The Holly chieftain., 1912-01-05
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happsninss Occurring Over the
etsts Westh While.

Al CVouty Coolk ~ 0Ecoleys - -
Dennis. justice at Eaton. was found
guilty Of conducting q disorderly
house.
A sneak thief robbed the apart
ments Of Miss Anna sholz. who con-
ducts . rooming house at Durango,
and secured tl25.
The four-year-0ld daughter OF Jake
Miller of Loveland lies critically i'll at
her parents home In consequence OF
drinking gasoline.
The local of the Farmers Co-opera-
tive and Educational Union at Fort
Collins has laid plans for opening =
cooperative store.
A motion to quash the writ of cer-
dorari in the Denyer-Greeley Irrigation
district case was denied by District
Judge Graham at Greeley.
Driven to seek forage nearer civiliza-
ton by the heavy snow. herd OF
twenty antelope entered q fenced pas
ture on the river flat near Hereford.
Robert Lankford. charged with the
murder-at. Clarence White, C. & 8.
brakeman Of Denver. has been re-
leased on $4,000 bond at Fort Collins.
At Cripple Creek. Frank Holcomb. q
miner, aged 45, shot five times at w.
g. Pate. aged Is, three Of the shots
:aking effect and causing death five
minutes later.
A mountain lion. over seven feet
ong and weighing nearly 200 pounds,
was killed on Current creek, fifteen
miles north of Canon City by Thomas
Miller, ranchman in that country.
On the thirty-sixth anniversary of
his wedding, Edward T. Sheldon died
1t Colorado Springs. He was seventy
.our years old and pioneer Of three
states. Iowa, South Dakota and Colo
RADIO.
Loveland will have connection with
the main line of the Union Pacific
railroad in short time. 1t is stated
that motor car service will be es-
tablished between the main line and
Loveland.
Orien Kelso, son Of L. X. Kelso OF
Boulder, is composer of music for q
song entitled "The New Road" which
he will enter in the musical compost
ton contest of the Denver Musical
| Club.
M. c. Morrison of Moundsville, w.
Va, peace officer for more than
twenty years. will locate in Colorado
Springs and bring trained bloodhounds
which. he says, he will lend officers
when needed.
William Moore. wholesale lumber
merchant, with offices in the Mack
block, died of heart disease at the
family residence in Denver. Mr.. Moore
was sixty years old and had lived in
Denver twenty years.
Weld county poultry fanciers will
send number Of chickens to the an
nual show of the Colorado Poultry
Fanciers' Association in Denver and
are confident of returning with blue
ribbons and other trophies.
At business mems booster meeting
held at Loveland, plans were formed
for the Loveland mid-winter farmers
Institute, to be held January 20, "a,
rs and &c. Over $500 was raised at
this meeting to be used for entertain
ment purposes.
The dedication of the Logan
\ County Industrial Arch high school at
Sterling completed at cost of $780,
1000, will be held January I'd. c. S
Thomas of Denver will deliver the
dedicatory address and the building
will be thrown open later for inspec-
tion.
R. F. Walter, director of the Recla-
nation Service in Colorado, is at
Grand Junction closing up contracts
with ranchmen for the right-of-way for
the high line canal He goes from
there to Washington, to submit the
contracts for approval to Secretary
Fisher.
A movement has been started to Sc
cure parole for P. A. Lilly. former
treasurer of the school board, deputy
treasurer of San Miguel county and
clerk of the city of Telluride, who was
sentenced, in 1907. to thirty-three
years in prison for embezzling $4,000
Of public funds.
A dining car and sleeper on an east
bound Rio Grande passenger train
were wrecked at Canon City when
freight train ran through an open
switch and crashed into the passenger
train, derailing both cars and oyerturn-
ing the sleeper. The two men in 1t
were not injured.
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