The Holly chieftain. (Holly, Colo.) 1897-1987, 1916-12-15
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Uaion New. Service.

Feb. Sly. n. c. 4. Annual Conven-
tion At Colorado springs-
A new M. z. church is to be erected
In Stonington.
Several concrete bridges are being
built near Sugar City.
The town Of Glen Eden. Routt coun-
~. will erect large hall.
Several new residences win b
erected in Mead, Boulder county.
1t cost George A. Carlson $500 to be
defeated for governor, according TO
his expense account.
Santos Valdez. a section hand on
the D. 4 r. O., was killed under the
wheels of train at Pueblo.
Patrons Of the Denver .postoffice
have been warned in q circular to do
their Christmas mailing early.
George A. johnson and Mrs. Gladys
v. Osborne were remarked ut Pueblo
after separation by divorce April II,
1914.
A $4,000 contract covering the fur.
nishings OF the auditorium of the new
Loveland High school building has
been awarded.
The Denver & Salt Lake railroad
will be permitted to establish a tri-
weekly or alternate-day service from
Denver to Craig and will remain in
force until April 1.
The first dredge-boat for gold built
In the West was on the Feather river,
near Oroville, in the summer of 1878.
1t was not paying investment nor a
mechanical success.
More than 10000 depositors will
draw from Denver savings at least
100000, representing small savings
banked during the year and payable
during the Christmas season.
False statements while on the wit
ness stand cost Phil Moore one year
of liberty at Pueblo when he was SEN
fenced to the state penitentiary by
Judge 9. s. Essex in District Court.
At the stockholders meeting of the
st. Elmo Queen Mining Company, at
st. Elmo, Chaffee county, the entire
board Of directors were reelected and
the same officers are in control.
The contract for the erection Of a
$4,000 dry and cold storage ware
house and distributing plant in Pu-
eblo will be let in few days, accord
ing to information given out at Pu-
eblo.
George Mitchell, five-time ex-con-
vict, is in the Denver city Jail,
charged with misrepresenting himself
to the landlady of an apartment house
at 1856 Washington street and obtain
Ing SIS.
Greeley will have a municipal cele,
bration of Christmas again this year,
the Womens Civic Federation taking
the initiative and all the churches, the
city council and commercial bodies
joining.
If present plans are realized Denver
men will perfect the organization OF
the National Cities Stores Corporation
with capital of 100000 to operate
a chain of 5, 10 and 15-cent stores
throughout the country.
J. ]. Custick reports that the Elk
Mining and Milling Company, which
is the owner of 1926 acres of heavy
mineralized ground on Red mountain,
have been developing their property
by tunnel for the last fifteen months.
A new Ingersoll-Rand six-drill com.
pressor, for installation at the Hum.
mer shaft on the Gold Bond Consoli.
dated Mines Company's estate on the
southeastern slope of Gold hill, Grip,
pie Creek, by the Gillard Tungsten
Mines and Leasing Company, has
reached the district.
An unusual romance came to an end
in Denver when District Judge Perry
granted divorce to Boyington Skel.
ton. an Arapahoe county ranchman
and contractor, from Marguerite Star.
ellis Shelton, on the technical ground
of desertion. Mrs. Shelton is now a
grand opera singer in Paris.
Democrats are planning jubilee
for Jackson day, Jan. 8, in Denver.
More than 600 plates will be laid at
Ell Jebel temple, and it will be real
banquet with real price-$5 a plate
The affair is to be given by the Dem.
ocratic club, and every county in
Colorado will be represented.
In his wanderings and in his many
escapades throughout the United
States, Charles E. Wax, alias "Oliver
Osborne" whose arrest in Chicago