The Holly chieftain., 1915-06-18

Sept. 2124.-Trinidad. Colo.
Sept. 2S.-Oct. 1.-Raton, New Mex.
Rocky Ford is to have q new s25.
900 school building.
A $4,000 bond issue has been pro-
posed to. improve Colorado Springs
parks.
Schoolchildren of Denver will pay
tribute to the Liberty Bell Saturday,
July 10.
More than $4,000 was garnered by
Tag Day girls, for the blind, from
generous Denver people.
Sterling and Logan county had the
most severe hail storm Thursday that
has visited that section in years.
Ground will be broken in few days
for the new state oil laboratory at the
University Of Colorado at Boulder.
Five buffaloes were transported
from the Denver City park to the new
pens on Genesee mountain, in the
mountain parks.
At the thirty-eighth annual COM
mencement exercises Of the Univers-
ity of Colorado at Boulder, President
Livingston Farrand conferred 22S
degrees.
j. u Vigil for the past two years
postmaster of Trinidad, and for more
than twenty-five years leader of the
Democratic party in Las Animas coun.
ty, died of pneumonia.
Gov. Carlson and District Judges
CRANKY Hillyer and A. w. McHendrie
were the guests of honor at the annual
banquet of the Las Animas County Bar
Association at Trinidad.
The discovery of what is believed to
be platinum in ore taken from the
Sueno de Orc mine in the La Platas,
has aroused intense interest among
mining men at Durango.
Mr.. and Mrs. Spencer Penrose of
Colorado Springs have announced
that they will construct large swim
ming pool in Monument Valley Park
as a gift to the children of that city.
The K. of P. monument was un-
yelled at Crown Hill cemetery, in
Denver, with large number of
Knights from the various lodges
present Congressman Hilliard made
the principal address.
The libel suit brought by District
Attorney John A. Rush against John
C. Montfort and conducted by Special
Prosecutor Greeley w. Whitford was
thrown out Of court in Denver with a
directed verdict of not guilty.
Delay in the cutting of the first
crop of alfalfa and the planting OF
corn in many parts Of the state was
the result of the cold, wet spell last
week, according to the United States
weather and crop report for Colorado
An effort will be made by the Civil
Service Reform Association of Den
yer to refer the civil service bill
passed by the Twentieth General AS
sentbly, which, unless tied up in
court, will go into effect July 10.
Nine hours constituted the period OF
jury deliberation which resulted in the
acquittal of Mrs. Berta Wright in the
West Side Court in Denver on g
charge of having deliberately slain hel
husband, John A. Wright, on April 1S
One of the largest and most i'm.
portant Colorado real estate deals OF
the year has just been closed, by
which Newell & Ponsford of Denver
acquire possession of the holdings OF
the Golden Land and Reservoir Com.
pany, the consideration being $780,.
900.
Eighty-five prominent business mer
of the Trinidad Chamber of Commerce
met for the first time since the strike
in booster session "to get their feet
under the table and try to harmonize
all factions in the booster spirit ant
to forget the past" according to Pres
ident A. L. Branson of the chamber.
Joseph w. Boyd, wealthy MINING
man and banker, took the stand in de
Tense Of Nello May Boyd to set aside
the decree of divorce obtained BY
Boyd at Littleton Sept. Z, 1911. Mrs
Boyd charges that her signature wal
forged to the acceptance of the sum.
mons and waiver of appearance al
the trial of the divorce case.