The Holly chieftain., 1909-09-17
STATE NEWS ITEMS

Cawker City, Kan, took q nOverdOse
OF morphine at Pueblo and was found
dead
Greeley is much concerned over the
rumor that the Union Pacific has pur
chased the Denver. Laramie & North.
western road.
Walter Hooney. a machine tender
at the Gunnison tunnel. was instantly
killed by a slab Of rock from the roof
OF the tunnel falling on him.
Joseph Devine, marshal OF Pryor.
mining camp, was shot and almost in
stantly killed by Michael Peyton. =
and is now In Jail.
Owing to the muddy condition of
the grounds the fair which was to have
opened at Littleton this week. was
postponed until September 3Oth. Oc-
tober 1st. and End
Interest in the knights Templars'
conclaye to be held at Boulder Sep.
tember gath and 25th, is pronounced
Everything points to the most sue.
cessful conclave in the history OF
northern Colorado.
The Lincoln County Fair was one OF
the most successful ever held in the
eastern part of the state. The attend
ance broke all previous records, there
Icing at least 5000 people on the
grounds in one day.
The chief attraction at the Canon
City Fair was the giving away of five
tons OF fruit to visitors. This was
accomplished from a stand erected for
the purpose under a large tent near
the entrance to the grounds.
The county fair opened at Canon
City with an attendance of 10000 peo.
pie. the largest opening day in the
history of the fair. The weather was
just right. The rain put the track in
good shape for the racing, which was
the best ever held in Fremont county.
Disappointed in love, Miss Maggie
Hoover, the 19-year-old daughter Of
Mrs. Clara Hoover, former matron at
the city jail. in Pueblo, took strych-
nine and died as she was being rushed
to st. Mary's hospital. She was found
on the floor in commissions by her
brother Frank, and DR.. PEARS, city
physician, was called.
Because Of lack of funds, St. Paul
M. f. church, South, Denver, has been
forced to abandon it's plans to enter
the institutional field and build a new
church with clubrooms, library, gym
nasium and home for working girls.
A new church will be built, but on
smaller scale. 1t will be located some
where on Capitol hill.
Gen. Edward Moody McCook, twice
territorial governor of Colorado, the
lnan who paved the way for Sher-
mans march to the sea, and former
minister to Hawaii, died in Chicago
Sept. 9. The end came at the Chi
cago Baptist hospital, after long suf-
ferring from Bright's disease. His
brother, Gen. Anson G. McCook of
New York, was at his bedside.
A long string Of farm wagons
piled high with watermelcns pulled
into Greeley the other morning, con-
verting the day into feast of water
melons. The fruit is only small
part of large crop raised on dry land
west Of Kersey. So superior are the
dry land melons, SO great the demand
for them, and SO small the expense
of cultivation that growers have
netted 5000 per acre.
The body of William poherty, q
we'll known ranchman OF Trinchera,
who was drowned near that place,
was recovered several miles from the
scene Of the drowning. Doherty and
rs brother attempted to cross an ar.
wasa near their home. when the rig
into }yerturned and both were thrown
strugv,e current. After desperate
hrother waaoseph escaped. but his
flood He wagspt down with the
survived by seys2s years old and is
sisters. protners and i've
Land adjoining Gill,
acre. without water. ,io 'or WOW an
was man who had beenne purchaser
the land for years and hi tenant on
farming and do market & VIII gut
Fifteen years ago Gill and'arael -.ig'
rounding territory was open Tue sur-
is now a station on the ne'anee. II
Pacific line. The Union Pay Union
erecting depot and businesses IL
Greeley are building big wa men OF
!rehouse.
yer by the Greeley-Poudre4 ~ Den
.,..u,.. - ~ 1ouon,io,s = irrigation
ervoir & Irrigation CompP iNe
construction OF the greatee"s iof the
system in the West, not' 'iisalion