The Holly chieftain., 1910-03-18
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

Oe1t4 real eetaIe tr401feE0 last week
we're over 100000.
Greeley expects to lay i've niies new
cement walks this spring.
The Greeley band has voted to join
the First Regiment. N. q. c., q the
regimental band.
A petition has been prepared at Del
Norts to put the wet or dry proposi.
ton up to the voters.
The Chaffee County Sunday School
convention viii be held at salida
March 31st and April LIST.
A tie falling from . car at Pueblo
struck william Troin. Greek. on the
head. causing m injury from which he
died.
The Denver Trades and Labor Al.
sembly on Sunday endorsed the gsner-
al strike called by the Philadelphis A.
sembly.
Governor John F. shafroth has ap-
pointed Frank w. Harper Of Gunnison
A. water commissioner for Water Dis
trict No. SO.
Mayor Kimball and others Of Idaho
| Springs will try to induce the govern
ment to select site for fish hatch
cry near that place.
Dr.. James H. Franklin of the Colo
RADIO Springs First Baptist church has
been granted a nine months leave of
absence for missionary work in Africa.
About 1,400 acres has been pledged
by Greeley farmers to crops for the
cannery. including 1.10O of peas, 200
each Of tomatoes and beans, and about
100 Of cabbage.
A number Of Hungarian partridges
have been received by the state game
and fish commissioner and will be lib
Grated in the different parts of the
state this spring.
By its decision in the case Of W. H.
Murray and H. Putnam vs Katherine
Aull. the State Supreme Court has
upheld the law which says that gam
bling debt cannot legally be collected.
The grade Of the Denver, Laramie
and Northwestern road has been COM
pleted between Milliken and Greeley
and train service to the latter point
will probably be started about April
Goth.
The National Jewish Hospital for
Consumptives at Denver is a benefi-
ciary in the sum Of $4,000 by the pro-
visions Of the will of Ascher Silber-
stein, wealthy Jew of Dallas, Texas,
who died recently. i,
The various railroads In Colorado
accept and handle shipments of freight
at an actual loss in order to build up
the community from which the ship
ment is received, was declared before
the State Railroad Commission in the
hearing in which the Colorado Con-
sumers' league seeks to secure lower
freight rates between Denver and Lit
tleton.
Because Of lack of a sufficient ap-
preparation to carry on the work of in
vestigating reported illegal homestead
entries and land frauds in Colorado,
M. D. McEniry, chief of the field d.
vision Of the general land office, has
temporarily dismissed twelve men em.
ployed in his department.
A complete model of the proposed
Denver postoffice in Colorado marble
will be shown the authorities in Wash
ington as an argument in favor of the
use of Colorado materials in the con-
struction of the building. Such mod
ell has been prepared by the Colorado
Yule Marble Company at its works
and quarries at Marble, and is being
taken to Washington by c. F. Meek,
general manager Of the company.
T. ]. Holland, state game and fish
commissioner, wants the open season
on doves abolished. He says: when
man goes out dove hunting, with his
license in his pocket, and quail flies
up in front of him, he blazes away at
1t and If he gets it he sticks 1t in his
bag. We can't go out to every hunter
we see in the field and ask him to
show us the birds he has shot. Dove
shooting is bad thing for the quail
and the pheasants."
Cadet Midshipman A. D. Connors of
Colorado Springs, has resigned and
the vacancy in the naval academy
caused by his resignation will be filled
by selection to be made by Senator
Guggenheim. who is arranging to hold
an examination for the purpose. A
general examination of principals and
alternates for the academy nominated
by Senator Hughes and Representa-
tives Taylor, Rucker and Martin will
be held at various Colorado cities
April 18th.
1t Is expected that work of construct.
Ing a large plant for the Common.
wealth Power and Electric Companv