The Holly chieftain., 1911-06-16
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth Telling.

being good.
July 4th is to be "safe and sane"
celebration in Denver.
There is now a movement started to
enclose every fruit tree in a tent.
A. V. Hunter of Leadville is the new
president of the First National Bank
of Denver.
barn in Colorado Springs was de-
stroyed and several head OF horses
cremated.
Fire did damage to the First Ma
uonal Bank of Greeley to the amount
Of $4,000.
The Greeley Elks have let the con-
tract for their new club building to
cost 100000.
The deposits Of the National banks
of Colorado Springs amount to $10,-
324,743.99.
Denver is to have steel castings
plant, the first of the kind west of
the Mississippi river.
AL Bane. convicted of train robbery
in Pueblo, was sentenced to IS to 80
years in the penitentiary.
The heavy rainfall throughout north
western Colorado gives plenty of mois-
ture for the ranchers.
For the seventh time, John Conlou
has been elected president of the Den
yer Board Of Aldermen.
From the effects of an overdose OF
laudanum. Charles Murray fell dead in
a saloon in Cripple Creek.
To equip branch of the bureau of
mines at Silverton, Congressman Tay-
lor has asked for $4,000.
Sixty-five thousand rainbow trout
have been delivered by the govern
ment to Colorado Springs.
A plan is materializing to connect
Florence and the surrounding mining
camps by an electric interurban.
Willie McGovern, IA years old, of
Pueblo, caught his right foot in now
ing machine and was severely injured.
The Mesa county commissioners has
asked the State Highway Commission
for $4,000 to be used in road building.
Resistance of hignwaymen in
Pueblo will cost Frank Friestaff his
life. He was shot and relieved of $27.
Fire early destroyed the surface
plant Of the Williamsville coal mine,
north of Colorado Springs. LOSS,
$4,000.
Strawberry men around Steamboat
Springs are keeping their smudging
pots in shape as they fear another
frost.
The mining pay roll of Cripple
Creek for May. was the heaviest in
fourteen months. approximating $685.
$50.
The ranch house and farm buildings
OF William Stewart, at Prairie Divide,
in northern Larimer county, were
burned.
Within the next six weeks twenty
mile link will be added to the Colora-
do-New Mexico highway between Trim
idad and Ration.
In the District Court of Pueblo, on
charge of holding up c. & S. pas
senger train on January 18th, AL Bane
pleaded guilty.
Forty-four young men and women
graduates Of the State Agricultural
College at Fort Collins have received
their diplomas.
H. E. Girt has been arraigned at
Greeley, charged with the murder of
Charles Sigman at Frederick on the
night Of June 7th.
Plans are being perfected for the
organization of Western Slope base
ball league. to be composed of either
four or six clubs.
Maude Keller was acquitted by the
jury at Steamboat Springs of the
charge Of killing W. L. White in
Hahn's Peak lost November.
w. Unfug, chief clerk in the office
of secretary of state, was arrested.
charged with holding money paid into
the office as an incorporation fee.
The big Primos mill at Lake Wood
and the Boulder county mill and mine,
all properties of the Primos Company,
have shut down for thirty days.
Held up. robber and beaten and then
slain by negroes, was the fate of Do
mimic Macani, an Italian employed on
the Portland cement plants works at
Concrete, Colo.
The manager Of the Akron ball team
is perfecting plans for the club to
make short tour to play games at
Holyoke. Haxtum, Sterling. Hillrose.