The Colorado statesman., 1911-03-04
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
State Worth Telling.

john olOheS, one Oh I'utDlO OiuSol
citizens, is dead.
Fruita will have local option cleo
tion on April 4th.
Virgil w. Stoddard, a pioneer of
Loveland, died suddenly at his home.
1t is probable Denver will get the
National Republican convention in
1912.
Mrs. Alden Cantonwine, pioneer of
Longmont, is dead. She was AZ years
old.
A baseball team is being organized
in Grand Junction to play the Boston
Red Sox.
The Denver police are endeavoring
to put stop to gambling among
Greek residents.
Work on the new elevator at Wat
tenburg, capacity 10000 bushels, VIII
be commenced.
Fire destroyed the plant of the Colo
RADIO City Ice & Coal Company, with
loss of $4,000.
In the Telluride mining section
there is from eight to thirty feet of
snow on the level.
The last work ON the Orchard Mesa
! irrigation system, Grand Junction, has
been completed.
For every $1,000 tons of coal mined
last year in Colorado the life of a min
er was sacrificed.
Freeman Butler, aged &c, pioneer
of that section, died at his home near
Windsor. of paralysis.
The Wellington section is enjoying
the novelty of sleighing for the first
time in several years.
Mrs. Mary J. Highly, aged 70, and
one of the pioneers of the Greeley dis
trict, died of pneumonia.
The students of the Grand Junction
high school have set March 18th as
the date for the first cross-country
run.
The Gunnison County Stock Grow
ers' Association will give its annual
ball and banquet in Gunnison March
31th.
Drillers at the oil well, mile east
of Lamar, have penetrated the oil
sand and will shoot the well in a few
days.
Two thoroughbred Llewellyn set.
ters, valued at $4,000 and belonging to
Chas. Woodford of Pueblo, have been
stolen.
Gross earnings of the Denver City
Tramway Company for it's fiscal year
ending December 80. 1910, were 3d.
595,157.
Mrs. Eta Smart, cashier in dry
goods store in Colorado Springs, has
been arrested charged with theft of
$4,000.
An election providing a bond issue
of $24,500 for the erection of new
high school building was held in Grand
Junction recently.
A. Hughes, farmer residing near
Boone, has been awarded damages of
SIS against the Twin Lakes Land and
Water Company.
An attempt will be made by ten
boosters for the Y. M. c. A. to raise
$4,000 to be used in organizing an as
sociation at Montrose.
Thos. Jenkins and Eugene Hawkey,
two boys who were lost in the Royal
Gorge during a recent snowstorm
have been found.
Clifford Pinchot will come to Colo.
RADIO to help the citizens to properly
celebrate the new state holiday-Colo-
RADIO day, August 1. That is, he will
come-maybe.
Special trains of tourist cars to han
die the colonist business which is ex-
pected to develop from the East to the
Pacific coast will be used by the
Union Pacific.
A district meeting of the Religious
Educational Association will be held
in Greeley April 9th to 10th. 1t will
be the first of its kind held in this
section of the United States
The official report of the Colorado
State Board of Barber Examiners for
the two years ending November 80,
1910, states that there are 1868 bar
bers doing business in the state.
Beet growers in the Loveland dis
trict have signed contracts for 1000
acres for the coming season. Only
5000 acres was grown last year. The
total acreage desired this year is TO-
600 to 11,000.
The grand jury that held sessions in
Denver a couple of months ago made
a sad mess of things. Practically
every indictment of significance re-
turned by that body has been quashed
in the District Court.
The society ladies of Montrose. who
compose the membership of the Civic
Improvement League, will turn scav-
engers this spring to demonstrate to
the public that it is possible to keep
city alleys clean and slightly.
The Western Slope Traffic bureau,
composed of all fruit growers asso-
ciations in western Colorado has been