The Holly chieftain., 1908-02-21
COLORADO news

The Republican state convention will
be held at Pueblo April 2Sth.
]. C. Bundey. q hotel man at Flor
ence, while eating oysters found
pearl about the size Of pea. jewelers.
claim 1t is worth $50.
The Cambrian Society of Colorado,
consisting of Welsh residents, will
give its annual entertainment at the
Albany hotel March End.
Fort Collins has received four cars
for the street railway from the Ohio
shops. The company now has six
motor cars and two trailers ready for
use.
The county commissioners of Pueblo
county passed a resolution indorsing
the action of Montrose. Gunnson, and
Delta counties In asking the state to
pay the expense of irrigation water
distribution.
]. s. Flower Of Denver. has ordered
two dozen ring necked pheasants to be
added to his half hundred on the old
colony farm southwest Of Greeley and
1t Is expected that these will have in
creased to 500 next fall.
The new Denver Democratic club Or
ganized at Florence with an enroll
ment of fifty-one, for the purpose of
going to Denver and holding open
house during the national convention.
will enlarge its membership to $50.
| Local option promises to be an is-
sue at the next election in Pueblo. The
Anti-Saloon league proposes to make
dry as many sections of Pueblo as
possible and will make an effort to
confine the saloons to one or two
wards.
While drilling for oil on his farm
six miles south of Fort Collins, Peter
SpGnner. at a depth Of 600 feet, broke
into q strong vein of . natural gas
which convinces him that he Is near
oil. He will drive the well deeper in
the expectation Of striking oil In few
days.
President Slocum Of Colorado col
ment as q member of the executive
committee of the international tuber-
| culosis congress. Other members of
Former President Grover Cleveland
and DR.. John Osler.
Nathaniel Thorpe, tried at Cripple
Creek for the murder of William An
derson, was acquitted by the jury The
prisoner was not released but was re-
mand, to his cell In the county Jail
by the sheriff to await the disposition
Of the second information, charging the
murder Of Albert Bills.
BY the action OF the State Land
Board at special meeting, in confirm
ing the contract presented by the Col
orado Land & Water Company, some
1920 acres of rich agricultural land
on the old Ute Indian reservation in La
Plata county will be brought under
immediate irrigation and cultivation.
The county commissioners Of Ere
mont county gave the $3.50 reward of.
fered for the recovery of the body OF
Joe Minichlello to A. l.. Green, and re-.
fused to pay 500 offered for the ro.
covery of the other three bodies to the
two detectives who secured the con.
fession from Antoine Bovori.
The Republican State Editors Asso.
citation was organized at Denver on
Lincoln's birthday, beginning with a
membership Of fifty-eight. The officers
elected are A. ]. Dickson of the Glen
wood Post. president; Guy U. Hardy
of the Canon City Record, secretary !:
Edwin A. Sherman of the Grand juno
tion News. treasurer.
H. R. Smith, who carries the mail
from Loveland to Drake, recently met
with serious runaway accident. A bolt
worked loose, allowing singletree to
strike tho heels of one Of the horses.
This caused them to run and Smith
was thrown out. He was picked up by
passing teamsters and taken home.
His left thigh was dislocated and the
right shoulder severely bruised, but no
bones were broken.
The Union Pacific has issued beau
tiful pamphlet entitled Railroad Sig
naling," fully explaining and illustrat-
| ing its block system and interlocking
switches and signals. The pamphlet
Is superbly printed on heavy enameled
paper and the colored pictures are in
the highest style of the engraver's art.
Its subject, the means adopted for the
protection Of life, makes 1t a highly
interesting work.
Two convicts. Charles Lackey, No.
5724, and A. E. Roberts, No. 572G, were
| recipients OF Co. .ernor Buchtel's holi-
day pardons on Llncoln's birthday.
Both men were TRUSTEES and to each
the pardon came as surprise. Lackey
| Is thirty-one years old and Roberts
| five years older. They were convicted
at Pueblo in 1903 of robbery, and were
sentenced to ten to fourteen years
each. Large petitions were presented
asking for their release.
The Greeley school board voted $3.50
to defray the expenses of Superin
tendent Carter of the city schools to
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