The Holly chieftain., 1915-08-20
STATE NEWS
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PEOPLE
COMING EVENTS.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

aug; Kocs ssi-Sspt; sept, s.-Meion Festival at
Sept. 10-11.-Fall Festival at Flagler.
sept. 14-17;;-Morgan County Frontier
pays and Harvest Festival at Fort
Sept, z7-Oct. s.-Meeting International
Dry Farming Congress at Denver
oct; e1vs. 5s;-Fair and Race Meeting at
Oct. ls.-odd Fellows Annual state
Convention at Colorado Springs
Threshing has started in the Long
mont section.
Platteville's Pickle Day celebration
was success.
About $4,000 has been pledged for
a fair at Trinidad
A cold storage house to cost $50, 900
is planned for Trinidad.
Arrangements are all complete for
the Boulder County Fair at Longmont
Sept. 7-9.
John Moore, rs, dropped dead at his
home, three miles east of Grand juno.
tion of heart failure.
Waunita held four-day celebration
when its new buildings were dedicated
by the Gunnison Chamber of Com.
merce.
Miss Eta Thomas, %. daughter OF
Charles Thomas, residing west of Fort
Collins, has disappeared. 1t is believed
she has eloped.
News of the marriage of Charles ].
Clayton, millionaire stockman of Den,
yer, and Mrs. Lillian Beck McManus.
was received in Denver.
Denver's first boot and shoe maker,
Conrad Frick, 79 years old, died OF
heart failure at the home of his daugh.
ter, Mrs. Floyd Lilyard.
Death claimed George Newton, who
with other pioneers blazed the trail
to Colorado in the early sos, at the
Soldiers home in Danville, III.
Adjt. Gen. John Chase of the Colo.
rado National Guard and fifteen 9th
ers were fined in Denver Police Court
for violating the bright-light ordi.
nance.
Juan Romero, 20 years old, accused
of Staying his step-father, Don Jose
Romero, beet rancher. near Long,
mont, last month, was taken into Gus.
tody at Boulder.
Harry K. Thaw, slayer Of Stanford
White and world-famous because of ii
and his subsequent flight andefight for
freedom from Matteawan, was in Den
Yer on his way to the California ex.
positions.
Smashing plate glass window with
brick, two robbers looted the win,
dow of the jewelry and curio store
conducted at AT Seventeenth street,
Denver. The men escaped with $500
worth of jewelry in sack.
The development Of eastern Colo.
RADIO and the promotion of closer
financial and trade relations between
this new agricultural empire and Den.
yer is the purpose of an excursion
through the territory planned by the
Denver Chamber of Commerce.
Walter W. Davis, general manager
of the Yak Mining, Milling and Tunnel
Company, the largest operating con.
cern in the Leadville district, has Just
concluded 100000 bond and lease
on the Alladin group of claims in the
six-metal camp.
George Lord, who with George AS
mussen, posed as one of the twin
bandits" and held up six persons on
Capitol hill and in East Denver before
his career as an outlaw was termi-
mated by Patrolman Cook, was SEN
fnnnnd n from To fa ;,,
the state penitentiary by Judge Perry
in the West Side Criminal Court in
Denver.
The latest railroad story comes
rom Telluride, and is to the effect
hat party started from there for
Placerville and thence down the
Miguel canon to Paradox, thence
down the Dolores to Grand Junction.
They are to look over the ground and
make reconnaissance for standard
gauge line from Placerville to White
water
Four inches of the shinbone of the
right leg transplanted to his spine, re-
placing a piece of equal size that had
been removed because of tubercular
condition, was successfully carried
out by physicians at the Denver coun-
ty hospital in the case Of Harry
Cooper, "a years old, Of 1914 Thir-
teenth street. Surgeons view it as a
remarkable surgical operation.
An advance of 5 per cent of wages,
which took effect the first of the