The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-02-18
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
State Worth Telling.

Pueblo is after the next state con-
yention OF the Y. M c. A.
Fire originating in hotel in Grand
Junction did 100000 damage.
Interest is being renewed in the
mineral springs near Loveland.
The East Crow creek shack near
Barnsville was burned recently.
The Rocky Mountain store at VIII
hamsburg was burglarized recently.
A $4,000 ice and storage plant is
being erected in Grand Junction.
Thomas Hall, a prominent ranch
man and pioneer of Castle Rock, is
dead
Frederick Kruse, former mayor of
Central City and Colorado pioneer,
Is dead
Fresh ranch eggs have dropped in
price from As cents a dozen to 25
cents
Mrs. L. II. Newman, aged "A.
wealthy resident of Evans since 1879.
Is dead
The Southern Colorado Hardware &
implements Association will meet in
Pueblo.
Wholesalers and jobbers in Grand
Junction do an annual business of
$3.50 900.
kersey is to have a new creamery
if plans of the Commercial Club are
carried out.
The annual snowfall of the ranges
IN northern Colorado is above the
rormal amount.
The county of Jackson is offering
$50 each for grown wolves and $40
each for cubs.
Thirteen families from Kansas have
rented sugar beet land in the vicinity
OF Grand Junction.
Much interest is taken in the farm
Inns February 1925
The Rio Grande railway has taken
o, er the Pitkin-Baldwin branch of the
Colorado & Southern.
r. Fl. Wisden. aged SO. of Montrose.
ded from the effects of injuries re-
oeived in runaway.
Fire supposed to have been of in
cendiary origin destroyed the home of
Charles Georgii at Pierce.
The fourth annual convention of the
Knights of Pythias of the Western
Slope was held in Montrose.
The Greeley women have organized
an automobile club with charter
membership of thirty.
Don't drink is the personal mes
sage from President Taft to the Sun
day school children of Grand juno
ton.
Progress on the Laramie-Poudre
tunnel is hampered this month by the
fact that soft material has been en-
countered.
Within a week work will begin on
the construction of $4,000 brick
vaudeville and moving picture theater
II Boulder.
The Denver & Rio Grande railroad
shows an increase in net earnings OF
sl64.140 for December, 1910, over De-
cember, 1909.
H. B. Scammeli, graduate of the
Colorado Agricultural College. has
teen appointed assistant entomologist
OF Minnesota.
Howell brothers of Montrose report
the sale of their herd of Short Horn
cattle to Head brothers of Ridgway
for $4,000.
The fears of the Grand valley
CT chardists that the warm weather
would prematurely develop fruit were
Cispelled by snowstorm.
.All together" will be the slogan
with which the residents of the Grand
valley will battle with spring frosts to
save the 100000 fruit crop.
The jury in the damage case of Mel
vim Deering against the city of Salida
brought in its verdict in the District
Court awarding damages to the
amount of 100000.
At meeting of the Colorado State
Automobile Association in Denver.
Ralph W. Smith was elected president,
Elmer E. Sommers, secretary and
manager, and John w. Springer, treas
arer.
More than 300 people, 312 to be ex-
act, sang the praises of their native
o adopted state at the Albany hotel
in Denver on the occasion of the first
annual banquet of the Illinois Society
of Colorado.
Homesteaders in eastern Weld coun-
ty have offered to donate land for ex-
reriment farming If a portion of the
Carnegie endowment fund for scien-
t:fic research is placed there. as prom
lsed.
Careful investigation shows that
fully 1900 acres in the vicinity of
Nunn, which settlers supposed would
be included within the boundaries Of