The Colorado statesman., 1910-12-03
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth Telling.

Major Miles Jain, a pioneer oil
Boulder county is dead.
The tax levy for Pueblo for next
year will be twenty mills.
Greeley is to have the first osteo
pathic sanitarium in Colorado.
Fire from an unknown origin con
sumed the Bracewell school house.
The cost of the Republican cam
paign in FL Paso county was $2,59S.49'
The $4,000 Electric building has
been formally opened in Grand juno
tion.
Rio Grande No. struck an unknown
Austrian near Palisade and instantly
killed him.
George II. Lille, expert equestrian
and Denver's first ridingmaster, died
in that city recently.
With $4,000 worth of stock sub
scribed, the green alfalfa meal mill TO-.
Gilcrest seems assured.
Plans are being formulated by which
Greeley may have a monthly market
day for the benefit of farmers.
Eastern Weld county promises to
be the scene of extensive irrigation
activity the coming spring.
Charles F. Perkins was instantly
killed in an accident which occurred
at the Perkins saw mill at Meeker.
John Montgomery, farmer near
Gilcrest has raised 225 tons of beets
on ten acres which brought him 81,
237.50.
One of the new weed pests tnat is
coming onto the plains of eastern Col
orado is the Jim Hill mustard from
the northwest.
Because he declined to give up
cigarettes, an employe of the Santa Fe,
running between Denver and La Junta
has been discharged.
Sixty days in Jail was the punish
ment of Martin NJ. Brown and wife,
of Manzanola, for abandoning their
baby in Pueblo, recently.
The Rev. w. F. Highly has resigned
as pastor of the st. Thomas chapel,
Palisade, and accepted call to St
Marks parish in Durango.
That cattle on the Weld county
ranges are now absolutely free OF
scabies is the statement of Govern
ment Cattle Inspector Merrill.
An investigation of the coal mines
of southern Colorado has been de-
termined upon by the commission ap-
pointed by Governor Shafroth.
The city of Longmont will soon
have natural gas from an almost in
exhaustible supply opened by the
Boulder G. Greeley Oil Company.
1t is now an accepted fact that
Meeker and the White River valleJ
will be connected by rail with the out
side world during the coming year.
Some boys near wellington found
ten rattlesnake eggs in hollow post
recently. The unmatched snakes meas
ured nine feet laid end to end.
More than 100 students at Colorado
college, Colorado Springs, have been
added by the college Y. NJ. c. A,
since the beginning of the college year.
Chas. F. Sutton of Lawrence, Kan.
has purchased the property OF the
Kansas Colorado railroad in Pueblo at
public sale. Sutton's bid was $4,000.
The federal grand jury, after ses-
sion lasting several weeks in Denver
returned thirty-one indictments, most
ly against violators Of the postal laws.
The board of county commissioners
fixed the tax levy for the year 1910
on Fremont county property of 44h
mills. The assessed valuation is in
excess of s6,SOO,OOO.
The Mesa county irrigation district
has ordered an immense new centri-
fugal pump, to be used in supplying
water to the 5000 acres in that dis
trict.
The committee recently appointed at
a public mass meeting In Colorado
Springs to recommend needed public
improvements has decided upon CEN
trail park.
Ell Paso county tax levy for 1911 has
been fixed at 9.6 mills, an increase of
81 mills over last year. The assessed
valuation of property this year is s21,-
92s,13O as against $22,000,000 last
year.
George B. Lang, president of the
Farmers Educational and Cooperative
Union of Colorado, addressed seventy
five farmers of Fort Collins and vicin-
ity on the work of the association in
other states.
Plans for the new federal building
at Fort Collins have been received by
Postmaster Moore. They call for a
two-story building. 69x95 feet, to pro-
vide quarters also for the Forestry
Department and Civil Service exami-
nations.
United States District Attorney |
Thomas Ward, Jr., of Denver does not |