The Holly chieftain., 1912-08-23
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"s..ee Asvsssr usion Nevs se'e~
silvertoo y naAing preparations to
celebrate Labor aay.
The Ouray PSeaeer association win
hold picnie September End.
During . frieaAiy wrestling match =
Evans. Williaa Hin received broken
les.
More than 1000 gallons Of oil win
be used on ths downtown streets Of
Greeley.
The STATE treasury has bssa en-
richsd By TIE ADDITION OF eS.tos.3s IN
Inheritance taxes.
A bandstanA costing nearly 1909
has been erected ON the courthouse
lawn In Boulder.
Three men vsre hurt when engine
No. Of the Aoffat road Jumped the
track It Willow station.
Johnnie Carver. nine. fell under .
heavy ore car at Pueblo and had both
legs cut OF at the knees.
More than 1000 cases. Of $4,000 cans.
OF strinsless beans are being put up
daily BY Fort Lupton factories.
The mayor OF Colorado City has or
dered the police to close all gambling
places and houses of Ill repute.
An exhibition bull fight was held at
La Junta to raise funds to equip the
recently erected Mexican church.
Jesse Calderhead, eighteen of Colo
RADIO Springs. was accidentally shot
and killed while hunting on Cheyenne
mountain.
John J. Hitchings, ninety-two. pio-
neer printer and mining man Of the
state, died At Boulder. He came to
Colorado in 1858.
The good roads fund being raised
by the Chamber Of Commerce is still
growing rapidly. and is now nearing
the 5000 mark.
Hugh T. Walby, aged fifty-six years.
q resident Of Pueblo county for thirty.
five years. died at Pueblo. He crossed
the plains with an OK team.
Miss Ruth Shepherd of Eaton has
received word that she has been
awarded one of the Henry Strong
scholarships at Colorado College.
The international Supreme Council
Of the Knights Of Columbus, held in
Colorado Springs recently. attracted
cne thousand visitors to Colorado.
]. 8. Shannon, well known resident
Of Ignacio and owner Of the largest
herd of goAts IN the soutAwest. died
suddenly Of heart failure At Durango.
The Pea canning season has closed
at L0veland. The growers received an
average OF $3S per acre for their crop.
The factory is-now canning beans and
tomatoes.
The taxpayers Of La Plata county
are to decide at the November election
II they want new county Jail at $780,
900, the money to be raised through a
bond issue.
Milliken has a fine potato crop in
the heart OF the city and the aldermen
expect to reap rich harvest from the
five-acre tract which eventually to be-
come its municipal park.
The state educational Institutions
will receive second twenty-five per
cent. Of their aggregate appropriation,
amounting to between $1SO.000 and
100000, ON October 1.
With two carloads of grade and
| registered Holsteins coming from New
York state the latter part of Septem-
ber, the Johnstown condensory will
start the 1918 campaign with 900 cows
to furnish its supplN
Dynamite was used by four yegg-
men who blew the safe of the Platte
Vile postoffice and escaped after fight
ing pistol duel with DR.. J. r. Daw-
son, a local physician. The robbers
secured $500 in stamps.
The abstract Of assessment turned
In to State Auditor Leddy from fifty
out of the sixty-two counties In the
state shows that the increase Of value
In property in Colorado this year will
be in excess of 100000 over that of
1911.
Met by burglar. when she returned
to her home in Pueblo from church.
Mrs. Bruce Kergan. engaged in a
scuffle with the highwayman and after
being overpowered was locked In q
clothes closet while the marauder ran
sacked the house.
Daniel and Lester Baker, two for
mer Boulder children. seven and four
years old. were seriously injured near
Estes Park village when an automo-
bile driven by a Denver man crashed