The Holly chieftain., 1915-05-21
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sept 2,-Oct. S.--Meeting International
DiS Farming Congress at Denver
Ihe thermometer registered 90 in
Denver on the 18th.
Two fires at Telluride caused a loss
OF more than $4,000.
Claims have been filed against the
barth estate for nearly $4,000 law
yer's fees.
X. S. Rhea of Golden has been ap.
pointed water commissioner for dis
trict No. 7.
Mrs. Charles Foljambe, for thirty
years a resident of Denver, died in
Philadelphia.
Work on the Grand River Oh! and
Gas Company's well at DeBeque is
progressing favoraby.
The Mid-Colorado Oil Company at
aurora reports traces of oil and gas
at depth of 1,GOO feet.
The Denver Norwegian Association
gave reception and banquet in com
memoration of the Norwegian national
holiday.
One man was killed and two serious
~ injured by falling rock at the road
camp at Echo, twenty miles west Of
Canon City.
Mrs. John e. Ramer, wife of Sec.
retary of State Ramer, underwent an
operation for tumor in st. Joseph's
hospital in Denver
CohValescing from a recent serious
illness, Mrs. Jane NJ. Ligget of Den
yer celebrated her ninty-ninth birth
day at her home.
A verdict for $1,000 was awarded to
Mrs. Phoebe A. Cunningham, in a $10,-
500 personal injury damage suit
against the city of Denver.
Blossom Day" at Canon City called
out 5000 persons. The apple, peach,
pear. plum and cherry trees were
radiant with the highly scented
flowers
A S2O,0OO,000 consolidation of the
biggest producers in the Cripple Creek
district is in the air, according to re-
ports in Colorado Springs mining
circles.
Charles w. Scott, tried for the sec.
ond time on white slavery charges,
was found guilty in the West Side
Court in Denver after the jury had
deliberated for half hour.
After wrestling with the PROPOSE
ton for day and most of night the
city council let contracts to the ex-
tent of s66,067.73 for the rebuilding
of the Montrose city water system
Rodney Curtis, Denver capitalist
and pioneer who died April 26 in San
Diego, Cal, left a fortune of between
$1,000,0O0 and $1,250,000, according to
estimates by Denver persons who are
closely in touch with his affairs.
Letters and remembrances from
her children and friends will be the
only form of celebration of her hun
dredth birthday that Mrs. Alice Harri-
son of Denver will allow. She Will
attain the century mark of life,
May %.
A stranger compelled the cashier of
the First National bank of Granada
to hand over $515, the cash in sight,
then forced the bank force into the
vault and departed. Later the bandit,
Roy Cotter. was captured and the
money recovered.
The badly decomposed body of John
McCann, a plumber, who disappeared
from Sterling several weeks ago, was
found in the Fat Top district, twenty
miles north of Sterling There was a
bullet hole through the body and the
supposition at this time is that Nc
Cam was murdered.
William S. La Fair, one of the most
slope, died at his Whitewater home,
near Grand Junction. Heart disease
was the cause. He was 81 years old,
and for the last two years had op-
Grated the only hotel exclusively for
cowboys in the state. 1t was known
as the Cowboys home"
At Pueblo, while his wife lay in bed
with their eight-year-old daughter, C.
]. Preston fired two shots at her from
a rifle, the first missing and the sec
ond hitting her in the left arm. He
then went into the kitchen and shot
himself and will probably die. Mrs.
Preston is not believed to be serious
ly injured.
Nine carloads of cattle belonging to
Loran B. and John Sylvester, south
enr Colorado stock growers, whose
financial entanglements caused their