The Holly chieftain. (Holly, Colo.) 1897-1987, 1916-08-04

sept lI-MeetinG MIDLAND 1r&n ~se"
Sept. l5-Is-harvest Festival At Mum.
Sept. 17-i9-State Convention b. -
There are s4.261 motor cars In
Colorado.
Governor Carlson has announced
his candidacy for q second term.
-Four hundred horses and two car
loads Of mules have arrived at the
Golden guard camp.
Many stockmen met at Glenwood
Springs to formulate plans for op-
posing the proposed herd law.
Officers Of the grand castle Of Col
orado Knights Of the Golden Eagle.
will meet in Denver, Aug. 10 and II.
There are now 500 Denver house
maids enrolled ON the books of the
Domestic Workers' Industrial Union.
A Union day picnic, at which 1t IL
planned to bring 1000 union men and
women together. is being arranged
for Aug. 20. at Glacier Lake.
Colorado was forty years old ON
Aug. 1. and in all parts of the state
the birthday anniversary was cele-
brated with elaborate public affairs.
Tho biggest electric show ever
given In Denver will be held the first
week in December. according to plans
which are under way by the cleo.
tricians.
Julian II. Moore was selected a. .
candidate for the office Of Judge Of
the Juvenile Court of Denver at the
primary election of the Denver Bar
Association.
a transfer Of mining claims involv-
ing some 400 acres Of patented
ground and ut least 100000 in val
Ne, Is under consideration in the Grip
pie Greek district.
The market value Of silk" socks
manufactured from sawdust in the
United States in 1915 IL said to equal
the total appropriation for administer.
ing the national forests.
Colorado will receive this year $751;
800 for highway improvements out of
the $5.0oo.ooo appropriation recently
made BY Congress, II the state puts
up like amount.
The Woman's Republican League
Of Colorado held an executive commit
tee meeting at the league headQuar-
ters in Denver and elected Mrs. Julia
q. Killam president.
Persee Allen Bobbitt Of Grand
county, who was on trial at Little
ton. charged with having illegally
purchased a horse In Grand county,
was acquitted by the jury.
The second annual basket picnic
for the blind and their friends was
held at Washington park in Denver
under the auspices Of the United
Workers for the Blind Of Colorado.
The government safety-first train
will arrive in Denver the morning of
Aug. and will be on exhibition on
the tracks in front Of the Union sta
ton on that day and the following
day.
Whitefield and associates, who re-
Gently purchased the Charles Porter
lease at the sixth level Of the G. o.
D. mine. in Poverty gulch, are mining
ore Of high average grade from the
stope Of the main G. o. D. vein.
A plan to reach the North pole and
explore the Arctic regions by means
Of modern aircraft was announced by
DR.. Frederick A. Cook, Arctic ex-
plorer and claimant to the honor Of
having first reached the North pole,
who Is In Denver.
Miss Meta Lawrence. school teacher
at Monte Vista, who was awarded ST.
100 by the County Court in Monte
Vista In a suit brought by her against
John Wertz. whom she charged with
slandering her, was made defendant
in-error in a writ Of supersedeas ap-
piled for in the State Supreme Court
Senator John Shafroth Of Colorado
was called from Washington to Fay
cite. Mo-, by the death of his brother,
Col. William shafroth. Col. shafrotn
was 72 years old and was unmarried.
Recently he distributed his property,
estimated at 100000, to his employees,
the poorer people of Fayette. the
towns churches and to the county's
road fund.