The Glenwood post., 1911-12-16
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

sof, is dead
The Gilcrest Commercial Club has
been organized.
The Great Western sugar factory at
Sterling has closed.
Joseph Green of Pueblo has been
granted pension by the government.
E. P. Chester, pioneer of Grand
Junction, died recently of heart fail
ure.
After continuous run of sixty six
days the Loveland sugar factory has
closed.
A course in forestry has been begun
at the Colorado College, at Colorado
Springs.
Zen thousand men in the southern
Colorado coal fields are threatening to
go on strike.
A company has applied for fran
chise for an electric lighting and pow
er plant for Kersey.
M. j. Phelps, a non-union miner,
who recently shot up the town of Erie,
was fined s25 and costs.
Judge Sheafor of Colorado Springs
has declared Colorado City anti-saloon
territory by three votes.
The Commercial Law League Of
America VIII hold its annual conven-
ton in Colorado Springs next July.
For attempting to pass checks un-
lawfully in Pueblo Chester Frye was
given five years in the penitentiary.
The jury in the case of Ike Cox, who
was tried at Durango for killing VIM.
TRULY, returned verdict of not guilty.
Kid Dix of Denver and Curley Dunn
of Central City fought siX-round
draw before the Central City Athletic
Club
The Mountain States Telephone
Company will son spend S1I5,00O in
improving its property in Colorado
Springs.
During 1911 the Grand valley has
shipped cattle, sugar beets, eggs
poultry, coal, etc, to the amount of
$2,2O0,400
Joe Coconato of Blend, a suburb OF
Pueblo, is held by the police charged
with having shot his father-in-law, An
tone Frollalo.
w. B. Ebbert OF Cortez was elected
for four-year term as water commits
sioner of the Montezuma Valley Irriga-
ton district.
E. E. Mclaughlin, superintendent
A. {,
is in Washington to attend the annual
meeting of the league.
Modern Woodmen of America have
decided to start work Immediately oD
the improvements at the sanatorium
north of Colorado Springs.
For the second time in three weeks
the safe in the Denver & Rio Grande
depot at Trinidad was wrecked by
yeggmen. They got rs cents.
John p. Sullivan, grand exalted rul-
er of the Elks, is making a tour of
the West, during which he will visit
as many of the Colorado lodges as he
can.
The County Commissioners at Grand
junction passed resolution order
ing the construction of a new bridge
across Main street. The cost is esti-
mated at $4,000.
While preparing to return to Pueblo
from hunting expedition into the
country w. H. Robertson, was acci-
dentally shot in the right foot. The
foot was amputated.
DR.. r. f. Chandler, pastor of the
First Presbyterian church of Trinidad,
underwent a delicate and dangerous
mastoid operation recently and is eX-
pected to recover.
Sir Gilbert Parker, the noted Eng.
lish author and statesman, is to visit
Colorado for the purpose of learning
something of woman's ability to man
age affairs of government
five-year period ending with 1911 is,
shown in the density of freight traffic
in all parts of Colorado traversed by
the Denver & Rio Grande.
An adjustment between Eastern
and Western railroads was effected at
Chicago whereby Though car service
from the East to the Pacific coast by
way of Denver is re-established.
District Judge Burke permanently
restrained the city of Longmont from
continuing erection of its municipal
lighting plant under the present agree
ment with the Longmont Service Com
pany.
Nothing has transpired during the
last few weeks, according 20 officers
of the leading coal companies operat-
ing In Fremont county to indicate that
the several thousand miners employed
by them intend to strike.
Mrs. Joe Monachelli and Mrs. Mar
tin Fishlein, wives of strikers and
themselves members of the Woman's
auxiliary at Louisville, were bound
over to the District Court in the sum
of 30OO oach at ROuldor ou cba rUa