The Holly chieftain., 1911-09-15
LITTLE coloRADo ITEMS.
Small happenings Occurring over tl,s
Sta4s Worth While.

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A postal savings bank has been
opened in Denver.
Ten thousand people attended Love
lands Harvest Festival.
At Victor Tom Jones shot and "a
tally wounded James ONeill.
Ten people were injured in the
Union Pacific wreck near Kersey.
The United Brethren will build
$4,000 church In Colorado Springs.
A postal savings bank will be es-
tablished at Lamar September 18th.
Colorado Springs will naugurate .
system Of decorative street lighting.
A new industry. the Castle Rock
Brick & Tile Co. will be launched
soon.
Meeker will sooa have the first wire
less telegraph station OF the Western
slope.
The enrolment OF the State univer-
sity OF Boulder Il something over 400
students.
A sanitarium for the treatment of
rheumatic diseases il to be opened in
Boulder.
The thirty-fifth session of the Uni
versity. of Colorado has opened at
Boulder.
James Wilson and F. Dupree are in
Jail in Colorado City charged with
forgery.
The total appropriation made by the
Eighteenth General Assembly is $4.-
576,s45O5.
The new county Of Crowley is 1ow
doing business with Ordway as the
county seat.
Lyman Alonso White, pioneer and
old Indian fighter. died at his home
at Longmont.
Ninety days in Jail Is the penalty
Jim Sebers must pay for trying to flirt
on the streets Of Greeley.
Robt. Witt. . watchman for the
Santa Fe at Colorado Springs. was
struck by train and killed.
The prize stalk of corn for Boulder
county bears eleven large ears and
was grown by O. L. Linch.
The Salida high school has made ar
rangements for q a4spendid lecture
course OF five numbers.
F. A. Taylor, formerly of Denver,
has been appointed director Of agri.
culture in the fnAipses. -
Preparations are well under way for
the Weld county fair. 70 be held at
Greeley September lS TO a..
Lloyd Clark. aged twelve. son Of J.
A. Clark, Of Alamosa, accidentally shot
and killed himself while hunting.
Pumpkin pie, coffee, doughnuts, ap-
pies and cider will be the menu at the.
Longmont Pumpkin Pie Day. Sept. 2s.
At the Alamosa opera house. Mike
Malone Of Denver and Frankie White
OF Chicago fought fifteen rounds to q
draw.
R. w. Hadkinson, fifty.five years
old was struck by Rock Island train
at Colorado Springs and fatally In
jured.
The fifty.first annual communication
of the Grand Lodge, A. r. & A. M. of
Colorado will be held In Denver, Sept.
19 and 20.
w. 8. Zell has DISAPPEARED from Colo
RADIO Springs, it is alleged, with sew.
eral hundred dollars Of other peoples
money.
Twyman Kislnger, Of the Little
Beaver, near Meeker, threshed $50
acres Of fall wheat, averaging forty
bushels to the acre.
Rev. William s. Neenan Of the
Denver cathedral, has been appoint
ed resident rector Of St. Peters
church of Rocky Ford.
Jacob. five-year-old son of John
Hoff Of Greeley, is in q hospital with
a fractured skull, as the result Of
colt stepping on his head.
Milliard Hill, aged thirty-eight, was
killed in the Mohican mine, on Battle
Mountain, at Victor, his head being
crushed under 5OO-pound boulder.
A demonstration train showing the
progress of railroadng during the last
thirty years is being run over the sys.
TEN of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa
Fe railroad, and it will arrive in Den
yer the evening of Sept. 2S.
The activity of the La Plata min
ing district has become 50 pronounced
that scarcely week passes without
some prospector or mine operator re-
cording a good strike OF high-grade
ore, and the past week Is no excep-