The Colorado statesman., 1911-08-12
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
state Worth While.

The Cheyenne Indians defeated the
Greeley Spuds by n score of to 6.
One day recently the Ramah cream
cry shipped twenty-six cans of cream.
Lafayette Hughes has resigned as a
member of the State Board of Char
tiles.
The first term of District Court
for the new county OF Moffat, opened
at Craig.
Olathe will erect water works sys-
tenn to cost not over s65,000, immedi-
ately.
Company D., N. G. c., won the
sharp-shooters' cup at the rifle shoot
In Golden.
Thieves looted the Park cafe at
Trinidad and secured s400 and large
quantity Of liquor.
The Mason Oil Company Of Mancos
have made arrangements to complete
their new oil well.
Secretary of the Interior Fisher
has given his approval of the Denver
Foothills Park project.
The trial of the negro. Bob Harris.
who killed the two marshals OF ROCKY
Ford has opened in La Junta.
From the sale of $125,OOo in bonds
for the completion of the Silver Lake
dam, Boulder, will be ahead $S12.5O.
While chopping wood near Ouray,
John Smell had the misfortune to cut
one of his hands in fearful manner.
State Engineer Comstock is of the
opinion that his office will be almost
self supporting under the new fee sys-
tenn.
New York capitalists have for $3.50.
900 bought the Colorado Railway,
Light and Power Company at Trini'
dad.
Fire destroyed the farmhouse and
southeast of Johnstown. The loss Is
$4,000.
The new Court of Appeals Judges
appointed by Gov. Shafroth viii not
assume the duties of their office until
Oct. 1.
John Hardin, eightyfive years old,
pioneer, died at his home on Lone
Pine creek, twenty miles northwest
of Livermore.
The Trinidad Transmission Railway
& Gas Company, with capitalization
of 100000 has filed articles of in
corporation.
AS the result of a premature explo
sion of giant powder cap the son OF
James McClaren of Cripple Creek will
lose one eye.
On the way from Denver to Fort
Worth, Texas, ]. S. Camplain died on
Colorado & Southern passenger train
No. at Aguilar.
More than a dozen cities are out
after the next great council of the l.
O. R. NJ, with Denver and Colorado
Springs in the lead.
]. NJ Berry, sixty-three years old,
wealthy farmer of La Sale, took out
a marriage license to wed Miss Amer
lea Callahan, fifty-three years old.
Washington James Buchanan, one
of the Oldest men, one of the earliest
settlers and one of the best known
citizens of Ouray county, is dead.
Mrs. Seraphine Pisko has been ap
pointed secretary of the National Jew
ish Hospital for Consumptives, at Den.
yer, to succeed the late Alfred Muller
The first electrically operated fu
nicular railroad ever built west of the
Mississippi river is being constructed
up the face of Lookout mountain, just
west of Golden.
Tom Archuleta, who was arrested al
Lafayette for bootlegging, pleaded
guilty to two charges of botlegging in
the Boulder County Court and was
fined $400 and costs.
A rich bed of coal, valued by Col.
]. A. Owenby at S1,500,000, has been
located on the property of the Woot-
ton Land and Fuel Company fifteen
miles south of Trinidad.
Starkville, one of the oldest aui
largest Colorado Fuel & Iron Compa
ny camps in Las Animas county, was
the scene of a disastrous fire, ALI
damage of $4,000 was done.
The Masonic temple, at Montrose.
just completed by the order at cost
of $4,000 has been occupied for the
first time by the lodge. 1t has three
stories and is fifty by 125 feet.
The Durango Board of Trade has
guaranteed that the people of Durango
will contribute $1,000 toward the sup
port of the Fort Lewis agricultural
school the first year.
The case filed by George j. Kindcl
before the state railroad commission
against the express companies doing
business in the state was dismissed
by the commission for lack of jurisdic.
tion.
Pleading guilty to the charge OF
swindling Richard Krug, a Kan sas
man, out of 1895 on fake horse race,