The Colorado statesman., 1911-04-08
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
state Worth Telling.

Chas. Beeman, a rancher near Cas-
tie Rock, committed suicide.
James II. Kay, resident of Denver
for twenty-three years, is dead
Louis Carlson, farmer, was held
up and robbed in Pueblo recently.
The North Park Rifle club has been
organized at Walden with fifteen men,
bers.
Georgetown was the only town in
the state that held an election Mon
day.
The annual state convention of the
Ladies of the Maccabees was held in
Denver.
Only one small bunch Of cattle show
any indications of scabies in the Gree
ley district.
The twenty-third annual meeting OF
the Pueblo Presbytery was held in
Colorado Springs.
The Teller Indian institute will be
permanently closed by the govern
ment on July 1st.
1t is likely that creamery will be
established in Kersey in connection
with the ice plant
For the first time in history there
will be no spring elections held this
year in Central City.
Canon City is making preparations
for the opening of the automobile
read along the Royal Gorge.
One hundred and twenty-five candi-
1otac ara IN ha initiated into tha NJ
o. w. on April 90 at Eaton.
One hundred Springfield rifles and
other equipment have arrived in Grand
Junction for Company F. c. N. G.
Jim Flynn of Pueblo has been
matched to meet Jeff Clark in box
ing bout at Joplin, Mo-, April Is.
The government is asking for bids
for carrying the mail between Cortez
and Moqui, the bids calling for two
trips a week.
Over 5000 aliens we're admitted to
Colorado during the year 1910, the
largest number admitted in the history
of the state.
Carl V. Rapp, an employe OF the
Grand Junction Fruit Growers Asso
citation, and his sister have fallen
heirs to one million dollars.
Some 500 acres of tomatoes have
been contracted for the cannery at
Ft. Lupton with 40 acres of pumpkins,
rs of beans and rs of sweet corn.
The annual Montorse Sunday school
convention is to be held in that city,
covering two days session, on Sat
urday and Sunday, April 30 and 80.
Hegina Martinez, miner employed
at Berwind, shot and killed Mrs.
Rita Trujillo, when the woman refused
to live with him, and then Killed him
self.
In order to supply the rapidly in
creasing demand and also because
crops were short last season, 100000
acres near Greeley will be placed to
alfalfa.
A heavy movement of Greeley po-
tatoes has been in progress for sever
al weeks, practically depicting the
stock and leaving only a few cars to
be sent out.
A mining prospector named John
Matter, living in the Whitehorn dis
trict, in the western part of Fremont
county, was adjudged insane and TAX
ell to Pueblo.
The Denver Motor Club is making
arrangements for one of the severest
endurance runs ever attempted in that
locality. The date has been fixed for
June to 10.
The liberal stopover privileges and
low summer rates which the railroads
nave announced for Colorado points
are expected to bring more tourists to
the Pixies Peak region than ever be-
fore.
Work along the inlet and outlet
bitches of the Milton reservoir near
Greeley has begun. Men and teams
are on the jof and the numbers will
be increased as other works get under
way.
Civil Service examinations for ac-
counting clerks will be May 10 and II.
Positions with salaries ranging from
$1,000 to $4,000 a year will be filled
from applicants passing these exami-
rations.
A contract for construction of the
east end of the Pueblo G. Southwest
ern railroad from the new town Of
Wilson to the st. Charles river will
be let Immediately. The road will be
thirty miles in length.
Charged with being implicated in
the robbery of the st. Johns Mercan-
tile Company of Fort Lupton, when
over $500 worth of goods were taken,
Thomas Dillon, James ODay and Glen
Rush were arrested at Louisville.
William G. Evans, president of the
Denver. Laramie & Northwestern rail
road, is in the East to resume nego-
tiations for financing the extension of