The Holly chieftain., 1913-04-11
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service
Dates for Coming Events.

Oct 2i.-Coioraao state Baptist Asso-
citation at Pueblo.
Determined to stamp out stealing of
automobiles in Pueblo. the police ar
rested five boys.
Denver has been officially lamed as
the location of the 1918 convention of
the Federation OF American Motor
cyclists.
A tale of q clever woman swindler
has been told detectives by Denver
bank, which lost $4,000 through her
Harold F. Henwood. charged with
the killing of George E. Copeland.
will stand trial for the offense May -
at Denver.
Judge N. H. Taylor. seventy, on the
bench in Adams county for the past
twelve years. died 1t Henderson after
short illness.
The Odd Fellows of Denver and vi
cinity will celebrate the ninety-fourth
anniversary Of the order at the Audi
torium on Saturday evening, April &c.
From the pulpit to the farm is the
lot chosen by the Rev. G. E. Ladd, for
several years the pastor of the First
Congregational church of Longmont.
Mrs. Margaret e. Whiteley, eighty
two, is dead at her home, The Pop
lars" Mrs. Whiteley was one of the
Oldest and most loved women of Boul-
der.
The taxpayers, by a vote 1875 to 80,
have decided to issue bands to the
amount of $20,5O0 for the erection of
new high school building at Ord.
way.
William Geary was discharged by
the board of public works of Denver
as deputy highway commissioner and
superintendent of the street cleaning
department.
AS result of the election in Holly
and other Arkansas valley towns, Hol-
ly is the only oasis between Pueblo
and Kansas City. Holly went wet by
a vote of 204 to 140.
r. ]. Spencer, declared to have
several dozen aliases, and to be for
fger Of international reputation, was
arrested at Louisville by operatives
of detective agencies.
Forty-three students graduated from
the Colorado School Of Agriculture at
the first graduating exercises held
by the institution, In the college
eho OF Fort rcl1;na
Deputy Game Warden Gray is post
ing notices over the northern part of
the state offering reward of $25 for
information leading to the arrest of
any one killing pheasants.
Twice the heroine OF elopments be-
fore attaining the age of twenty,
Carol Coombs Bruner Wheldon, one
of Pueblo's promising musicians, has
attained distinction that is unique
in that city.
The State Board Of Health and the
state university faculty have re-
ceived samples of turtle tuberculin
and experiments will be conducted on
guinea pigs. DR.. w. G. Mitchell,
state bacteriologist, and DR.. Burnett
of the state university, will have
charge of the work.
Judge Charles C. Butler of Denver
has ordered quashed the information
charging James O'Driscoll, formerly
alderman of the Sixth.ward, with brib-
cry. O'Driscoll was accused of at
tempting to bribe A. A. Blakley, pres
ident of the fire and police board, in
order to get saloon license.
A dividend of 100000 on the pre-
ferred stock of the Midwest Oil Com
pany was declared at meeting of
directors in the company's offices in
the First National Bank building in
Denver The dividend represents eigh.
per cent on 100000 of stock, and
pays all the interest up to April /.
The first compilation of statistics
on railroad accidents in Colorado made
from the records of the state railroad
commission show that the transporta- .
tion companies handled 7,161,514 pas
sengers on their lines within the state
of Colorado during the past fiscal
year without killing a single one of
them.
The Germans who are arranging
for the turnfest in Denver next sum-
mer say they will offer to the visitors
a spectacular pageant that will sur
pass anything of the kind ever seen
In America Thursday afternnon