The new era., 1911-03-09
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
State Worth Telling.

citizens, is dead.
Fruita will have local option elec-
ton on April 4th.
Virgil w. Stoddard, pioneer OF
Loveland, died suddenly at his home.
1t is probable Denver will get the
National Republican convention in
1912.
Mrs. Alden Cantonwine. pioneer OF
Longmont. is dead. She was AZ years
old.
A baseball team is being organized
in Grand Junction to play the Boston
Red Sox.
The Denver police are endeayoring
to put stop to gambling among
Greek residents.
Work on the new elevator at Wat
tenburg. capacity 10000 bushels, will
be commenced.
Fire destroyed the plant of the Colo
RADIO City Ice G Coal Company, with
loss of $4,000.
In the Telluride mining section
there is from eight to thirty feet of
snow on the level.
The last work on the Orchard Mesa
irrigation system, Grand Junction, has
been completed.
For every $1,000 tons of coal mined
last year in Colorado the life of min
er was sacrificed.
Freeman Butler, aged 76. pioneer
of that section, died at his home near
Windsor. of paralysis.
The Wellington section is enjoying
the novelty of sleighing for the first
time in several years.
Mrs. Mary ]. Highly, aged 79, and
one of the pioneers of the Greeley dis
trict, died of pneumonia.
The students of the Grand Junction
high school have set March 18th as
the date for the first cross-country
run
The Gunnison County Stock Grow
ball and banquet in Gunnison March
31th.
Drillers at the oil we'll, mile east
of Lamar, have penetrated the oil
sand and will shoot the well in few
days
Two thoroughbred Llewellyn set
ters, valued at $4,000 and belonging to
Chas. Woodford of Pueblo, have been
stolen.
Gross earnings of the Denver City
Tramway Company for its fiscal year
ending December 80, 1910, were $3,-
595,157.
Mrs. Eta Smart, cashier in DIR,
goods store in Colorado Springs. has
been arrested charged with theft of
$4,000.
An election providing bond issue
of $24,5OO for the erection of new
high school building was held in Grand
Junction recently. 4e.t
A. Hughes, farmer residing near
Boone, has been awarded damages OF
SIS against the Twin Lakes Land and
Water Company.
An attempt will be made by ten
boosters for the Y. M. C. A. to raise
$4,000 to be used in organizing an as
sociation at Montrose.
Thos. Jenkins and Eugene Hawkey,
two boys who were lost in the Royal
/ Gorge during recent snowstorm
have been found.
Clifford Pinchot will come to Colo,
RADIO to help the citizens to properly
celebrate the new state holiday-Colo-
rado day, August /. That is, he will
come-maybe.
Special trains of tourist cars to han
die the colonist business which is en-
pected to develop from the East to the
Pacific coast will be used by the
Union Pacific.
A district meeting of the Religious
Educational Association will be held
in Greeley April 9th to 10th. 1t will
be the first of it's kind held in this
section of the United States.
The official report of the Colorado
State Board of Barber Examiners for
the two years ending November 80,
1910, states that there are 1859 bar
bers doing business in the state.
Beet growers in the Loveland dis
| trict have signed contracts for 1000
acres for the coming season. Only
| 5000 acres was grown last year. The
total acreage desired this year is 10,-
| 600 to 1000.
The grand jury that held sessions in
Denver couple of months ago made
sad mess of things. Practically
every indictment of significance re-
turned by that body has been quashed
| in the District Court.
Tho society ladies' of Montrose who
compose the membership of the Civic
| Improvement League, will turn scav-
engers this spring to demonstrate to
the public that it is possible to keep
city alleys clean and slightly.
The Western Slope Traffic bureau,
composed of all fruit growers asso-
Citations in western Colorado, has been