The Holly chieftain., 1908-04-24
COLORADO NEWS

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at Durango against Charles +. McCon
nell, president of the defunct Smeltel
CITY State bank
Pains famous Carnival and Naples
and Eruption of Vesuvius" will be the
big night attraction at Overland parl
in Denver during the Colorado inter
state fair and exposition, September
7th to 18th.
The executive board of the Farmers
Educational and Cooperative union has
named S. u. Schnech of Pueblo as pur
chasing agent. He will buy all sup
plies at wholesale rates and deliver
them to the members of the union
Pardon Saylers of Ell Paso county was
named as organizer.
While riding horse through a gate
on the ranch of his uncle between
Pueblo and Colorado Springs, April
18th, Roy Doud, aged twenty-five, was
killed. The horse SHE'D and Doud was
thrown off, his head striking gate
post The force of the blow was such
that his skull was crushed and he
lived but few minutes.
Henry Burd who was charged with
shooting and killing George S. Dubois
leased at Boulder on motion of District
Attorney Van Horn. Later evidence
secured, 1t is said, showed that Dubois
fired two shots before Burd fired. Two
bullets supposed to have been fired in
Burd's direction were found and both
fitted Dubois revolver. One was in
the wall and the other in meal bag
Doctors testified at the preliminary ex-
np1inat hot
fired after receiving his wound.
The jury in the Taylor case at Glen
wood Springs April 18th returned Il
verdict of guilty of murder in the sec
ond degree. This verdict carries
penalty of from ten years to life i'm
prisonment In the penitentiary. The
crime with which Taylor is charged
was the killing of his wife at Coal
Bason, Pitkin county. July 10, 1907.
He was given trial at Aspen, the
jury disagreed and a change of venue
was taken to Garfield county. A hard
fight was made to clear Taylor on the
ground that the woman had committed
suicide.
Ora Haley of Routt county, and j. !.
Rowell of Longmont appeared in the
United States Court at Denver on the
18th inst and pleaded guilty to the
charge of Illegal fencing. Their trial
had been set for hearing in May, but
they asked to be allowed to plead and
the court consented to accept their
plea. Each was fined 500 and costs.
Haley, it is stated, had some 10000
acres under fence in Wyoming and
Colorado, while Rowell had under fence
between 5000 and 1000 acres. The
fact that they pleaded guilty caused the
court to give them small fine.
Captain Thomas j. Sipple. who was
for five years sheriff of Boulder county,
died April 18th at the University hos
pital in Boulder after surgical opera
ton for a tumor. 1t proved to be of
cancerous growth and so badly were
internal organs decayed that death
followed. Captain Sipple was sixty
three years old April 1st He gained
his title by his services on steam
boat He joined Company F, Ninth
Rhode Island volunteers and served
through the War of the Rebellion. Cap
tain Sipple came to Colorado and To-
Gated at Jamestown in 1882. Before
his election as sheriff he served as un-
dersheriff under o. C. Hansbrough.
At meeting in Denver details were
completed for the formation of new
Colorado organization to be known as
the Merchants association. The Colo
RADIO Manufacturers association is be-
hind the new organization, which
is formed to make war on
the mail order houses which
are constantly invading the ru-
raj districts to the detriment of small
merchants. Every merchant in Colo
rado will be eligible for membership
and the aim of the association will
be to cut out the catalogue houses of
the East from Colorado. A committee
was appointed to arrange for perma-
nent organization, consisting of c. D..
Griffith, A. d. Lewis, l.. B. Bridaham,
R. Hardesty Fritz Thies of Denver and
c. J. Haines Of Pueblo.
Reports made at recent meeting of
the Colorado Prison Association show
that during the year 1904. eighty appli-
cantS for relief were taken care Of In
| 1905, 106 We're cared for and during the
first quarter of 1908 the association
has received applications from 115. The
association secured employment for
eighty of the lis applicants, there be-
ing many of the others who did not
need to apply for work. Since the first
OF the present year the association has
| furnished 577 meals. 251 lodgings and
forty-three lots of clothing and bedding.
Transportation has been procured for
twenty applicants, money has been
loaned to nine, two have been provided
with tools, medical attention has been
rendered three others and two families
have been supplied with coal.