The Colorado statesman., 1911-04-01
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
state Worth Telling.


is dead.
A branch of the Boy Scouts has
been organized at Fort Collins.
Hon. l.. ii. Dickson was found dead
in bed at his home in Longmont.
The Colorado Postmaster's conven-
tion will be held in Denver May 18th.
One day was recently devoted to
cleaning up the city of Grand juno
tion.
So far as known Ault has the only
boys band in the county. 1t was or
ganized recently.
Palisade country shows the crop has
not been damaged.
II. X Mcclure was found dead in
his cabin in South Cripple Creek by
neighbors, recently.
Word has begun on the $4,000
Elks club at Greeley and will be fin
ished by June 18th.
Ed East. proprietor of Trinidad
store, met with a serious injury in a
runaway near Aguilar.
A two-hour service from Fort Col
Inns to Denver has been promised
over the Union Pacific.
David Fander is dead in Cripple
Creek from injuries received in L
mine explosion recently.
The Rocky Mountain Limited on
the Rock Island will be resumed out
of Pueblo April End.
Sales of about $125.0O0 worth of
Colorado land in the Greeley district
have been made recently.
Miss Martha Stevenson of Yampa is
on trial at Steamboat Springs, on
charge of stealing cattle.
Archie Marston of Cedar Ridge has
been appointed assistant inspector in
the bureau of animal industry.
The War Department will permit
three Colorado National Guard offi-
GERS to attend the war maneuvers in
Texas.
An artificial ice plant to cost $4,000
will be built Immediately by a COM
pany composed of local men at Ker-
sey.
The postoffice department has is
sued an order establishing an addi-
tional postoffice station at Colorado
Springs.
The Santa Fe railroad is surveying
for circle road for hauling freight
around Pueblo, instead of through the
business section.
Segundo, a mining camp about
twenty miles from Trinidad, is stirred
I'D by a recent BLACK Hand" attempt
to extort money.
The increase in the number OF
names in the Denver city directory
this year over last will be 6,569, ac-
cording to the publishers.
The young ladies of Black Hawk
raised the sum of s125 for the pur-
chase of flag to be presented to the
Black Hawk fire department.
The economy streak of Uncle Sam
has reached Denver. Orders are out
for reduction in the cost of main
tanning the office of the surveyor gen.
eral
The Loveland Race Track Associa-
ton turned over the property of the
land will probably be sold for fruit
tract.
James NJ Wright & Co., of Denver.
have purchased the Grand Junction
high school bonds for s24.50O and the
school refunding bonds for S31,500.
The safe of the Hallack Lumber
Company at Sterling was blown by
burglars and about $50 in money and
stamps taken. The safe was de-
stroyed.
Farmers of the Keota country are
planning to hold fair next fall and
will pay especial attention to certain
plots on which they expect to raise
prize vegetables and grain.
The Colorado Telephone Company
has been placed under the jurisdiction
of the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion by an order from Washington,
issued March goth.
A sailing station will be established
at Milliken where cucumbers from
$50 acres will be picked. Arrange
ments have been made for the build
ing and the acreage contracted.
The following Colorado applicants
have been appointed railway mail
clerks; Edwin G. Lighter, Fort Col
Inns: Albert Bellows, Canon City;
Millard Burrs, Colorado Springs.
James Mitchell and Charles Will
liams, two of the most notorious
yeggmen in the country, who belonged
to a gang that terrorized Colorado
from 1905 to 1907, have been ar
rested in Denver.
1t. looks as if Colorado will have
another big fruit crop this year. Mar
tha A. Shute. secretary of the state
board of horticulture, has already
through district inspectors, reports
from number of the big fruit pro-
ducing counties of the state and the