The Glenwood post., 1911-07-15
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

Mrs. VIM. Smith. pioneer of Wind
sor, after long illness, is dead.
The Salida Commercial Club will
give its first annual banquet soon.
The Colorado Springs carnival takes
place July 81 to August 5. inclusive.
The contract for the new COUNT
Jail at Greeley has been let for $4,000
The school census of Mesa county
shows 6,121 children in the scholastic
age.
The Fort Collins branch OF the I'm
ion Pacific will begin business on July
18th.
me cottonwood trees on the streets
of Loveland will be cut down Lext
winter.
The Colorado State Bankers Asso-
citation held it's tenth annual conven-
ton in Denver.
Conditions in northern Colorado and
Little Snake river valley are better
than ever before.
Fred Allen has killed seventy-sev-
en- rattlesnakes on his quarter sew
ton near Fooston.
]. M. McCutcheon, wealthy pion-
eer OF La Sale has donated land to
that town for park.
C. w. Jones, aged sixty. who was
fatally hurt by being thrown from his
wagon near Boulder, died.
Dan Cassidy. one of the motorcycle
4 ,l, ,-ly
badly hurt in an accident recently.
Ignacio Revoc, a miner from Old
Mexico, was killed by fall of rock
in the C. F. & l. mine at Berwind.
The Boulder Business Girls Club
will open up large ice cream parlor
and donate the profits to the Boulder
band.
The Pueblo state fair and the Den
yer interstate fair have agreed to CO.
operate in an effort to have better at
fractions.
Secretary Wilson of the Department
of Agriculture will attend the
Dry Farming Congress in Colorado
Springs.
E. B. Burke. who was injured some
time ago in the Pinto mine at Cripple
Creek, has been awarded $4,000
damages.
The Senate passed the bill provid-
ing for the appointment of an addi-
tional federal judge for the district
of Colorado.
The customs department in Denver
handled s23S,S66.7 worth of business
for Uncle Sam during the month end
ing June 3Oth.
Martin Van Buren, Kelsey, one of
the first settlers of the Platte valley,
and a resident since 1859, died at Fort
Lupton, aged ~.
The public playground at Montrose
using the swings and teeter boards
and played games.
The Grand Junction s45O,O0O water
bonds have been sold for 81 cents flat.
The bonds call for the delivery of
$2SO,O0O on August 31st.
Spontaneous combustion caused a
fire which threatened the Hillrose al
falfa mill, but the blaze was extin-
guished with damage of 5000.
John Herman, a rancher, aged fifty
of Salida. fell head first from a tree
eighteen feet above the ground. He
ran home and fell unconscious. He
was seriously hurt.
Jim Flynn of Pueblo has gone to
New York to make arrangements to
meet Carl Morris, the white mans
hope" in a boxing contest in the lat
ter city in the near future.
Driving his own engine from Delta
to Grand Junction, fifty-one miles, in
less than forty minutes. Enginer Will
and arrived at the bedside of his wife
before she passed away
The Palisades orchardists who are
in controversy with the government
over the construction of low line
canal in connection with the Gunnison
project have been given more time in
the negotiations going on.
After every arrangement had been
completed for the funeral of Thomas
Carr, Jr., who died in Chicago, July
8, the remains of another man sent
to Trinidad from Chicago, reached the
home of Mrs. Thomas Carr. Sr.
Dexter T. Sapp, of Gunnison. the
newly elected commander of the De
partment of Colorado and Wyoming
of the G. A R.. has been appointed a
member of the board of trustees OF
the Soldiers and Sailors Home al
Monte Vista.
Governor Shafroth has been served
with papers in the case brought in
the Supreme Court of the United
States by the state of Wyoming
against the state of Colorado for the
purpose of preventing the diversion OF
water for the Laramia-Poudre irriga
ton project in the northern part OF
the state.