The Holly chieftain., 1914-08-07

81 all FESTIVAL at FlaSler.
Aug 27.-Santa Fe Trail Day. Las AMI
Aus: 2s-Farmers' Fair a. Fowler
RoctH ttEArk n nsas Valley Fair.
segt 2-s-Annual Harvest Festival at
Sept. 3-watermeIon pay. Rocky Ford.
Sept. 2-5.-Farmers nd Stockmen's
Fair. Burlington.
sept. l-4.-Morgan Co. Fair. Fort Nor
Sept; I-5.-Larlmer County Fair. Love,
Cantaloupes are now being shipped
from Grand Junction.
The Democratic congressional con-
vention for the First district will be
held Aug. 6.
Guy j. McKnaw was drowned in
Barr lake, twenty miles north of Den
yer, while fishing
Mrs. A. D. Tyron, who came to Den
yer from her home In Phippsburg.
diod in the office of q physician while
being treated.
Henry Sussman. a travelling sales
man who had been in Denver for three
days, was found dead from an over
desc of heroin.
A general call to Australians to
rally to the support OF the fatherland
in the war which now threatens all
Europe, was issued in Pueblo by spe-
cial agent OF the Austrian consulate
in Denver.
Frank Harrington. ten, son of Mr..
and Mrs. F. r. Harrington Of Windsor.
was kicked by horse and seriously
injured while feeding the animal In
barn. His hip was fractured and tho
ligaments torn loose from his leg.
Lightning that played over Denver
Saturday and the rain storm which
followed claimed the life of one man
and injured four others. The man.
Frank Bodamer, a laborer, lost his
life as the result of the downpour.
The Fraser river project as an avail
able source Of supply for Denver's city
owned water system was Investigated
by A. Lincoln Fellows and Armour c.
Anderson Of the Denver utilities COM
mission and J. B. Lippincott, hydraulic
engineer Of Los Angeles.
Fifty thousand Denverites knelt in
the churches of the city Sunday and
united in q common prayer for peace.
In every church, Catholic or Protest
ant, ministers and priests implored d.
vine aid to avert the tremendous catas,
trcphe impending In Europe.
While the enthusiasm was at it's
height in the Democratic state assem-
bly, few days ago, John ]. Davoren.
fifty five, for thirty years a prominent
member Of Democratic political circles
and leader-tn Democratic conven-
tions, died at his home in Denver.
Gratitude for protection of his
daughter, which he was unable to ex-
press as he desired in his lifetime, has
been shown by an Illinois farmer to
Henry Barr. Deliver policeman. Barr
was bequeathed half of the farmers
estate. 1t is estimated that Barr will
receive about $4,000.
A Boulder grand Jury. after deliber.
ating thirty minutes, returned true
bill against Wilson Davis charging
him with the murder of his former
partner, Champ M. Smith, who was
shot and later blown up by dynamite
in an effort, the police claim, to hide
the crime June II at the Eldora mine
The suits brought by the Consum-
ers' league to secure equitable rates
on coal from the northern coal fields
to Denver and to restrain the hauling
lines and connecting roads from en-
forcing exhorbitant switching charges
will come up in Denver August 6 on a
demurrer filed by the Denver & Inter
mountain railroad.
Mystery surrounds the suicide at
tempt of Florence Brown, fourteen.
year-old high school girl, who took car
bolic acid at her home In Denver. The
girl, according to her mother, was an
unruly daughter. She drank the poi.
son, which has placed her at the
threshold Of death, after she had been
reprimanded for keeping late hours.
DeBeque, in the northern part of
Mesa county. has an oil well which
flows about 500 barrels day, shoot
ing the oil go feet into the air because
the owners are unable to cap" the
hole until the tools at the bottom of
the we'll can be recovered. The oil
is of paraffine base and is said to be
of high quality, though no analysis has
yet been made.
Arraigned in Justice Stapletons
court in Denver upon q charge Of
grand larceny preferred by her daugh-