The Paonia progressive and the Paonia newspaper., 1911-10-12
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

Nearly two inches of rain has fallen
at Wray.
The boys of Windsor have formed
an athletic club
The first carload of potatoes has
been 81 .pped from Gill.
JAG Hendricks will manage the
Denver baseball club next year.
The d. & r. G. depot at Olathe was
entered by thieves and 500 stolen.
Potato cellar parties promise to be-
come popular in Windsor society.
A company will be organized to
prospect for oil in the vicinity of
Pierce.
The campaign in Denver for the
summer White House fund is progress
ing finely.
Everything is in readiness for the
Colorado Electric Show. which begins
in Denver October 18th.
From all parts of the state exhibits
New York Land Show.
Colonel James Leonard, who has
been a familiar figure in Denver for
the last thirty years, is dead.
Beet digging is on in all parts OF
the Greeley district and recent rains
have put the ground in excellent
shape.
The jury in the Fred Hargis case
at Grand junction returned verdict
of not guilty. He was accused of cat
tie stealing.
G. G. Phillip of Fort Lupton, has
hen which has adopted family of
eight young kittens and is taking good
care of them.
Frank R. Castleman. director of
athletics at the University of Colo
RADIO. is advocating an intercollegiate
eross-country run.
Northern Colorado is the scene o.
more activity in railroad. ditch and
reservoir building this fall than ever
before in its history.
Seven miners were injured when
sixty pounds of dynamite exploded in
the shaft house at the Lewis mine,
six miles southeast Of Telluride.
OF the 4O,SO3 children enrolled in
the public schools OF Denver for the
present year 36.522 are the sons and
daughters of American parents.
The annual meeting of the Woman's
Board of Missions Of the Interior Will
be held in the Congregational Church
in Denver October cath. 25th and 26th
The oil refining plant of the Colo
RADIO United States Refining Com
pany, in the Boulder ell fields. seven
miles from Boulder. has been put in
operation.
The explosion OF a missed shot
in a mine of the Colorado Fuel and
Iron Company at Tabasco near Trini-
dad. caused the death of Joe Bertek.
an Austrian miner.
Hotel men from all over Colorado,
Wyoming. Utah and New Mexico will
be in Denver November to for the
annual meeting of the Rocky Noun
tain Hotel Mems Association.
The high school building at Steam
boat Springs, just being completed at
a cost OF $4,000. was built in the rec
ord time Of two months to replace the
building destroyed by fire.
In order to boost the Denver Apple
Show the Grand Junction Fruit Grow
ers' Association has offered 10 pay the
freight charges on fruit sent TO Den
yer from the Grand Valley.
The granite monument erected at 4
cost of several thousand dollars at
Trinidad has been unveiled over the
graves of forty-five Polish miners who
net death in mine disasters in thas
,unty within the past year.
The Palisade rsnchers whose orch
ards are cut by the proposed High
Line canal, have agreed to a % per
CEN reduction in the damage claim
they had filed at Washington. This
claim was for $4,000 and the ranch
ers are now willing TO accept 100000.
Members of the United Mine Work
ers of America from Colorado will
join Wa members of the organiza-
ton from other states in an effort to
force Samuel Gompers, president of
the American Federation of Labor. to
resign his membership in the Ma
tional Civic Federation.
Reports from the cloudburst on the
summit Of Sierra Blanca mountain
sweeping both sides of the range, car
rying millions of tons OF water into