The Holly chieftain., 1908-07-24
STATE news ITEMS


The new 10000 hospital Of the San
ta Fe railroad at La Junta was LOT
mally opened July 18th.
Thursday afternoon is set apart as
half holiday by the business men
Of Greeley during July and August.
The women of Greeley have under
taken to furnish the new public library
which will be completed by September
list.
The Great Western Sugar Company
will construct . warehouse for storing
sugar. which will double its storage
capacity at Fort Morgan.
Gen. w. ]. Palmer has donated .
building site for a Jewish synagogue
In Colorado Springs. and $lO,ooo
building will shortly be constructed.
Calvin Madison, Who was drowned
On the 14th instant In the Gunnisoii
river near Delta, was a member OF
the Knights of Pythias lodge at Gree
ley.
The Burlington railroad paid the
treasurer of Morgan county $11.4O0
taxes q few days since, being the larg-
est payment ever received at the Of
flee.
A vein Of lithograph stone four feet
thick has been found at Turkey creek
near Pueblo. The stone is of good
quality, and has been used in Pueblo.
1t is worth $400 ton.
Glenwood Springs has new ce.
ment factory which is turning out good
material and number Of new cement
block houses are under way, the first
one being nearly completed.
William Ash is reported to have
made rich strike Of graphite ore,
sixty per cent. pure, between Grape
and Texas creeks, in Fremont county.
The vein Is eight inches wide and is
continuous.
The midsummer meeting Of the
held at Canon City August 10th and
18th. The entertainments and excur-
sions offered are expected to be the
"bigges. yet"
In a few days the Rock Island will
bring twenty more car repairers from
Roswell to Pueblo. The Rock Island
has established car shops in Pueblo
in the last few months, which equal
almost any in the West.
1t is expected that january /. 1909,
the Moffat road will run into Steam
boat Springs The road Is now cont
pleted beyond McCoy's and new con-
tract will be let on the first of the
month to complete the road nearly TO
Steamboat
Judge NJ. 8. Bailey Of Canon City,
doc{dod that tho uction 0nit tO re.
strain the county commissioners OF
the building of the new county court
house, was without merit and dissolved
the Injunction.
A factory for the manufacture of
the Carr beet dump wagon will be in
operation at Greeley in a few days.
conducted by company composed of
Greeley business men and capitalized
at $4,000. Seventy-rive farmers nave
given orders for wagons.
The socitl science department Of the
Woman's club of Denver has estab-
lished loan fund from which small
amounts will be lent to the deserving
poor, notes and securities being taken
whenever possible. The initial
amount of the fund is 800.
Elias Valdez, aged twenty-one, of
Capulin, Conejos county, was killed on
the night of July 14th by lightning.
There was small hole In the top of
his head. the lightning in its course
had burned out his tongue, and there
was Jagged hole in his abdomen.
The contract for building the Pueblo,
Florence and Canon City lines of the
Colorado-Kansas Power and Trans.
mission Company, has been awarded
to the Northern Electric Company of
Madison, Wisconsin. 1t is announced
that the company will build this line
as soon as possible.
]. D. Gwyn, the new chief engineer
of the Rio Grande, left Denver
Wednesday for general tour of in
spection Of the road in company with
General Manager A. c. Ridgeway and
General Superintendent A. E. Welby.
The Western Pacific will soon be COM
pleted and the Rio Grande system will
be put In the best shape possible 10
make the connection perfect.
Among the new features at the State
fair at Pueblo next fall will be scholar
ships to boys and girls under twenty
one who prove to be the best judges of
live stock and cooking, respectively.
President Burch has also announced
that he will erect press building to
be at the disposal Of the newspaper
men of the state who visit the fair and
to be under the supervision Of the
Pueblo Press Club.
The first hearing before the State
RAILWAY Commission has hoon cot e,,.