The Holly chieftain., 1911-04-14
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth Telling.

PA'oV per luU pounds.
A branch of the Boy Scouts has been
organized at Fort Collins.
Some smudging has been done in the
Grand Junction fruit belt.
Backed by the Commercial Club,
band has been organized at Eaton.
A resort in Telluride known as the
big Swede" has been destroyed by
fire.
By the accidental discharge of his
gun Fred Nutshell OF Ault was fatally
injured.
All Rio Grande engineers are to get
raise of wages amounting to nine
per cent.
Robert Archibald of Trinidad, c.
F. & l. superintendent at Sopris. died
in Pueblo.
Sanitary drinking cups have been
placed in all public schools In Colo
rado Springs.
The majority of farmers who fed
sheep the past winter lost so cents to
$1.00 head.
Contracts for 1900 acres of beets
have been signed for the Fort Collins
sugar factory.
The first Catholic church edifice to
be built in eastern Colorado has been
dedicated at Brush.
improvements of public utilities,
which represents an outlay Of $250,O00
hainn n1o
Arrangements are practically COM
plete for the annual Chautauqua at
Greeley from July Sth to 18th.
Caught under tons of falling rock in
the Baum mine, at Frederick, S. Nor.
nanz, Bulgarian, was instantly killed.
Large and enthusiastic crowds at
tended the Religious Educational AS
sociation's annual conference in Gree
ley.
Wednesday, April 26th, has been de-
cided upon as the date for the dedica-
ton of the new Masonic temple at
Trinidad.
list of Colorado common points to
which tourist tickets may be sold from
the East.
Pierce wants to form union High
School to be composed Of the Pierce,
Collins, Olive Branch and Harrison
districts.
Bert Hanna is at q Leadville hospital
with bullet through his jaw and
Frank Dutro is in Jail, charged with
the shooting.
While riding to R. H. fuckers sheep
ranch, about three miles from Glen
wood Springs, Lee Elrod was shot at
by N unidentified person.
Paris green Is being shipped into
northern Colorado by the carload in
the anticipation of the big matches of
grasshoppers this spring.
The northern Colorado interscholas-
tic track meet will again be held in
Greeley this year. The date decided
upon for the meet is April 29th.
The new county Of Moffat, created
from the western two-thirds of Routt
county by act of the Eighteenth Cen
eral Assembly, is in full swing.
More than 100000 fruit trees have
been set out in Pueblo county this
year and fully as many more will be
set out before the season is ended.
Palisades holds the record in the
United States for gain In percentage
of population in the 1910 census. The
gain in ten years was over 5000 per
cent.
The county commissioners have or.
,dered the construction of bridge at
Clifton to cost 100000, contingent on
an appropriation from the state Legis-
lature.
Tuesday evening, April 18th, the I'm
proved Order of Red Men will give q
demonstration and street parade in
Denver, which will be characteristic
Of the aborigines.
Chief Postoffice Inspector W. e.
Cochran received notice at Denver
that tho postoffice at Crestone, in
saguache county, was destroyed by
fire. The postmaster wired that he
saved all the mail and stamps.
G. T. Brownfield. one of the best
known horsemen in the West, heads
the large delegation Of TURTLES who
are coming to Denver. following the
close of the winter racing season at
Jacksonville and Juarez.
The Union Pacific Railroad Com
pany has placed an order for $4,000
tons Of steel rails with the Colorado
Fuel & Iron Company, and the entire
tonnage will be turned out at the Min
neaua works of the company in