The Holly chieftain., 1911-07-14
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS,
Small happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.


The Salida Commercial Club will
give its first annual banquet soon.
The Poudre and Platte rivers are
rising and bitches are running full.
Loveland is to have new hotel and
one which will be . credit to the city.
Lincoln county has one r1eld of 600
acres in flax. the largest in the state.
The school census of Mesa county
shows 6.121 children in the scholastic
age.
The cottonwood trees on the streets
Of Loveland will be cut down lext
winter.
The Greeley beet and potato crop
are said to be past danger. fine rains
having fallen.
The Colorado State Bankers Asso-
citation held its tenth annual conven-
ton In Denver.
Fred Allen has Killed seventy.sev.
en- rattlesnakes ON his quarter sew.
ton near Fooston.
H. A. Edie Is the only rural mail car.
rier in Colorado who delivered mail
in an automobile.
]. M. McCutcheon, wealthy pion-
eer of La Sale has donated land to
that town for park.
c. w. Jones, aged sixty, who was
fatally hurt by being thrown from his
wagon near Boulder. died.
A man believed to be Ellis Uselton.
Of indianapolis, Ind. was killed by
Rio Grande train in Pueblo.
Dan Cassidy, one Of the motorcycle
riders at Lakeside park, Denver. was
badly hurt in an accident recently.
Ignacio Revoc. q miner from Old
Mexico. was killed by fall of rock
in the c. F. & I. mine at Berwind.
Heavy rain throughout the Kiowa
section insures bumper crops in the
Divide country as well as the Kiowa
valley.
Martin Olson, aged 21, was acci-
dentally drowned In Oberon lake, one
and one-half miles northwest of Ar
vada.
The Boulder Business Girls Club
will open up large ice cream parlor
and donate the profits to the Boulder
band. Strr
A. T. Waterbury, aged 65, a ranch
man of Sugar Loaf, Boulder county.
was thrown from his wagon and badly
hurt.
The Union Pacific has changed
names OF the station on the new line
to Fort Collins from Kidder to Boyd
Lake.
Secretary Wilson of the Department
Of Agriculture will attend the
Dry Farming Congress- in Colorado
Springs.
time ago in the Pinto mine at Cripple
Creek. has been awarded $4,000
damages.
Canon City will be compelled to pay
| $500 before 1t can secure two con-
demned brass cannon for park orna-
mentation.
The Senate passed the bill provid-
ing for the appointment of an addi-
tional federal Judge for the district
Of Colorado.
The customs department in Denver
handled $23s.s66.74 worth of business
for Uncle Sam during the month end
ing June 3Oth.
William Throop, aged AZ, was killed
almost instantly at Longmont, when
his team ran away and he was thrown
from his wagon.
Martin Van Buren, Kelsey, one of
the first settlers Of the Platte valley.
and a resident since 1859, died at Fort
Lupton, aged 72.
The Grand Junction $450,00O water
bonds have been sold for 81 cents flat
The bonds call for the delivery Of
$2s0,00O on August 31st.
In contest for commercial club
membership. for a prize given by the
Denver Commercial Club. Platteville
won by gain of 1920 per cent.
Leandro Vigil, three years old. son
Of ]. L. Vigil of Tercio. thirty miles
west of Trinidad, is dead as result
Of eating box OF strychnine pills.
Officers are taking every precaution
to protect the negro, Bob Harris, who
ls in Jail In Pueblo charged with kill
ing Chief Of Police John B. Craig at
Rocky Ford.
Guy L. Allen of Boulder Is inventor
Of q new sewer tile pipe making ma.
shine which 1t is said will receive
ready backing of both Boulder and