The Colorado statesman., 1911-06-24
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
State Worth Telling.

sisterhood met In Greeley.
The woodmen Log Rolling at Eads
recently was well attended.
postal savings bank will be In
stalled in Alamosa July 1st.
Montrose committees have raised
$4,000 for 4th of July celebration.
There has recently been opened In
Oak Creek a new, modern hotel.
Ridgway has raised $500 with which
to entertain the people on July 4th.
Rocky Ford parties are figuring on
putting in a moving picture show at
Swink.
After three attempts. Mike Logan OF
Salida, has succeeded in taking his
own life.
The churches of La Junta will unite
in a union Fourth of July celebration
and picnic.
in Pueblo, Patrolman J. A. Grady was
badly cut.
1t is reported that another oil drill
is to be put to work near Battle ROCK
Montezuma county.
Quite a good many Kiowa county
young men have gone to the Kansas
harvest fields.
The 500-acre field of flax east OF
Brandon is growing nicely and was
not hurt by the dry weather.
The Cheyenne Indians defeated the
Trinidad ball team in game at Chey-
enne by score of to 1.
Out of a total of $4,000 acres of
beets in Weld county, 1000 have been
lost through lack of moisture.
L. NJ. Anderson, convicted of check
forgeries at Pueblo, was given three
to five years in the penitentiary.
Beginning in June. 1912, the Uni
versity of Colorado, at Boulder, Will
offer postgraduate course in Opthal-
mology.
Luciano Magano, an employe of the
Santa Fe, was stabbed to death at
Castle Rock, Guadalupe. Gonzales is
in jail.
Two hundred and fourteen candi-
dates received degrees at the Uni
versity of Colorado, at Boulder on
June 7th.
The annual session of the Eight
eenth Normal Institute district Will
be held in Lamar from July 21st to
August 18th.
Rock and Piney creeks have re-
Gently been supplied with about 10000
young trout from the fish hatchery IN
Routt county.
In the case of Wiltze Smith charged.
with killing A. e. Black the jury re-
turned verdict of not guilty in the
court at Breckenridge.
The Yampa Valley mine, near Oak
creek has been working regularly On
half time, but with new improvements
will now work full time.
An unidentified man. supposedly an
Italian, committed suicide on the Mis-
souri, Pacific tracks a short dis
tance east of Pueblo by shooting.
Judge S. W. Parker, who formerly
resided at Olney Springs, and one
time Judge of the Otero County Court,
died at his home at Modesto, Cal.
The Steamboat Springs Strawberry
& Produce Association has ordered
10000 quart crates and 100000 quart
boxes for this seasons strawberry
crop.
At the recent Log Rolling of the
Modern Woodmen of Kiowa county,
Fowler. Sheridan Lake, Chivington,
Eads, Galatea, Haswell and Arlington
were well represented.
Greeley, known all over the world
for the quality of its potatoes and its
large output, is in the midst of spu
famine, the like of which has never
been known there.
Two convicts recently escaped from
the pepitentiary at Canon City and
after remaining in hiding for several
days without food returned to prison
and gave themselves up.
C. M. Daughtry, of Trinidad, claims
that one of his hens has laid the larg-
est egg Las Animas county ever pro-
duced. 1t measures seven and
quarter by eight and half inches.
Senator Guggenheim presented in
the Senate a resolution adopted by
the Colorado Legislature fayoring a
grant to the state of an additional mil
lion acres of land under the Carey
act.
Work on the new high-line tele-
phone system out of Brandon is being
built north and the line will be built
south in the near future, when connec-
tions can be had with Lamar and
other points.
Farmers along the Arkansas in
Pueblo county are happy at having
their bitches filled for the first time
since last September. A heavy rain
up the river caused a rise of three
feet and sent the water through all
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