The Raymer enterprise., 1911-02-02
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
State Worth Telling.

Edgar Buchanan has been reelected
president of the Durango Board Of
Trade.
The demands for farms to rent In
the Platteville vicinity exceeds the
supply.
Walter Cheney Of Leadville. with
his bare hands captured a bobcat and
Gagged it.
The first banquet Of the Ault Com.
mercial Club was attended by seventy.
five members.
A banquet and dance will be given
by the New York Society of Colorado
February 10th, in Denver.
An examination for clerk and car.
rier will be held at the postoffice in
Sterling on February II, 1911.
Trinidad will perhaps receive rec.
ognition from the Santa Fe in being
made Colorado common point.
Fire of mysterious origin destroyed
eleven empty freight cars in the yards
at Ludlow. The loss is about $4,000.
James White, veteran Of the Civil
War, a pioneer Of Georgetown and a
resident Of Clear Caeek county since
1872, is dead.
Greeley is to have an official market
place, where sellers of hay, horses,
farm produce and the like may gather
to await buyers.
The sixth annual banquet Of former
Fennsylvanians now resident In Dem
yer was held at the Brown Palace ho.
lei January 30th.
Several settlements of Oklahoma
farmers will be established in the
Crow Creek district, east of Greeley,
next spring.
Raising of hogs Is an important in.
dustry in the Hayden valley. The
Cary ranch has 400 or 500 and has pu:
in packing plant.
The new pavilion erected under the
management of the Celtic Club in Flo
renee was formally opened recently
with big dance.
Fire in the New York store in Cen.
tral City caused heavy damage to the
stock and loss Of several thousand dol.
lars on the building.
Recently 1,2O0 head Of cattle wers
sold for $4,000 by the Pueblo Liva
Stock & Commission Company, for de.
livery in Pueblo in May.
The 100000 French loan for the
Denver Reservoir & Irrigation Com
pany has been authorized by Judge
Allen In the District Court at Denver.
District Judge Rizer Of La Junta
rendered decision quashlng the in.
dictment against John f. Godding,
president OF the defunct Rocky Ford
bank.
For the first time In thirty-six years
Judge Hart of Ault has heard from
bis brother by letter written by the
supposed lost man, W. w. Hart OF
Corning, Cal.
About $50 former sons and daugh.
tiers OF Kansas attended the fifth an
nual banquet of the Kansas society of
Colorado held at the Brown Palace
hotel in Denver.
After three days session at the Al.
bany hotel in Denver, the annual con.
vention of the Colorado Retail Hard.
ware & Implement Association came
to a close.
The Cemetery improvement Asso.
citation of Grand Junction, has inaugu.
rated a campaign to raise $1,000 to
Geautify the cemetery. A house to
house canvass of the city is being
made.
When exposed through newspaper
and threatened with prosecution, all
operators of poker games in Cripple
Creek closed without notice and for
the first time in months that city is
free Of gambling.
Work on the big Stanley project Of
the Denver Reservoir Irrigation Com.
rany. nine miles northwest Of Greeley,
will, In all probability, be resumed
February 10th with full force OF
men and equipment.
BY an agreement entered into by
Attorney General Benjamin Griffith
and the heirs of the George G. Schleicr
estate, an inheritance tax Of $1,000
will be paid to the state. The value
OF the estate is fixed at s445,OOO.
The San Luis Southern, running
gouth from Blanca, and which Is ex.
Iected to extend south to Taos and
Santa Fe in New Mexico next sum
mer, is opening up some OF the finest
farming lands In the Western country.
A train leaving Durango for Silver,
ton crushed the skull Of William,
House when about mile from he
city. He was lying on the track at a
sharp curve. where he had fallen
asleep.
BY decision Of District Judge era.
ham OF Greeley the first given by him
since his appointment. James d. Jack
son oil Denver will not lose title to
land In the vicinity Of Grover valued
at $4,000.
The Western Sugar G Land Com.
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