The Colorado statesman., 1911-04-29
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
State Worth Telling.

War is to be waged by Denver
against fake eyeglass dealers.
The farmers of Powers county are
jubilant over the recent heavy rain.
s. J. Alexander. a member Of the
Colorado Veterans Association. died
in Denver.
The Weld County Bar Association
was organized recently with twenty
members.
The four-year -old son of E. L. Pres
nall of near Rocky Ford was drowned
recently.
The School of Mines graduating
class has been doing mill work at Ida
no Springs.
A deadlock in the new City Council
at Wellington since it's organization
has been broken.
Jack Reynolds OF Omaha fell un-
der a train at Grand Junction and
had one foot cut off
Judge N w. Dixon of Denver was
badly cut and bruised when an auto
struck him in Pueblo.
Colorado will have new flag IL Sen
ator Sharpley's bill to create a new
emblem is passed by the House.
The baseball team from the Univer
sity of Kieo of Japan has asked for
a game in Grand Junction May s.
A special train carrying 100 work
ers to the sugar beet fields of Mont
rose and Delta has gone from Denver.
Mrs. G. S. Barnes, aged eighty-three,
one of the best known residents and
pioneers of Colorado Springs is dead.
The second fire within a year WIS.,
tied the Monroe paint shop in Trini-
dod and damaged building and stock
$4,000.
Rev. R. J. Hunter, pastor of the
Presbyterian church at Greeley for
fourteen years, has asked to be re-
leased.
Mrs. George P. Avery has an
nounced her candidacy for the school
board of Fort Collins at the election
next month.
Charles Sears and Walter Lock
were Jailed in La Junta for robbing D.
ID. MChenzie, du Oiu Iudu. lHey SOL
$50 or $40.
Delta is to have a sane Fourth of
July, declares the Fair Association,
under whose auspices the affair will
be carried out.
The War Department has directed
three Colorado militia officers to at
tend the maneuvers at San Diego, Cal.
beginning May II.
The tunnel through Red Point south
of Carbondale, is about finished, it be-
ing but a matter of few days until
it is complete.
John Devara was found guilty o.
the illegal sale of liquor, fined 5000
and costs and sentenced to twenty
days in Jail in Montrose.
Mayor Handle of Colorado Springs
notified denizens of the red light dis
trict that they must vacate their
abodes and leave town.
Mrs. David Griffith, aged seventy,
mother of Attorney General Benjamin
Griffith, died at her home in Rockvale,
after several months illness.
After firing bullet into his wifes
breast Henry Brown, a Missouri Pa
cific fireman, committed suicide in the
Mineral Palace park in Pueblo.
Grand Junction Odd Fellows cele
brated the ninety-second anniversary
of the founding of the order. The Re-
bekahs participated in the program.
Tony Ross, an Italian, aged forty
one, was instantly killed by being
dragged under the wheels of a train
about four miles from Crested Butte.
Work is progressing on the new ar
mory at Windsor, which will be fin
ished by July and opened with ball
Capt ]. H. Shane has forty men in
Company e.
Oscar Vandebur, deputy sheriff at
Delagua, has been named and identi
fled as the man who fired the shot
that resulted in the death of Pongrac
Culk, an Austrian miner, March 10.
verdict generating Deputy Sher-
iff e. w. Hockaday of Boulder from all
blame for the killing of Grover Mills
a non-union strike breaker, at Supe-
rior was returned by the coroner's
Jury.
1t is reported from all localities, es-
pecially north of Greeley that the
strange worm which made its appear
ance about two months ago and
seemed to be living on grasshopper
eggs, continues to thrive as the eggs
tanned, the work does no damage.
Senator Guggenheim has requested
the secretary of the interior to with
draw from entry lands west of Den
yer within a radius of thirty miles
pending legislation to have certain
lands in the district described donated
to the city of Denver for park pur-
poses.
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