The Colorado statesman., 1911-10-28
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
state Worth While.

Work on the irrigation system OF the
Greeley.P Poudre district is progressing
rapidly
Recent rains and snow in Phillips
county have put the ground in fine
shape for wheat.
Chas. wheeless. whose home is at
Bowie Tex, was killed by Santa Fe
train at Skinner
The Western Sugar Company has
announced a reduction in the price OF
sugar of fifty cents per hundred.
Clyde Hoskinson, the self-confessed
robber of the Montezuma saloon at
Montezuma, where he secured $50, has
been captured
Gov. Shafroth has issued an order
permitting all reservoir owners along
the Platte and Poudre to store water
until May Is, 1912.
Gov. Shafroth has decided not to ap-
point the Colorado Tax Commission,
the creation of which was provided for
by the last General Assembly.
w. II. Miller, the foremost pioneer
of Rio Blanco county, and the rather
of the White river valley" died in
Alaska of ptomaine poisoning.
The general merchandise store and
blacksmith shop of G. w. Ferguson,
on Spring Creek mesa, at Montrose.
was completely destroyed by fire.
w. G. Haigler of Colorado Springs
will ask the City Council of Canon
City for a franchise for the construc-
ton of an aerial railway across the
Royal Gorge.
Beets on the w. A. Mulvaney farm,
near Longmont, are going over twenty,
eight tons to the acre, the growers re-
ceiving S6 a ton, as the sugar content
is running IS per cent.
In order to complete the picking of
the large apple crop, 125 students in
the Montrose County High School
were released for two days in order
to assist in gathering the crop.
The county commissioners of Otero
county received bids for building a
new REINFORCED concrete bridge across
the Arkansas between North La Junta
and La Junta. 1t will cost about $780,
, 600.
The City Council of Gunnison sold
the $4,000 bonds to Sutherlin and
Company, Kansas City. The bond is
sue was voted at the spring election
for the extension of the municipal
water plant.
! The Manhattan Trust Company OF
New York has given notice that the
Denver, Laramie & Northwestern rail-
road has defaulted in the interest on
$500, 900 of its first mortgage bonds
due this month.
While w. r. McEwen, aged SO, oil
| Steamboat Springs, was taking
wagon load of coal down steep hlll,
the wagon, team and driver were
plunged to the bottom of the hill, the
man and team being instantly killed.
Successful fruit raising at an altl-
tude of 1000 feet, and this far north,
has always been looked upon as an I'M
possibility by horticultural experts,
but Rio Blanco county this year eX-
ploded that time-worn theory.
Allan Fowler, former city treasurer
of Trinidad stabbed to death j. w.
Bundy, manager for the Trinidad NOV
city Works, when he encountered
Bundy walking ON the street with MS
two daughters, Garnet Fowler, p, and
Ruby, IS.
The 2-year-old child of Mrs. Frank
Prisslette of Bailey, near Fairplay,
was baked to death in an oven in her
home. The mother found the charred
body of the baby when she returned
from a few minutes absence from the
house.
Parents of fifteen Denver boys and
girls who have been suspended from
the Denver High schools for alleged
violation of the rule prohibiting affili'
alton with fraternities and sororities
met and determined to test tha legal
ity of the school boards action.
For the championship of the world
at doublehand rock drilling, con
test was held at Victor, which resulted
in a victory for the "Terrible Swedes
of Ouray, who retained their title
against Cardonau and Strothers OF
Cripple Creek, whom they defeated
Labor Day.
Shortages in the fee accounts of the
various Phillips county officers
amounting to $1,000 have been discov'
cred by Expert Harry MulniX and his
assistants, who have just completed
an exhaustive examination of the pub
lie records. OF this amount more than
$4,000 has already been returned to
the county treasury.
Deeds, bonds and other papers rep
resenting investments of more than
$4,000 were recovered by Sheriff S
]. McAfee at Greeley, which were
taken from a trunk belonging to Mrs
| III. Ii. Jenkins of Kansas City by