The Colorado statesman., 1911-06-10
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth Telling.

season has opened.
The Gunnison river is at high-water
mark for the season.
The Grand Junction police in one
day rounded up 107 hoboes.
The Windsor Gun Club has been or
ganized andWill hold weekly matches
A movement has been started to
erect Masonic club house in Den
yer.
The first water system ever operat-
ed in Olathe has been put in commits
sion.
Mrs. Mary C. Ewing, aged SO, a resi-
dent of Greeley for twenty-five years,
is dead.
Work on the Burlington railroad be-
tween Greeley and Hudson will begin
July 1st.
Patrick Doran was killed in Denver
street car.
The thirty-five mile railroad from
Hotchkiss into Red canon now seems
to be assured.
The Weld County Farmers Union,
with a membership of 5000. has been
formally organized.
Denver is to have a festival of the
Mountains and Plains the last week
in September.
President Taft has been invited to
attend Colorado Springs anniversary
celebration July 81.
For the seventh time, John Conlou
has been elected president of the Den
yer Board of Aldermen.
The Gunnison Stock Growers Asso.
citation has decided to organize
county fair association.
Odd Fellows of northern Colorado
have organized the Northern Colorado
Odd Fellows Association.
From the effects of an overdose OF
laudanum. Charles Murray fell dead in
saloon in Cripple Creek.
Gunnison lodge. No. 49,. I. o. o. F..
is rapidly increasing in membership,
now numbering above 100.
Gov. Shafroth will be the principal
speaker at the dedication of the pio-
neer monument in Denver, June "a.
Mystery surrounds the killing OF
James Baer, who was shot to death
in Trinidad by an unknown party.
The Cheyenne Indians defeated the
Fort Collins Lamb Feeders in game
at Cheyenne by score of IL to 8.
The President, has nominated as
postmaster Dan c. Moore. Fort Lup-
tom Jessie d. Field, Hotchkiss.
Lee w. Kelso of Denver has been
appointed stenographer in the Navy
Department with station at Cavite.
Five Mexicans whe were arrested in
Fort Collins on charges of bootlegging
were convicted and fined from S100 to
$500.
Charles Blanchard, postmaster at
Brandon, has been arrested on a
charge of embezzling the funds of the
office.
The Steamboat Springs Townsite
Company expects to spend several
thousand dollars in improvements of
the springs.
Within the next six weeks twenty
mile link will be added to the Colora-
do-New Mexico highway between Trim
idad and Ration.
Preliminary steps have been taken
for reorganizing and financing the
Glenwood Hot Springs Company by
eastern capital.
Chas. Campbell of Cripple Creek,
charged with murder committed in
1908, was found guilty of involuntary
manslaughter.
Since the 1st of January VIM. Car
lyle of Cortez has marketed over s16O
worth Of eggs, and from a flock OF
less than 200 hens.
The City Council of La Sale ac-
cepted the offer of ]. B. McCutcheon
to give the city tract of ground to
be made into a park.
Governor Shafroth at the eleventh
hour placed his veto upon the bill pro-
viding for the registration of all cases
of tuberculosis in Colorado.
Sixty veterinarians from all parts
of the state attended the semi-annual
meeting of the Colorado Veterinary
Medical Association at Fort Collins.
The two-year-old baby girl of j. F.
Bell of Delta is dead and the mother
and father are in critical condi-
ton from some poison thought to have
been eaten in strawberries.
Hugh M. Smith was awarded $4,000
damages against the city of Pueblo
in District Court for injuries received
several months ago by fall from his
bicycle at the Union avenue bridge.
Representatives Rucker and Taylor
have introduced bills similar in terms
proposing to grant an additional mil
lion acres of land to the state of Col
orado under the provisions of the
Carey desert land act.
A reduction of four hours and fif-