The Colorado statesman., 1911-05-13
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
State Worth Telling.

Gold has been found in the Laramie
Poudre irrigation tunnel near Gree
ley.
The new city council has arranged
for better fire protection for Ridg-
way.
George Davidson OF oxford, Ohio,
has been chosen school principal for
the ensuing year.
Denver will have a rouslng, old
fashioned Festival of the Mountains
and Plains next fall
John C. Cliff. aged 79, and for thir-
ty-five years a resident of Colorado,
died in Fort Collins.
Denver may become brigade army
post as a result of recently evolved
ideas in the War Department.
Not IN many years has there been
such a good prospect for fruit in Weld
county us at the present season.
George Momeyer, of Denver. has
been chosen superintendent of schools
at Lamar for the coming year.
The May term of District Court
| opened in Georgetown with Judge
Charles Mccall of Golden presiding.
William S. Mitchell. resident o.
Clear Creek county for thirty-five
years. was found dead in Clear Creek.
near Georgetown.
Thrown from a buggy and sustain
ing a broken neck, Winifred, the A.
yearpld daughter of F. w. Purvis, of
Pueblo was killed
Grasshoppers have made their up-
| appearance in large numbers in the
Platteville district and farmers are be-
ginning war on them.
Jesus Rios, employed at the Capital
mine, near Lafayette, who was wound
ed in fight with an unknown assail-
ant there recently, died.
The Senate confirmed the appoint
ment of Edward Keating and Blair
Burwell as members of the State
Board of Land Commissioners.
Many high degree Masons over the
state are planning to visit Denver
May 18th for the thirty-fifth reunion
of the Scottish Rite Masons.
Grief over the death of her daugh-
ter, Loretta, two months ago, caused
the death of Mrs. Patrick L. McAner-
ney, an old resident of Aguilar.
Beet seed planting is well under
way and is being pushed rapidly at
Rocky Ford. There are some in
stances of the early planting being up.
Capt. A. c. Drake of Company B.
n. G. c., of Greeley, has gone to San
Diego, Calf, for two or three weeks
of observation work with the regular
army
A miniature cyclone tore up a
bridge IN the east end of Cripple
air, carried it half a block before it
was dropped
Adam C. Patton, one of the best
known lawyers of northern Colorado,
and first president of the Boulder
County Bar Association, is dead at the
age of 81 years.
George E. Hosmer of Fort Morgan
was reappointed state printing COM
missioner and Claude f. Street of En-
glewood state oil inspector for an
other term.
Colorado college has accepted the
invitation of the University of Wis
consin for a football game between
the two institutions at Madison, Wis,
October 27th.
For the purpose of making Evans
one of the most beautiful towns in
northern Colorado the women of the
town have organized a Civic Improve
ment Society.
Because they were refused raise
of rs cents per day, twenty-eight men
employed in construction of the new
Union Pacific freight depot at For.
Collins, went on a strike.
A. r. Peterson, a ranchman resid-
ing two miles out of Grand Junction,
is lying at the point of death as the
result of being stang about the head
and face by swarm of bees.
Perhaps the most important bill
aside from the Moffat tunnel measure.
passed by the last Legislature, which
vitally affects the future of the state,
is the bank guaranty measure.
A petition asking the Postoffice De-
partment at Washington to establish
star route starting at Ordway and
extending to Forder is being circulat-
ed and numerously signed.
Carson B. Wilson, former superin-
tendent of mail in the Denver post
office, has been sentenced to prison
for five years in Leavenworth on a
charge of misappropriating funds
The English department of Colo
rado College, at Colorado Springs, is
making an effort to have Alfred Ten
nyson, Dickens, son of the famous
Charles Dickens, deliver a lecture at
the college next November.
At a meeting of the Commercial
Club of La Sale, the establishment