The Holly chieftain., 1912-06-14
LIrrLg COLORADO ITEMS.
Small HsppsniaSs Occurring Over the
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Western Nsspsssr Uaion News Service.
Platteyille e having a building
boom.
Charles Wall. IN old-time settler of
Ouray. is dead.
A terrific storn recently did consid.
cradle damage ta Routt county.
There has bssa organized at Colo
RADIO Springs Young Mems Demo
cratic Club.
On June 10 Guy Buckles of Omaha
will fight Howard Baker of Boulder at
Cripple Greek.
The Summer School for State
Teachers opened at Greeley with 1000
teachers enrolled.
The Colorado 4 Kansas, Pueblo's
new railroad. twenty-one miles long,
has been opened.
The President has appointed Ella
New postmaster at Delta and Frank
silonton at Victor.
If plans Of Greeley men work out,
alfalfa breakfast food will soon be man
ufactured in Weld county.
Montrose Chamber of Commerce is
preparing to issue 10000 postal cards
to advertise the county.
DR.. C. A. Stewart of Denver has dc.
parted on an automobile tour from
Denver to New York and Boston.
Golden is greatly excited over the
finding Of free gold by G. w. Parfet In
his clay drifts south of the city.
Longmont has decided to send an au-
tomobile on the Sociability run to Chi.
cago. which leaves Denver June 25.
The government has appropriated
$4,000 for the commencement of the
federal building at Grand Junction.
The Hotchkiss Fair Association
gave barbecue on June in place of
the spring races which were called off.
T. A. Arneal Of Cripple Creek was
elected president at the annual con-
ference OF the BARRIERS union in Den
yer.
Jammed into q nume in the North
side lateral. at Gill. the body of John
Losser, aged three. was found by l. N.
Ball.
Mrs. A. D. Droll OF Greeley was se-
verely burned about the head when
she attempted to relight fire with
coal oil.
Rev. C. w. Dyer of Hastings, Neb.,
has accepted the pastorate of the First
Presbyterian church of Pueblo The
salary is 5000 annually.
Within the next two months hun
dreds Of entrymen h- Weld county will
prove up on their homesteads under
the new three-year homestead law.
There will be no work done on tho
dam for the Boulder city water works
this year, the contract for which was
let last November for $52,196.20.
c. R. Mohr, of Cripple C sk, was
| perhaps fatally shot at Trinidad by
Miss Ethel Doyle OF Colorado City.
who claims to be his wife.
The new experimental ore-dressing
and metallurgical plant built for the
School Of Mines at Golden, at a
cost of $125,000, will be opened July l..
The largest class In the history OF
the institution was graduated from
the Agricultural college at Fort Col.
Inns, when forty-eight received diplo-
mas.
w. L. Carroll, Perkham mer.
chant, poured vinegar down his baby's
throat Immediately after the little
one had swallowed lye water, and may
have saved the child's life.
Jewelry and money to the amount
OF 500 was taken from the home of
Robert E. Hall OF Denver, recently,
while the family was spending the ev-
ening at the theater.
All available space in Denver hotels
has been engaged for delegates and
visiting members Of the knights
Templar, who will hold their triennial
conclave there in 1918.
The damage by the flood In the Un.
compahgre river and its tributaries In
Montrose county is believed by the
County Commissioners to be $4,000.
Several bridges have been washed
away and others are almost gone.
A twenty-year electric lighting fran
chise was granted A. NJ. Gooding and
associates by the Town Board of
Steamboat Springs. Work on the plant
is to start within sixty days and be
completed within year.