The Holly chieftain., 1908-05-01
COLORADO news

Clifford, Lincoln county. with w. Nike
MOnahan as postmaster.
Lewis E. Webber and Ben MCGEE.
TRUSTEES, who escaped from the peniten.
tiary April 23rd. were captured next
day at skaguay and taken back to
Canon City.
Pains famous Carnival and Naples"
and Eruption Of Vesuvius" will be the
big night attraction at Overland park
in Denver during the Colorado inter
state fair and exposition, September
7th to 18th.
The strike Of the $50 marble cut
ters employed by the Colorado Yule
Marble Company has been settled, the
men to work nine hours instead of
eight, and to receive an increase Of SO
cents day in wages.
Henry Van Kleeck has been ap-
pointed as delegate to represent the
Denver Chamber of Commerce at the
National Conference of Peace Arbitra-
tiOn which will meet, as 1t annually
does. at Mohonk Lake. New York,
May 21st.
The town of Craig, one of the prin.
cipal places along the line of the Moi
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to incorporate by vote of eighty to
forty-nine. This is the elimination OF
an agitation that has covered the past
two years.
| Mayor Green of Greeley issued q
proclamation April 23rd, ordering that
all dogs in the city must be either
muzzled or temporarily confined by
their owners, because many dogs
have recently been bitten by or ex-
posed to biting by a dog suffering with
hydrophobia. Every dog not muzzled
or confined was ordered to be killed
by the marshal.
In the District Court at Canon City
the United States Reduction and Re-
finfng Company was granted judg
ment against the Denver & Rio Grande
Railway Company for 5000 for the
burning Of the Union mill at Florence
two years ago. The reduction com.
pany brought suit for $250.000, claim.
Ing that the fire started from a spark
from passing Rio Grande engine.
A committee from. the State Bar As
sociation. headed by Halsted L. Ritter,
held memorial services In the Federal
Court at Denver, April 23rd, passing
appropriate resolutions on the death
OF various members during the past
year. The members who passed away
were Charles w. Tankersley, Herman
H. Durham, Albert G. Grier, John H.
Murphy. Charles l. Thomson and
Charles M. Brown.
At Glsnwood Springs on the night of
April 22nd, John L. Taylor, convicted
of second degree murder for killing
h t., \ g., - 49,
twenty years In the penltentiary,
cheated the court by hanging himself
In his cell at the city jail He used a
rope male Of strips OF his bedding. He
was found shortly after midnight and
had evidently been dead for several
hours. The crime of which he was con
victed was killing his wife at Coal
Basin last July. His attorneys tried
eide.
A. B. Hulit Of the Northern Electri-
cal Company, who is behind the
movement to put in $15,O0O,O cleo
trical development scheme in the Ar
kansas valley from Canon City to
Dodge City, Kansas, addressed mass
meeting at Pueblo. April 23rd. He
explained the project at length and 1t
was enthusiastically endorsed by those
present. Another meeting will be held
May 14th at La Junta and business
representatives from every city in the
valley interested will be present. At
this time it is thought that decisive
steps will be taken toward the fulfill
ment of the scheme.
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 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 list. 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-
dersheritf under o. c. Hansbrough.
In disposing Of the cases Of six sa.
loonkeepers, Judge Lavender in the
District Court at Leadville, left no mis-
understanding of his intention to sim
ply enforce the law In this respect in
the future. He also declared that he
places side rooms Of saloons and other
places not connected with saloons,
where cards and other games are
played on Sundays, in class with sa-
looms. You can't make fish of one
and fowl Of the other" he said, "and
the sheriff will see that all public
places where games are played on
Sunday remain closed the same as sa-