The Colorado statesman., 1910-07-09
LITTLE
COLORADO
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ICED an exchange.
The Salida Elks' Home Association
has been Incorporated.
Water was turned into the Gunnison
tunnel Tuesday morning.
Two Buttes wants a meat shop.
Must be a prosperous community.
Lamar reports an unusually good
prospect for big beet yield.
j. A. Caster of Brandon has well
1888 feet deep with ninety-two feet OF
water.
Granada ia reviving its promotion
club. and the last meeting was well
attended.
]. H. Bullard of Sheridan Lake was
convicted of cruelty to animals ana
fined $25.
The Peoples State Bank of Towner
has arranged for the erection of fine
new banking home.
A number of men employed at the
hio-Colorado smelter at Salida have
received increases in their wages.
George l.. Shepherd. a member OF
Greeley Sunday at the age OF eighty
two.
The Wiley journal says the alfalfa
crop has never before had such uni
rormly heavy crop nor matured SO
early.
Mrs. G.. s. Neer of Kersey took car
bolic acid with fatal effect Sunday.
She was respondent on account OF Ill
health.
A Windsor man has invented a beet
topper which local men think enough
of to form a company for its manu-
facture.
H. l. Hague, miner of the Green
Canon Coal Company at Aguilar, was
killed Monday morning by falling
rock.
Ell Paso county tax collections for
the first six months of this year are
SIS. .46 more than for the same per-
iod last year.
Denver postal receipts for the fiscal
year ended June goth were $1,131,-
O54.72, an increase over 1909 of over
II per cent.
Steamboat Springs expects to ship,
| so 900 crates of strawberries this year.
The price will be far more satisfactory
than last season.
The Arkansas Valley Fair Associa-
| ton has let the contract for new
grandstand at Rocky Ford to cost be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000.
The Orchard Mesa project near
| ;ah
and a half, is reported as completed.
1t will water $4,000 acres.
]. L. Boutwell,, who is president of
the Colorado Pioneers Society, and his
wife, celebrated their firty-fifth we'd
ding anniversary at their home in
Denver Tuesday.
Louis Shatell. a deserter from the
battleship Kentucky. gave himself up
to officers at Colorado Springs Sunday
and will be turned over to the naval
authorities on the coast.
At a land sale held in Burlington
one day last week $4,000 acres of Kit
Carson county land changed hands,
the purchasers being excursionists
| from several eastern states.
w. A Gillaspey, president of the
Colorado Stockgrowers' Association,
has wired an invitation to Secretary
Ballinger to attend the meeting OF
the association at Grand Junction
July 18th.
The Empson canneries about the
Greeley district will experiment on the
canning of Gull potatoes, and assur
| ,rit of hn
process, upon which Mr.. Empson has
labored many years.
While Mrs. j. Ashton, wife of the
owner of Horseshoe inn at Estes
Park, was out driving Monday her
horse ran away, throwing her and her
ten-months-old baby out. The baby
was killed
]. C. Gracey of Cheraw was SO
badly stung by swarm OF bees that
attacked him the other day that at
one time it was thought his injuries
would prove fatal. Prompt medical as
sistance, however, overcame the ef'
fects of the poison.
The Denver, Laramie & Northwest
ern has filed with the county clerk at
Fort Collins a statement of Its pro
posed route from Greeley. 1t will
touch Severance and Wellington and
will leave the state for Wyoming in
the vicinity of Fish creek canon.
The county commissioners of Ad-
ans county have decided to allow
Chris Lunney, county clerk, his claim
of S19,163.23, as part of the remu'
neration due him in connection with
the transcribing of the records of old
Arapahoe county before it was divided
Roland Saunders jaw was broken
by a kick from the family horse while
at his fathers orchard in Vineland.
Saunders was knocked unconscious.
He wandered for hours in dazed