The Holly chieftain., 1912-04-19
IITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
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oMall Happsninos oees"'"S WV
o4sts Wsrth While.
v..,.r, Nsv.o.per TALON Nsvs Service
Pueblo is holding Home Industries
week.
Gov. shafroth has purchased an ~
tomobile.
A commissi0n government charter
league hss been organized at Durango.
Capt. John J. Harris. one Of Boui-
der's best known pioneer mining men,
y dead.
Ground has been purchased IN
Longmont for the new $4,000 pea
hulling plant.
Frank Wallace died at Evans from .
peculiar disease thought to be tuner
eulosis OF the brain.
Meeker IL to have more fire protec'
tion, which will reduce insurance rates
and give residents feeling of seclr'
ity.
For the first time this season, wa
ter is running into the Latham reser-
voir at La Sale, through the Union
itch.
Having given $50 to the high scluol
piano fund, the Evans Improvement
Society will now buy fire alarm Tor
the city.
Telephone communication between
Denver and nearly every point in the
state was seriously effected by the re-
cent windstorm.
Members of the new town board
have decided on three saloons for
Evans, it is said, and that the licenses
Of each shall be $4,000 annually.
Lee Hardesty of Fowler, president
Of the Hardesty Ditch & Irrigation
Company. was instantly killed In an
auto accident near Fowler.
Shade trees for Milliken is the slo-
gan of the Commercial Club and hun
dreds OF trees will be set out provided
water rights can be secured.
Dressed meat prices In Denver rose
another 10 per cent recently. making q
total advance Of nearly Is per cent
over quotations two weeks ago.
The state can invest public school
funds in irrigation bonds only as an
original purchaser, under an opinion
of Attorney General Ben Griffith.
At Fort Collins Robert LangfoN
was acquitted Of the murder of Clar-
ence T. White, q Denver railroad man.
who was stabbed to death on Dec. 5.
The two-story hotel at Buena Vista
Hot Springs. five miles west of Buena
Vista, was completely destroyed by
fire. entailing loss Of about $4,000.
Preliminary steps toward the srec.
tion Of new church were taken re.
Gently at the annual meeting Of the
st. Marks Episcopal Parish in Den.
yer.
The Brighton school board has
called an election for May j on the
question OF issuing 325,00O in bonds
for the erection of high school build.
ing.
Among the finest deposits of brick
clay to be found in the state are those
on the north side Of the Arkansas rlv.
er, some five or six miles from Rocky
Ford.
There are about twenty cases Of
smallpox within the limits of Lafay.
ette, and the officials are considering
closing the schools and stopping all
public meeting.
Colorado women, members of the
Daughters of the War of 1912, are
making preparations for celebrating
on September IL, the one-hundred1h
anniversary of that memorable con.
flict.
For the fourth time within the last
two months. Frank Perry. an Italian
truck gardener of Grand Junction, re.
ceived a letter signed with black
hand demanding the payment Of 32,-
900.
One more railroad station near Den.
yer will be added to the Union Pacit.
les map. It will be known at Rows
Crossing, near Aurora, and the Union
Pacific has agreed to build depot
there.
One hundred and fifty gypsies, who
have been living in three small ter.
races in Denver for more than week,
Will be made the subject of investI.
CATION by State Humane Officer Nor.
ton David.
Aviation has been made part of
the course of studies OF the signal
corps Of the Colorado national guard.
and with two Curtiss graduates as in.