The Holly chieftain., 1913-10-31
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.


Nov. 6-S.-Thirteenth Annual Conven-
ton of Rocky Mountain Hotel Mems
~ Association a. at Denver .o.,.,,or
meeting at Pueblo.
Jan IL 15.--colorado Poultry Fanciers'
Association Show at Denver.
Jan. 19-24.--National Western stock
Show at Denver.
Jan.-Meeting Colorado Good Roads
lsi5.~Last Grand Council OF North
American Indians at Denver.
A Santa Fe switch engine struck
and killed an unidentified man at
Pueblo.
There is movement on foot to
have the town of Hudson incorpor.
ated and the necessary steps will soon
be taken.
A high wind and spark from an
engine which ignited a tumble weed
set fire to three twenty-ton stacks OF
hay on the Ralph Deeter farm near
Greeley.
Herman Weiss. seventy-six years
old, living at 1920 Xavier street. Den
yer. obtained license at Littleton to
wed Ottelea Goldminn. forty-three also
OF Denver.
One dead, two &, dying and three
wounded men lay on upper Seventh
street at Walsenburg Friday after
noon after battle between guards
and strikers.
Fort Lupton is to have pleasure
resort modelled after the White City
of Denver. 1t will be located half
mile from town on the banks of Nc
Kinney's lake.
Last week was the best single week
In the history of the Denver Union
Stockyards, the total receipts of cat
tie being over $4,000 head, bringing at
sale about $2.5OO.OOO.
The Colorado Springs commission
houses gave their employees day Off
for the annual rabbit hunt east of
town. Three hundred rabbits were
bagged in the roundup.
After living twenty-four hours with
broken neck, Hector Williams, an
employe of the Arkansas Valley Rail-
way, Light & Power Company, died
at the hospital In Canon City
Unitarians from all parts of Colo
rado attended the opening services of
the annual Rocky Mountain Confer
ence of Unitarian ministers, held at
the Unity church IN Denver
James Nelson. alias Frank Allen.
was arrested in Denver Sunday morn
ing, and is reported to have confessed
to the police to nine of the twenty-five
holdups during the previous week.
William Cox Redfield, secretary of
the department, of commerce and Ia
Dor, the fourth member of President
Wilson's cabinet to visit Denver since
the inauguration, will arrive Thurs
day.
The bank call for the quarter and
inspection, shows deposits in the
seven banks composing the clearing
house of Colorado Springs to be Sill
0S4,O7f99. This is the largest show
ing ever made.
S. H. Brown, assessor of Arapahoe
county, has certified valuations for
assessments of 1913 taxes in Littleton,
in the sum of s1,194,6O5; Englewood,
$2,245,215: Aurora, s37O,69O, and
Sheridan, s503,475.
Obtaining entrance through a side
window, u bandit at Pueblo bored a
hole in the safe of the Graham Com.
mission Company and the explosion he
set off blew out the front of the build.
Ing. The robber escaped.
Pixies peak may be chosen by
Franklin X. Lane, secretary of the in.
terror, as the location for a govern.
ment wireless station to be used by
the weather bureau as one Of a chain
of stations across the continent.
Nikias Callogras, Greek counsel in
Denver, on instructions from the
Greek ambassador at Washington, left
for Dawson, N. NJ, where he will in.
vestigate causes OF the coal mine ex.
plosion in which 26O men lost their
lives.
Fully thousand people Joined with
Hayden citizens in celebrating the ar
rival OF the first train into that point.
An excursion train was run from
Steamboat Springs, while clusters
came in from every point within 100
miles.
With report characterizing the
conduct of Mesa county afafirs as lit.
tie short of criminal, the grand jury,
which has been investigating charges
made by State Auditor Kenehan and
the public examiners, at Grand juno.
tion, returned five indictments against
former county officers. Fifty indict.