The Springfield herald., 1911-02-10
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
state Worth Telling.

Plans for Fairgrounds in Colorado
springs will soon materialize.
The Ingleville mine at Trinidad has
suspended operations Indefinitely.
The business men OF Grand Junction
Lave organized social club.
The total tax levy for 1910 In Rio
Grande county is $140,9O4.10.
An ice gorge In Fertilization creek
near Craig did considerable damage.
Mrs. Irene Robinson, resident OF
Weld county for thirty years. is dead.
Mrs. w. H. Conklin. aged Sc. and
resident of Sterling for thirty years, is
dead.
The past month was the warmest
and driest January in Colorado since
1872.
Chas. Jones of Plateau raised oats
that weighed sixty-eight pounds per
bushel.
Greeley has organized a motor
cycle club with a charter membership
of twenty.
Greeley has sold more Red Cross
stamps than any town of its size in
the state.
The residence OF William Orwig In
North Cripple Creek was burned, with
loss of $1,000.
DR.. T. ]. Estill. prominent ply
sician and pioneer of Colorado
Springs. is dead.
The corner stone of the new federal
building in Denver will be laid in the
near future.
Denver has "San Francisco, 1915"
club, probably the first organized in
the country.
Cars of potatoes shipped from
Greeley to Juarez. Mex, have been
broken into and stolen.
Senator Barela's ranch near Trini-
dad. consisting of 2.4OO acres. has
been sold for $4,000.
Sadie Carter of Pueblo has made
application for position on the fire
department OF that city.
The safe of a lumber concern at
Gilcrest was cracked by yeggmen
but no money was secured.
Gov. Shafroth says he will not sign
bill which raises salaries.
The Colorado & Southern has signed
a contract for joint use of the Santa
Fe track from Pueblo to Denver.
If plans of an Eastern company are
carried out, Milliken will have to-
mato cannnery costing $4,000.
Northern Colorado farmers have
begun prospecting for grasshopper
cggs by plowing around the edges of
their fields.
Except Wyoming and Nevada. Colo
rado has a larger area of surveyed
lands not homesteaded than any state
in the union.
By shooting herself through the
head at her home in Denver Mrs.
Nellie Dellacqua, rs years old. COM
mitted suicide. t
Work soon will begin on the new
flour mill at Milliken and it will han
die this years crop, with capacity of
l25 barrels day.
Change of venue in the damage suit
against the city of Pueblo by the Pueb-
10 Water Supply Company for $780,
600 has been denied.
The San Luis Oil and Gas Com
pany struck oil of excellent quality
at depth of $50 feet eight miles
northeast of Alamosa.
Finishing touches are being put on
the lines which will complete the
great high tension loop of the North
ern Colorado Power Company
With mighty rush of water por
ton of the intake to the Empire res
eIvoir at Hardin was torn out, wash
ing away 500 feet of embankment.
Members of the faculty of the State
should have larger salaries and have
asked the regents for an increase.
Telegraph messages by telephone
without extra charge for the telephone
connection is now possible from all
stations of the Colorado Telephone
Company.
A fine of $1O0 and costs each was
imposed by District Judge Hunter at
Trinidad upon thirty-nine saloonkeep-
ors arrested in October for violating
the Sunday law.
Final arrangements have been COM
pleted for the first triangular debate
between the universities of Colorado,
Kansas and Oklahoma, to take place
probably March 18th.
The jury in the case of the people
against Charles Silver at Sterling, re-
turned a verdict of not guilty of any
OF the four indictments charging him
with embezzling city funds while city
clerk.
Auditor of State NJ. A. Leddy has
rotified all county treasurers that the
permission to pay all taxes in May
without interest penalty does not COM
ply with the law, and that hereafter
strict observance Of the law will be
expected.
Joe McCray of Longmont died at
Amarillo, Texas, as the result of in
jur!es received in wrestling match
at that place with Harry Mayes of
Mayo. Texas.
Greeley paid homage to the mem