The Holly chieftain. (Holly, Colo.) 1897-1987, 1910-06-24
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

| II.
ed postmaster at Verde. Pueblo county
Rocky Ford Elks expect to take
stems soon toward providing lodge
home.
A local branch of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor is being formed a.
Sterling.
| The Rocky Mountain Hotel Ment
Association is meeting at Estes PARK
this week.
A fine flow of water has been struck
| in the test artesian well being sunk in
Grand Junction.
Former residents of Illinois living at
| and near Fort Collins will hold . pic
mic August 25th.
Trinidad Episcopalians will endeav-
or to raise $4,000 to build . new
church edifice.
Caonn City has been selected as the
meeting place of the State Epworth
League next year.
A ministerial association has been
organized among the gentlemen Of the
cloth in La Veta.
President Slocum of Colorado Col.
lege accompanied by Mrs. Slocum has
departed for trip to Europe.
DR.. L. E. Hastings of Golden. pho.
neer and veteran Of the Civil War,
died at the age of seventy-four.
Columbine lake, Grand county. will
be improved by a Denver club for
headquarters for sportsmen while
hunting in that vicinity.
Lemuel T. Talmage. a veteran of the
Civil War, was found dead at George
town, where he had lived forty-two
years.
Six cowboys from Nebraska are on
their way to North Park to roundup a
large number of wild horses which
range in that section.
The Denver, Laramie & Northwest
ern road has placed an order with an
eastern factory for 1874 freight cars,
which will cost $113.661.
Report has it that Longmont will
have union depot, which will be
used by the Colorado & Southern. Bur
lington and Great Western.
Hon. s. A. Griffin, prominent law
yer of Boulder. died suddenly at his
home Sunday. He was about IS years
Did and at one time was a regent of
the State University.
All the stock in the new canning
factory at Fountain has been sub
scribed, and when the buildings are
erected they will contemplate capa-
city of 100000 per year.
Frank M. Brown and his five-year-
old son have brought suit against the
Denver City Tramway Company for
$4,000 for the little boys loss of leg
when street car struck him last Feb
ruory.
Evarts Tracy, architect of the new
Denver postoffice, says that, after hav-
Ing visited the famous marble quarries
OF Italy, Colorado marble Quarries have
no superior in the world for capacity,
quantity and quality.
1t is now proposed to extend the
Grand Valley interurban line from its
present western terminus, Fruita, to
Iona 1t is said that Colorado Springs
capitalists interested at Iona will take
100000 of the extension bonds.
Austin Downey of Fort Collins,
graduate of the Agricultural College,
and lately an engineer of the reclama.
ton service, was drowned at Cody,
Wyoming. when a steam launch on the
big shoshone reservoir capslzed Thurs.
lay night
Glenwood's annual Strawberry Dav
celebration Saturday is reported to
have been the best ever. About 5000
attended. In the hose contest the team
from Aspen was awarded the first
prize, Palisade second and Glenwood
bird.
1no Chavara. a Mexican, was found
1ear the tramway track in Arvada Fri
day with his throat cut, having been
here all night. He was nearly dead
from loss Of blood. but was taken to a
hospital in Denver. He refused to give
the name Of his assailants.
The commissioners of Larimer conn.
ty have just been informed by gov.
eminent Inspector that the lumber
they have been buying for numerous
new bridges, ETC., had been cut from
government land. Informations are to
be filed against the dealers.
The contract for the new white mar
BILE postoffice in Denver calls for the
work to be done in twenty-five months
and the contractors will use every eff.
'ort to complete it in that time. The
Marble company will begin delivering
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