The Holly chieftain., 1911-02-03
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.

Small happsninss Occurring Over the
stats Worth Telling.
Edgar Buchanan has been reelected
president Of the Durango Board OF
Trade.
The demands for farms to rent In
the Platteville vicinity exceeds the
supply.
Walter Cheney Of Leadville. with
his bare hands captured . bobcat aud
Gagged 1t.
The first banquet Of the Auit Com
mercial Club was atsnded by seventy
five members.
A banquet and dance will be given
by the New York Society of Colorado
February 10th, In Denver.
An examination for clerk and car
rier will be held at the postoffice in
Sterling on February II. 1911.
Trinidad will perhaps receive rec
ognition from the Santa Fe in being
made q Colorado common point.
Fire of mysterious origin destroyed
eleven empty freight cars in the yards
At Ludlow. The loss IL about 5000.
James White. q veteran Of the Civil
War. pioneer of Georgetown and a
resident Of Clear Caeek county since
1872. is dead.
Greeley is to have an official market
place. where sellers of hay. horses.
farm produce and the like may gather
to await buyers.
The sixth annual banquet Of former
Fennsylvanians now resident in Dem
yer was held at the Brown Palace ho-
tel January Both.
Several settlements of Oklahoma
farmers will be established in the
Grow Creek district. east of Greeley,
next spring.
Raising Of hogs is an important in
dustry in the Hayden valley. The
Cary ranch has 400 or 500 and has pu.
in packing plant.
The new pavilion erected under the
management of the Celtic Club in Flo
renee was formally opened recently
with big dance.
Fire in the New York store in Cen
trail City caused heavy damage to the
stock and loss of several thousand dol
lars on the building.
Recently 1900 head of cattle were
sold for 100000 by the Pueblo Live
Stock & Commission Company, for de-
livery In Pueblo in May.
The $2.000.00O French loan for the
Denver Reservoir & Irrigation Com
pany has been authorized by Judge
Allen in the District Court at Denver.
District Judge Rizer Of La Junta
rendered a decision Quashing the in
dictmeut against John e. Godding,
president of the defunct Rocky Ford
bank.
For the first time in thirty-six years
Judge Hart Of Ault has heard from
bis brother by letter written by the
supposed lost man, w. w. Hart Of
Corning, Cal.
About $50 former sons and daugh-
ters of Kansas attended the fifth an
nual banquet of the Kansas society Of
Colorado held at the Brown Palace
hotel in Denver.
After three days session at the All.
bany hotel in Denver, the annual con-
vention Of the Colorado Retail Hard
ware G Implement Association came
to close.
The Cemetery Improvement Asso-
citation of Grand Junction, has inaugu.
rated campaign to raise $1,000 to
beautify the cemetery. A house to
house canvass of the city is being
made.
When exposed through newspaper
and threatened with prosecution, all
operators of poker games in Cripple
Creek closed without notice and for
the first time in months that city is
free Of gambling.
Work on the big Stanley project of
the Denver Reservoir Irrigation Com
rany, nine miles northwest of Greeley,
will, in all probability. be resumed
February 10th with full force OF
men and equipment.
BY an agreement entered into by
Attorney General Benjamin Griffith
and the heirs of the George c. Schleier
estate, an Inheritance tax Of $1,000
will be paid to the state. The value
of the estate is fixed at $445,O00.
The San Luis Southern, running
south from Blanca, and which is ex-
Iected to extend south to Taos and
Santa Fe in New Mexico next sum-