The Holly chieftain., 1909-01-01
COLORADO ITEMS

Gen. w. j. Palmer OF Colorado
Springs is reported to be improving in
health
There was $500 marriages in Den
yer during the past year and 5SS di-
vorces.
At the starch factory in Greeley, B.
d. Fisher fell head first into big
vat of ice-col1 potato Juice and mar
rowly escaped drowning.
The football team of the Longmont
high school defeated the Englewood
high school team of Chicago at Den
yer on Christmas Day by score of
13 to o
The Chicago. Rock Island & Pacific
will move its Denver offices into the
rooms in the Ernest & Cranmer block,
formerly occupied by the United States
National bank.
In his county poor report to the Sec
retary OF state Clerk Konkel of Baca
county fills out the blank as follows:
I'VE have no paupers. How many
counties can say as much?"
The Rogers Canning Company of
Rogers, Ark. has offered to establish
canning factory at Fort Morgan. If
the farmers will plant 1000 acres of
vegetables suitable for canning, the
city to donate site of two or three
acres and give bonus of $1,000.
At mass meeting at Pierce under
the auspices of the Commercial Club
the proposition of the officers OF the
Burlington Interurban Railway Com
pany to build into Pierce on condition
that $4,000 worth of stock be sub
scribed for and terminal sites provided
was accepted.
The town of Kersey held it's first
municipal election December 22nd,
with only one ticket in the field,
named by the Boosters" club. Fred
James was elected mayor and Len
Flint, w. F. Spaulding, w. R. Morti-
mer, J. H. Howe, B. P. Brooks and C.
S. Gardner. trustees.
The assessment of Morgan county
shows that horses, mules, cattle and
hogs have made a decided increase
dropped far below the normal. That is
because there are only few feeders
this year, owing to the high prices of
hay and grain. There are 44,567 horses,
219 mules, 1914 cattle, 3S,034 sheep
and 1888 swine In the county.
Arrangements are being made to use
the new National amphitheatre at the
Denver stock yards for the first time
on January 9th, when Denver school
children will give song concert. More
than 1900 children are expected to
take ] art in the exercises. The new
amphttheatre Is now practically COM
plete, and is the largest Of its kind in
the country. 1t will seat 5000.
Herbert T. Herr, who, some time ago
went from a superintendency on the
Denver & Rio Grande railway to the
Westinghouse company in Pittsburg,
has been promoted to general manager
of the entire mechanical engineering
department Of the Westinghouse con-
cern. Mr. Herr and his wife, who was
Irene Viancourt, are both graduates
of the East Denver high school.
A Christmas pardon was granted
this year to Mile Mandarich, convict
No. 6.492, for three years in the Canon
City penitentiary, with life sentence
hanging over him for the alleged mur-
der of saloon-keeper in Lake county
In 1905. Mandarich is an Austrian,
aged twenty-eight years. He has few
acquaintances in this country and his
pardon was given on recommendation
of Warden Cleghorn.
The United States Sugar and Land
Company of Colorado Springs, with ex-
tensive properties at Garden City, Kan
sas, will issue $1,5OO,00O in bonds for
the purpose of enlarging the scope of
its operations. Charles Hayden Of the
Boston firm Of Hayden, Stone & Co.,
is director of the Sugar and Land
corporation, together with G. M. Mac
Neil and Spencer Penrose of Colorado
Springs.
What is probably the highest quar-
ter section Of land in the United States
ever located as homestead, and
which has been the subject of much le-
gal controversy, may again come up
in the courts as result of the as
signing by DIR. A. G. Lewis of Mani
tou to the Colorado City realty firm
of Knsman & Wolff of his claim to
the 1GO acres of land IN the summit of