The Holly chieftain., 1915-06-04
COLORADO
TATE NEW S
Western Newspaper Union News service.
COMING EVENTS.

June s-11-G. A. R. sncampment at La
June ls,1s,-strawberry Days. Glen
June is-Juiy 2.-colorado Fair and
Racing Association at Denver
Aug. i-Sept. 2.-Grand Lodge. r. OF F.
Aug 26-2s-FaIl Festival at Flagler. :.
Sept. 27Oct. s.-Meeting international
Dry Farming Congress at Denver
The Garden Place school Of Denver
was given flag by the Daughters OF
Colorado.
Anna Hawker. twenty, of Pueblo,
took poison because Of her inability
to find work.
Lloyd P. Appelman of the Colorado
Insurance Agency Company at Denver
left an estate valued at 100000.
Raw silk valued at $1,50O,O0O on its
way from Japan to New York was sent
through Pueblo in five steel express
cars.
C. II. Roberts, Guy Reed and Mrs
Banta of Grand Junction, were each
sentenced to ten days in Jail for boot.
Logging, the latter also being fined 500.
L. S. Dale, national field commits.
sioner Of the Boy Scouts, is in Denver
to conduct campaign to raise fund
Of $4,000.
Increased salaries for ministers
were proposed in a report made to the
general assembly of the United Pres
byterian church in session at Love
land.
Colorado ranks eighth in list of
fifteen states in the production of
spring wheat, according to a report
issued by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture.
Joe Tringa, thirty-six, an Italian fore
man at the Pueblo steel works, was in,
stantly killed by an unidentified as.
sassin as he sat in the kitchen of his
home.
Frank Rossi, an Italian, who last
January shot Sister Libiria, nurse
a: st. Anthony's hospital of Denver,
vas acquitted on the ground that he
was insane.
His excellency the maharajah of
Kapurthala, H. H. Jagat Jit Singh
Bahadur, with his wife, the maharanee
Prem Kaur, and his son Prince Karin
jit visited in Denver.
Ignorance of the deadly effect of
cyanide of potassium when combined
with sulphuric acid cost William T.
Craft, fifty-three years old, pioneer
Denver real estate man, his life
Gold, currency and certificates of
deposit worth $1O5,594.SS were found
in safe deposit box owned by the
late George Filbeck, German pioneer
Of Denver, when recently opened.
Miss Alice Patek, a well-known
young actress and daughter of Alfred
Patek, former newspaper man of Den.
yer, was found dead from asphyxiation
by gas in me bedroom of her home in
Chicago.
Following close on the thrilling
deeds of youthful David Tyler, con
fessed Candy Kid drug store bandit,
enters now into Denver's criminal
limelight the polite, elderly shade
tree" highwayman.
Announcement has been made of
the appointment of DR.. w. S. Ward
as director Of the division of mines
and metallurgy for the International
Farm Congress and Soil-Products ex.
position to be held in Denver this fall
What is believed to be an organized
band of white slavers," has been un.
earthed in Sterling, according to local
authorities At least one young girl
is known to have been approached by
cadet" seeking to induce her to
leave town.
James Farrell, alias Harry Rose,
said to have been an accomplice of
Harry Schinegge in the murder Feb
2 last, Of John Brunke, assistant
cashier of the Haxtun State Bank, was
found guilty Of murder in the first de.
gree by jury in Holyoke.
Loyalty to his country is weighed
in the balance against his life for
Oreste de Vella, Italian consul in Den
yer, who has received a black hand
letter. The letter, presumably writ
ten by one of his own countrymen,
threatens the life of the consul if he
sends Colorado Italians to join the
colors of their country.
Postmaster J. M. Brown of Mancos
received information from Washing.
ton that the new mail route for the
upper Mancos and the Thompson Park
and Cherry Creek country has been
established and is scheduled to start