The Holly chieftain., 1915-04-23
STATE NEWS
OF INTEREST TO ALL
6 q L o n ADO
PEOPLE
western New.p.per Union Sew. .erylc..
COMING EVENT.

AS new M. SuuTCn al OaSOA-
pahgre has been dedicated.
Many Colorado farmers are making
their places distinctive by giving their
farms q name.
Ten ''yes or no" propositions will
be on the ballot at the coming city
election in Denver
Governor Carlson vetoed the pub
lie utilities bill and number of So
called relief measures.
The annual state convention of the
Ladies of the Macabees will be held
in Denver, April % and 23.
The Fanny Crosby Memorial Sunday
will be observed by the Denver
churches on Sunday, April 25.
The Ouray Commercial Club has in
augurated campaign to advertise
the advantages of Ouray county.
Z. H. Wadsworth, a Grand Army
veteran and resident of Denver for
fifteen years, died at his home.
Colorado Springs business men have
been warned to look out for forger
who has been putting out fraudulent
checks in Denver.
Mrs. Bertha Wright, 80 years old,
shot and probably fatally wounded her
husband, John A. Wright, AZ, city
employe of Denver
DR.. R. o. Butterfield, charged with
prescribing opium to habitual users,
was assessed the minimum fine of $40
and costs in Denver Police Court
Judge Julius C. Gunter was re-
elected president of the Alumni asso-
citation of the University of Virginia
at the banquet of the society in Den
yer.
Henry E. Lutz, special assistant in
Denver to the attorney general of the
United States, has sent in his resig
nation to Washington, to take effect
May /.
Traces OF oil have been found at
depth of 1,400 feet at Sable, a station
on the Union Pacific railroad, few
miles east of Denver, by the Mid-Colo
rado Oil Company.
Mrs. Margaret H. Hutchison dropped
dead of heart disease at her home in
Denver. Her husband, William c.
Hutchison, died suddenly in a similar
manner Dec. 20, 1910.
The Charles Meyers ranch near Ell.
bert, considered one of the best farm
properties in the state, was sold to
Rufus Gordon Barr and N. L. Vermil-
va of New York for $4,000.
One of the Oldest Odd Fellows in
Colorado, William Bennallack, pioneer
mining man, died at the age of 73,
from cancer, at the home of his daugh-
ter, Mrs. Charles Truscott, in Denver.
Mrs. Edward Dunegan, of Montrose,
whose husband was caught under
pile of falling flour and killed, was
given $1,000 by the Milling Company,
who also paid the funeral expenses.
Denver people are planning to make
formal request that Liberty Bell be
permitted to stop in Denver on its
way to the Pacific coast this summer
that Denver and Colorado people may
have opportunity to see and inspect
1t.
w. w. Rowland pleaded not guilty
in the West Side court in Denver to
the charge Of perjury which was filed
against him following the investiga-
tion OF the package ofmoney" scan
dal by the Colorado House of Repre-
sentatives.
Headed by Chief Manitou, full.
blooded Indian from the San Juan
valley, dressed in his native costume
and wearing feathered war bonnet,
party of twenty-five representative
business men from Colorado Springs
and Manitou left from the foot of
Pixies Peak to explore the middle
western states.
Carl M. Lindquist, president, founder
and largest stockholder. of the Lind.
quist Cracker Company, and for many
years prominent in Denver through the
part he took in the business, political
and philanthropic life of the state, died
at his residence of oedema of the
lungs, a dropsical condition brought
on by muscular rheumatism.
Rewards aggregating several hun
dred dollars will soon be out for the
murder of Frederick c. Matson, twen
ty-four, who was killed in his shack
at Fort Logan. The county commits
sioners at Littleton appropriated $500
out of the county fund. The Abbott &
Schaberg Lumber Company, Matson's
employer, already has offered 500.
Following the exhuming of the body
of Frederick c. Matson, the young
lumberman who was murdered in tbe