The Springfield herald., 1911-05-05
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
State Worth Telling.


Five inches of snow fell at Brecken-
ridge.
Ben Richards. miner. was found
dead at Pitkin.
The Pixies Peak road has been
opened to the public.
Two million tomatoes have been set
put near Grand Junction.
Robert A. Austin, ranchman. died
at his home near Alamosa.
A municipal lighting plant will be
established at Ault in the near future.
Farmers and business men of Buck.
Ingham have organized commercial
club.
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.
The business men of Idaho Springs
have formed Merchants Protective
Association.
A deadlock In the new City Council
at Wellington since its organization
has been broken.
Yeggmen made an unsuccessful at
tempt to blow the safe of the Johns
town postoffice.
Salida has raised $1,000 for the g.
A. r. encampment to be held there
June 6. 7 and 8.
The eighteen n-months.old son OF e.
c. Campbell Of Loveland. came near
dying from drinking gasoline.
The annual May Day festival at the
Agricultural college at Fort Collins
will take place Saturday, May 6.
The Stearns-Rogers Manufacturing
Company's plant in Pueblo was dam
aged by fire to the extent Of about
$500.
All railroads in the state will grant
a rate of one fare for the round trip
to the Colorado State Fair in Pueblo
this year.
Sheepmen of northern Colorado
will this year lose $150.000 or an aver
age of 81 per head on sheep fed for
market.
In the last intercollegiate debate of
the year. held in Boulder. the Univer.
sity OF South Dakota defeated the Uni.
versity of Colorado.
The Fort Logan baseball team de-
feated the Industrial School team at
Golden in loosely played game. by a
score of 13 to 6.
Senator Guggenheim has requested
the Indian office to investigate the
condition of the Jicarilla Indians in
southern Colorado.
Greeley is to be famed not only as
the home of the Greeley potato. but
of the dasheen, new vegetable re-
sembling the potato.
"Muggsy" School Of Cheyenne and
kid" Rose of La Junta are matched
for return go of twenty rounds at
Cheyenne, May 20.
By twisting their clothing into a
rope A. ]. Stearn and Paul Shubeck.
insane patients at the county poor
farm at Pueblo. escaped.
The Farmers union at Ault has
made remarkable growth during the
last month, having increased its mem
bership from seventy to 176.
The State Board OF Charities and
Corrections will oppose the bringing
Of a carload Of babies to Colorado by
a society of New York.
The annual convention of the Wo-
mems Christian Temperance Union
for the Twelfth district of Colorado
held two-days session in Canon City.
Several monster mass meetings will
be held in Pueblo May IA in observ-
ance of the three-hundrddth annivers-
ary of the King James version of the
Bible.
At a special election in Grand
junction voters approved $450,0O0
bond issue for immediate construction
of a municipal mountain water works
! system.
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.
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.
In report made by two special
agents of the land department. the
plan of setting aside Monument park
in Mesa county as a national park is
approved.
Eddie Johnson of Pueblo and Johnny
Murphy of Denver have been matched
for fifteen-round boxing exhibition be-
fore the Business Mems Athletic Asso'
citation at Alamosa, May 10.
Nearly 100000 is being expended
in eastern Weld county in the vicinity
of Masters and in Morgan county on
enlargements and improvements of
bitches.
If the present plans of the United
States surveyor general, Timothy
O'Connor, are carried out, four new
federal surveying parties will shortly
be added to the force already in the
field.
Fishing in Estes Park promises to
r., ,ood this snrinp and summer and