The Colorado statesman., 1911-05-06
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
state Worth Telling.

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Ben Richards, a miner, was found
dead at Pitkin.
The Pixies Peak road has been
opened to the public.
Two million tomatoes have been set
out near Grand Junction.
A municipal lighting plant will be
established at Ault in the near future
Arrangements are complete for the
creamery and cheese factory at WIND
sor.
Boulder county is engaged in the
greatest road building work in its his
tory.
Crop conditions over the state are
much improved by the recent general
rain.
Frank Boyd, who helped build the
first smelter in Boulder county in 1873
is dead.
Final arrangements have been made
for the organization of boy scouts in
Longmont.
Fred Hustled, a pioneer iron worker,
aged fifty, committed suicide in Pueb
10 recently.
Four men said to be responsible for
many thefts from cars in Pueblo have
been arrested.
The Denver Association of Congrega-
tional churches met in Greeley in an
nual convention.
The State Normal school at Greeley
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to it's musical department
The new International State bank
of Trinidad, with capital of 100000
has opened for business.
The Rankin Paving, Brick and Clay
Company of Boulder, with a capital OF
100000, has been incorporated.
AS the result of a scratch while shoe
ing horse Harry l.. Hiatt, pionee.
resident of Grand Junction, died.
After working hard for eight years
in hope of securing a cannery, Grand
Junction it as far from it as ever.
A pioneer and civic parade is to be
one of the features of the celebration
in Colorado Springs July 30-Aug. 2.
At the school election in Holyoke it
was voted to buld a $4,000 high
school building during the coming
year.
A. E. Sheldon a cattleman of Ne
braska, and X. J. Dobell of Denver
have decided to start a national bank
at Fort Lupton.
Greeley is to be famed not only as
g httt
of the dasheen, new vegetable re-
sembling the potato.
BY twisting their clothing into a
rope A. J. Stearn and Paul Shubeck,
insane patients at the county poor
farm at Pueblo, escaped.
Rev. George Redell vosburg, pastor
of the First Baptist church of Denver,
the largest of its denomination in the
state, rendered his resignation.
Three students of the Agricultural
college at Fort Collins who graduate
with this years class have been Of
fered good government positions.
After eluding the sheriff for two
weeks, Arthur Cooper has been arrest
ed for rolling rocks down the noun
tain in Williams canon, near Manitou.
An investigation made by the fac
ulty into the alleged gambling among
high school students of Grand Junction
has failed to find foundation for the
charges.
The secretary of the interior will
grant hearing May IL to the conflict
ing interests in the matter of the pro
posed reclamation projects in the
Grand valley.
The Collbran Fish and Game Club.
Mesa county's fashionable sporting as
sociation, has organized for the sum-
mer with More Fish for the Fisher
man" as it's motto.
Within the next ten days, force of
500 men will be placed in the field
and the United States Geological Sur
vey will resume work on the topo.
graphical mapping of the state.
F. A. Ordman, prominent ranch
man of Semper, was shot twice
through the abdomen by F. H. Kenne-
dy, a steam shovelman on the Stand.
ley lake dam, near Boulder.
Boulder claims the record for the
largest hens egg ever laid. The speci
men in question weighs three and one
half ounces, is six and one-half inches
around the center and fifteen inches
around its long axis.
With kit of burglars tools, small
can of dynamite and 800 pennies in his
possession, a man giving the name OF
Joseph Carter of Los Angeles, Cal.
was arrested in Grand junction after
a battle with the police.
Rev. H. NJ Pingree, pastor of La
mar church, has been appointed chap.
lain of the Second regiment, Colorado
National Guard, which includes COM
panies at Grand Junction, Montrose.
Trinidad, La Junta and elsewhere.
For the month of April, the report
of +bo nanvar noctoffice shows an in