The Holly chieftain., 1909-12-31
WESTERN NEWS.

The fifth annual exhibition of the
National Western Stock Show will be
held at Denver January Sth to 18th
next.
The Colorado National Apple Expo
sition will be held at the great Au-
dltorium in Denver. January Bird to
sth. 1t will be one of the greatest
events of the New Year in the West
Colbertin Pinkney, famous Civil
war veteran and a Kansas pioneer,
died at Peabody, Kas.. December 26th,
aged Sc. He was colonel of the Six
war.
Discussing the Jeffries-Johnson prize
fight in an interview in New York city
Governor Spry of Utah expressed his
firm belief that there was not one
chance in a thousand of the big fight
being held in Utah. 1.-The laws of the
state must be obeyed, and shall fol
low them to the letter. he said.
The coroner's jury at Winona, Ari.
Zona. investigating the Santa Fe col
lision in which Mrs. Alice Bennett was
killed and fifty passengers injured. re-
turned verdict after four days ses-
sion, that tie wreck was caused by
criminal carelessness on the part OF
the Santa Fe Railroad Company, and
recommended that 1t be taken up by
the next srend jury.
The st. Joseph, Mo-, baseball asso-
citation has set aside January 6, 1910,
in which to complete the campaign to
raise $500 to assist in securing a
first-class ball team for st. Joseph
next season. The Pueblo franchise
which has been purchased by John
Holland of Wichita. win be trans
ferred to st. Joseph.
Governor Sloan of Arizona wants
the statehood bill amended as follows:
Granting to the territory so per cent
of the revenues of the forest reserves
in the territory, instead of 20 per cent,
as provided; giving to the territory in
addition to the present provisions,
100000 acres of government land as
fund for further development of the
territorial road system now initiated,
and 100000 acres as a source of in
come for the territorial fair"
The Colorado Midland railroad has
new president in George B. Harris,
who is also president of the Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy and of the Colo
rado & Southern. 1t is not expected
that any change in the operation or
management of the Midland will re-
suit, owing to Harris accession to the
presidency of the road. George Val
lery, general manager, is an old Bur
lington man, the Midland having been
controlled by the Burlington for a
number of years.
After battling six weeks with death,
Reed Crews, a young lineman at Wal
la Walla, Wash, terribly burned by
falling across power wires, finally sue
cumbed to his injuries. So great was
the public sympathy in his case that
355 persons submitted to skin graft
ing operations that the youths tor
tured body might be relieved
Among those who gave up cuticle
were 130 school children, so students
from Whitman college and 25 soldiers
from Fort Walla Walla. Approximate
ly 1000 square inches of human skin
were grated upon Crews body.
The Denver City Tramway Company
that operates the street car system of
Denver, carried $s4,0OO,O0O fare-paying
passengers during 1909. This is A.
100000 more fares than the company
collected in 1908. The increase in busi-
ness has been paralleled by an in
crease in expenditures for improve
ments. as $1,000.0O0 has been spent
this year for improvement, an increase
of 100000 over last year. An aver.
age of 265 cars was run daily during
the present year, an increase of TWEEN.
ty-five over the average daily service
of last year.