The Holly chieftain., 1915-07-30

COMING EVENTS.
Aug. l2-ll.-Frontier Days and WIG
West Features at Grand Junction.
Aug. l3-Pickle Day at Piatteviiie;
Aug l-Sept. 2-Grand Lodge. X OF F.
al Colorado Springs.
Sept. s7-oct. s.~Meeting international
Dry Farming Congress at Denver
Oct. 2-S.-Fair and Race Meeting at
Denver.
A business boom is on at Roggen.
VIM. B. Osborn of Loveland cele-
brated his 91st birthday.
A. T. Flood is postmaster at TIP
perary, new Colorado postoffice.
Three house robberies and one store
robbery in Brush, were reported to tht
Denver police.
Thomas Kennedy, aged 80, for sever
al months a resident of Lyons, com
mitted suicide in ST. Joseph's hospital
Denver.
Heavy damage and loss OF nearly
$4,000 resulted to two local firms as
the result of a raid on Sterling by
yeggmen.
Coney C. Slaughter, missing cashier
Of the Mercantile National bank OF
Pueblo. is believed to be in Canada,
according to agents OF the Federal
Department of Justice.
Robbers entered the J. P. Redick
residence at Telluride and got away
with nearly $1,000 worth of jewelry
belonging to Mrs. Redick. and heI
daughter, Mrs. Frank B. Thomas.
A fine baby boy of regulation weight
and healthiness was born to DR.. and
Mrs. w. A. E. DeBeque. at DeBeque.
DR.. DeBeque, who is "A years old, is
receiving congratulations from scores
of friends.
Mrs. M. ]. Baron, AZ years old, who
cut and slashed herself at her home,
1914 South Pennsylvania street, Engle-
wood, in an attempt to end her life,
is fighting for existence at the Little
ton hospital.
Governor Carlson went to Cheyenne
Friday to attend the Frontier Days
celebration. Governor Kendrick sent
a special invitation to the Colorado ex-
ecutive to be his guest during the an
nual roundup.
Four young men, supposed to be
those who escaped from Buena Vista
reformatory robbed the ranch of R..
E. Seckles, at Divide, and held up the
Pixies Peak road gang working on the
highway near Divide.
The attempt of Mrs. Mary Greer
Nordstrom, % years old, formerly of
Denver, to end her life in Kansas City
after she had tried to kill her hus
band, and two others, was learned
by a telegram to her mother in Den
yer.
Don ]. Romero, aged "A, a beet la
borer, was shot in the back at ranch
near Longmont, where w. ]. Collier
was killed by Lem Mayhem in 1909
and died later. Two MeXicans who
were working for him have disap
peared.
Former Congressman George ]. Kin
del has addressed an open letter tc
President Wilson, calling attention to
what he calls silly absurdities" in the
existing parcel post rates, and deny
ing that the parcel post has reduced
the cost of living.
The extraordinary prosperity in an
agricultural way in Yuma, indicative
of the remarkable future of Eastern
Colorado's empire, made powerful ap
peal to the committee of bankers who
went there under the auspices of the
Denver Chamber of Commerce.
After having been in litigation for
thirty-one years, the Tabor mine, in
the Monarch district which in the
early days shipped some ore valued at
$4,000 ton is to be reopened under
a lease acquired by F. G. Watson OF
Garfield and Harry E. Mathews of
Salida.
The attempted disposal OF diamond
rings and brooches made in Boulder
by young man whose description fits
that of one of two men suspected by
the police of completely in the murder
of Isaac Solomon and the looting OF
his pawnshop in Denver, has extended
the police search for the murderers
into northern Colorado and Wyoming.
Suit for $4,000 damages against the
Cedar Hill Coal and Coke Company
was instituted in the United States
Court in Denver by Mrs. Maria Mourt-
zoukou of Greece because Of the death
Of her husband, Spyridon Mourtzou-
kou, in the company's Greenville mine.