The Springfield herald., 1911-03-10
LIrTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
state Worth Telling.

Work on the state road up Ute Pass,
Manitou is progressing.
Mrs. p Tngue of Red Cliff has been
appointed county judge of Eagle coun-
ty.
A petition to dissolve the municipal
corporation of North Longmont has
been filed.
A movement has been started to
build school of psychic research at
Crystola.
Leonora Acosta, 3 years old. died at
Trinidad of hydrophobia. She was
bitten by dog.
Fire destroyed the plant of the Colo
RADIO City Ice G Coal Company, with
loss of $4,000.
Dan Patch, the famous PAGER, will
give exhibition heats during the next
state fair at Pueblo.
The Boulder postoffice Will here
after be closed on Sunday by order of
the postmaster general.
Mrs. Mary J. Highly. aged 79. and
one of the pioneers of the Greeley dis
trict, died of pneumonia.
1t is probable that Weld county will
get its photographic survey from the
government next summer.
The Senate has confirmed the nomi-
nation of Dewey C. Barley as United
States marshal for Colorado.
L. j. Seville has been appointed
postmaster at Eden. Pueblo county.
vice F. S. Barnard, resigned.
More than $50 members were added
to the Y. NJ. C. A. by the nine-day
campaign at Colorado Springs.
Awards fixed by the appraisers upon
property involved in Denvers Civic
Center project total $2,523, ,463.10.
AS result of pairing corn with
razor. A. T. Weidlund of Greeley. lest
his left leg below the knee by ampu-
tation.
The farmers of Spring Creek mesa,
two miles west of Montrose, are being
supplied with electricity from the city
plant.
The biggest snowslide in that sec.
tion for some time has occurred eight
miles north of Silverton. blocking the
railroad.
w. l.. Sutton of Parkdale, section
foreman for the Rio Grande, was seri-
ously injured by landslide in the
Royal Gorge.
A Santa Fe freight engine blew up
at Earl station near La Junta, injur-
ing George F. Brown. conductor. so
seriously that he died.
Much work is being done near Mead
in the way of reservoir building along
draws where water will be impounded
for irrigation of fertile lands adjacent
to the settlement.
The Senate committee on public
buildings reported favorabiy Senator
Guggenheim's bill appropriating $15,-
900 for purchasing site for public
building at Glenwood Springs.
The City Council of Montrose has de-
cided to submit to voters at the COM
irg municipal election the question of
establishing commission form of
government.
The officials of the Western Slope
Development Congress have issued
comprehensive call for the second an
Eual convention of the Congress to be
held at Delta, Colo, March 1928.
Every man his own lawyer" proved
costly to Dr. W. C. Lucas, who pleaded
guilty to the illegal sale of liquor in
District Court in Colorado Springs
and was fined s25 and costs, totaling
$92.
A decline of $40, 100000 in nine years
in the output of Colorado mines is
largely attributed to excessive taxes
placed on mining properties in this
state, according to report submitted
to the Denver Chamber of Commerce
at its weekly meeting by its mines
and mining committee.
The sundry civil appropriation bill
as passed carried building appropria-
ton items as follows: Colorado
Denver, continuation of building, ST.
100000; Colorado Springs, completion
of federal building, $4,000; Durango,
for site, $4,000; Fort Collins, site and
completion of building. 100000; Fort
Morgan. site. $4,000; La Junta, site
and commencement, 10000.
The first strawberries of the season
are ripe. They were raised by C. V.
Wasson of Grand Junction, on his
ranch in the Pomona district and he
expects to have enough for shipping
to market within few weeks. The
early berries are due to short
season of warm weather, and the fact
that they were well covered, as they
ripened without being put under glass.
George Sykes, an apple man of Chi
cago, is in the city for few days,
and he says that Colorado should de-
vote her time to the raising of the
Jonathan apple, as she excels all other
states in the production of that va
riety. Mr.. Sykes says the Jonathans
which Colorado raises are in great de-
mand an over the East( and that no
other apple produced in this state is
equal to it.
The Colorado C Southern railroad is
two months ahead of time on the con-
struction of the new double-track line
between Pueblo and Walsenbulg, &,
which is being built Jointly by that
company and the Denver & Rio
Grande.