The Holly chieftain., 1912-12-20

DATES FOu COMING EVENTS.
January 2o-25-Eighth Annual West
ern Stock Show-Denver.
Edward Kelly and John Peyton were
arrested in Denver in the act Of hold
ing up C. L. Gilbert, guest at the
Oxford.
The widow Of Walter C. Martin. who
was killed in the Longmont sugar fac
tory November 18, was awarded $4,000
damages in the District Court.
During the month of November. S.
3S3 pieces of mail. weighing CATS
pounds, were carried by the five rural
mailmen out of the Greeley postoffice.
The funeral of the late Mrs. Alice
Wachter Hayes. wife OF Elbert L..
Hayes, tok place from her home in
Montrose. She was forty-five years
old.
Cupid again took girl student from
the Safe Teachers college at Greeley,
giving Miss Marian Easton, . junior.
aE the bride of DR.. o. s. Adam of Sc
gundo.
James Judkins, . barber, died from
tuberculosis in hospital at Trinidad.
and his wife lies on bed in the same
institution near death from the same
disease.
Fifty-eight years of welded life was
rounded out at Ault by Mr.. and Mrs.
w. H. Hulse, and they entertained a
number Of friends In honor of their
anniversary.
Mrs. Lizzie Smith, aged 60. resi-
dent of Westminster, In Adams coun-
ty, narrowly escaped death when she
was run down by an electric automo-
bile in Denver.
A new $50,O0O factory for Denver
for the manufacture of breakfast foods
may be commenced within the next
six months by the Wyoming Plant and
Seed Breeding Company.
The state board of pardons recon-
mended to the governor that Lyle E.
Dix, sentenced from Ell Paso county on
q charge of embezzlement for term
Of two to three years, be paroled.
On account of default of payment Of
100000 in demand notes July /. the
Colorado Midland railroad was placed
in the hands of receiver. George W..
Vallery, president Of the road, was
named receiver.
Colorado has been formally invited
to participate in the Panama-Califor-
mia exposition at San Diego which will
be held concurrently with the great
Panama-Pacific exposition in San
Francisco in 1915.
Actual work on the construction of
the Myron Stratton Home for the Poor,
provided for in the will of the late
Winfield s. stratton, is to be begun
within the next few months. The
trustees of the fund left for construct
Ing the home, are advertising for bids
for the construction of the first part Of
the institution.
Initiated and referred bills cost the
state $4,000, and that amount must
be appropriated, by the incoming Legis-
lature, according to statement sub
mitted to Governor-elect Ammons by
the secretary Of state. There is also
$126,0O0 interest on old state- bonds
that must be paid by the Nineteenth
General Assembly.
The three supposed New York gun
men," who turned out to be three boys
looking for a wild and woolly West,
arrested in Park county by Sheriff
Dennis on complaint of Christian
Schmittel, Denver chauffeur, were ar
raigned, given preliminary hearing
and bound over to the District Court
under $1,000 bonds at Golden.
W. F. Robinson, widely known in
Denver and Colorado as billie" Rob-
inson. died at his home, 1925 Pennsyl-
vania avenue, In Denver, from pneu-
monia. Mr.. Robinson was Sc years old.
He came to Colorado at an early age,
living in Leadvil!e and Denver. Dur
ing his lifetime he was connected with
the business departments of newspa-
pers in those two cities.
The Rev. Father Eugene Lefebvre.
fighting priest" Of Walsenburg, died
at a Colorado Springs sanitarium. Or.
dained when he Was but 16. his death
revealed story Of constant war
upon. vice during his twenty-three
years as a priest. He left sickbed
in Walsenburg just before the recent
election to speak against political
grafters and crooks, and following the
election suffered collapse. He was
taken to Colorado Springs in advanced