The Paonia newspaper., 1911-04-07
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
State Worth Telling.

RADIO is good.
Plans are on foot to build high
school at GILL
Fire destroyed the old Kester house,
land mark at Evans.
William E. Winthrow, city attorney
of Central City, is dead.
James H. Kay, a resident of Denver
for twenty-three years. is dead
Louis Carlson, a farmer, was held
up and robbed in Pueblo recently.
The North Park Rifle club has been
organized at Walden with fifteen men,
bers.
Georgetown was the only town in
day.
The annual state convention of the
Ladies' of the Maccabees was held in
Denver.
1t is estimated that 10000 acres Of
grain have been planted in the Gree
ley district.
H. P. Smith OF Estabrook has shot
from tip to tip.
The twenty-third annual meeting OF
the Pueblo Presbytery was held in
Colorado Springs.
The Teller Indian institute will be
permanently closed by the govern
ment on July LIST.
1t is likely that a creamery will be
established in Kersey in connection
with the ice plant.
For the first time in history there
will be no spring elections held this
year in Central City.
One hundred Springfield rifles and
other equipment have arrived in Grand
Junction for Company F. c. " G.
The government is asking for bids
for carrying the mail between Cortez
and Moqui. the bids calling for two
trips a week.
Charles Beeman. rancher living
three miles north OF Castle Rock.
committed suicide by sending a bullet
through his brain.
Carl V. Rupp, an employe OF the
Grand Junction Fruit Growers Asso
citation. and his sister have fallen
heirs to one million dollars.
Some 500 acres OF tomatoes have
been contracted for the cannery at
Fit. Lupton with 40 acres of pumpkins.
10 OF beans and rs of sweet corn.
Heglna Martinez. a miner employed
at Berwind. shot and killed Mrs,
Rita Trujillo. when the woman refused
to live with him. and then killed him
self.
In order to supply the rapidly in.
creasing demand and also because
crops were short last season. 100000
acres near Greeley will be placed to
alfalfa.
The Grey Nuns Canadian order of
the Catholic church is considering
Colorado Springs for the erection of n
sanatorium which will be built in Colo
RADIO or New Mexico.
The liberal stopover privileges and
low summer rates which the railroads
have announced for Colorado points
are expected to bring more tourists to
the Pixies Peak region than ever be-
fore.
Work along the inlet and outlet
bitches of the Milton reservoir near
Greeley has begun. Men and teams
are on the jof and the numbers will
be increased as other works get under
way.
A landslide at Lookout mountain.
one-half mile down the gulch from
the portal of the Roosevelt tunnel.
Cripple Creek. will block the Canon
City & Cripple Greek railroad for
weeks.
A passenger train was wrecked near
Gunnison. The engine and baggage
car left the track and rolled down an
embankment but stopped on a shelf
above the river. Engineer was badly
scalded.
A contract for construction OF the
east end OF the Pueblo & Southwest
ern railroad from the new town OF
Wilson to the st. Charles river will
be let Immediately. The road will be
thirty miles in length.
Accused OF stealing several hundreds
OF dollars from the Colorado & South
ern railroad, l.. F. Freiger. aged twen-
ty.six, formerly station agent at Su-
perior. is being sought by railroad de-
tectiyes.
During the meeting OF the religious
educational association to be held at
Greeley April to April 10. Judge A. z.