The Holly chieftain., 1915-11-19
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
western Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS,

Peak Rabbit and Pet Stock Associa-
tion at Colorado Springs.
Jan. 3-l0-SiNteenth annual show OF
Colorado Poultry Fanciers' Associa-
tion AT Denver
Jan. Western Live Stock Show in
Denver.
Trinidad fire boys viii give their
annual New Years ball Dec 81.
County Judge Horatio Wilson
Hanes, 81, died at Montrose of Bright's
disease.
Mr.. and Mrs Henry Bruning of
Denver celebrated their fiftieth we'd
ding anniversary.
A case of scarlet fever was reported
at Berthoud, and the public schools
were temporarily closed
Work is starting with rush on the
new coal properties of Moore gulch,
fifteen miles west of Steamboat.
At Boulder the county tax levy for
the year 1916 was fixed at SIS mills by
the board of county commissioners.
1t is stated at Alamosa that the
Mosca oil fields has been abandoned
by the Texas oil drillers-M. E. Layne
and assistants.
Anton ]. Johnson of Wild Horse has
been appointed commissioner OF
Cheyenne county. He succeeds Charles
G. Fox, resigned.
The new Denver Union station was
formally dedicated when 80 members
Of the Chamber of Commerce lunched
in the resplendent dining room.
The Charter Oak ranch, $500 acres
of irrigated land fourteen miles east
of Colorado Springs. was sold to f. A.
Baldwin of Portland, Ore, for $165, 900.
An hour after he boasted to a friend
that he never had been i'll in his life.
John Dulmaine, So, of Grand Junction,
dropped dead at a Cheyenne hotel
The new state highway over Wolf
creek pass into the San Louis valley
will be logged and published in the
1916 issue of the Automobile Blue
Book.
A streak of ore running sixty per
cent in tungsten has been struck on
the Argentine lode above the Tobin
mine in the famous Argentine district
mt Georgetown.
Preparations for cold weather were
made by Denver sneak thieves from
three Denver homes and a Sixteenth
street store, according to reports to
the police.
Ten out of the twenty-three bene
ficiaries and legatees in the Barth will
case have accepted the plan for settle.
ment suggested by Miss Charlotte
Barth, heir of the late William Barth
of Denver.
The body of man found dead in
the Union depot yards in Denver,
where apparently he had been struck
by a train, was identified as that OF
Andy Faust, former section boss OF
the Rio Grande railroad at Salida.
w. B. Slaughter, president of the
defunct Mercantile National bank OF
Pueblo, was denied permission by
Federal Judge Lewis to examine tue
accounts Of the institution in prepar.
ing defense to combat the charge of
embezzlement.
Positive assurances that the Loyal
Order of Moose will begin the con,
struction of 100000 sanitariun
near Denver within year have been
received by the Denver Chamber OF
Commerce. according to Secretary
Thorndyke Deland.
Papers for the eXtradition of Arthur
Houser, an escaped convict from the
Canon City penitentiary, will be re
fpSnj nv ,f
the man is wanted in that state fol
the alleged murder OF William II
Smith of Wichita.
One of the greatest mining booms
that has struck Colorado since the
days of the Cripple Creek rush" i:
now in progress in the Nederland dis
trict, where between 100000 ant
s250,000 worth of tungsten was taker
out the past month.
Two Denver laborers seeking worl
and with the hardihood to walk int
the mountains to get il were overcom,
Saturday night by the cold near Edo
rGdo Springs. One of them, HarolC
McNay, suffering with frozen feet, i
now at the county hospital. He be
lieves that his companion, Joseph Vii
sill, has been frozen to death.
A resident of Greenwood has at
piled for permit to establish skunl
farm on the San Isabel forest. Th
permit will be made to include sixt,
acres of land: ten to be used as
breeding pen, ten to raise garden true
and forage. and forty acres as pas