The Holly chieftain., 1914-01-02
STATE NEWS
OF INTEREST TO ALL
col o r A D O
PEOPl E
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.

Jan -ls.-Meeting Mountain DIVISION
Colorado-to- -the-Gulf Highway Asso-
citation at Colorado Springs.
Jan: Injecting Colorado Association
OF Commercial Executives at Colo
Jan. 20-Annual banquet Colorado
Pioneer Printers, Society at Denver.
Jan; 1s-24.--NatlonaI Western Stock
July 13-14.-Grand Lodge Session. b.
+. Q. Elks at Denver.
Sept; colorado State Far at fu-
1sl5-Last Grand Council of North
American Indians at Denver
Santa Claus did not fail to visit the
children in any part of Colorado on
Christmas.
The postmastership of Platteville
was the Christmas present handed to
H. P. Bedford.
The house of Tom Schoolcr, dairy
man living few miles north OF Colo
rado Springs, was destroyed by ire.
The Great Western Sugar Company
at Longmont has paid to the farmers
100000, the balance due on the 1913
beet crop.
Mrs. Benjamin Lindsey, bride OF
Judge Lindsey of the Juvenile Court,
will address newsboys of Denver when
the couple return to Denver from their
honeymoon, Jan. 10.
Estimate placed the amount OF
money paid Denver workingmen for
clearing the snow which had fallen
during the last three weeks at be-
tween 100000 and 100000.
Nv l., f,4 n
endeavoring to get down town to Or
der coal during the storm, Andrew w.
Myers, eighty-five, died at his home,
1888 Pearl street in Denver.
w. H. Powers, paroled five months
ago from the state penitentiary, was
captured in one-sided revolver duel
at Fort Collins after he had cashed
about 5000 worth of forged checks.
Exertion in walking home from a
Christmas call caused the death OF
Mrs. Jennie Ball, aged sixty, house.
keeper for President C. G. Bucking-
ham of the State National bank at
Boulder
Almost frozen to death, H. L. Kline
of Omaha was picked up on the Hall
ranch near Franklin, where he had
nearly succumbed to the cold. The
man was walking from Colorado
Springs to Pueblo.
Charging mental cruelty, Mrs. Doris
Fitch Travis of Colorado Springs and
Denver was granted a divorce in the
District Court at Colorado Springs
from Albert Chester Travis. promi-
nent attorney of New York and Colo
rado.
Residents OF Fort Lupton have been
puzzled over a mysterious disease pre-.
valent among bull dogs of that city.
Fearing the animals might bite chill.
dren, citizens killed eight A peculiar
feature is that the disease affects
only bull dogs.
Henry McCadley, a restaurant owner
at Sterling, was bound over to the
United States District Court on a
charge of violating the Mann act by
United States Commissioner David
Beattre. The charge was preferred by
young Philadelphia woman.
Three negro women and Mexican
woman who were arrested in Denver
for picking up coal in the Union Pa.
cific yards for the purpose OF re-
lieving their destitute families were
released on their personal recogniz.
ance by Chief O'Neill at the request OF
Humane Officer Elliot Ransom.
Brooding over fancied attempts to
separate her from the man she loved
was the cause of tragedy in the
Rialto hctel, Denver. in which Loula
Elder. aged thirty, died from a bullet
wound self-inflicted, after she had
shot to death her companion, identi-
fled by the police as Frank Gregory of
$50 Broadway.
A Mexican giving the name OF Por.
firio Diaz, claiming to be the son OF
the Mexican ex-president, was arrested
in Denver by the police as suspicious
character His wife, Mrs. Margaret
Blair, living at the RoXbury hotel.
told the police that she is his tenth
living wife and that her husband Is
desperate character.
The children of the striking miners
in the southern and northern Colorado
coal fields were we'll taken care of on
| Christmas day by the United Mine
| Workers Of America. The organiza.
ton spent $1,2S5 for shoes for the
children. Friends and members OF
the union in all parts Of the country
contributed nearly $4,000.
A double celebration marked Christ
| mas at the home of the Rev. B. B.