The Raymer enterprise., 1911-08-10
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

Gisul referendum petltlonS nave
been filed with the secretary of state.
The United States smelter in Canon
City will open up again in sixty days.
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 $4,000, immedi.
ately.
Sothrina West, age seventy.flve
long a resident of Denver, died at
Briggsdale.
Thieves looted the Park cafe at
Trinidad and secured $4OO and large
quantity of liquor.
The state board is considering the
proposition of investing the school
funds in irrigation projects.
Rocky Ford cantaloupes are begin
ming to arrive in Denver and are SELL
ing at 81 to $3.50 crate.
The trial Of the negro, Bob Harris.
who killed the two marshals of Rocky
Ford has opened in La Junta.
OIL in paying quantities has been
found in at least fifty wells in Range.
ley district, in Routt county.
Railway passenger and freight re.
ceipts at Gunnison are $25,OOO more
this year than in the previous year.
S. S. Kingsbury. the new head mas.
ter Of the State Preparatory School,
at Boulder, has arrived from Wichita,
Kan.
State Engineer Comstock is of the
opinion that his office will be almost
self supporting under the new fee sys-
TEN.
Mrs. Annie Eliza Landrum of Love.
land has been declared insane and
committed to the Work Sanitarium in
Pueblo.
Not for eighteen months has work
on irrigation enterprises in Colorado
been pushed with so much activity as
at present.
j. V. Blake owns garden spot near
CaIon City, and from one acre Of
ground he marketed $4,000 pounds OF
early beans.
Mrs. c. NJ. Conrow Is dead from the
effects of a shock received when
lightning struck near Trinidad about
two weeks ago.
On the way from Denver to Fort
Worth, Texas, ]. S. Camplain died on
Colorado & Southern passenger train
No. 2 at Aguilar.
The Estes Park hotel was burned to
the ground. Within an hour after the
fire was discovered the entire building
burned. Loss $4,000.
The First State bank of Milliken has
reorganlzed and will be known as the
Weld County National bank. Its cap.
ital has been increased to s25,OO0.
The first electrically operated fu.
nicular railroad ever built west ol the
Mississippi river Is being constructed
up the face of Lookout mountain, just
west of Golden.
A rich bed Of coal, valued by Col.
J. A. Owenby at $l,500,000, has been
located on the property of the Woot.
ton Land and Fuel Company fifteen
miles south of Trinidad.
James English. who has been In Il
Trinidad hospital since May 2C. suffer.
ing from paralysis caused by bullet
wound received in a saloon brawl at
Hastings, May IA, is dead.
The Masonic temple, at Montrose,
just completed by the order at cost
OF s25,OOO has been occupied for the
first time by the lodge. 1t has three
stories and is fifty by 125 feet.
The largest real estate transaction
closed when Mrs. Lille T York sold
her ranch Of l05 acres to Peter Krogh
Of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. for $GO,5OO.
At the first annual flower exhibit Civ.
en- by Loyeland school children ~.
handsome boquets made up from
flowers grown by the children this
year. were entered for variety o.
prizes.
The Victor Labor Day committee
has arranged to hold a bronchO.bust.
Ing contest In connection with the Gel.
ebration. for the worlds champion.
ship belt. The belt has been secured
from Bud Mcdonald.
While two boys named Carr AMI
Trlne were playing with a revolver
which they did not know was loaded,
ut Gunnlson, II was discharged, the
bullet striking the Carr boy In the
mouth. lnflicting painful wound.
For failure to answer truthful,
questions mailed to prospective Jurors
by Jury Commissioner Alexander Mes.
bit, OF Denver. or for failure to obey
jury summons, a fine OF $50 will be
imposed for each and every offense.
An invitation to visit Denver imme.
diately after his trip to Cheyenne has
been sent to Postmaster General Frank
a. a. Al 4. ~