The Colorado statesman., 1911-12-23
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
State Worth While.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Fort Lupton is to have new bank
in the near future
A highway from Fort Lupton to
Hudson will be built soon.
Colorado City will install storm
sewers and pave the streets.
The basketball season at the School
of Mines has started in earnest.
John c.. Wells has been appointed
head coiner at the Denver mint.
George Wann, an old time assayer,
died at Cripple Creek of heart fail
ure.
The amount realized by the p. E. o.
$275.
Nearly every portion of the state
has been visited by heavy snow re-
Gently.
Charles Burnt, farmer of East Ell
Paso county, killed his wife during
quarrel.
The department has authorized the
establishment of postal savings bank
at Saguache.
Mrs. Elizabeth Sopris, Denver's old
est pioneer, died recently at the age
of ninety-seven years.
The new high school at Grand
Junction. to cost $4,000, will be COM
pleted by January 1st.
Rev. Frederick Carmon, rector of
Christ Episcopal church at Canon
City, died in Buffalo, n. Y.
The Douglas County High school
basketball team defeated the Littleton
High school quintet 50 to 18.
Nineteen boys and girls were recent
ly suspended from the Denver public
schools for belonging to forbidden Sc
cret societies.
C. w. Price, formerly of Lincoln,
Neb., and recently a resident of Den
yer, has been chosen cashier of the
bank of Evans.
More than seven hundred birds of
different kinds were exhibited at the
recent show of the Northern Colorado
Poultry Association.
Miss Katherine Norris Lower, treas
urer of the Territorial Daughters OF
ty years, is dead.
About two inches of snow fell re-
Gently over Weld county and will be of
great benefit to 10000 acres of fall
wheat already up.
Rev. Horace E. Warner, for sew
eral years presiding elder of the Den
yer Methodist Church, died at his
home in that city.
Work has begun on the factory of
the Greeley Chemical Company which
will manufacture insecticide for crop
destroying insects.
Thieves broke into the Rio Grande
depot at Trinidad for the third time
in two months and stole a barrel OF
whisky and Gaze of cigars.
Over 200 high school boys from
practically every town in the state at
tended the annual Y NJ. C. A. confer
ence for older boys of Colorado at
Fort Collins
Motor-propelled section cars have
been ordered by the Colorado & South
ern railroad to replace the old style
handcar long in use on all roads of the
country.
]. G. Ridge OF Pueblo, was arrested
by Game Warden Mccall of Gunnison,
charged with shooting deer out of
season near Sargent. Ridge was taken
TO Denver.
Eleven men claim the $500 offered
by Fort Collins and Larimer county
for the arrest of Luoro Garcia, con-
fessed murderer of Night Officer c.
E. Brockman of Fort Collins.
George f. Dayton of Colorado
Springs, formerly undersheriff of FL
Paso county, is testing the city Or
dinance tina. requires dealers in sec
ond-hand wares to have license.
County Treasurer William j. Tobin
of Montrose reports 97.S per cent of
all taxes collected, leaving but $4,000
to collect. He says this is higher
per cent collected than any other
county in the state.
Work has ben started at Greeley on
the Swedish Baptist church. 1t will
cost more than $4,000 when complet
| ed Until the edifice can be finished
| the basement will be rooted over and
! services held there.
The Holly Sugar Company will dis
| tribute $500 in gold to farmers of
| that district as far out as Prowers, un-
der the auspices of the Holly Com
mercial Club at the club rooms. The
first prize is $500. with twenty prizes
of 800 each.
State Treasurer I.eddy, Auditor
Kenehan and Gov. Shafroth say por-
ton of the $4,000 appropriation to
the State Agricultural college for the
three departments headed by Profs.
Hinman, Vaplon and Fitch may be col
| lected and paid over.