The Paonia progressive and the Paonia newspaper., 1911-08-10
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
email Happenings Occurring Over tho
state Worth While.

Eight referendum petitions nave
been filed with the secretary of state.
The United States smelter in Canon
City will open up again in sixty days.
The first term of District Court
for the new county Of Moffat, opened
at Craig.
Olathe will erect water works sys-
tenn to cost not over $65.000, immedi-
ately.
Sothrina West. age seventy-five
long a resident of Denver, died at
Briggsdale.
Thieves looted the Park cafe at
Trinidad and secured $500 and a large
quantity of liquor.
The state board is considering the
proposition OF investing the school
funds in irrigation projects.
Rocky Ford cantaloupes are begin
ming to arrive in Denver and are sell
ing at - to $3.50 a crate.
The trial of the negro. Bob Harris.
who killed the two marshals OF ROCKY
Ford has opened in La Junta.
OIL in paying quantities has been
found in at least fifty wells in Range
ley district, in Routt county.
Railway passenger and freight re-
ceipts at Gunnison are $25,OOO more
this year than in the previous year.
S. s. Kingsbury, the new head mas
ter of the State Preparatory School,
at Boulder, has arrived from Wichita,
Kan.
State Engineer Comstock is OF the
opinion that his office will be almost
self supporting under the new fee sys-
TEN.
Mrs. Annie Eliza Landrum OF Love
land has been declared insane and
committed to the Work Sanitarium In
Pueblo.
Not for eighteen months has work
on irrigation enterprises in Colorado
been pushed with so much activity as
at present.
]. ". Blake owns a garden spot near
Canon City, and from one acre OF
ground he marketed $4,000 pounds OF
early beans.
Mrs. C. NJ. Conrow is dead from the
effects of shock received when
lightning struck near Trinidad about
two weeks ago.
On the way from Denver to Fort
Worth, Texas. J. s. Camplain died on
Colorado & Southern passenger train
No. at Aguilar.
The Estes Park hotel was burned to
the ground. Within an hour after the
fire was discovered the entire building
burned. LOSS $4,000.
The First State bank OF Milliken has
reorganized and will be known as the
Weld County National bank. Its cap
ital has been increased to $4,000.
The first electrically operated fu-
nicular railroad ever built west of the
Mississippi river is being constructed
up the face OF Lookout mountain. Just
west of Golden.
A rich bed OF coal, vailed by Col.
]. A. Owenby at $1,5O0,000, has been
located on the property OF the Woot-
ton Land and Fuel Company fifteen
miles south OF Trinidad.
James English. who has been in a
Trinidad hospital since May 26. suffer
ing from paralysis caused by bullet
wound received in a saloon brawl at
Hastings, May IA, is dead.
The Masonic temple. at Montrose.
Just completed by the order at cost
OF s25.O0O has been occupied for the
first time by the lodge. 1t has three
stories and is fifty by 125 feet.
The largest real estate transaction
at Montrose for two months was
closed when Mrs. Lille 7. York sold
her ranch OF los acres to Peter Krogh
of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, for s6O.50O.
At the first annual flower exhibit CIV
en- by Loveland school children IL.
| handsome boquets made up from
flowers grown by the children this
year, were entered for variety OF
prizes.
The Victor Labor Day committee
has arranged to hold a broncho-bust-
ing contest in connection with the eel
ebration, for the worlds champion
ship belt. The belt has been secured
from Bud Mcdonald.
While two boys named Carr and
Trine we're playing with revolver
which they did not know was loaded.
at Gunnison, 1t was discharged. the
bullet striking the Carr boy in the
mouth. inflicting a painful wound.