The Colorado statesman., 1911-10-21
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
state Worth While.

Many members from over the state
attended the meeting of the grand
| lodge, l. o. o. F., in Denver.
The cornerstone of the new Park
Street Presbyterian church in Pueblo
was laid recently with appropriate
| ceremony.
Deputy sheriffs Slater, Hutchins'
and Kennedy, charged with creating
a disturbance Biscuit day at Erie
were heavily fined.
After twenty years residence in
Boulder county, Mrs. Theresa Benei-
tone. aged ninety, and her husband
John, left for Italy.
Hundreds of members of the Reju-
venated Sons of Joye attended the
national congress of the organization
in Denver.
Erie town wants the state ODD Eel
[ lows home and citizens made pro
position to give the order a 6O-acre
ranch, with improvements.
Fred Edwards, aged twenty-eight'
was terribly mangled in fly-wheel at
I the Golden Cycle mine at Grippe
/ Creek and died as a result.
BY being thrown from horse K.
Weyant, one Of the most prominent
men of Craig, sustained injuries which
will prove serious if not fatal.
For the first time since oct. mail
service was established between Du-
range and the east when mail left by
stage for Lumberton, n. M, so miles
east.
More than $50 pretty young women
students of the State Teachers Col
| lege, are taking a regular course in Bi-
bic study at nine different churches
in Greeley.
The annual revenue of Greeley for
the coming year will be $1OS,OOO, oil
which $4,000 will come from twen-
ty-miu levy and the remainder from
water rents.
The largest turkey shoot ever held
in northern Colorado occurs at Gill
Nov. 2S, under the auspices of the
Gill Gun Club. Every sportsman in
the state VIII be invited.
At the town election, Oak Creek
granted a franchise to John Sharpe
Of Cripple Creek for construction OF
water works and he will commence
the installation of $4,000 plant i'm
mediately.
Jim Flynn, the Pueblo fireman, who
came into the limelight recently by
knocking out Al kaufman and later
beating up Carl Morris, the Sapulpa
giant has gone to Chicago to fill
| theatrical engagement.
Supt. Fuller of the Roosevelt Deep
Drainage tunnel at Cripple Creek re-
ports that a new water course has
been encountered which will increase
the flow in the tunnel about 500 gal
Ions per minute.
A. c. Conlin, prominent mine own
er of Salt Lake, was probably fatally
wounded when stabbed in the back by
w. NJ. Mcdonald, a porter on Colo
RADIO Midland train, just as the train
arrived at Manitou.
George Morris, aged fifteen, gate
tender at the Minnequa steel works at
Pueblo, went to sleep on the track
just inside the plant yards, and was
run over by an ore car. Both legs
were severed at the knees and he died
two hours later.
Colorado consumers should receive
Immediately a reduction of so cents
per hundred pounds or one-half cent
pound on sugar, if the retailers give
the consumers the benefit of cut
made by the Great Western Sugar
Company.
After a conference with the Fire
and Police Board and Chief of Police
Armstrong. Mayor Speer of Denver is
sued an order that all cribs on Mar
ket street be vacated and the crib
system in Denver's red light district
go out of existence for good.
Colorado's gold production in 1910
amounted to $2O,526,5OO, as against
s21 SAG, 600 in 1909, according to re-
port made by the bureau of the mint
and geological survey. The silver pro-
duction for 1910 amounted to $685.
900, as against sS,S46,3OO in 1909.
The Colorado Springs police while
surprised at the similarity of the ELS
worth, Kan, murders with those in
that city recently, do not believe that
the murders have any connection.
They will take no steps to aid in the
hunt for the Ellsworth slayer unless
requested to do so.
The record of the depot station
agent at Idaho Springs show that 37l
round-trip tickets from that city to
Floyd Hill station were sold last
week to men employed at days pay,
or who have donated from one to
three days work on the new Floyd
Hill automobile road.
Interest is being awakened all over
the state by the sociability and endur-
ance automobile run from Denver to
New York, being fostered by the land
show committee Of the Denver Cham
ber of Commerce. Reports from many
cities of The state indicate that there