The Colorado statesman., 1911-11-18
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
state Worth While.

5th
Marie de la Cordove died at Weston
as the result of burns recently re-
ceived.
Montrose. Ell Paso, Mesa, Delta and
Logan counties will organize Woodrow
Wilson clubs.
Bids have been opened for the ce.
menting of the Laramie-Poudre irri.
CATION tunnel.
Mayor William ]. Gaynor OF New
York will spend his vacation next sum-
mer in Colorado.
Many mines have closed down in the
vicinity of Central City on account OF
the cold and snow.
The Monte Vista sugar factory, the
first to be started in the San Luis
valley, has opened.
Guy Wing, sixty-two, committed sui
eide in Elkton by throwing himself un-
der moving train.
Seth Teasdale of Grand Junction
has an apple tree which produced two
crops of fruit this year.
Four well-known citizens of Rifle
are accused of placing a calf in the
city Jail Halloween night.
The Taft Republican Club of Pueblo
county was formed at a meeting of
Republicans held in Pueblo.
The Colorado & Southern railroad
has discontinued freight service over
the Como to Breckenridge branch.
The Moose lodge will probably erect
a $15O,OOO college in Boulder for the
education of children of dead Moose.
The town of Portland, in Fremont
county, has applied at the office of the
secretary of state for Incorporation pa
pers.
Stealing four pairs of trousers at
Lyons cost Adfalas Donata a fine of
$50. He will serve out his time at the
Boulder jail.
The report of the school board for
the month of September shows a total
expenditure for all school purposes of
S201905.94.
The frozen body of Bert Rodgers,
a Silverton boy, was found by search
ing party about four and half miles
south of Silverton.
Beginning December /, lessons in
dancing will be provided for Denver
school teachers by the Denver Play
ground Commission.
During the winter season one train
daily will be operated each way be-
tween Denver and Steamboat Springs
over the Moffat Road.
The Delta county exhibitors at the
Denver Apple Show distributed thirty
boxes of fine apples amog the various
orphanages of that city.
The 3-year-old son of ex-County
Commissioner Conrad Reister of Con
tent, Colo, died in Durango, following
fatal kick from a horse.
w. E. Renshaw of Idaho Springs has
put men at work stringing wires from
Idaho Springs to Georgetown, the
poles having been set before.
4 After spirited bidding, the bulk of
the stock and fixtures of the bankrupt
]. S. Appel Suit & Cloak Company in
Denver was purchased for $69,S75.
With eight of it's sixteen members
women, Buckingham, in eastern Weld
county, has a brass band which is
said to be one of the best in the state
Elick Travers, GA, pioneer of the
county and a coal miner, was found
frozen to death within fifty feet of his
own cabin seven miles south of Boul'
der.
The Lost Bullion case, alleged to in
volve one of the biggest get-rich-quick
mining frauds ever perpetrated in the
West, will be tried again by the gov
ernment.
Felix Griego died in commissions at
Trinidad as the result of a kick re-
ceived in a saloon. An hour after his
death Leo Dolce, proprietor of the sa-
loon, was placed in jail.
Ten million dollars will be left in
Colorado annually by automobile tour
lists, If the State Highway Commits
sion's plans for great state highway
from the eastern to the western part
of the state are realized.
The Gunnison County Commission
ers have just concluded the work of
levying the 1911 assessment. 1t is 5
mills higher than in 1910 and was
raised principally for the purpose of
making the annual payment on old
bonded Indebtedness.
The Methodist Episcopal church,
during the coming year, will expend
s613S5O for the purpose of home mis-
sions and church extension. This was
decided finally and irrevocably at a
session of the general committee OF
home missions and church extension
held at Trinity church in Denver.
In Fremont county there are 10000
acres of irrigated agricultural lands
and nearly 10000 acres of improved
fruit lands. In addition to these there
are 10000 acres of grazing lands, A.