The Holly chieftain., 1911-01-20
LlrrLe COLORADO ITEMS.
Small happenings Occurring over the
state Worth Telling.

A new addition to Auit has been
plated.
The Montrose Fair will be held the
third week in September.
The wagon road from Longmont to
Bloomfield will cost $500 mile.
There are ON deposit in the six
hanks of Colorado Springs S1O.251.-
6ss.Os.
Receipts at the Colorado Springs
postoffice for the last quarter were
$35,39s.67.
Trinidad will have an aviation meet
January 2l-22. The machine will be
Colorado made.
The Postoffice Department has au-
thorized the establishment OF free
mail delivery in Sterling.
Mack r. Bebee, pioneer Of the
state, died at his home in Denver. Mr..
Bebee was in his eightieth year.
Three tobacco dealers were fined re-
Gently in the Juvenile Court at Boul'
der for selling cigarettes to minors.
An epidemic of Ia grippe has struck
Eaton and it is said that fully two
thirds of the population are affected.
Former Lieut.. Gov. e. H. Harper OF
Denver. has been elected president OF
the Colorado State Prison Association.
James Cheney. former saloonkeep-
or Of Louisville. was given thirty days
in jail and fined 5000 for bootlegging.
Pinned under his automobile when
1t turned turtle, A Wood, homestead
er living near Cornish. was fatally
hurt.
Neil F. Graham of Fort Collins. has
been appointed to succeed Judge Gar.
rigues of Eighth Judicial District
Court.
Crushed under string of empty
box cars in the Pueblo smelter yards.
Carmino Laurizello was instantly
killed.
Work on the abutment of the new
concrete and steel bridge across the
Platte river. Evans. commenced re-
Gently
George Truckermille is installing
machinery to utilize the natural gas
from an artesian well on his ranch
near Hooper.
At meeting in Greeley attended by
representatives of ten commercial
clubs, the Weld County Commercial
Club was organized.
The Census Bureau has announced
that Greeley has s.179 population. In
1900 1t had but 3.O23, which shows a
gain Of nearly 400 per cent.
Charged with robbing the postoffice
at Gardner. Dewey Miller. a sixteen
year-old Walsenburg boy, was arrested
at ranch house near Pueblo.
Alarms from different parts of the
Cripple Creek district have been
sent to the sheriff of an insane man
running loose and threatening live Of
citizen&
A reduction from nine to eight hours
a day and from six to five days per
week has been announced to in the
Trinidad shops of the Colorado &
Southern.
Sixty county commissioners Of Col
orado. a delegate from each county in
the state. attended the meeting Of the
Colorado County Commissioners Asso-
citation In Denver.
Mrs. w. c. Stevens died at her
home in Black Hawk, aged eighty
three. She had been a resident of the
county over forty years. at least thirty
of which were spent in that city.
Not for years have there been SO
many rabbits on the plains as this
season and a report from Num- says
that wagon loads of them are killed
and sold in the surrounding towns.
Walter Henthoin, one Of the Oldest
engineers Of the Rio Grande system.
died at st. Mary's hospital In Pueblo,
as the result Of injuries received
when his engine turned over near Trim.
idad Jan. 10.
John H. White, man of the trade,
living on small bank account. and
victim Of the drug habit, was smoth-
cred in fire which destroyed his
shack on the outskirts of town at
Grand Junction.
The census bureau gives the popu-
lation in 1910 for the following Colo
rado precincts: Aguilar, 1852; Ber-
wind, 500; Delagua, 1924; Hartville,
1872; Hastings, 1853: Jarosa, s06: Low
er Apishapa. 14s; Rugby precinct, 300;
1rujillo precinct, 506.
Lumber made from cottonwood
trees has haen tried tested and found