The Holly chieftain., 1916-01-21
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
DATES .rOR COMING EVENTS.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

,auo Metal mining AsSoeiaeio"' a.
Feb. l2-Meeting Republican state
central COMMITTEE in Denver
Feb. 16.1S-Sports Carnival at Steam
March 20-ApriI 2.-CoIor radO Retail
Merchants' Associations Food ana
Industrial Exposition at Denver.
Clarence Darrow delivered lecture
In Denver on the single-tax question.
Citizens of Durango voted $175.0O0
bonds to build new high school
building.
Delta county farmers are securing
large number of Holstein cows from
Wisconsin.
Much interest is being manifested
In the good roads meeting at Denver,
Jan. 1920.
Russell o. Boles, who was par
doned, has been released from the
Canon City penitentiary.
Congressman Hilliard explained his
tunnel bill at Chamber of Com
merce luncheon in Denver.
Delegates from all parts OF the
state attended the Good Roads Asso-
citation meeting in Denver.
The Colorado State Editorial Asso.
citation held its winter meeting in
Denver on Monday and Tuesday.
The Colorado Osteopathic, Assccia.
ton will hold its nineteenth annual
meeting in Denver Jan. % and 29.
David Stewart, 67, at one time one
of the best known mining men in the
state, died at his home near Empire.
Robt G. Cousins, former congress
man from Iowa, will be the speaker
at the Lincoln birthday banquet in
Denver, Feb. 12.
Miss Edith Wharton, 81 years old.
a comely California girl, is near death
in the Denver county hospital as a
result Of an effort to end her life
with poison.
Olof E. Lindstrom, brother of
Marie and Olga Lindstrom and Mrs.
c. r. Ericsson of Denver, was frozen
10 death while hunting near Deer
River, MINI.
Surrounded by the members of his
Immediate family and close personal
friends, DR.. P. Y. Carlin, pioneer Den
YER physician. and member Of the
school board, died at his home.
Morris Grebb, 10 years old, who es-
capped from the industrial school at
Golden, was captured near Littleton,
after being accused of attempting to
rob a farmhouse.
The State Public Utilities Commits
sion heard evidence upon a complaint
made by the town council of Arvada
against the rates and services of the
Arvada Electric Light Company.
Official announcement was made at
Canon City that the Arkansas Valley
Railway, Light & Power Company
would begin extensions and improve
ments to it's property that would cost
100000.
Senator Shafroth has introduced a
bill in Congress which has for it's pur
poses prohibiting the railroads from
charging higher rates for short haul
than long. haul over the same line
in the same direction.
Mrs. P. R. Gallagher, wife OF Reddy
Gallagher, well known Denver sports
man, has returned from Hastings,
Neb., where she won the first clash
in legal battle to establish her title
to an estate of $150,000.
Senator John F. Shafroth's bill, in
troduced in the National Senate, pro
viding for the establishment of mill
tary training school at Fort Logan,
has met with the hearty approval Of
prominent Denver business men.
The annual convention of the Farm.
ers' Educational and COOPERATIVE
Union of Colorado was held in the
Club building in Denver. Rural cred
its, marketing, military preparedness
and other subjects we're discussed.
The Senate has confirmed these
Colorado postmasters: Agnes H. AL
ford, Castle Rock; Thomas ]. Cancel
lor, Brighton; Duncan Lamont, Colo
RADIO City; Walter E. Rogers, Ber-
thoud, and Rhoda ]. Yersin, Burling
ton.
Frederick Huet, 80, friend of Gus
tave Dore, as well as classmate of
that famed artist in the Government
School of Arts at Paris, France, and
noted artist himself previous to
1865, died at the county poor house Of
Empire.
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