The Holly chieftain., 1912-06-28
LITTLE COLORADO IrEMa
Small Happsninss oeeWrrins Over the
State Worth While.

AoFel6nQS 9 second annual chautau-
lus opened June 2lst.
Henry d. L. Morse, aged 72, q pio-
ieer of Colorado Springs. is dead.
Lttleton Is making preparations for
l big Fourth OF July celebration.
Gov. Shafroth addressed the Glen
wood Springs strawbsrry Festival.
Daniel Henny. q pioneer Of Love-
and. died recently at the age of 80
fears.
Eight Of the twelve victims Of the
Hastings mine disaster we're buried In
Trinidad.
Rains throughout the Platte valley
aaye done crops thousands of dollars
u benefit.
The property of Asa Mead. who died
recently At Greeley. Is valued At
sl35. 900.
Salida has raised fund Of 81 900 by
popular subscription for the Fourth OF
July celebration.
Two masked men held up the pat
rons of saloon at Walsenburg and
robbed them of 5000.
For the first time In over twenty
years. q grand jury has been In ses-
sion In Central City.
Secret societies among students will
not be tolerated by the school board
Of Grand Junction.
ArtesiaI water is being drilled for
On desert land near the Sedalia mills,
three miles north of Salida.
The road to the Santiago mine in
East Argentine district is opened aft
er blockade of six weeks.
Seventy-five feet of the cement re-
tanning wall of the big Miller creek
ditch at Meeker, has caved In.
The property on which the Denver
court house stands Is worth 100000,
according to the latest valuation.
Eward D. Hamilton, cashier of the
First National bank of Julesburg, died
recently of appendicitis and complica.
tions.
| Colorado druggists have closed
their convention at Steamboat Springs.
The meeting was successful in every
respect.
The Greeley Chautauqua opened
June 20 for its fifth annual session
and is well attended. 1t will continue
ten days.
Fred Pill. who killed George Kerber
Oct. "a, 1909 at Johnstown, has been
sentenced to eight years in the peni-
tentiary.
Paul Hutchinson, aged 10. OF Love
land, pleaded guilty to the theft of
bicycle and was sent to the state
industrial school.
Grandma Hahn, pioneer Of the
Meeker section, died at her ranch
home in Rangely. She came to Colo
rado in the early seventies.
William A Zelder of Foxtown was
brought into Denver under arrest re-
Gently on charge Of cutting timber
on government land near Kremmling.
District Judge Essex of Pueblo re-
Gently held that it is not lawful for one
| corporation to vote stock In another
en- bloc. Two mining companies were
interested.
A state convention of Socialists will
be held in Denver July for selection
Of two or more candidates for the elec.
tive offices to go on the referendum
ballot for nomination.
Samuel I. Altman, fifty-five years old,
after whom the town OF Altman in the
Cripple Creek district, was named,
died in Colorado Springs following an
operation for appendicitis.
| The Rio Grande has opened its line
between Dolorss and Telluride. estab.
fishing daily train service which had
been abandoned for the last thirty
days on account Of high water in the
Dolores river.
The application for clemency Of
Louis Wechter, sentenced from Den
yer for murder. has been denied by
the state board Of pardons. Wechter
will be hanged in August at Canon
City.
The State Railroad Commission has
Instituted suit against the Colorado &
Southern railroad for the purpose OF
having the road restore service from
Breckenridge to Como. twenty-three
miles.
The Colorado Fuel & Iron Company
will pay q dividend Of ~ per cent,
amounting to 100000 on Its $4,000. .OOO
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