The Holly chieftain., 1909-12-03
COLORADO NEWS

The Northern Colorado Poultry AS
sociation will hold its annual exhibi-
tion at Boulder December 18th to
18th
The trial of Mrs. Allen F. Read, in
the district court at Denver. ended in
her being found guilty of assault with
intent to commit larceny upon Mrs.
Phipps.
The breaking of plank in the In
dependence mine at Victor caused the
death of William H. Record, well
known miner. His skull was fractured
by fall of thirty feet.
Plans have been drawn for the pro.
posed sanitarium for the tuberculosis
poor at Colorado Springs. 1t will cost
about $4,000. of which several thou
sand dollars have been raised.
In the District Court at Lamar No
vember Goth Henry Starr was SEN
fenced by Judge Hunter to seven to
twenty-five years in the penitentiary
for robbing the Amity State Bank July
8, 1908.
Gov. John F. Shafroth has APP
pointed ]. S. Appel of Denver his spe-
cal representative to attend the ses-
sions of the National Civic congress
to be held in Carnegie hall, New York
City, December to II. 1909.
According to the revised plans for
the joint Rio Grande and Missouri Pa
cific shops proposed for Pueblo. which
have been sent to New York for ap-
proval, $750,00O will be spent on the
shops, instead of 100000. as was esti-
mated in the original plans.
Milliken, the new town in Weld
county, twelve miles southwest of
Northwestern railway, will be formally
opened on December IS with a big
blow out" Governor Shafroth and
numerous prominent officials have
been invited.
In the District Court at Greeley
former policeman James McGregor,
who was found guilty of involuntary
manslaughter in the killing of Frank
Tuck, was sentenced to one days i'm
prisonment in the county jail, that be-
ing the minimum penalty under the
law.
A coroner's jury at Cripple Creek re-
turned a verdict finding the people op-
Grating the Morning Glory shaft of
the Work Mining & Milling Company
guilty of negligence and carelessness,
thereby bringing about the death of
Oscar Anderson, who was thrown $50
feet down the shaft November 4th.
His spine was fractured, but he lived
until November goth.
Permission has ben granted to the
Kansas Colorado Railroad Company to
run its tracks on the levee skirting
the grounds of the State Insane Asy-
lum at Pueblo, with the stipulation
that the company is to keep the levee
in repair and build high board fence
along the part of the grounds where
the levee extends.
With fitting ceremonies the first
rails were laid at Pueblo November
22nd and the first spike driven on
the new kansas-C Colorado railroad.
near the State Insane Asylum
grounds. A special train took about
200 business men to the scene. The
first spike was driven by Mrs. An
drew Mcclellan and General Mana
ger R. C. Johnson.
During the next few months the gov
ernment will spend not less than $75,-
900 in various improvements at Fort
Logan, near Denver. These will in
clude new water system to cost be-
tween 100000 and $4,000, and a
power and lighting plant to cost $f0,-
600. A laundry, a new hospital and a
new isolation barracks for soldiers af-
fected with contagious diseases are
also among the improvements planned.
w. F. R. Mills, secretary of the
Denver Chamber of Commerce and
Board of Trade, has resigned that po-
sition in order to devote his entire
time to the work of the Convention
League, of which he is secretary
With his family he will make a nro-
tracted trip to California and other
states of the Pacific coast. prelimi-
nary to taking up his exclusive duties
with the league.
There are not more than one.fourth
as many sheep now on feed in the
Eaton district as there were last sea.
son. said Dr. Merrill, state stock in.
spector, at Greeley recently. Last
year 13S carloads of sheep were put on
feed in the Eaton district, but only 40
carloads of lambs have been shipped
there this season. Greeley can make
n little better showing, but it is safe
to say that the output Of mutton
from the Greeley, Windsor and Eaton