The Holly chieftain., 1910-05-13
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Apex is asking for a hotel.
Beaver is after a postoffice.

morning.
Ranch hands are reported scarce
around Parker.
The new bank at Ignacio will open
In few days.
Work has begun on Buena vista's
new opera house.
The First National Bank OF Eaton
VIII double its capital.
Center will have a new hotel, the
contract having been let.
A Greeley man Las asked for gas
franchise at Fort Morgan.
Four hundred men are employed at
the marble quarries at Marble.
Winter wheat around Wiley is said
to be looking extremely fine.
Hudson will soon be revelins in the
joys OF local telephone exchange.
The proposed railroad from Dillon
to Argentine is being surveyed.
The Garfield county grand jury re-
turned nearly hundred indictments.
German Luterans at Stratton have
called a meeting to organize church.
Abner S. Boggs, pioneer and be-
loved citizen of Wray, died at the age
of 72.
The Lincoln county Sunday school
institute will be held at Limon May
10Th.
The school election in Wray re-
suited in q tie and another has been
called.
The government oil survey of the
western slope is to be started within
few weeks.
A team, frightened by a passing
auto, started through $50 window of
= Penrose store.
Limon has had meeting to hear
arguments for the establishment of
waterworks there.
The capacity Of the cement plant at
Concrete will be enlarged to 1900 bar
rels ber day.
The Independent, lifts first news
paper, made its appearance last Friday.
w. L. Stuck is editor and publisher.
Tiff things an alfalfa mill and
grain elevator would add largely to its
convenience and prosperity.
The Colorado City Board of Educa-
ton has raised the salaries of all
teachers for the coming year.
Greeley's automobile census shows
the number of honk hacks in the spud
metropolis to be 2s2.
The question of issuing $4,000
bonds for county high school in
Cheyenne county was defeated.
The Manitou library board has been
advised that Mr.. Carnegies contribu-
tion of $4,000 is now available.
Material has arrived for the connec-
ton OF Pagosa Springs by telephone
with the outside world.
Leases were filed at Fort Collins
for the right to prospect for oil on
seven parcels Of land near Laporte.
The contract has been let for the
new State Normal school at Gunnison
and work will begin at once.
The vote in Garfield county Monday
for a county high school was largely
in favor of the proposition.
B. S. Lee. a student at Colorado col
lege, Colorado Springs. killed q fifty
pound porcupine near Manitou.
Five school teachers In Adams coun-
ty have been married during the pres
ent year-all of the gentler variety.
The four-year-old son Of Mrs. Bud
Lee of Chrome was severely burned by
tumbling backward into tub of boil
ing water.
Sixty thousand trout were planted
in Decker's lake and the streams be-
tween Crested Butte and Jacks Cabin
last week.
The Fort Collins Courier Publishing
Company 1t at work on an elaborate
history of Larimer county, soon to be
published.
Storage reservoirs will be built In
the Sangre de Cristos. near Crestone,
this summer, to irrigate several thou
sand acres Of land.
Prof. E. ]. Iddings, professor of
seeds at C. A. c., Fort Collins, has
resigned to become head of the school
of agriculture at the Idaho State Uni.
versity.
Lippincott & Harrison will seed
1000 acres to alfalfa on the Baca
grant, and will establish a hog ranch.
They have provided large traction
blowing outfit to break the ground.
Ranches in the vicinity Of Fort Col
Inns are being equipped with electric
pumps SO that water may be had
whether Boreas Is working or not.
The Northern Colorado Power Com.