The Colorado statesman., 1911-02-04
LITTLE. COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
state Worth Telling.


Mrs. w. II. Conklin. aged 56, and a
resident of Sterling for thirty years. is
dead.
Greeley has organized a motor
cycle club with a charter membership
of twenty.
Walter Cheney of Leadville, with
his bare hands captured a bobcat and
Gagged It.
The residence of William orwig in
loss of $1,000.
Monte Vista has raised the 100000
necessary to secure the new sugar
beet factory.
Denver has a "San Francisco, 1915"
club. probably the first organized in
the country.
Sadie Carter of Pueblo has made
application for a position on the fire
department of that city.
The Colorado & Southern has signed
contract for joint use of the Santa
Fe track from Pueblo to Denver.
The Pullman Company will probably
reopen the old shops in Denver, en-
chinery.
In the wrestling match in Denver re-
Gently between Hackenschmidt and
Westerguard, the former won after
hard contest.
James White, a veteran of the Civil
War, pioneer OF Georgetown and a
resident of Clear Caeek county since
1872, is dead
BY shooting herself through the
head at her home in Denver Mrs.
Nellie Dellacqua, rs years old, com
mitted suicide.
The sixth annual banquet of former
Fennsylvanians now resident in Den
yer was held at the Brown Palace ho-
tel January 30th.
Several settlements of Oklahoma
farmers will be established in the
Grow Creek district, east of Greeley,
next spring.
The San Luis Oil and Gas Com
pany struck oil of excellent quality
at depth of $50 feet eight miles
northeast of Alamosa.
The new pavilion erected under the
renee was formally opened recently
with big dance.
With a mighty rush of water a por-
ton of the intake to the Empire res
ervoir at Harbin was torn out, wash
ing away 500 feet of embankment.
After thirty years active service in
the Union National bank of Greeley
as bookkeeper and cashier. Miss Flor
ence Gill has retired to take her first
vacation.
After three days session at the Al
bany hotel in Denver, the annual CON
vention of the Colorado Retail Hard.
ware G. Implement Association came
to a close.
Joe McCray of Longmont died at
Amarillo, Texas, as the result of in
juries received in wrestling match
at that place with Harry Mayes of
Mayo, Texas.
A fine of $100 and costs each was
imposed by District Judge Hunter at
Trinidad upon thirty-nine saloonkeep-
ers arrested in October for violating
the Sunday law.
AS the result of an alteration over
mining matters. c. B. Baker shot and
1t is believed fatally wounded David
Parks, at Copperfield, in the western
part of Fremont county.
The first batch of deeds of trans
fer of real estate to the Colorado IL
Southern railroad for its right of way
for the Wellington-Cheyenne connect
ing link has been filed with the coun-
ly clerk for record at Fort Collins.
That by June there will be a high
way between Denver and some of the
Western cities of Nebraska is the
statement made by C. P. Allen, chair
man of the State Highway Commits
sion.
A report from the corn show at Co.
lumbus, Ohio, gives A. M. Shay OF
Greeley the national sweepstakes for
soft wheat. Clifford Davis of Long
mont took third honors on sheaf
wheat.
In the recent state bar examination
In Denver, the results of which were
announced recently, the highest per-
centage made by any of the twenty
six applicants was made by Butler Dis
man of Salida, his percentage being
SS.2.
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
Three records were broken during
January, according to the report of
Observer L. H. Daingerfield of Pueblo,
who says there was more sunshine
than in any January since the local
Gather bureau was established,
twenty-three years ago.