The Holly chieftain., 1915-03-05
COLORADO NEWS
GATHERED FROM
All Parts of the State

20.
Rocky Ford has organized gun
club.
Jews of Denver celebrated Purim,
or the Feast of Esther.
B. F. Stapleton was appointed and
confirmed as postmaster of Denver.
The council of the town of Gunnison
has purchased $50 feet of new fire
hose.
Many Denver business men paid a
visit to the Cripple Creek mines last
week.
Racing will be one Of the main at
fractions at the Larimer County Fair
this year.
A carload of thirty elk were dis
tributed through the mountains OF
Boulder county, at Nederland and
| above Lyons.
The Boulder County Teachers Asso-
| citation passed resolutions pledging
hearty support to the county unit
school bill before the Legislature.
DR.. A. S. Beers of Hygiene, who
shot and killed Will Hopkins, young
Hygiene farmer. Dec. 23, was placed
on trial in the District Court at Boul-
der Monday.
Denver Shriners are making prep
| arations to entertain DR.. Frederick r..
Smith of Rochester, imperial poten-
tate of the order, who will visit Den.
yer in April.
Thousands of letters were mailed
March l to friends in other states as
result of Governor Carlsons procla-
nation designating that day as "All
Colorado Letter Day."
The Social Order of the Beauceant,
an organization of the wives of the
Knights Templar, celebratedits twenty
fifth anniversary at the Masonic
temple, in Denver.
The First State Bank of Louisville
opened its doors for business. This in.
| stitution was chartered a few weeks
ago with capitalization of $4,000 to
replace another bank that had been
| closed.
The Buckeyes, rovers from the state
of Ohio, will feast in Denver on the
4th, and discuss boyyhood and girl.
hood days in the native state and
chant the songs they heard their pa
rents sing.
| MONDAY Lenten services will be
held every day, except Sunday, for
three weeks beginning March in
the Tabor Grand theater in Denver
under the direction of the Church Club
of Colorado.
A deserted frame shack in Colorado
City, known as the first meeting place
of Colorados territorial Legislature in
Civil war days, caught fire recently
and was badly charred before tho
flames were extinguished.
Not only the Upper but also the
tipped is liable, on conviction, ito a $40
fine or thirty days in Jail or both,
under the bill by Representative Har-
ris of Denver, which is now on the
House calendar for final passage.
The receipt of a draft of $5O4, pay
able to the city of Leadville, from the
National Surety Company for the de-
| ficit of the late city treasurer, Mrs
Olive Cation, ends the litigation be-
| tween the city and the bonding COM
pan-.
Secretary II. V. George of the Canon
| City Chamber Of Commerce, booked
three special train tourist parties for
Canon City during the summer
months, containing in the aggregate
$50 people, all of them from the New
| England states.
Upon plea of guilty, Harry Boomer,
former grocery clerk, was sentenced
at Akron to life Imprisonment for the
murder of Miss Winnie B. Becker, a
| mission worker. Miss Becker was
slain with hatchet in her0brother's
| store. Boomer confessed that he mur-
dered the girl to rob the place.
A sequel to the recent International
proxy wedding in Denver which united
Miss Eugene Campbell of Colorado
Springs and Pietcr- Won Scholtcn of
Holland, was completed in the elope
ment and midnight marriage of Miss
Eleanor McFall, Miss Campbell's maid
of honor, and William Bostic, motion
picture producer of Salt Lake City.
On the eve of the conclusion of the
trial OF DR.. Floyd w. Noble, charged
in the West Side Court with respon.
sibility for the death of Miss Ruth
Merriweather, Mrs. Jennie Mason of
Shelton, Ill, prepared to journey TO