The Holly chieftain., 1916-10-20
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Newspaper Union News Service.


Feb. 2-4-Y. NJ. C. A. Annual Conven-
tion at Colorado Springs
A bean cleaning plant has been in
stalled at Fort Morgan.
Former President Roosevelt will
speak in Denver Oct. "a.
Fort Collins reports scarcity OF
houses for rental purposes.
Two record loads of wheat at Fort
Morgan brought total Of $309.S1.
Work on the construction Of the
new depot at Craig will be started at
ence.
A. ]. Eaton sold section of land
three miles northeast of Ault at $100
an acre.
The postmasters of the state held
their annual convention at Idaho
Springs.
The first days slicing at the Love-
land sugar beet factory amounted to
1885 tons.
Horses in Weld county, at recent
auction sales. brought from $175 to
$3.50 per head.
Grazing sheep on the Flat Tops OF
Routt county has proven very success.
full this season.
Tag day for the Swedish National
Sanatorium for tuberculosis in Den
yer netted $4,000.
At Fort Collins the hauling of beet
pulp over any Of the city's paved
streets has been forbidden
The contract for erecting the new
high school building at Burlington has
been awarded at s2S.742.
Colorado Springs citizens have pro
tested against the proposed abridge
ment Of the street railway service.
The new branch office of markets
and rural credits opened in room 216
in the new federal building in Denver.
The first contingent of Colorado
troops to reach the Mexican border
was Company A Of the Signal Corps.
An effort will be made to obtain
daily mail service throughout the
year between Loveland and Estes
Park.
At Leadville the Ibex is again loom.
ing up with a greater tonnage of ore
being extracted than at any time In
its history.
Thomas P. Gore. the blind senator
from Oklahoma, will speak at Lead.
Vile Oct. % and at Grand Junction
Oct. "a.
Next month Loveland expects to
pay $4,000 on the electric bonds.
which will leave $4,000 still out.
standing.
The city of Longmont has pur.
chased 2SO acres of school land sur
rounding the reservoir of the Long
mont water works.
The annual meeting Of the Denver
branch of the Needlework Guild OF
America will be held Nov. Z in the
chapter house of st. Johns Cathedral
w. J. Bryan, former secretary OF
state, delivered two addresses in Den
yer. He spoke Thursday in Pueblo
and Friday at Colorado Springs.
Mrs. Aurilla Baxter, 80. wife of ].
H. Baxter, died at her home near
Sligo. Mrs. Baxter had been a resi-.
dent of Weld county for forty-thres
years.
The Public Utilities Commission
suspended the schedules of the street
car service in Colorado Springs until
Oct. 20, and called hearing at Colo.
RADIO Springs.
Divorced, required to pay $25 a
month alimony, and enjoined from Wis.
Sting his wife and children, are the
terms imposed against John F. Ever.
man Of Denver.
A fine body of gold, silver and cop
per ore was opened up in the Ray.
mond tunnel at depth of about 1000
feet. This property lies directly south
west of the Capital mine at George.
town.
The Hitchings ranch and stock
farm. one of the largest nonirrigated
farms in the state, sixty miles from
Denver, and containing 5000 acres,
has been sold to Frank M. Smith of
Chicago for $4,000.
This year has been the most pros
porous in Denver since 1910 as shown
by the collection of taxes. c. ].
Pitcher, manager Of revenue, said that
s4.1 per cent Of the taxes payable
this year have SO far been collected.
According to Boulder report. the
Lucky Seven" leases on the Yellow