The Colorado statesman., 1910-11-05
LITTLE coLoRApo ITEMS.
Small happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth Telling.

lon mas been imposed Dy tne Colo-
RADIO Milk Producers Association.
Clarke A. Coffin has been appointed
postmaster at Hillrose, Morgan coun-
ty, Colorado, vice d. ID. Monroe. re-
signed.
The tax levy for Fort Collins for the
ensuing two years will be seventeen
and one-half mills, a reduction of one
mill from that of the last two years.
Unconscious for more than twenty
four hours, Pauline Grug, six-year-old
daughter of Fred Grug, living near
Evans, is near death as the result OF
being run over by beet wagon.
The Trinidad city council has placed
the tax levy at twenty mills. The
levy is the same as last year, but two
and one-half mills has been taken
from the water appropriation and add
ed to the fund for general purposes.
The state board of immigration met
in the rooms Of the Pueblo Commerce
club to discuss methods to be used IN
advertising for factories for Colorado
and to perfect plans for the exhibit OF
the state at the Chicago land show.
Milton Patterson of Leadville, aged
IA years, accidentally shot himself In
the abdomen while attempting to load
a revolver. The wound is not con-
sidered fatal, as the bullet in some
mysterious manner only entered
short distance.
Methodist preachers from the north
ern and eastern portion of the state
met in Brush, attending the Greeley
district conference. Chancellor II. A.
Buchtel of Denver university ad-
dressed the conference, his subject be-
ing THE Pleasantness of American
Life"
About $50 men and women in auto
mobiles Monday morning went to
point about 51a miles west OF Fort
Collins to participate in the dedica-
ton of a new storage reservoir for
the city's water The reservoir has a
capacity of 100000 gallons and cost
$45,000.
The last state fair was by far the
most prosperous of any ever held
since the organization. A profit OF
$4,000 is shown after all expenses have
been paid. This sure puts the Colo
RADIO state fair on a sound basis for
future expositions, and will pay Off
much of the debt outstanding for three
years.
Already there has been noticed
stimulating effect on business in Weld
county because of the exhibit at the
Pittsburg land show. Letters are
coming to the state and Weld county
from people who have seen what can
be done with farming in Colorado.
These letters inquire regarding land
values, water, climate, etc.
Holyoke's building boom continues.
The new Phillips County Bank build
ing is nearly ready for occupancy, the
Holyoke Realty Company have their
building almost finished, G. l.. King
is putting up a building for the Red
Cross pharmacy, and the First Ma
tional bank will start to veneer their
block soon. This makes four new
brick buildings with five new store
rooms.
Mrs. Mabel Crouter. wife of Charles
Crouter. now of Wheatland. formerly
a Greeley girl, Miss Mabel Hill, Is
candidate for the state legislature IL
Wyoming and is the only woman up
for election to the legislature in that
state Mrs. Crouter was the daugh-
ter of A. Hill, pioneer of Weld coun-
ty, after whom the town OF HIS
brough was named.
The records of the Colorado col
lege weather bureau show that octo-
ber was the dryest October in thirty
five years, the warmest In thirty
years, and had the coolest day for
October in ten years. The total pre-
cipitation was .12 inches. There was
eighty-seyen per cent of sunshine as
against seventy-four last year. Ihe
clear DAYS numbered twenty-seVen.
Altogether the month was one OF the
most delightful Octobers.
At Canon City John Hummel, the
convict who recently sent letter 10
Warden Tyndel from a little Kansas
town in which he asked to be allowed
TO return to prison after eleven
months of freedom, having escaped
with two other men while working ON
road gang, and who came back on
his own volition, to serve out the re-
mainder of his sentence, has again
taken French leave and has not been
caught as yet.
A motor car for passenger service
over the new line of the Union Pa
cific to Denver has arrived at La
Sale. The new depot is being wired
for occupancy at at an early date and
the new roundhouse, coal chutes, wa
ter tanks, etc, are in operation. Peo-
pie have been informed on high au-