The Springfield herald., 1911-02-17
LIrrLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
state Worth Telling.

Lee j Allen was found dead in his
room in Telluride.
Pueblo Is after the next state con-
vention OF the Y. NJ. G. A.
Fire originating in a hotel in Grand
Junction did $4,000 damage.
Interest is being renewed in the
mineral springs near Loveland.
Plans are on foot to issue 25. 900 book
let's advertising Boulder county.
A $4,000 ice and storage plant is
being erected in Grand Junction.
About eighty farmers attended the
Logan County Poultry Show at Ster-
ling.
Fresh ranch eggs have dropped in
price from As cents q dozen to Is
cents.
Wholesalers and jobbers in Grand
$750,00O.
Kersey is to have new creamery
il plans of the Commercial Club are
carried out.
The annual snowfall of the ranges
In northern Colorado is above the
FORMAL amount.
A mining company composed of six
girls will operate the Lucky Gus mine
at Cripple Creek.
The Haines apple orchard Of 1870
acres. near Grand Junction. has been
sold for 100000.
Thirteen families from Kansas have
rented sugar beet land in the vicinity
of Grand Junction.
Much interest is taken In the farm.
ers' institute to be held at Fort Col
Inns February 1926.
The Supreme Court of the state gave
Its final decision which makes North
Longmont dry territory.
The Grand Masonic lodge of Colora.
do officiated in laying the corner stone
Of the new Denver postoffice.
The Greeley women have organized
an automobile club with a chartec
membership of thirty.
In order that the range may be KEEP.
from scabies. cattle in the Eaton vi
cinity are being dipped.
John P. White. the new president OF
the United Mine Workers of America.
will visit Colorado In April.
Work has been begun on a stone
building on University hill In Boulder
for home for Chicago working girls.
Don't drink" is the personal mes.
sage from President Taft to the Sun
day school children of Grand juno.
tion.
Articles Of Incorporation of the Lar
inner County Fish and Game Associa
| ton have been filed with the secre
tary of state.
An ordinance has been passed at
Greeley raising the salaries of the
City Council. city engineer and street
commissioner.
The body Of George Hislin. well
known in Colorado City. was found
near Lake George horribly mutilated
by wild animals. -J-
The Texas OIL Company has pur
chased land in Denver and will at once
erect large storage tank and make
other improvements.
Frank Young of Greeley has been
offered a commission In the army OF
the insurrectionists Of Mexico at a
salary of $1,000 per month.
"An together" will be the slogan
with which the residents of the Grand
valley will battle with spring frosts to
save the 100000 fruit crop.
Three hundred members and guests
Of the New York society Of Colorado
attended the fourth annual ball and re.
union at the Albany hotel in Denver.
A consumers league may be organ.
lied in Greeley to encourage the buy.
ing Of Greeley-made goods. Business
men are In favor of the project.
Myron Chase Clark. president o:
Clark & Co.. of Chicago. one Of the
largest publishing houses of scientific
books in the country died in Colorado
Springs.
While returning home from dance
early in Russell gulch Tony Ramponi
ind Charles Deminick of Central
City was shot and seriously injured
with charge of heavy buckshot.
Frank Kosik, an Austrian aged TWEEN
ty-seven, was accidentlly shot and
killed near Leadville by Nathan Pad
dock, who was shooting at a coyote
and did not see Kosik.
At the farmers institute at Fruita 1t
was decided by unanimous vote of the
200 ranchers in attendance from all
over the lower part of the Grand val
ley to make 1t permanent and w. F.
Weckel was made president.
John Conner. agricultural superin-
tendent of the Windsor factory dis
trict, is authority for the statement
that 5000 acres or more Of beets have
been contracted for this season.
Pete Jensen the Battling Dane,"
who fights "Kid" Ross of New York
in Leadville, Feb. is, has been train.
ing with Jack O'Keefe at the National
Athletic Club daily.
A meeting similar to the grasshop-
per meetings on the eastern slope has
been called for February 25th at
F'ruita, when plans for concerted
fight against the codling moth will be
laid by the orchardists Of the Grand