The Paonia progressive and the Paonia newspaper., 1911-06-15
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth Telling.

VIM. w. Draper. pioneer of Pueblo,
is dead.
Rocky Ford is planning for a Chau-
tauqua.
Fishing over the state is reported as
being good.
July 4th is to be safe and sane"
celebration in Denver.
The highway between Estes Park
and Boulder via Lyons is assured.
There is now a movement started to
enclose every fruit tree in tent.
The Gunnison baseball champions
were defeated by the Pitkin team, IL
to Z.
Mayor James S. Kyle of Montrose
broke an arm while cranking his au-
tomobile.
A barn in Colorado Springs was de-
stroyed and several head of horses
cremated.
The Greeley Elks have let the con-
tract for their new club building to
cost 100000.
The deposits of the National banks
of Colorado Springs amount to $10.-
324,743.99.
Philip Schopp. ninety-six years old.
OF Kersey. recently made final proof
on 100 acres of land.
Denver is to have a steel castings
plant, the first of the kind west OF
the Mississippi river.
AL Bane, convicted of train robbery
in Pueblo. was sentenced to is TO 80
years in the penitentiary.
To equip a branch of the bureau of
mines at Silverton. Congressman Tay-
lor has asked for $4,000.
Sixty-five thousand rainbow trout
have been delivered by the govern
l,ent to Colorado Springs.
Governor Shafroth reappointed A. X.
Stevens OF lola on the State Board OF
Stock Inspection Commission.
A plan is materializing to connect
Florence and the surrounding mining
camps by an electric interurban.
Within one week in Denver there
were five suicides, four killings and
three deaths from violent accidents.
Willie McGovern. IA years old. OF
Pueblo. caught his right foot in now
ing machine and was severely injured.
The Mesa county commissioners has
asked the State Highway Commission
for $4,000 to be used in road building.
Strawberry men around Steamboat
Springs are keeping their smudging
pots In shape as they fear another
frost.
The mining pay roll OF Cripple
Creek for May. was the heaviest in
fourteen months. approximating $685.
$50.
Colorado Springs will make an ef-
fort to have the Foresters OF Amer
lea establish their sanatorium in that
city.
The school board OF District thirty
eight has let a contract for an eight
room school house in Oak Creek. to
cost s4.424.
ii. 4. Girt has been arraigned at
Greeley, charged with the murder OF
Charles Sigman at Frederick on the
night of June 7th.
Plans are being perfected for the
organization of Western slope base
ball league. to be composed of either
four or six clubs.
The Department encampment Of the
Grand Army OF the Republic and as
sociated orders. held at Salida during
the past week. was well attended.
w. Unfug. chief clerk in the office
of secretary of state. was arrested.
charged with holding money paid into
the office as an incorporation fee.
Held up. robber and beaten and then
slain by negroes. was the fate OF Do
mimic Macanl, an Italian employed on
the Portland cement plants works at
Concrete. Colo.
The coroner's jury at the inquest in
to the death of John Zang at Creede
returned a verdict stating Zang was
killed by Mrs. Michael La Fevre, who
acted in self defense.
At the special election held In Fort
Collins recently to vote on the forma-
tion OF the proposed Fort Collins-Love-
land Irrigation district the vote stood
So against and 2 for.
After over ten years work the Luf-
fy tunnel has been completed and will
convey water from the Yampa river
for irrigation of 1900 acres OF rich
land near Maybell. Moffat county.
A reduction in the freight rate on
ore from the Silverton district to the