The Colorado statesman., 1911-11-11
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS,
Small Happenings Occurring over the
State Worth While.


of Grand Junction, is dead.
The drys claim Grand Junction by
a majority of 400 votes.
A new negro educational institution
will be opened in Pueblo in 1912.
The people of Denver own $13,0O0i
900 worth of automobiles and motor
cycles.
Henry C. Oots, aged seventy Of Den
yer, was struck by a train in Greeley
and killed.
Several Weld county officials have
been indicted by the grand jury for
misconduct.
The new Catholic church of Sterling
has been dedicated, Bishop Matz OF
Denver officiating.
The search for oil. which has been
going on for some time near Greeley,
has been successful.
Platteville is preparing for the an
nual coyote hunt. in which 200 men
will take part, Nov. is.
The convention of the Home and
Foreign Mission Of the Methodist
church was held in Denver.
The Sterling High School football
team defeated the Brush High School
eleven by a score of 81 to o.
Mrs. Frank II. Gaughan, Leadville
pioneer, but a resident of Cripple
Creek for the last few years, is dead.
Sixty-five cases will come before the
federal grand jury impanelled in Den
yer by Judge r. e. Lewis Of the Unit
ed States Court.
The City Council of Pueblo has fixed
the tax levy for 1912 at 1873 mills,
reduction of six-tenths of mill over
the previous year.
A car shortage, which is causing
much trouble to fruit growers has
reached a climax, and from Montrose
to Grand Juction the situation is Sc
rious.
Russian thistle, the pest of the dry
land farmer, may be found to be of
use, for experiments are being made
near Keota with a view to determine
its food value for stock
Raphael Sarry and Antoine Bring
were precipitated into deep well and
ten feet of water at Trinidad when
pipe on which they were standing
broke, and Sarry was drowned.
Judge John w. Sheafor of Colorado
Springs sentenced Thomas Almond to
"a life term in the penitentiary. AL
mond was convicted of the murder OF
his brother-in-law, Victor H. Barger,
in Lincoln county.
Circulation of petitions have been
begun by members of the Citizens
party and the Direct Legislation
League of Denver for signatures for
special election on the commission
form of government
The second pay day at the Long
mont sugar factory, when the farmers
receive their money for the beets
which they have delivered, will occur
on November Is, and on that day
checks will be written to the amount
of $431,O00.
Two men dropping dead from heart
disease, one man believed mortally IN
iured by a stray bullet from a rifle
and another man near death from the
accidental discharge of his revolver is
the record for the Glenwood Springs
section for thirty hours.
The Supreme Court granted to
Frank Harold Henwood, slayer or 8
Louis Won Phul and George e. Cope
land. in Denver, now sentenced to life
Imprisonment at Canon City for the
latter killing, a writ of supersedeas,
which acts as stay of execution OF
the sentence until the court may re-
view the evidence in detail.
The grand jury of the November
term of the Federal Court has been
sworn in by Judge Robert e. Lewis In
Denver. and it's Investigations into al
Legged violations of the federal laws
has begun. About 200 witnesses have
been summoned by the marshal's Of
flee to testify in the various cases to
be investigated.
With 75S voting, out of total mem
bership of 1859, the Denver Chamber
of Commerce has gone on record IN ID
vor of a revision of the city charter,
providing for the introduction of such
reforms as direct primaries, short bal
lat, preferential system of voting,
headless ballot, elimination of national
politics in city elections and the re-
tention of the initiative, referendum
and recall, now part of the charter
Metalliferous mines of the West are
to be made the subject of strongly
croanized anneaI for recognition dur
ing the next Congress by members
from Western states. When the Bu'
reau of Mines was authorized by the
last Congress it was generally sup
posed that it's activities would cover
all mines When the new bureau got
down to work, it was found that actlv-
tiles were confined almost entirely to
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