The Holly chieftain., 1908-08-28
COLORADO ITEMS

| " VIII place fulI ticket In the field
this fall.
The boat and launch races at Grand
Lake have drawn good crowds this
year and have been well worth seeing.
Indications are that Labor Day,
September 7th. will be celebrated In
all the larger towns of the state on a
generous scale.
1t has been decided to hold the an
nYal tri-cOunty fair of Carried, Eagle
and Pitkin counties in Glenwood
Springs this year.
The contract for the erection Of the
Fremont county Jail has been let to
Alderman U. 8. Okey of Canon City for
| $17.176 and work will soon be COM
menced.
A committee of Pueblo business men,
after investigation, has reported favor
ably on the Allison Tennessee Pass
water project as a source of water sup
| ply for the city.
Mrs. Carolyn Kirchon was instantly
killed and her son-in-law, ]. H. Han
ming. seriously injured In boiler ex-
plosion at Hustled, Ell Paso county on
Thursday. the Goth inst.
The Colorado City council has passed
the ordinance requiring all saloon
keepers to remove screens from In
front of the bars, and to keep the win
dows transparent.
Because of indiscriminate shooting by
dove hunters about Florence, farmers
are placarding their premises against
hunting. Several cattle have been
killed by the hunters
| The abstract OF assessment of JEFF
| ferson county shows the total net val
uation fo' 1908 to be $5,250,176, an In
crease Of $110,502 over last year. The
increase is mostly on improvements.
City Engineer R. H. Ashworth esti-
mates that ten, miles of new sidewalk
has been laid In Colorado City this
summer. The city is advertising two
and one-half miles of additional side
walk.
The picnic of the Denver Retail
Grocers Association at Glacier lake on
the 18th inst. was attended by nearly
5000 persons. Nearly every grocery
In Denver was locked up for the en-
tire day.
Colorado Springs club women will
tender luncheon in the Antlers hotel
next month to the officers and mem
bers of the executive board of the Ma
tional Federation of Women's clubs.
who will meet at Colorado Springs
September 8th to 18th. inclusive.
For the third time, and the second
this summer, the Denver & Rio Grande
safe in the Manitou depot was blown
open on the night Of the 18th inst. by
cracksmen, who secured less than IS
4 cash for theiy work. Many valuable
| express packages In the office were un-
| disturbed.
Damage estimated at from $4,000
to $4,000 was caused to railroads, city
and county bridges, ranch lands and
| private property by flood caused by
a cloudburst. occurring along the crest
Of the Greenhorn range, south Of Flor
ence, between and 9 o'clock Satur-
day night.
The beet factories at Rocky Ford
and at Swink will open the campaign
October 10th. At Las Animas and
Lamar the factories will not run this
fall because of the poor crop, but the
beets raised at those places will be
bought at Rocky Ford. The Rocky
Ford district crop will be about three
fourths OF the normal yield.
Acting Governor Harper has ap-
pointed ]. P. Hall of Denver, Ben Pres
ton of Timnath, w. X. Winterhalter of
Rocky Ford and Frank Kreybell Of Las
Animas as supplementary members of
the Colorado delegation which has been
appointed to represent Colorado at the
National Irrigation congress, which is
to be held in Albuquerque in December.
Since the resignation of John F.
Myers as manager of the Colorado work
shop for the blind in Denver, Foreman
L. G. johnson of the broom depart.
ment and his assistants have been run
ming the factory of the school. A COM
mittee has been appointed to name a
manager and is looking for the right
man. Meantime, everything is re-
ported to be running smoothly.
The annual rifle matches Of the Col.
orado State Rifle Association will be
held Sept. 10th and 1lth at the state
rifle range near Golden. A number of
prizes have been offered to competi.
tors and special merchants prizes
which have been offered to induce the
store keepers to enter the matches are
among the trophies. Pistol and rifle
matches will be held by the Colorado
national guard Sept. 18th and 18th at
the same range.
At Boulder on the 10Th inst. an or.
der was issued in the County Court
permitting the distribution of SCI 900
to the legatees OF the Macky estate.
conditioned that they waive all right
to contest the legacy Of $4,000 be.
| Queathed the city or count,, fo,, /, -