The Paonia progressive and the Paonia newspaper., 1911-08-24
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over ~
state Worth While.

John Howe, alderman and promi-
nent citizen of La Junta, is dead.
The Colorado State Federation of
Labor will meet next year in Cripple
Creek.
The Northern Colorado Railway Co.
has asked for the appointment of a re-
ceiver.
Charles Herround, II years old. has
pleaded guilty at Boulder to highway
robbery.
Mrs. Sarah E. Peterson, formerly of
Denver, committed suicide in Wash
ington, d. C.
AL Blevins. 12 years old. of Fort
Lupton. accidentally shot himself. dy-
ing instantly.
The Senate has confirmed the nomi.
nation of Robert X. Hanna, postmas
ter at Windsor.
The Lamar postoffice has been des-
ignated postal savings bank, effec.
tive September 10.
Landholders in the Greeley-Poudre
irrigation district will push that pro-
ject to rapid completion.
John Toedder. tailor. of Pueblo.
has received letter signed BLACK
Hand" demanding $1,000.
Mike Malone of Denver and frankie
White of Chicago will meet In a two
20-round bout at Alamosa Labor day.
Luther Grantham. aged % years, of
Telluride, shot himself with a heavy
I,,;n in
stantly.
NJ. c. Daniels has the record break
ing wheat crop of the Gill section this
year. His field averaged 81 bushels
per acre.
The officers of the Colorado Ma
sonic Grand Lodge officiated at the
laying of the cornerstone OF the new
high school building at Holyoke.
Denver's postal savings bank will
be opened September 9. Notice to that
effect has been received by Postmas-
ter Sours.
State Bank Commissioner has Or
dered the STATE Bank OF Stratton
closed and asked for the appointment
of a receiver
El Paso County Horticultural Asso-
Citations annual flower show at Colo
rado Springs was a success from both
financial and artistic standpoint.
The President has signed the War
rem bill granting leave of absence to
homesteaders in drought-stricken ais
tricts Of the West until April Is, 1912.
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the streams of the state have made
fishing conditions during the last
week less favorable than for some
time.
Charging alienation of his wife's af-
fections, Frank Wieneke was given
judgment for $4,000 in District Court
against Andrew Pagesser at Cripple
Creek.
Representative Rucker has intro
duced bill to permit additional en-
tries under the enlarged homestead
act on lands situated within six miles
of the original entry.
Richard Mooney. aged 65 years. a
pioneer Of Victor, died of injuries re-
ceived when he fell fifteen feet at a
railing which guarded the sidewalk,
which was high above the ground.
Arrangements have been made
whereby Pueblo will be advertised as
a manufacturing city by exhibits at
the various county fairs In the SOUTH
ern part Of the state next fall.
A suit to recover about $500 in sal
aries due workmen in Pueblo's parks
last fall has been Instituted against
the park commissioners by Ben 8er-
german, who bought the accounts OF
men.
Mrs. Fedelina Macs, a widow and di-
vorcee. was shot and killed in Ala
mosa by Camilo Herrera In a fit OF
Jealousy. After shooting the woman,
Herrera killed himself by sending a
bullet through his heart. He died in
stantly.
Following the visit of President
Bush Of the Missouri Pacific and 9TH
er officers Of that system to Pueblo.
comes the announcement that this
road is soon to inaugurate a seventeen
hour train between Kansas City and
Pueblo.
Estimates on the Greeley potato
crop at the present time vary all .he
way from 60 per cent of a normal
yield to one made by wellknown deal
ers. who say that IL weather condi-
tions are right there will be a normal
crop, or about 5000 car loads.