The Holly chieftain., 1908-05-22
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The American Bankers' Association
will meet I'm Denver during the first
week in October.
Holly will vote on the question d
constructing municipal water work.
1t . special election June End.
The Fort Morgan Boosters' band
has been engaged to play at the ma
tiOnal Democratic convention in Den
yer.
Mrs. George 8. Mott has been ap'
pointed superintendent Of schools In
San Miguel county. vice Charles D.
Watson. deceased.
In the County Court at Denver,
Judge Hudson has decided that the
8peer ticket II entitled to the use OF
the. name Democratic"
Steve Adams. charged with the mur.
der Of Arthur L. Collins at Telluride.
has been granted . change Of venue
from San Miguel county to Mesa coun-
ty.
OF the $500 acres of sugar beets
planted for The factory at Fort Morgan
only few acres each will have to be
replanted by about half q dozen peo-
pie.
While dissecting . chicken at Lead.
Vile Mrs, r. J. Mcdonald discovered q
gold nugget weighing about an eighth
Of an ounce. The chicken came from
kiowa county.
The new Christian church at salida.
built at q cost OF 10000. was dedicated
On the lost inst. the sum of $4,000 be-
Ing raised at the three services to
clear 1t of Indebtedness.
The financial committee OF the Flor
ence City Council has just made a re.
port which shows that the municipal
debt has been reduced forty-fve per
cent In the last five years.
The Morrison State Bank has been
sold to w. A. Clark of Boston and c.
H. Hinman Of Denver. 1t IL planned
by the new owners to increase the cap
ital stock from $4,000 to $4,000.
The ruins Of an aboriginal burial
ground have been found ten miles
east Of Holly. The mounds are said to
be covered with rocks forming the out.
lines Of horses, deer, men and women.
The Denver Homeopathic College
and Hospital Association has granted
degrees to the following: G. e. Os-
born. w. c. Lucas, l. N. Bierman. E.
B. Price. 8. T. Egeness and A. D. Allen.
George w. Pettibone, companion of
Meyer and Haywood and indicted with
them for completely in the murder OF
Gov. Frank Steunenberg of Idaho. has
returned to his home in Denver. He 10
In very poor health.
J. E. Perrine, the Great Northern ex-
press messenger who was the victim Of
. holdup on . train near Seattle q few
days ago, was formerly resident Of
Pueblo and depot agent for an express
company.
The Japanese in East Greeley, num-
bering about 200, while waiting for
work In the beet fields. are, making
ready to lead In fireworks for the Gree
ley Fourth Of July celebration in order
to show their loyalty to America.
The Longmont Engineering Com
pany places the responsibility for its
insolvency upon the foreign farm hands
who objected to using the practical
and time saving invention of the COM
pany in handling sugar beets. The for.
eigners feared that the labor-saving
device meant lessening of work and
wages for them rather than an enlarge
ment Of productio.
Following are the graduates this
spring of the Colorado College of Den
tai Surgery, which is the dental depart
ment. of the University Of Denver:
Louis Adelman, Fred N Brewster,
Paul J. Mcintosh, Earl w. Spencer, VIII
liam E. Sinton, j. W. Trosper, Irving E.
Blakley. Arthur c. Lake, Samuel J..
Neill, John w. Seybold, George Sulli-
van, Charles G. Uric and v. A. Wood
At Pueblo on the 14th inst. James
Lynn, colored, broke into the home Of
hars. Julia James and after severely
beating Mrs. James and her daughter
Sarah, aged sixteen, drove them into
the street, where he shot and killed
the daughter and mortaIly wounded
the mother, putting one bullet through
her head and another through her
chest. The negro escaped on bi.
cycle.
The season for sheep shipments has
almost closed. 1t is estimated that
there are only seventy cars in the dis
trict north of Denver to be sent to mar.
ket. With these northern Colorado
has supplied the country during the