The Holly chieftain., 1911-05-19
LirrLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth Telling.


Twenty-nine employees of the State
Land Board have been asked to resign.
The farmers near Greeley will seed
about $4,000 acres to potatoes this
year.
Wilson De We're. arrested at Bould.
er for passing forged checks. has con-
fessed.
Mrs. Emma Kalbaugh. one of Gold
ems earliest pioneers. died at the age
of eighty.
The Colorado Association Of Letter
Carriers will hold a convention in Boul-
der June 2Sth.
William Harvey. aged 60. one of the
best known mining men in the Victor
district. is dead.
For the first time in many years
Montrose will celebrate the glorious
Fourth this year.
Fire of unknown origin burned three
business buildings at Milliken, entail
ing a loss OF $4,000.
The two-year-old son of Human
Straub of Rocky Fork. was drowned in
the High Line ditch.
An addition will be built to the
Mead schol house to be ready for oc-
cupancy in September.
A large fire on what is known as
the Frijole Mesa. near Trinidad, did
considerable damage.
Windsor schools are the first in
northern Colorado to install the bub-
bling drinking fountain.
The report of the census shows the
population OF Idaho Springs to be e.
154 as against 2.5O2 in 1900.
The speed limit for automobiles has
been fixed by the new City Council of
Kersey at ten miles an hour.
Mrs. Emmett Barton, wife of a
wealthy sheep man and one of the old
est residents of Fruita, is dead.
Governor Shafroth vetoed s. B. No.
545, by Senator Cary. making certain
changes in the powers Of the land
board.
Rev. William E. Wolcott, brother of
the late Senator Edward o. Wolcott
and Henry R. Wolcott, is dead in Law
renee, Mass.
The appropriation for the Western
Slope Normal School at Gunnison has
been increased from $4,000 to $40, 900
per annum.
An old fashioned camp meeting is to
be held in the grove at Fort Lupton
beginning May 21st. Great prepara-
tions are being made.
$4,000 has been secured to complete
the twelve miles of road near Parkdale
and thus open the road from Canon
City to Salida.
Mills in Boulder county have been
ordered closed down because they are
communicating the water in streams
and destroying fish.
James lyman of Golden was award
ed $4,000 in the condemnation suit
brought against him by the Farmers
Reservoir and Irrigation Company.
Stock raising is to be made a spe-
cialty in the Gilcrist vicinity this
year and many farmers will plant
much corn and feed hogs for market.
I The number of names in the Dem
yer directory for 1911, which is now
ready for the press, is 122.927, or an
increase of about 5 per cent over the
figure for 1910.
George W. Brooks of the Smith.
Brooks Printing Company of Denver
died suddenly at San Diego, Cal. Mr..
Brooks was for over thirty years
leading citizen Of Denver.
The recent high temperature and
warm wind has melted the snow in the
hills and the Gunnison river is rising
rapidly. At Delta the river has been
running bank full and threatens to
overflow.
William X. Burchinell, secretary of
the Board of Control Managers at Den
yer, announced that bids for work on
the Colorado State Museum building
would be received until noon June
18th.
The fourth annual convocation of
the Episcopal diocese of western Colo
RADIO was held in Grand Junction.
Delegates were present from all over
the Western Slope. Bishop Spalding
Of Utah spoke.
The Johnstown Milling & Elevator
Company is making extensive improve.
ments at their elevator and dump for
unload ding grain and have installed
set Of rolls for grinding feed for max
ing corn meal.
The federal grand Jury failed to find