The Holly chieftain., 1917-01-12
COLORADO
STATE NEWS



Governor Gunter was one of the
speakers at the Jackson day banquet
In Denver.
The beginning Of the new year
marked an unusual number of deaths
in Canon City.
The state lost $74.1S3 in revenue
through the adoption of the prohibit
ton law, effective Jan. 1. 1916.
Demands were made by 400 miners
employed in coal mines north Of Colo
RADIO Springs for an increase in wages.
Members of the Denver Bar associ-
ton were hosts to the justices of the
Colorado Supreme Court at a lunch
con.
One year Of prohibition has mater
tally decreased the number of arrests
made by the Trinidad police depart
ment.
A revenue Of $4,000 from the sale
Of the new 1917 auto licenses was TAX
on in by the state during the first two
days Of the year.
The Sherman ranch of lao acres
near Byers has been bought by Joseph
Dodd of Colfax, Iowa, for $50, 900, from
Charles Elliott of Marshalltown, Ia.
A half million dollars has been cut
from the debt of the state of Colorado
during the past two years, according
to the annual report of the state treas
urer.
William Matthew Craig, SO, for
twenty-six years brakeman on the
Morrison branch of the Colorado &
Southern railroad. died at his home In
Morrison.
The threatened walkout of coal min
ers in the northern coal fields in Weld
and Boulder counties was averted by
an agreement reached at a meeting at
Frederick.
Occupations almost as varied as the
number of dignitaries themselves will
be engaged in by the various state and
county officials who retired from Of
flee Tuesday.
Ralph w. Smith, Denver, must pay
his former wife, Elizabeth Barrett
Smith, $3,s2650 alleged unpaid all
mony or carry the matter to the
United States Circuit Court Of Appeals.
District Attorney Frank Delaney,
who was married at Meeker on New
Year night to Miss Ruth A. Atwood,
has theadistinction of being the young
est district attorney in the state.
Hearing of the motion for new
trial of Rienzi Dickens, convicted last
spring of the murder of his father, will
come UP in the District Court at Boul-
der before Jan. Is, attorneys state.
Agitation to place smelters under
the supervision of the state public
utilities commission was one of the
principal issues discussed at the Colo
RADIO Metal Mining association meeting
In Denver.
The great impulse given to home
stealing by the new enlarged federal
homestead laws has led to the filing
of a number of contests by persons
anxious to make entries on land al
ready taken up by others.
The hearing for new trial in the
case of Rienzi c. Dickens, convicted of
the murder of his father, William H.
Dickens, the Longmont banker, Nov.
30, 1916, was again postponed, but at
torneys say will be heard by the 18th.
Dtspelling his daughters romance
with the startling declaration that
Fred Wallace, with whom she eloped
from Sterling, was already married
Charles Watson of Grand Island, Neb.
went to Denver and took the girl from
the Detention home.
The report Of the conditions in fed
eral reserve bank district No. 10
which includes Colorado, for the Jan
uary issue Of the federal reserve bull
letin, serves to confirm the increasine
commercial records of the year, with
no seriously deterrent features.
In order to represent his constitu
ents in the Twenty-first General AS
sembly, Representative Frank w. Muir
ply of Spicer snowshoed forty miles
across the continental divide to the
nearest railroad in operation. Tha
was at Kremmling on the Moffat line
About a year ago the c. H. w. Min
ing Company purchased q group o.
twelve claims in Russell guloh, neal
Central City. including the Hampton
The company Immediately equipped
the property with a first-class electric
plant consisting of a thirty.five horse