The Holly chieftain., 1915-03-12
STATE NEWS
OF INTEREST TO ALL
e o L O r A D O
PEOPLE

The idle men at Trinidad are TO De
given work on the streets.
A citizens committee nominated q
ticket for the coming city election at
Rocky Ford.
Warwick NJ. Downing is now presi.
dent of the Ell Paso Consolidated Gold
Mining Company.
Ten thousand dollars will be spent
by the Denver park department during
1915 for improvement work.
OF total of 314 deaths in Denver
during February, there were suicides.
caused by accidents and homicide.
Miss Mamie Murchison, county
clerk at Fort Collins, has named Mrs,
Mary F. Bruce of Loveland as assist
ant.
Mrs. Sarah NJ. Sherick. So, pioneer
settler of Colorado, died in Golden.
She and her husband came to this
state in 1862.
A decree of divorce was granite
J ,hn II. Bartleson of Denver in secret
proceedings held in Judge Johnson's
chambers.
Colorado men gained full control Of the
Gold Sovereign Gold Mining and Tun-
mel Company at the annual meeting in
Cripple Creek.
DR.. G. C. Lamb, who bought ranch
at Ordway last spring and farmed 1t
last season, has sold the place to j. w.
Ray of Canon City.
The Ohio Society of Colorado elect.
ed A. C. Carson its president. The oc.
casion was the seventh annual re,
union dinner in Denver.
A bond of 100000 has just been fur.
nished Uncle Sam by B. F. Stapleton
whose appointment as postmaster of
Denver was confirmed by the Senate.
The Golden band has been invited
by Adjutant General John Chase to be-
come the official band for the second
division of the Colorado National
guard.
The following Colorado postmasters
have been appointed: Bristol, Prov.
ers county. Belle c. Haven; Carr
Crossing, Lincoln county, Eli Carr,
new office. i.
The mines of the Cripple Creek dis.
trict for the month Of February pro.
duced 72,166 tons with bullion value
Of $1,345,661.40, an average value per
ton of $1S.65.
The Rey. ]. L. JULY, rector Of st.
Helens church at Fort Morgan, re,
ceived word that his brother, Fran,
10 of IN, tha f;0h fn
at scissors, France
Mrs Sophie Leyinson, whose hus,
bands free love" divorce suit is pend
Ing in the Denver District Court, will
file cross-complaint, according to
statements made by her attorney
Patrons of rural routes in Colorado
may suffer as a result of an order
from the Post Office Department to
cut expenses all along the line to aid
in reducing to minimum the postal
deficit.
G. H. Hall, 65, colored, admits that
he passed seven counterfeit dollars in
Pueblo, and then was forced to ap.
peal to the police, whom he was en-.
deavoring to avoid, for assistance
when he became i'll.
After more than two years spent in
worrying over the death of his son,
Marshall, who fell from a window in
the Carlton hotel in December, 1912,
Ashbury Y. Call, of Denver, died, still
convinced that the boy had been mur-
dered.
The difficulty of obtaining jury
Immediately after the publicity given
the trial of DR.. F. w. Noble in Den.
yer has caused the postponement of
the case of DR.. r. ]. Mason to March
29. DR.. Mason is charged with obtain.
ing the services of DR.. Noble in the
treatment of Ruth Merriweather.
which resulted 1t was alleged, In her
death, and he was held on a murder
charge.
More than 100 members of the Na-
tionai Order of Cowboy Rangers, thefr
wives and sweethearts, celebrated the
first anniversary of the birth Of the
order at banquet given in Denver.
Col. Leo w. Kennedy, worthy boss of
the local ranch, LIB. No. 1, presided
Supreme Boss A. III. Mayfield, one of
the founders of the new fraternal or
der, outlined the objects. OF the orgaa
ization. DIR. George Stemen was the
orator of the evening.
Fourteen thousand dollars worth Of
radium concentrates, representing the
second consignment of the Denver re-.
duction works OF the United States