The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1910-10-21
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth Telling.

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Booze or no booze will be the para
mount issue at Debeque at the coming
election.
Albert A. Reed has been elected
president of the Boulder Commercial
Association.
Trinidad reports the first rain in
more than three months-crops fairly
good and frost proof.
Clara ]. Nardin has been appointed
postmaster at 1ronton. Ouray county.
Colorado. vice w. P. Stuart. resigned.
The published report that Milliken
Is to have saloons is strenuously de-
MED by the indignant mayor of that
town.
Jess Moore Of Salida killed 350-
pound, 6-point deer during the open
season-the largest recorded in that
section.
Fifteen Denver hunters returned
from Rio Blanco county with eleven
big bucks-the best Denver record Of
the season.
Greeley is making war on dogs
and loafers. Strangely. the town cut
up seems not to be involved In the
, elimination process.
A movement has been started by
| state and local authorities TO improve
the roadway of the dangerous Ute
Pass, above Manitou.
A series of free moving picture ex.
hibitions and free concerts Tor the
winter at Denver's Auditorium are
now being considered.
Greeley physicians claim that
rabies is hereditary. 1t is said that
they found that dogs but month or
two old suffer from the disease.
The Railway Signal Association con-
vention at Richmond, Va, elected c.
E. Denrey president and will mold next
years session at Colorado Springs.
The Pierce district is being sub
jected to energetic prospecting, to
learn if the excellent grade of coal
there reaches commercial proportions.
A $4,000 suspender plant is to be at
tached to Denver's industries, Its bust
ness, of course, stretching over and
holding the trade of the middle west.
Fort Lupton proposes to be city
of lights as soon as the Northern Col
orado Power Company's sub-station on
the west side of the river Is COM
pleted.
Sixty cars of cattle and sheep
shipped from Montrose in one day, es-
tablished record at that. place. But
agricultural records in Colorado don't
live long.
Gov. Warner and the three wardens
of the penitentiaries of Michigan,
a legislative committee have been In
vestigating the convict-occupation
methods at Canon City.
At Boulder a committee has been
appointed to raise funds to purchase
a $4,000 site for an auto oil refinery
The plant is to be built by the Colo
RADIO U. S. Refinery Company.
So good is the yield and SO satisfac
on winter wheat it is very probable
that 1t will take the place of spring
wheat in the Greeley district.
7. C. Winbourn, pioneer OF For
Lupton, has eleven acres OF pumpkins
The crop will harvest 200 tons ant
bring $500. Statistics on how many
acres of pumpkin pies this represents
would be interesting.
Boys and girls of Weld county have
made good money this year in raising
peanuts In the Eaton and Ault dis
tricts they have devoted the summer
to growing the COOLERS and have sold
them to merchants.
At Yampa DR.. J. H. Kerr and Steve
Elkins, local guide and hunter, have
returned from bear hunt on which
eight bears were killed. Timid Yam
paites should no longer be afraid to
to go home in the dark
i Photographs of every instrument
filed for record in the county clerks
office pertaining to the transfer OF
land since the organization OF the
county to the present time were com
pleted to-day by the Weld County Alb
stract Company, after two years OF
daily work by one man.
Prairie dogs. supposed to be dying
off as the irrigated territory en-
croaches onto their towns, have ONLY
moved their settlements into higher.
unirrigated regions, where they are a
menace to surrounding crops, is the
report OF ranchers in the Greeley dis
trict.
owen & Rogers are shipping car
load of ore a day from the Oneida
mine, Idaho Springs, to the Golden
smelter, which nets them, after paying
the cost of mining. hauling, freight and
smelling charges, $500 per car.
Ground already opened in the Oneida
will keep up this production for the
next six months.
With the exception of few
stretches the road between Ault and
Denver, 10 miles, is almost perfect
and it is believed that the expenditure
of several thousands of dollars on this
road would make it boulevard and
bring returns, in increased travel,
within a year. more than sufficient to
pay for the Improvement, and move
ment is on in Weld county to have
this done.
James Pardoff of Boulder has
| brought suit in the district court for