The Paonia newspaper., 1911-05-05
little COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over tho
State Worth Telling.

Ben RfcnardS, miner, was
dead at Pitkin.
The Pixies Peak road has been
opened to the public.
Two million tomatoes have been set
out near Grand Junction.
A municipal lighting plant VIII be
established at Ault in the near future
Arrangements are complete for the
creamery and cheese factory at WIND
sor.
Farmers and business men of Buck
ingham have organized commercial
club.
Boulder county is engaged in the
greatest road building work in its his
tory.
Crop conditions over the state are
much improved by the recent general
rain.
Final arrangements have been made
for the organization of boy scouts In
Longmont.
Four men said to be responsible for
many thefts from cars in Pueblo have
been arrested.
The new International State bank
of Trinidad. with a capital OF 100000
has opened for business.
The eighteen-months-old son of Z.
C. Campbell of Loveland, came near
dying from drinking gasoline.
The annual May Day festival at the
Agricultural college at Fort Collins
will take place Saturday. May 6.
After working hard for eight years
! in hope of securing a cannery, Grand
/ Junction 1t as far from 1t as ever
The Pueblo Southeastern Telegraph
& Telephone Company of Pueblo with
$4,000 capital has been incorporated.
Sheepmen OF northern Colorado
will this year lose sl50.QO0 or an aver
age of 81 per head on sheep fed for
market.
Fruit growers over the state are
pleased and surprised that the crop
was not damaged by the recent cold
spell.
A. L. Sheldon cattleman OF Ne
braska. and X. J. Dobell OF Denver
have decided TO start a national bank
at Fort Lupton.
In the last intercollegiate debate OF
/ the year. held In Boulder. the Unlyer.
sity OF South Dakota defeated the Uni
versity OF Colorado.
Greeley is to be famed not only az
the home Of the Greeley potato. but
OF the dasheen. n new vegetable re-
sembling the potato.
"Muggsy" School OF Cheyenne and
L 10 n arh hs1H
for a return 20 OF twenty rounds AZ
Cheyenne. May 20.
BY twisting their clothing into n
rope A. J. Stearn and Paul Shubeck.
insane patients at the county poor
farm at Pueblo. escaped.
Rev. George Redell vosburg. pastor
OF the First Baptist church OF Denver,
the largest of its denomination In the
state. rendered his resignation.
The Farmers union at Ault has
made n remarkable growth during the
last month. having Increased its mem
bershlp from seventy TO 176.
Three students OF the Agricultural
college at Fort Collins who graduate
with this years class have been Of
fered good government positions.
Fishing in Estes Park promises "a
be good this spring and summer and
many fish are now going into the
streams from the Estes Park hatchery
An Investigation made by the fac
ulty into the alleged gambling among
high school students Of Grand Junction
has failed to find foundation for the
charges.
w. G.. Burchsted. treasurer of Nor
gan county. died suddenly at his home
in Fort Morgan. He was sixty-twC
and was serving his second term a'
county treasurer.
The Collbran Fish and Game Club
Mesa countys fashionable sporting as
sociation. has organized for the sum
mer with more Fish for the Fisher
, man" as its motto.
+. A. Ordman. n prominent ranch
man OF Semper. was shot twice
through the abdomen by +. II. Kenne
dy, a steam shovelman on the Stand
/ ley lake dam. near Boulder.
p In n report made by two specia
agents OF the land department. tn
plan OF setting aside Monument parl
! in Mesa county as a national park 4
approved.
Eddie Johnson OF Pueblo and Johnn,