The Holly chieftain., 1911-12-08
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

SA&he "oFku WuttUs
Western Newspaper Union News Service
Prospects are bright for the next
irrigation season.
The factory of the Great Western
Sugar Company at Fort Collins has
closed.
J. A. Hooper, a salesman, was held
up and robbed of $400 in jewelry and
money in Denver.
Sweeping reductions in rates ON all
Denver manufactured goods are to be
made by the railroads.
Cherokee Bill" aged ia. a resi-
dent of Grand Junction. is the Oldest
living man in America.
The Fort upton City Council has
refused 10 accept the pumping plant
recently erected in that city.
Organized labor In Denver contrib
uted approximately $1,000 to the de-
fense fund for the McNamaras.
Mrs. c. d. Mason Of Wray, who Cur.
ing her girlhood was Miss Ella Howe.
died in Denver after an operation.
Carpenters are at work in the Den
yer Jail constructing stage and scenery
for the annual Christmas minstrels.
The estate of the late Frank
Reistle. pioneer engraver, who died
recently in Denver, amounts to $55, 900.
Mrs. James Henry Stead. pioneer
in Colorado and one of the Oldest and
most respected inhabitants of Salida.
is dead.
William J. Knowles, son of Police
Magistrate James Knowles of Ouray.
was killed at sisson. Cal, by being run
over by freight train.
Former State Senator Charles Lin
coin Dickerson committed suicide by
firing shot through his right temple
at his home in Denver.
Governor Shafroth has issued the
call for delegates to the second ad-
maui good roads conference to be held
in Pueblo, January II and II.
The Western league owners are pull
ing for 154-game series to begin
about the same time as last year and
get out of the way before snow flies.
Isaac N. Bunting. former mayor OF
Grand Junction and owner and pub
Usher Of the Daily Sentinel of that
city, dropped dead of heart disease.
On December the Great Western
Sugar Company paid out to farmers of
Weld county $29s,100, making total
of $1,132.s92.77 for the season of 1912.
All four banks of Fort Collins will
contribute to the fund being raised for
maintenance Of the experimental de-
partment OF the Agricultural college.
In one Of the most disastrous games
played on the Meeker gridiron, Meek
er lost the football championship of
northwestern Colorado to Craig by a
score of to 5.
While crawling out of woodshed at
the home of his parents in Pueblo.
George James, 6-year-old son of ]. w.
James, was caught under swinging
window and choked to DEATH
With William G. Evans as president,
| the Northern Construction Company
has been organized for the purpose of
completing the Greeley-Poudre Irriga-
tion district, embracing 12a,000 acres.
The annual football game between
| the University of Colorado and the
State School of Mines at Union park
in Denver. resulted in a victory for
the university by score of IL to y.
Andrew G. Smith, a well known
ranchman on Piceance creek. near
Meeker, has been arrested by Deputy
State Game Warden Bush On the
charge of illegally slaughtering deer.
Farmers of the Salida vicinity have
taken the matter in their own hands
and are promoting creamery after
several attempts have failed to ne
gotiate the organization Of q cream
cry company.
United States Senator Simon Gug-
genheim of Colorado will not be a
candidate for reelection This an
nouncement was conveyed to the
chairman of the Republican State
Central committee In letter received
recently.
Bankers all over the state are re.
spending generously to the appeal sent
out by the Weld County Farmers
Club for $4,000 for the fund by which
work OF three departments Of the Ag-
ricultural college closely connected
with farming may continue.
Morgan county beetgrowers have