The Holly chieftain., 1912-04-26
LlrYle COLORADO ITEMS.
email Happeaiaes Occurring Over the
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western Nevspesss Unlon News Service.
Idaho sprinss u to have a new $780,.
600 hotel.
On .Arhoe nay over 10000 trees
were planted h Denver.
The PresiAeat nominated Walter I.
Burke ~ poetnAster at Sterling.
n. C. NcKsaEie. rancher of Yuma
county. disa st . hospital in Denver.
The work - pstting in the new sys-
tenn OF street lighting in Rocky Ford
Is under way.
Forty suspects arrested in conec-
tion with the Globe Express robbery
at Grand Junctiea have been released.
Plans are belag made for the install
lation OF IN aptonobile truck service
between Collbran and Grand Junction
John Hofmund. a pioneer of Love-
land was found dead in bed. He was
sixty-five and disA from heart disease.
The Woodnsn Of the World held q
largely ATTENDED smoker in Rocky
Ford recently. Several of the state Of.
ficers were present,
Subscriptions TO date to the Com
merce Investrnsnt Company for the re-
lief of the destitute farmers of East
ern Colorado total sS,26l,5O.
Fred Schaeffeldein, a miner, was
killed in a cave-in in the entry Of the
Henrietta mine on Battle mountain
near Red Cliff.
Work on the excavation and founda.
tion OF the new opera house at Idaho
Springs is progressing rapidly with
big force of men and teams.
The Senate public buildings commit
tee reported favoraby Senator Gug-
genheim's bill appropriating $4,000
for public building site at Monte Vista.
Fruit prospects in the Canon City
district wer never better at this sea
son of the year. Every indication
points to bumper crop of practically
all kinds Of fruit.
DR.. Oliver Ebert one of the most
prominent physician of Mesa county.
was found dead on his homestead
twenty-seven miles southeast of Grand
Junction by cowboys.
w. H. Edwards and Frank Rolf were
arrested and are being held in con-
nection with the murder of Jim War
ford, whose body was found recently
on Battle mountain, Cripple Creek.
E. L. Brown, vice president ard
general manager Of the Denver & Rio
Grande railroad, has been elected to
the directorate Of that company, sue
ceeding Howard Gould, resigned.
With 5000 acres pledged for beets
growing. an independent sugar fac
tory probably will be established in
the Greeley district. The proposed fac
tory will cost slOO0,000.
The opening OF 10000 acres of rich
farming land on the Fort Lewis mesa
near Durango recently, caused nc
rush of homeseekers as the govern
ment had not advertised the opening
Because she refused to permit a
tramp to rob the store of which she
was in sole charge. Mrs. John l.. Puck
EFT was probably fatally beaten with a
stove poker by ramp at Nyburg.
fourteen miles east of Pueblo.
Former County Commissioner r. w.
De Vinny of Greeley, who recently
pleaded guilty to the charge of NAL
feasance in office was fined 5000 and
costs, the maximum. by District Judge
Graham.
Solicitors for packing company
who have been canvassing the Ber-
thoud district for acreage for the grow
ing of peas have contracted for $50
\ acres, enough to insure the erection of
hulling plant for that town.
That the National Guard of Colora-
do has been ordered to mobilize and
be in readiness to respond immediate.
ly to orders expected from the War
Department at Washington is the sub
stance of reports current In Denver.
The City Council of Colorado Springs
will Join with El Paso and Otero ccun-
ties and the school districts in the two
counties in their fight to compel the
Santa Fe railroad to pay the tax as
sessed against it by the State Board of
Equalization.
Loyeland feeders have received the
highest price ever paid, 1t Is said, for
cows In the Denver market. AL Cox
of Loveland got 1t. Cows fed in his
lots at the sugar factory sold at $6.35
per hundred. averaging 1.15S pounds
each.