The Holly chieftain., 1912-04-12
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

A Chautauqua Is planned for Gree
ley. to begin June 20.
| Work has begun on the new opera
house for Idaho Springs.
Mrs. James Moore. a pioneer Of Col.
den. is dead. aged seventy.
John B. Arms Of Eaton celebrated
his ninety-second birthday recently.
Farmers of Carr have organized for
the purpose of operating \ cheese fac
tory.
There is q rumor that the Evans
municipal election is to be contested
by the drys.
Denver and Colorado are to be ex-
tensively advertised throughout the
East this summer.
c. C. Acton. aged seventy-two.
prominent placer mine operator Of
Breckenridge. is dead.
The Cheyenne county citizens deny
the reports Of destitution among dry
farmers in their section.
T. A. Wright of Greeley reports that
In the last four months his fifty eight
hens have laid 1851 eggs.
Burglars broke into the branch Of
flee of the Grill Lumber Company at
Lafayette and stole SIS.
]. e. Empson has purchased five
acres at Johnstown and will erect
pea-hulling plant to cost $4,000.
The State Land Board sold eight
lots In Lttleton recently. The high
est price was $3.50 for one pair.
Frank voduski. aged fifty-two. and
married, was instantly killed by fall
OF rock in the Primero mine, near
Trinidad.
Rev. M. L. Laybourn, pastor of the
First Presbyterian church of Loveland,
has rendered his resignation to take
effect June l.
About 1000 acres of peas, tomatoes
and beans have ben contracted in the
Greeley district for the canneries OF
northern Colorado.
For the thirty-fifth consecutive time
James X. Thompson has been elected
treasurer of the First Presbyterian
church at Greeley.
Carlos F. Smith, who came to Colo
RADIO in 1869 and was one of the found
ers of Golden, died at his home in Des
Moines. Iowa, aged eighty.
]. Kersey Painter. formerly road
master of Julesburg branch Of Union
Pacific and after whom the town Of
Kersey was named, is dead.
Judge W Hart. pioneer Of Weld
county. died in Ault of apoplexy. He
was fifty-nine years old and had re-
sided in Weld county thirty years.
Rev. ]. R. RAIDER of Denver will not
be tried on the charge Of election
bribery preferred by James Franklin.
at Greeley, the case having been dis
missed.
Ground has been broken for the
Pleasant View grange hall at Boulder,
and work is to be pushed so that 1t
can be used for meetings now held at
farmers homes.
The Colorado Fuel & Iron Company's
plant at Pueblo is running to capa-
city, night and day, in order to turn
out steel rails for several western rail-
roads. All the orders have been re-
ceiyed this year.
The jury in the case Of Lauro Gar.
cia, charged with the murder Of Night
Officer c. A. Brockman, Dec. II, 1911,
at Fort Collins, returned verdict
finding Garcia guilty of murder in the
first degree and imposing the death
penalty.
T. F. Dunaway. general manager of
the Nevada. California and Oregon
railroad. is in Denver for the purpose
Of purchasing $500.OOO worth Of mar.
row guage railroad rolling stock from
the Rio Grande and the Colorado &
Southern systems.
Railroads entering the Walsenburg
and Caiion City coal districts are to
be brought before the Interstate Com
merce Commission by Albert L. Vogl,
representing five coal mining concerns
of the district. The mining companies
declare that by the present system of
through rates from the districts the
shippers are being overcharged.
Weak and still limping from the
wounds he received March 10, when
Andrew Lloyd and William Mcpherson
were shot to death in the valverde
saloon, Denver. Oscar Cook and his
companion. Edward selwald, appeared
in the West Side Criminal Court and
pleaded not guilty to two charges of