The Holly chieftain., 1908-01-24
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

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by the Senate.
The Kansas Club will hold its annual
| banquet at the Brown Palace hotel In
Denver January 29th.
Edgar Collins, chief clerk in the Fort
Collins postofice, has been appointed
a postoffice inspector.
The Fort Morgan sugar factory IN.
ished slicing beets on the 18th inst.
after running about one hundred days
and grinding $4,000 tons Of beets.
William r. Mason and Joseph Van
derweide. charged with being the slay-
ers Of Secret Service Agent Joseph
Walker, will be tried at Durango Feb.
TIN.
DR.. Ella Mead of Greeley has been
appointed register of deaths and births
bof Weld county by the secretary of the
StatA Board of Health. DR.. Mead Is
also lty 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.
Saving their earnings for their work
in the beet fields for the last fve
years, number OF Japanese surprised
Greeley real estate men by asking to
purchase 20 and 40-acre tracts on
which to grow beets.
Ault has practically completed its
100000 water system, and water was
turned into its mains on the 18th inst.
The water Is obtained from wells and
controlled by air pressure. Later. deep
wells will be added to the system for
the domestic supply.
The United States Senate passed the
bill providing for increasing the cost
limit of the federal building at Colo
rado Springs from $275,00O to $780,
600, the increase to be employed in
substituting granite for sandstone in
construction.
The postmaster generals report of
postofice business for December
shows that the business transacted at
Denver amounted to $100.933 against
$SS.966 for the same month in the pre-
vious year, showing an increase for
1907 over 1906 of $11,967.
A petition has been fled in the
county court of Weld county for the
incorporation of the town Of Firestone,
in southwestern Weld county. Daco-
ma, Frederick and Firestone were To-
Gated less than year ago. and the
arst two have been incorporated.
Battery A OF the field artillery Of
the Colorado national guard has been
organized at Walsenburg with 25 mem
bers. The battery which will be un-
der the command of Capt ]. c. Exline.
has gathered guns and weekly prac-
tice will be held on ground north Of
town.
After q thorough inspection Of the
slaughter houses and butcher shops
Of Trinidad. State Inspector Miles Of
Denver reported that only one place
was unsanitary and there he ordered
200 pounds Of meat destroyed. All
the other places have observed the
pure food law.
Irwin Hescovich, a middle aged Rus
sian, was ground to pieces by the
charging car of a 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.
A novel sentence given at Greeley
to Guthie Earl, youth of eighteen,
found guilty OF contributing to juven-
lie delinquency by getting young
companion drunk. Judge Nixon gave
him the alternative of 30 days in Jail
or six months attendance in the
Judges Sunday school class. The lad
decided in favor Of the Sunday school,
The cornerstone Of the new Odd Eel
lows hall at Coal Creek, now under
construction and to cost $4,000, was
laid on the 11th inst The services
were impressive. Visiting Odd Eel
lows from all parts of the country were
present. The former building was
built in 1883 and was burned last June
The new building will be completed
in May.
The sixth annual convention Of the
Colorado and Wyoming Lumber Deal
ers' Association closed its session at
Denver on the 18th inst. o. o. Russell
Of Greeley was elected president;
James McNeen of La Junta, vice pres
ident, and H. H. Hemenway OF Colo
RADIO Springs, secretary and treasurer.
The association will meet at Denver
again next year.
In the neighborhood Of 5000 acres
of peas will be grown for the Empson
Packing Company this year. to supply
the factories at Longmont, Loveland
and Greeley. Besides the peas. beans,
tomatoes, asparagus. hominy and
pumpkin this company cans, 1t is going
to put up wheat in about the same way
as hominy. This is something new, as
is also the asparagus.
At the annual examination Of cadets
seeking to enter West Point, held in
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