The Colorado statesman., 1911-12-02
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
State Worth While.

a grand jury luNeSIBdlloh VI ehc
mint is scheduled.
The red light district in Pueblo Is
to be abolished.
The Idaho Springs Sanitarium has
been sold for 100000.
A Farmers Institute will be held in
Weld county Jan. 3 and 4.
Plumbing thieves are at work again
in the vacant houses of Denver
Two prominent men of Walsenbure
have been arrested for stealing sheep.
Money will be secured from Denver
capitalists to finish the Greeley-Poudre
irrigation project.
Ten thousand dollars have been
pledged for the building of a sugar
factory at Durango.
Greeley is to have roller skating
rink, but it will be conducted under the
direction of the city.
The total assessed valuation of the
city and county of Denver for the year
1911 is s135,O37,37O.
The Mexican, who murdered Bruce
Doyle Of Delta recently, has been cap
tured at Thompson Springs, Utah.
The mayor and city clerk of Denver
probably will move their offices from
the city hall to the court house ut
once.
The Arkansas Valley Commercial
Association held their annual meeting
in La Junta and elected officers for
another year.
Mrs. Mamie Mitchell, convicted at
Glenwood Springs of cattle stealing,
was denied a new trial by District
Judge Shumate.
Charles Olsen of Indianapolis defeat
ed Carl Becker of Maryland in a wres-
| tling match before a small crowd at
the Grand, in Pueblo
Pueblo people have appealed to the
attorney general to regulate the price
of coal, the local dealers in which are
| charged with discrimination.
Hundreds of families in Eastern
Colorado counties are destitute and
will have to be provided with food and
other necessities by charities.
AS a result of two raids made on
two gambling houses in Pueblo thir-
ten men are lodged in Jail to answer
to the charges of gambling.
A jury in the District Court at Glen
wood Springs. returned a verdict of
guilty of securing money under false
pretenses against A. B. Mccormick of
| Denver.
Elk meat brought from Wyoming
will be served to Grand Exalted Ruler
John P. Sullivan by Elks Lodge No.
500 at Colorado Springs on the occa,
sion of his official visit.
Drugs and chemicals of the estimat-
ed invoice value of $4,000, stored in
the basement of the Bergerman block
at Cripple Creek by the Enfield Drug
Company were damaged, If not de-
stroyed, by fire and water.
A committee has been appointed to
take charge of a campaign to raise
$40 900 to liquidate the present indebt-
edness of the Grand Junction y. M. Z.
A. The campaign will last three days
and will start Dec. 5.
Charles l.. Pickens, who says he
came originally from Eeadville, walked
into Chief Armstrong; office in Den
yer recently and confessed to the Kill
ing of John Walsh, a Leadville saloon
keeper. on the night of June "a, 1898.
over S1,OOO,O00 worth of the finest
timber land in the state has just been
opened by Grand Junction men by
means of five-mile steel cable from
the top of Mt Massive to the railwa5-
station at Norrie. This timber has
heretofore been inaccessible.
Judge John E. Little of the County
Court will deliver the eulogy at the
| memorial session of B. p. o. e. Lodge
No. 309. to be held at Colorado
Springs Sunday. The, address will be
given by Sterling B. Toney of Denver.
During the year twelve members OF the
lodge have died.
The chamber of commerce of Den
yer has appointed Gerald l.. Schuyler,
William Sach and DR.. ]. III. East as
its special representatives on the
BOARD of Associated Charities. The
chamber plans that hereafter all char'
ity of the chamber will be handled by
the Associated Charities.
Marcus Manzanares, Mexican re-
siding in Archuleta county, VIII
i serve from one to eight years IN the
penitentiary for the voluntary man
slaughter of Daniel Martinez, another
Mexican. The crime for which Man
zanares must serve sentence was COM
mitted in a free-for-all fight at Mex
lean dance near Arboles.
The La TERRA Ditch and Reservoir
Company has been organized IN Mont
rose with A. A. DennistQn president
W. A. Green secretary, and X. n.
Humphrey, treasurer. The company
seeks to reclaim 10000 acres OF land
ON Hosefly creek, fourteen miles south
of Montrose. The construction or TWO
Va g. .ba etoraqe of flood wa