The Holly chieftain., 1911-03-31
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small happenings ossSrrins Over the
State Worth Telling.


dead.
Kersey will soon have an up-to-date
ice plant.
Mrs. Mary Hall. . pioneer of Wind
sor, is dead.
John Washer. = pioaeer of Ault. is
dead. aged 7S years.
Trinidad is likely TO have a new
bank within the next few weeks.
Hon. L. H. Dickson was found dead
In bed at his home In Longmont.
Lee Lockwell. resident of George
town for thirty-five years. is dead.
Mrs. Lizzie Oliver Of Denver has
been fined for beating her husband
The Colorado Postmaster's conven-
ton will be held in Denver May 18th.
A large number of convicts have
been put to work on the road north of
Pueblo.
From the present outlook the fall
wheat crops in Colorado will be the
best in years.
Charles Pearson. aged 40, committed
suicide near La Junta. by hanging him
self to a tree.
So far as known Ault has the only
boys band in the county. 1t was or
ganized recently.
H. X. Mcclure was found dead In
his cabin in South Cripple Creek by
neighbors, recently.
The School of Agriculture at Fort
Collins will soon close with four in
its graduating class.
1t is not generally known that there
is an artesian well being drilled with
in four miles of Salida.
The Rocky Mountain Limited on
the Rock Island will be resumed out
of Pueblo April End.
Havoc has been wrought by the ap.
pearance of harem skirt in the win.
dow of store in Greeley
The City Council of Cripple Creek
passed an ordinance which reduces the
city salary list about $4,000 year.
Diamond rings and a watch valued
at $400 were overlooked by burglars
who entered the home of w. C. Blanch-
ard at Eaton and secured 500.
For the purpose of organizing a
wool growers association, Walter Du-
pree, a sheepman of Fountain, will
make tour of the Arkansas valley.
The economy streak of Uncle Sam
has reached Denver. Orders are out
| for reduction in the cost of main
! tanning the office Of the surveyor gen
| eral.
The safe Of the Hallack Lumber
Company at Sterling was blown by
burglars and about $50 in money and
stamps taken. The safe was de-
| strOyed.
The Colorado Telephone Company
has been placed under the jurisdiction
of the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion by an order from Washington,
issued March goth.
Michael Henry Murphy, the slayer
of Anatolia Wunderle, his former
sweetheart at Denver, was taken to
Canon City to serve life impris-
onment at hard labor.
Three skeletons, said to be the re-
mains of immigrants bound for Cali
fornia in 1871, were unearthed on the
Sand Kuhl ranch by BENJAMIN Crane
and brought to Pueblo.
Farmers of the Keota country are
planning to hold fair next fall and
will pay especial attention to certain
plots on which they expect to raise
prize vegetables and grain.
Members of the Indiana Club of
Colorado and ex-resdents OF the Hoos-
ier state will hold their annual dinner
at the Savoy hotel in Denver. Satur-
day night, April 1st, at $3.50 o'clock.
In the condemnation suit of the
Loveland Ditch Company against the
Grover Land & Irrigation Company
for right of way for ditch across the
land of the defendant. Judgment was
rendered in favor of defendant.
The site for the new 7. w. c. A.
home in Colorado Springs is being
cleared preparatory to erection of the
100000 building, which will be started
within few weeks.
The Consolidated Ditch Companies
are preparing to make hard fight
against the transfer of thirty-six feet
of water from the Duggan to the Bur-
lington ditch at Fort Lupton.
Alleged to have swindled Denver
man, Albert C. Jail is under arrest in
Fort Worth, Texas, and will be
brought back to Denver for trial on
the charge of obtaining money under
false pretenses.