The Colorado statesman., 1911-04-15
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
state Worth Telling.


David Koontz, a Colorado pioneer,
died at Ault recently.
Greeley potatoes have advanced to
$3.50 per 100 pounds.
The Trinidad postofflce win hereaft-
er be closed on Sunday.
The postoffice at Montrose will here
after be closed ON Sundays.
Richard Shelves, pioneer and prom
lnent miner of Boulder, is dead.
The Union Pacific is to spend at
least 100000 on building at Fort Col
Inns.
Farmers throughout the state are ju-
bilant of the prospects of a prolific
year.
VIM. Bird Johnson, a resident of
Colorado since 1862, died in Denver
recently.
Jerry Campbell was killed in the
Happy Year mine at Cripple Creek by
cavein.
Pueblo's next election to select dele
gates to a charter convention will be
held June 1.
Robert Archibald of Trinidad, C..
F. & /. superintendent at Sopris, died
in Pueblo.
The majority of farmers who fed
sheep the past winter lost so cents to
s1.00 a head.
The fortieth anniversary of the
founding of Colorado Springs will be
celebrated on July 81.
Leo Hay, aged seven, of Pueblo, was
fatally injured when heavy coal wag-
on passed over his body.
A deal has been closed in the Grand
valley of Colorado for 112 acres of
fruit land at price of $4,000.
Arrangements are practically COM
plete for the annual Chautauqua at
Greeley from July Sth to 18th.
Caught under tons of falling rock in
the Baum mine, at Frederick, S. Nor
nanz, Bulgarian, was instantly killed.
More than $4,000 will be given in
purses for races at the state fair,
which will he beld in Pueblo next Sep
tember
Wednesday, April 26th, has been de-
cided upon as the date for the dedica-
ton of the new Masonic temple at
Trinidad.
When the miners of Cripple Creek
district received their pay checks re-
Gently, the total amounted to over
100000.
Bert Hanna is at a Leadville hospital
with a bullet through his jaw and
Frank Dutro is in Jail, charged with
the shooting.
The wagon road from Cripple Creek
to Canon City, blocked for four days
by landslide near the Roosevelt tun-
mel, is open.
The record of a sale of three min
ing claims in what is known as the
Carter mining district, near Mason
vile, for $50 900, has been filed.
The new county of Moffat, created
from the western two-thirds of Routt
county by act of the Eighteenth Gen
eral Assembly, is in full swing.
More than 100000 fruit trees have
been set out in Pueblo county this
year and fully as many more will be
set out before the season is ended.
Never in the history of the horticul-
tural industry of the Canon City dis
trict have the prospects for big fruit
crop been so encouraging as at pres
ent.
The county commissioners have or
dered the construction of bridge at
Clifton to cost $4,000, contingent on
an appropriation from the state Legis-
lature.
Mrs Frieda Wolter, wife of Joseph
Wolter, a motorcycle racer, well
known in Denver and its vicinity is
dead as the result of an explosion of
gasoline.
The police department is investigat'
ing the public dance halls of Denver
and if it's Investigations confirm com
plants that have been received, the
halls will be closed.
Harry R. Porter has been arrested
in Denver on a charge of counterfeit
ing money. 1t is believed he has
made and circulated queer" coin in
Denver for several years.
The fine twenty-acre apple orchard
belonging to James l.. Hamilton, near
Grand Junction, has been sold to
Harry l.. Weaver of Detroit, Mich, for
a consideration of $4,000.
Unless the State Supreme Court
should grant a stay of execution.
Louis Wechter, the murderer of w.
Clifford Burrowes, will be hanged
some time between July 23 and 30.
Tuesday evening, April 18th, the I'm.
proved Order of Red Men will give
demonstration and street parade in
Denver, which will be characteristic
of the aborigines.
AS soon as Mrs. Marcia McClurg,
daughter of the late David H. Moffat,