The Holly chieftain., 1910-12-16
LITTLE COLOI;apO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth T>llinp.

Frank H. Hall, best known druggist
in the state, is dead.
Chas. w. Gardner, prominent Den
yer attorney committed suicide.
Mrs. Helen f. Plotter has bean ap-
pointed postmistress at Castle Rock.
Boggio Listului was killed by a fall
of rock in the Regson mine near Trin-
idad.
Two full blooded Cherokee Indians
were divorced in County Court in Fort
Collins.
A franchise for lighting the town OF
Fort Lupton with electricity has been
granted.
A farmers union has been or
ganized at Lucerne. with l. F. Read
president.
John Aikine. father OF ex-Mayor
Aikine of Gunnison. died suddenly,
aged SO.
Francisco Lea was killed by rock
fall in the mine of the Victor-Ameri-
can Fuel Company at Hastings
A local branch, of the Farmers Ed
Lcational and Cooperative Union has
been organized in Windsor.
A Boulder man has discovered a
treatment for gold ores which, if sue
cessful will do away with smelling.
Greeley will soon be provided with
an adequate fire alarm system, pur
chased recently at cvost of $4,000.
Denver packers have announced
that there have been no reductions of
any Importance in the Wholesale
prices on meats
Another outbreak of smallpox is
threatened in Boulder. and with seven
cases quarantined the danger of an
epidemic is imminent.
Grant Woods, aged IS, an employe
of the Trinidad Tile works was
whirleG around a fly wheel at the
liant early and killed.
A new salary ordinance was passed
ly the city commissioners of Colo
RADIO Spgings. increasing the pay of a
number of city employees.
Because of failure to pay fine of
5000 Mrs. Lizzie Loffer is in jail after
conviction of selling liquor in Wind
sor without license.
There seems to be little doubt that
the next annual meeting of the pas
senger agents of the Burlington rail-
road will be held in Denver.
Thomas Hayes, a teamster of Den.
yer, is near death in the county hos
pital as a result of taking an overdose
of carbolic acid for toothache.
A new feature of Y. NJ. C. A. work
has been inangurated in Grand juno
ton by the admission of women to the
privileges of the gymnasium.
The Lamar school trustees sold
$4,000 of five per cent bonds at par,
plus s10O premium and expenses, to
the Citizens State bank of Lamar.
The Cherrylyn horse railroad, pos
sibly the most unique railroad in the
world, running from Englewood to
Cherrylyn, distance of one mile. is
no more.
The Pueblo Poultry Show will be
held during the week of Dec 10 and
promises to be the most successful
event of it's kind ever held in Colo
RADIO.
Artificial bananas from sugar beet
pulp was the startling proposition
made by r. M. Anderson to several
land owners in the lobby of the Cam
field hotel in Greeley.
S. B. Silberg was killed while work.
ing on the grade of the Denver,
Laramie & Northwestern railroad,
above Virginia Dale, forty-five miles
from Fort Collins.
The ranchers in the vicinity of Cliff
ton have incorporated an Independent
telephone company, which will be con-
nected with the Delta and Garfield
county independent lines.
Robert S. Day was sentenced to from
one to three years in the state pen
itentiary for depositing worthless
$4,000 draft in the Mesa County Ma
tional bank in Grand Junction.
Builders are taking advantage of
the good weather and incidentally
the news of the coming of the rail:
road, with the result that veritable
building boom is now on in Meeker.
Information has been received in
Shoshoni that the Chicago e. North
western railway intends to soon begin
the construction of two hundred and
fifteen miles of road west from there.
Weld county last night authorized
the purchase of siXty-five feet of