The Holly chieftain., 1911-04-07
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happsninss Occurring Over the
stats Worth Telling.

aooo 10 6o>A'
Plans are on foot to build a high
school at Gill.
The Main hotel at Pueblo has been
sold for $4,000.
Potatoes have Jumped from 80 cents
to $1.15 per 100 pounds.
The net worth of the city OF Den
yer is S19.677.336.3O.
Thos. ]. Burns. resident of La
Junta since 1880. is dead.
Pueblo may have an aviation meet
of three days during April.
William e. Winthrow. city attorney
of Central City. is dead
James H. Kay. a resident of Denver
for twenty-three years. is dead
e. L. Sholtz was elected president of
the Retail Association of Denver.
A postal savings bank will be estab-
lished at Colorado Springs July 1st
The Boulder and Weld reservoir is
tc be enlarged in the near future.
The North Park Rifle club has been
organized at Walden with fifteen men,
bers.
1t ia estimated that 10000 acres OF
grain have been planted in the Gree
ley district.
H. p. Smith of Estabrook has shot
a mountain lion measuring seven feet
from tip to tip.
1t ia likely that creamery will be
established in Kersey in connection
with the ice plant.
For the first time in history there
will be no spring elections held this
year in Central City.
Miss Martha Stevenson of Yampa is
on trial at Steamboat Springs. on a
charge of stealing cattle.
Burglars entered the l.. ]. Hardware
Company's store at La Junta and stole
quantity Of knives and guns.
The first annual meeting of the
Western Colorado Teachers Associa.
ton was held In Grand Junction.
The War Department will permit
three Colorado National Guard Off
GERS to attend the war maneuvers in
Texas.
An artificial ice plant to cost $4,000
will be built Immediately by a COM
pany composed of local men at Ker-
sey.
Otto Costello, aged five, has been
put on record as the youngest case
of intoxication ever treated by Pu-
eblo police surgeon.
For the first time in the history of
the present city administration wom-
an has been arrested in Greeley on
the charge of bootlegging.
Some 500 acres Of tomatoes have
been contracted for the cannery at
FIT. Lupton with 40 acres of pumpkins,
rs of beans and rs of sweet corn.
Other towns will probably join with
Canon Cityl in the big celebration there
May IL and 13 over the opening OF
the road to the Stop Of the Royal
Gorge.
The liberal stopover privileges and
low summer rates which the railroads
have announced for Colorado points
are expected to bring more tourists to
the Pixies Peak region than ever be-
fore. Es
Work along the inlet and outlet
bitches of the Milton reservoir near
Greeley has begun. Men and teams
are on the jof and the numbers will
be increased as other works get under
way.
A landslide at Lookout mountain,
one-half mile down the gulch from
the portal of the Roosevelt tunnel.
Cripple Creek, will block the Canon
City & Cripple Creek railroad for
weeks.
The Western Slope Teachers Asso-
citation met in Grand Junction for a
two-days session. "A special train
brought about 100 teachers from Mont
rose and Delta, making about 200 in
attendance.
Accused of stealing several hundreds
of dollars from the Colorado & South
ern railroad, L. F. Freiger, aged TWEEN.
ty-six, formerly station agent at Su-
perior, is being sought by railroad de-
tectives.
c. A. King, superintendent of the
Saratoga mine, Idaho Springs. was in
stantly killed when the skip in whicn
he was descending the Sun and Moon
shaft dropped 800 feet to the level OF
the Newhouse tunnel.
Greeley, Denver, Boulder, Longmont
any many other Colorado towns are to
be supplied with power and light gen.
Grated by the big hydraulic plants Of