The Holly chieftain., 1912-07-19
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happs~lnes Occurring Over the
o&ats Worth While.

A0ttCtlk1cs
The new Moose hall at Rocky Ford
has been dedicated.
A recent clou1bnrst did severe dam
age to the toun OF Boulder.
Arthur Johnsoa. aged twenty-six. of
Greeley was kllled by lightning.
Grand yunctiee's new $4,000 high
school building hss been completed.
Milliken Il to haye $25,OOO flour
mill and elevator. to be erected imme-
iiately.
The rainfall aboye the town of Sui
iivan caused heaSy loss OF livestock
and crops.
Mrs. Augusta r. Gleason, aged eigh.
ty-one. pioneer OF Gunnison county.
died recently.
Harry N. Haynes of Greeley has
been elected president of the Colorado
Bar Association.
Seventy-five thousand cans of peas
were put up st the Greeley factory
one day recently.
According 70 reports crops In the
vicinity Of Elisabeth were damaged
by the recent rains.
Professor Lorren D. Osbourn. Ph.D.,
has been elected TO the chair of socl-
ology Of the University of Colorado.
The Loveland Ratchet Wrench Man
ufacturing COMPANY, capitalized at
$4,000. has filed articles of incorpor
alton.
The new Colorado School of Mines
metallurgical plant, at Golden, cost.
Ing $4,000. will be completed this
month.
Harry Charles, twenty-five years
old. was struck BY lightning and killed
at the ]. Arnoi6 ranch, seven miles
from Fowler. y
Three hundred 4eachers are expected
in Colorado Springs to attend the an
nual institute of The Fifth normal dis
trict. July % to August 2.
John sederlunatwenty-one years old,
son of farmef near Sterling. was
drowned in Dillon reservoir, about
five miles south Of IlItf.
Christopher Jensen, nine-year-old
son of August Jensen of Castle Rock,
was drowned til the flood that came
down Plum creek recently.
The forest ranger reports that deer
and elk in the htls around Meeker are
increasing, Thar are now running in
punches Of d0fen or more.
An eiehty.horsspowsr seagraves au.
tomobile fire-truck has replaced the
horse drawn hook and ladder wagon Of
the Trinidad fire department.
The Denver, Laramie & Northwest
ern railroad is making arrangements
to extend its line from Greeley to Sew
erance. distance Of twelve miles.
Overcome by bad air, Christian
Marks and Andrew yogessor plunged
to instant death in the shaft of the
Yellow Bird mine. on Gold hill. Grip
pie Creek.
A storm cyclonic In fury swept Sui
phur Springs recently tearing down
barns, fences, telephone poles and
breaking windows downtown. Heavy
rain followed.
The Weld County Fair Association
has announced that 1t would give any
couple who will get married In front
OF the grandstand Potato day, Sep
tember 2G, at Greeley, enough furni-
ture for home.
In the sundry civil bill reported to
the Senate in Washington regular ap-
preparations for Mesa Verde National
Park, Colorado, was increased from
1880 to $4,000. the increase being
for road building
The June payroll for all state, edu-
cational and penal institutions,
amounting to $4,000. is being held up
because Secretary A. l. Fribourg Of
the Civil Service Commission has re-
fused to o. X. the bills
Graft, fraud corruption, malfeas.
ance in office and other crimes.
charged against officials Of the las.
administration in Denver, will be thor.
oughly Investigated By a joint commit
tee OF the City Council.
Edward P. Costigan. chairman Of
| the provisional State Central commit
tee Of the Progressive party of Colo
RADIO. and Philip 8. Van Cise. secre,
tary. have issued the official call for
the state assembly Of that party 10
meet in Denver Thursday. August l..
1912.
The State Court Of Appeals July 3
handed down decisions In twenty-five
cases. opinions on nine petitions for
| rehearings. and dismissed six cases