The Holly chieftain., 1909-07-02
STATE NEWS ITEMS

ray at the present time than for sew
eral years before.
Mr.. Allen of Colorado City Is ar
ranging to establish an auto service
between Steamboat Springs and Craig,
fifty miles. Two large touring cars
will be kept in service.
The Stratton estate contemplates
! improvements of about 100000 on the
Brown Palace hotel in Denver. which
will begin next fall, after the summer
season.
| Milo MCGOWAN, a young real estate
dealer at Limon. was struck by light
ming June 25th and instantly killed,
while working at his homestead twelve
miles from town.
R. C. Johnson. representing the Kan
sas-C Colorado Construction Company, is
settling the accounts Of creditors at
Pueblo. after which it is said that
| work on the road will be rushed.
A promising gold discovery has
| been made in Routt county on Rock
creek near Whitley in the Rabbit Ear
range which is said to be an extern
sion of veins running through the Gore
range.
1t is now DR.. Shafroth. The Uni.
versity of Michigan on June oath con-
ferred the honorary degree of l.. l.. d.
upon Gov. John. F. Shafroth of Colo
rado, graduate of the law school in
1875.
Upon the requisition of Gov. B. B.
Brooks of Wyoming, Lieut.. Gov. FitZ-
garrald issued extradition papers for
Oscar Berg, wanted for horse stealing.
Berg was found working in the mines
at Lake City.
c. B. Nix sold his farm of 100 acres
near Eaton few days since to Chris
Nelson for $21,O Nix bought it last
fall for $16,50O. He retains two-thirds
of this years crop and estimates his
profit at $500.
Work has begun on the new bath
pool of the Steamboat Springs Town
site Company. 1t will be fed by nat
ural hot springs, is to be 100 by $50
feet and will be similar to the large
pool at Glenwood Springs.
A stock company has been organ
lied at Akron with a capital of $1,500
to buy forty-acre tract near town for
baseball park, racing course and fair
grounds. also for old settlers re-
unions.
The new $125,OOO building of the
Denver Chamber of Commerce will be
erected on Champa street between
Seventeenth and Eighteenth streets,
according to the decision of the board
of directors.
While G. w. Gilbert, proprietor of
the Gilbert drug store at Loveland,
and his assistant, Mr. Brown, were
charging soda fountain tank, it ex-
ploded, and the upper portion was
thrown across the room, knocking
Brown down and breaking Mr.. Gill
bert's left forearm near the elbow.
The following Colorado patents have
teen granted: J. Eckert, Denver, hot
air forming and feeding device for
heating apparatus; " V. Fits. Denver,
ore feeder; A. Huyser, Colorado
Springs, campers bake pan or oven;
D. R. Long, Weldona. hay stacker; E.
+. Talliaferro, Colorado Springs, type
har.
A chapter of the Daughters of the
Confederacy will be organized in Den
yer within the next few weeks. At
meeting of fifteen women of Denver,
all former residents of southern states,
held at the Albany hotel, petition for
charter was signed. The meeting
was called by Mrs. A. ]. Emerson of
Berkeley, formerly of Virginia.
George Easton, wealthy lumber
man charged with timber trespassing
at Fraser in Grand county, confessed
judgment in the Federal Court in Den
yer, and gave the court his check for
$673.50 and costs. The amount paid is
at the rate of IS per 1000 feet for the
timber, which he was charged with cut
ting from government land.
Prof. Abram Gideon of the State
Normal School, has been appointed on
the advisory council of the simplified
spelling board of the United States.
Two other Colorado men are on the
board-President Anderson of the
! School of Mines, and Doctor Pershing
of Denver. Their are twenty lecturers
on the board, of which Doctor Gideon
is one.
About 10 o'clock on the night of
June 25th, two masked men entered
| the store of James A. Fenlon at I'm
compahgre and, after severely beating
Fenlon and leaving him tied and help