The Holly chieftain., 1912-03-01
LITTLE COLORADO IrEMs,
small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

Horace w. Ferguson. pioneer of
Evans, is dead
Denver postoffice is to have two ad.
ditional mail carriers.
A beet dump will be built in the new
farming country east of Eaton.
The next municipal election in La
mar VIII be held in April, 1913.
Georgetown is to have a plant for
the manufacture of concrete brick.
James H. Smith, one of the wealth.
est citizens in Mesa county, is dead.
Ihere were 1000 fewer deaths in
Denver in 1911 than in the preceding
year.
Eastern and southern Colorado are
suffering from the effects of the bliz-
zard.
The cornerstone of the First Baptist
church at Grand Junction was recently
laid.
Richard Richardson, one Of the
earliest settlers Of Cripple Creek, is
dead
Jerome L. Terry, an employe of the
d. & R. G. at Salida, shot and killed
his wife.
The turkey trot and the bunny hug
oance hav been introduced in Grand
Junction.
The MineeQua steel works at Pueblo
has received an order for $1,000 tons
OF steel rails.
Not In several years has Colorado
experienced as heavy a snowfall as
the recent one.
The twenty-first annual fair Of the
Arkansas Valley will open at Rocky
Ford September 3.
Derricks are being erected in the
Gross oil field sixteen miles from
Steamboat Springs.
Rudolph Unholz, the fighting Boer,
and Eddie Johnson, fought ten rounds
to draw at Pueblo.
The state fish hatchery at Steam
boat Springs has Just hatched out
100000 brook trout.
Italian, Archuleta county's famous
sub-chief, died recently at his home
near fdSOSa junction.
Ben Peck. aged sixty-three, at one
time county assessor Of Routt coun-
ty, is dead at Hayden.
James A. King, q well-known pio-
neer of northern Colorado. is dead at
his home near Boulder.
Weld county's new Jail is completed
and has room for 100 prisoners. The
cost of the building was 100000.
Civil Service examinations will be
held March 13 and IA for school
teachers in the Philippines.
The Fort Morgan high school de-
feated the Brush high school at bas-
ketball by a score of So to 10.
Frank Du Cray of Grand Junction
threw Lars Olson of Indianapolis twice
in wrestling match at Montrose.
Indications are that every locality
in Weld county will have dairy as
sociation within the next few months.
Fat lambs are being shipped from
Greeley to Eastern markets, several
carloads having already been shipped.
Holly now has an anti-horsethief as
sociation whose members are con-
stantly on the outlook for evil-doers.
w. E. Wilson. convicted Of wife
beating at Pueblo, was sentenced to
serve out 500 fine on the city wood
pile.
AS a result Of an accident on the C.
& 8. train at Lynn, twenty.one miles
from Trinidad, four persons were In
lured.
The three-year-old son Of Dan Van
derpool at Greeley. fell backward into
g tub Of boiling water and was fatal
ly injured.
In the Greeley district twenty-one
thousand five hundred acres have al
ready been pledged for the growing of
sugar beets.
The Colorado Whist League held
one of the most successful tourna-
ments in the history Of the organiza-
tion in Denver.
Evergreen has subscribed $1,000 to-
ward connecting the Bear Creek road
with the route connecting Idaho
Springs with Denver.
In wrick on the Colorado Midland
recently at Niger. five coaches were
thrown into the Grand river. The en-
gineer was injured. @
The city OF La Junta has bought six
acres Of land adjoining the town on
which wells will be sunk to increase