The Holly chieftain., 1908-01-17
COLORADO NEWS ITEms

. postoflce inspector.
The Del Monte town council has
voted to increase the saloon liceAse
from $500 to s1.2B0 per snnum.
The Fort Morgan sugar factory nn-
ished slicing beets on the 18th inst.
after running about one hundred days
and grinding $4,000 tons of beets.
The report Of the building inspector
shows that permits for 2z5 buildings
were issued in Colorado Springs last
year. having total cost Of S600.ss2.
DR.. Ella Mead of Greeley has been
appointed register Of deaths and births
of Weld county by the secretary Of the
State Board OF Health. DR.. Mead is
also city physician.
The Colorado Fuel 4 Iron Com
pany's mine at Terico has been closed,
and the ITS men employed there have
been distributed among other camps
In Las Animas county.
The Weld County Medical Associa-
tion will urge the necessity Of the in
spection of all meat and milk. The
prevalence of disease among hogs this
winter has helped to bring about this
agitation.
The farmers around Johnstown are
considering the project of establishing
a -four and feed mill. They estimate
that over 100000 bushels OF wheat was
grown within six miles of Johnstown
last season.
Frank Handy. a ten-year-old boy,
was dangerously injured on the Sth
inst. at Pueblo when a dynamite cap
which he was pounding with hatchet
exploded with terrific force. Both legs
were horribly mangled.
The electric nag which surmounts
the dome Of the capitol building In
Denver Is to be removed and placed
over the Colfax entrance Of the build
ing. An immense electric globe will
be placed at the top Of the dome.
The manufacturing interests Of Colo
RADIO give employment to $1,000 men
and women, at an average salary OF
$89360, the latter figure, it is said,
ranking among the first in the states
in annual wages to factory hands.
James Weir, a retired farmer, sixty
years OF age, was burned to death on
the 8th inst. at Rocky Ford. BY mis-
take he used gasoline instead Of kero-
,sens to light fire and an explosion
resulted. He leaves a widow and six
children.
The vast works of the Colorado
Fuel & Iron Company are the largest
single producers of wealth In the
state. The production is tremendous.
markets everywhere in the world, and
Its estimated value reaches close to
$50, 100000.
During the year ending December
81, 1907, the fee earning officers Of
Pueblo county were able, after taking
out expenses, to turn over to the treas
urer for the general revenue fund.
$12,924.17. In addition. the county
court paid the treasurer $472.92
The will of the late Henry P. Hol-
brook, disposing OF nearly 100000
worth OF property has been fled In the
County Court at Pueblo. After be-
quests Of $1,000 each to the Sacred
Heart ami McClelland orphanages. the
property Is left to three sisters, q
niece and brother.
In order to provide funds for new
equipment, the Great Western Rail.
road Company which, under the con-
troll Of the Great Western Sugar Com
pany. operates q railroad in the sugar
beet region in northern Colorado, has
Increased Its capital stock from g.
100000 to $a,5Oo.ooo.
Informations were filed On the 18th
inst. against the eighteen salOonkeep-
ers Of 4alida on evidence furnished
by q committee Of six ministers and
laymen from the churches In the city.
The committee spent Sunday visiting
the saloons and states that every one
Of the eighteen was open.
Tired Of waiting for the decision Of
the Supreme Court in the matter Of
the last election, the saloon men who
still held on In Boulder. paying rent
but doing no business, have given up
all hope and have removed their fix
tures away. The buildings they oc-
cupied were left empty.
: 1t is estimated that 560, 900 sheep are
being fed in northern Colorado for
market, and 100000 in southern Colo
RADIO. OF the total, ninety per cent,
are lambs. of which the greater part
in the south were purchased in New
Mexico, while the northern stockmen
secured Montana and Wyoming lambs.
Irwin Hescovich, middle aged Rus
sian, was ground to pieces by the
charging car of blast furnace in the
Minnequa steel works. But few rem
nants of his body were to be found
when the machinery was stopped. and
had 1t not been for his brass number
check, Identification would have been
impossible.