The Holly chieftain., 1911-01-06
LITTLE coLoRAoo ITEMS.
Small happenings Occurring Over the
Stats Worth Telling.

Small happenings Occurring Over tire
Stats Worth Telling.
Work of grading on the Grand
River,Meeker railroad is now in prog
ress.
Jose Sanchez. . miner, was killed
ty rock fall In the Wootton mine at
Trinidad.
Bessie w. Crossman of Denver has
been appointed . cielk in the U. g.
-61aogical survey
Attorney General Barnett advocates
a foar,year term for state officials,
with recall feature.
The Colorado Osteopathic Associa-
tion opened its fifteenth annual con-
.ention in Denver.
Montrose Elks will erect home of
their own to cost $4,000. Work will
start early in the spring.
For the fourth time. COW belong
ing to Benjamin Rolli. of Colorado
Springs. has given birth to twins.
The first successful attempt at d
business directory for Alamosa has
been made by F. A. Mckinney.
While skating ON Calkins' lake at
Longmont, Carl Wilhelm broke
through the fee and was drowned.
Makis Kakis. aged 23. was fatally
crushed betwene the cage and the
sump at the Puritan mine at Freder-
ick.
Preparations are being made in
Greeley for the State Retail Grocers'
Association meeting, which will be
held January 18th.
Assistant Superintendent Russell Of
the Rio Grande died in Pueblo from in
juries received in q wreck near Wal
senburg.
The Arkansas valley section of the
National Reform Congress held two
day session in Lamar, all valley towns
being represented.
John s. F. Squire, for twelve years
register Of the United States land Of
flee at Glenwood Springs, has ten
tered his resignation.
Shooting himself through the head,
John Lubin, aged n, and well known
in the Morrison section as "Old Man
/ LMbin,' committed suicide.
The Inland Oil Company of Boulder,
in the last year drilled twelve wells.
eight of which were producers. netting
daily output OF ITS barrels of oil
and 100000 cubic feet of gas.
j. c. McLucas and John. starcher.
who have been trapping on Hay and
Fish creeks and the main Poudre in
Weld county, say fur bearing animals
are plentiful and the fur unusually
thick.
Congress will be asked. through the
medium of the Dry Farming Congress,
for an appropriation Of 100000 for
use in systematic campaign Of agri-
cultural education in the state of
Colorado.
After several months Of figuring
plans for the new Y. NJ. C. A. building,
to cost 100000 have been accepted by
the building committee Of Colorado
Springs, and it is expected work will
start by April LIST.
A determined war upon tobacco
dealers who sell their wares to chill
dren was begun in Denver in the Ju-
venile Court, when three individuals
were fined for non-observance of the
laws in such cases.
The Midway coal mine, one of the
largest producers in southern Colo.
do nd hn 10 IN "a c
Animas county, has been sold by the
Chicosa Fuel Company to the Colo
RADIO Fuel and Iron Company.
w. E. Day of Riverside Of Greeley,
will spend $4,000 in building a drain
ditch three miles long, which shall
answer not only for the purpose OF
draining, but also provide irrigation
for land along the Platte river.
State Game Commissioner 7. ]. Hol-
land has dispatched several game
wardens to eastern Colorado, where
1t is reported hunters are shooting
antelope. Four animals are said to
have been killed at Aroya.
Headquarters of the national Irriga-
ton Congress. recently held at Pueblo,
have been removed to Chicago, pre-
paratory to conducting campaign
for the nineteenth irrigation congress,
to be held in Chicago in 1911.
To provide Montrose county with
an excellent country road at prac-
tically no cost is the object of the
Road Drag Club, which has been or
ooni1od thoro hy n II Nfckp11 aaciat.