposing to raise
capital and finance an electric railroad
to Pleasant valley, then to Pierce,
Severance and Windsor and westward
to Johnstown, with Greeley as a cen.
| ter.
Bishop William Fraser Mcdowell,
formerly chancellor of Denver UniveT-
sity. has been appointed to preside at
the conference of the Methodist church
of this state, to be held in Longmont
next August
Ethan A. Farnham, sheriff of Routt
| county, died at the home of friends in
Grand Junction on the 5th inst, of can
Ger of the stomach. He was serving
his third term as sheriff and expected
| to be again reelected.
BY the spreading of tine rails on the
| Denver e. Rio Grande track near AS
pen Friday, two passenger and three
freight cars We're ditched. Sixteen per-
sons were more or less injured some
seriously, though not fatally.
The comptroller of the currency has
approved an application to organize
the First National Bank of Calhan,
capital, $4,000; r. C. Larue, II. A. La
rue. l.. E. Smith, A. ]. Henbest, f. II.
Woodring and d. l.. Shultz. incorpora-
tors.
At the last meeting OF the regents
of the University of Colorado gradua-
tion day was permanently set aside
as a day on which to decorate the
grave of A. J. Mackey, in commemora-
tion of his magnificent bequest to the
State University.
While working as a common miner
in the Portland mine at Victor, to gain
| art a
| young mining engineer of Denver, lost
his balance Sunday morning and was
instantly killed after a forty.foot fall
| to the bottom of a shaft.
ID. w. Spencer, who died at New Cas-
tie. Indiana. on the 9Th inst, came to
Pueblo with the Santa Fe railway and
was one of the pioneer railroad men
OF the west. For years he was super
| intendent of bridges and buildings on
| the Santa Fe, with headquarters at
| Pueblo.
| The Denver Real Estate Exchange
wants to have Denver made "city OF
marble" and has appointed commit
tee to examine and report on the mar
| BILE deposits at Marble in GunniSon
county, where enough fine marble is
| said to exist to last for a thousand
years.
The proposed sugar factory at Man
Zanola in Otero county is an assured
fact. Bonds to the amount of 100000
have been placed in Chicago, and this
with the 100000 already subscribed
l. by the farmers OF the Arkansas val
ley, guarantees the construction of
GO0-ton plant. Four contracting firms
are figuring on the job and work will
probably begin September 1st.
The hotel keepers Of Colorado
Springs will entertain the members of
the Rocky Mountain Hotel and
Restaurant Keepers Association on
the occasion Of the annual out
ing of that body. June 18th and
14th. A frying pan picnic" will
be held in South Cheyenne Canon
June 18th, and in the evening dance
will be held at Stratton Park.
On the night of Commencement day
at the State Normal School at Greeley,
the annual alumni reunion of the
school was held. The alumni number
1,54S and there were about GOO at the
reception. Addresses were made by
Charles Lory, teacher in the State Ag-
ricultural College; Frank Latson, pres
ident of the class of 1907; Attorney V.
e. Keyes of 1901 Richard Broad and
Doctor Snyder.
What will go into history as the
highest fight Of oratory on the
part of a leading political figure in the
country was delivered when John l.