The Holly chieftain., 1914-03-20
STATE NEWS
OF INTEREST TO ALL
COL o r A DO
PEOPI e
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.

May I2-I4-State Council of Junior Or
der of American Mechanics, at COLO
rado Springs.
July Is-I4.-Grand Lodge Session, b
T.. o. Elks at Denver.
April s.-General Irrigation Conference
Sept. colorado State Fair at Pu-
Isl5.-Last Grand Council OF North
American Indians ut Denver.
Seyenty-fiye members of the Penn
sylvania Club of Colorado held their
annual banquet in Denver.
A. C. Bartels was elected dictator
of Denver lodge No. 81, Loyal Order
of Moose, at the annual election of the
lodge.
The annual conference of state as
SCISSORS with the State Tax Commits
sion will be held March 25 and &c at
the Capitol building.
Congregational contributions collect
ed by the Episcopal churches in the
Colorado diocese in 1919, according to
the annual report, amounted to $685.
255.
Traditional "jinx" fears of Friday
the thirteenth as wedding day were
cast to the winds by seven couples
who applied for marriage licenses in
Denver
w. w. Jones, for twenty-one years
paymaster of the Colorado Fuel &
Iron Company in Denver, died at his
home, 40 South Lincoln street. Jones
was seventy-two years old.
Two men and woman, whom the
police believe to be representatives Of
Canadian cocaine smugglers or swim
dlers of druggists, were arrested in a
house on Market street in Denver.
The refusal of the Colorado Yule
Marble Company to meet demands of
union labor men of Denver may cause
strike on the marble shaft of the
Lincoln monument at Washington.
Belvidere Brooks, formerly in
charge Of the Denver office, is to sue
ceed Theodore H. Vail as president of
the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany, according to information re-
ceived in Denver.
The first semi-inonthly payday un-
der the charter amendment adopted
Feb. IT, occurred in Denver Monday.
Completion of the payroll by the au-
ditor's office occasioned considerable
joy about City hall.
Frank c. Smith, wealthy mining
and railroad promoter of Denver, Col
orado Springs and Cripple Creek and
one of the best known pioneers of
Colorado. died suddenly of heart dis
ease at San Antonio Tex.
Formal protest against the bill pend
ing in Congress providing for a
change in the form of the American
flag has been made by members Of
Abraham Lincoln Post, Grand Army
Of the Republic of Denver.
Mrs. Anastasia Hrestathulake start
ed suit in the District Court of Den
yer to recover $4,000 for the death of
her son, George Athens Hrestathulake
killed in an accident in the Parkdale
mine of the National Fuel Company
at Lafayette, Dec. 23, 1912.
The reopening Of heretofore idle
mining properties, an increase in the
dairying industry and the fine condi-
tion in which winter wheat has come
through the winter, form ccmbina-
tion which makes rosy the outlook for
unusual prosperity in Boulder county
this year.
The public utilities commission OF
Denver employed r. w. Meeker for.
merly engineer for the Central Colo
rado Power Company and later engi.
ner of the Laramie Water Company
to prepare report for the commits.
sion of water available on the West.
ern slope for domestic supply for Den.
YER.
William Bierkamp, Jr., former pres.
ident of the Germania State bank, un.
der arrest charged with $4,000 con.
fidence game, and Mrs. Margaret J.
Bierkamp, whose matrimonial diff.
culties have engaged the attention of
the Denver courts for more than three
years, will probably be reconciled
through the medium Of their children.
Denver sons of Erin and the sons of
other lands had the biggest st. Pat
rlck's celebration ever staged in Den.
yer. A monster parade under the aus.
pices of the Ancient Order of Hiber.
mans, a solemn high mass at the
Cathedral of the Immaculate Concep.
ton, and grand ball at the Aud,to,
rum were features of St. Patrick's
Day.