The Holly chieftain., 1911-11-17
LITTLE COLORADO ,rEMs.
Small happenings Occurring Over ths
State Worth While.

Two feet of snow has fallen at Tel
luride.
John O'Boyle. one of the first set
tiers OF Grand Junction. is dead.
One hundred Montrose delegates at
tended the apple expedition in Denver.
Miss Dora Bohn will represent
Lyons at the Apple exposition in Den.
Yer.
The people of Denver own S1s s,0Oo..
900 worth of automobiles and motor.
cycles.
Lottie v. Mobley has been appointed
postmaster at Angora. Rio Blanco
county.
Gunnison county cattlemen have re-
Gently shipped 260 cars of fat cattle
to market.
Oklahoma is for Denver as the place
for holding the next Democratic ma
tional convention.
The Mines freshmen defeated the
Manual Training High school at Gold
en- by score Of ,26 to o.
Gov. Shafroth has issued his
Thanksgiving Day proclamation set
ting aside November 80 as a holiday.
Nazille Lartique, sixty-five, veteran
of the Civil War, was found frozen to
death near his cabin on Mill creek,
near Idaho Springs.
More than 300 teams are at work on
the Inlet ditch to McGrew reservoir,
near Greeley, one of the largest in the
Greeley-P Poudre irrigation district
H. J. McAnani, mayor pro tenn. Of
Fort Lupton, died after long illness.
He came to Fort Lupton twenty years
ago and was identified with all public
interests.
An aerial passenger railway is
planned from Manitou to the summit
of Pixies peak. A railroad that is
straight up. almost. and the only one Of
the kind in the United States.
John Horton. aged seventy. q resi-
dent Of Loveland for years. was ac-
cidentally killed while hauling fence
posts from the mountains twenty-five
miles northwest Of that place.
The War Department will not move
the office Of the purchasing commits
sary department from Denver to Fort
Logan and the army will continue to
purchase its supplies in Denver, as
usual.
For the purpose Of outlining a trans
continental automobile route that Will
include Denver and Colorado, q special
meeting has been called to be held In
Denver OF delegates from every coun-
ty ir the state.
The beautiful public library erected
by Mrs. Rebecca Eaton as q memorial
to her husband, the late ex-Gov. B. II.
Eaton, and presented to the town Of
Eaton which took his name, Is occu-
pied for the first time.
Ten million dollars will be left In
Colorado annually by automobile tour
lists, If the State Highway Commits
sion's plans for great state highway
from the eastern to the western part
of the state are realized. ],
The body of man about IS, thought
to be j. w. Woodruff of Stonington,
was discovered in the road twenty
two miles south of Holly. A coroner's
jury after investigating concluded the
man had died of apoplexy.
Colorado carried away all honors
in sugar beet competition at the New
York Land Show. None of the hun
dred or more entries compared with
Colorado beets and the only question
the Judge had to decide was which Of
the Colorado entries was the best.
The State Land Board extended the
contract OF the Great Northern Irri-
cation & Power Company, which has
been working for about year and a
half on 140.000-acre Cary Act prof.
ect to QUIT county. The contract
was extended for three years.
One hundred Georgetown citizens
will assist Idaho Springs in construc-
ton of the new Floyd hill road
County Commissioner A. L. Stephens
induced business and professional
men and miners to give one days
labor. or its equivalent for compile
tion of the road.
In the West Side Criminal Court of
Denver, Gus. w. Marshall, the gambler
who killed >his wife. Lucy Marshall,
during August. and who was found
guilty of first degree murder some
weeks ago, was sentenced to life i'm
prisonment in the state penitentiary at
Canon City.
The board Of managers of the Freed.
mems Aid Society of the Methodist