The Holly chieftain., 1916-05-05

Denver.
Blossom Day" was celebrated at
Canon City.
Fire did 5000 damage to the M. j.
Blaney residence in Grand Junction.
Boulder county's metal output this
year is expected to reach $13,OO0,O0O.
New uniforms have been ordered
for the Smelter band boys at Du-
range.
Harry Brooks was crushed to
death in the Thistle Down mine at
Ouray.
NJ. G. Gile, professor of Latin and
Greek at Colorado College. died at
Colorado Springs of heart failure.
Lawrence and Sellers sold a wagon
load of tungsten ore from the Catas-
trophe mine at Nederland for $4,000.
The April output at the Cripple
Creek mines amounted to 87.476 tons,
with gross bullion value of $1,127.-
$50.
Charles Smith, l4-year-old Love-
land boy, broke his collar bone while
practicing hurding at the Lincoln
school.
A vein of copper ore about six
inches wide has been opened at a
depth OF 1900 feet in the Portland
mine at Victor.
Sixty bootleggers have been tried
in the West Side Court in Denver
since Jan. l, and sixty-six cases re-
main on the docket.
A jury was secured Saturday at
Boulder to try Rienzi c. Dickens on
the charge of killing his father, w.
H. Dickens, the Longmont banker.
The Denver & Rio Grande is pre-
pairing to expend 100000 in ballast
ing its Denver-Pueblo line between
Pueblo and Colorado Springs this
summer.
More than $225 was collected for
the Russian and Polish war sufferers
by the Anstravaw congregation,
which held its monthly meeting in
Denver.
Ernest H. Pettigrove, invoice clerk
for Swift & Co.. at Denver. was ar.
rested at Hot Springs. Ark, where he
had fled after it was reported that
he was $4,000 short.
The boom which has struck Neder.
land and other places in Boulder coun-
ty as result of the tungsten excite.
ment has reached Rollinsville, which
also is in a tungsten district.
George Adee, an Iowa stock raiser,
has purchased from Ernest A. Reeves
a 4,360-acre tract of non-irrigated, i'm
proved land near Watkins and 1870
head of cattle. The transaction in
volved $4,000.
Fred Hall, "a, steel sampler at the
Minnequa plant at Pueblo, was killed
when he was caught between box
car and an ingot mould that swung
from travelling crane against him.
He was taken to the Minnequa Hos
pital, where both his legs were ampu-
tated. He died without regaining
consciousness.
A new ore valuable for fluxing pur-
poses in the manufacture of iron and
steel products, has been discovered
in the vicinity of Cortez, Montezuma
county. 1t is called "hallarite" after
Its discoverer, and, although its exact
composition is held secret, it is said
to contain 10 per cent Of an acid com.
pound never found before.
George Trucille, twenty-five years
n ,to r,rstI, ii.
conducts meat market and grocery
store at Trinidad, was stricken with
sudden attack of heart trouble In
the store and died in few minutes
Young Trucille was engaged in cut
ting meat for customer when he
sank to the floor and expired.
The Lyric theatre, Cripple Creeks
opera house, was totally destroyed by
fire. Firemen prevented the flames
from catching the Cripple Creek
State Bank, adjoining. The loss is
about $4,000, with $4,000 insurance.
The building, originally built by the
Odd Fellows at cost of $4,000, was
remodeled in 1910 to replace the
former opera house, which also was
burned down.
An affidavit containing eleven
charges against City Commissioner
J. Knox Burton. charging that he is
incompetent to hold office, citing a
number of alleged instances of mis-.
conduct and demanding his recall,
was filed in Pueblo with City Clerk
jackson by William ]. Hopwood. In