The Springfield herald., 1911-03-17
LIr1LE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
state Worth Telling.

A fire In Meeker caused damage
amounting to $4,000.
Montrose has laid the cornerstone OF
a $4,000 Masonic Temple.
Seventeen lecturers accompany the
Agricultural College special.
Boulder has an organization known
as the Better Boulder" club.
Morris r. Lancaster. a pioneer of
Yampa, recently died in Denver.
The Delta County Farmers Institute
held two days session recently.
Business men of Trinidad have
pledged their support to Y. M. c. A.
The new city well at Milliken is now
425 feet deep and water is expected
any time.
John Gastrich. an Austrian miner.
fall OF rock.
Miss Martha Stevenson of Yampa.
has been arrested on a charge of
cattle stealing.
The Rio Grande track walker near
Canon City recently found the skele-
ton of a man.
The contract for the construction OF
the $25.O00 school building at Long
mont has been awarded.
For the municipal election at Eaton
two tickets are in the field, the Citl'
zens and the Independent.
w. Fl. Green. a negro. formerly city
jailer. is the latest candidate for the
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That work is to be resumed soon
on the Milton reservoir and canal at
Greeley, is the opinion of many.
Representatives of the Union Pa
cific Colonization department are in
vestigating various tracts OF land in
Weld county.
Gill was the winner by sixteen
points in the gun shoot held between
the Gill and Kersey clubs on the
Greeley grounds.
Stephan v. Tappen, wealthy farm
er and resident of the Montrose sec
tion for twenty-eight years, died at his
home of cancer.
w. II. Wilder is forming a stock
company of Grand Junction capitalists
to drill for oil in the government tract
south OF Fruita.
Rev. Lewis Walker of Demorest, N.
j.. has been chosen pastor of the Bap-
tist church on Montrose. and will as
sumo charge about April 1st.
The Rev. ]. l.. Marsh, for three
years pastor of All Souls Unitarian
church. at Colorado Springs, has re-
signed and will retire from the min
istry.
At Silverton five persons, two wom-
en-, baby and two men. were swept
away in snowslide which caught the
Gold King mine boarding house near
here.
At Fort Lupton Mrs. A. Knowles.
wife of NJ. b. Knowles, an original
Union colonist and resident of Gree
ley since 1907. until ten years ago.
died. aged eighty-three.
Charles Neill, commissioner of labor
at Washington, has arrived in Den
yer to endeavor to avert strike by
Denver & Rio Grande engineers, 700 of
whom recently asked for an increase
of wages.
Charles Collins, cowboy near
Meeker, accidentally put bullet
through his leg. The leg may be
saved. Collins took shot at coyote
and in returning the gun to the holster
it exploded
w. Goodloe. agent for the Santa Fe
and w. Y. Black. representing that
company at La Junta, rendered the
treasurer of Otero county $16,O03.39,
as first half Of the taxes of that COM
pany, in the county.
Isaac N. Stevens, for eight years
owner of the Pueblo Chieftan and can
didate for congressman-at-large on the
last Republican ticket, has disposed of
his newspaper and will retire from the
newspaper field.
An injunction was asked in District
Court at Lamar to restrain the COM
missioners of Prowers county from
closing contract with the Kansas
City Bridge Company for building nine
bridges over the Amity canal
An eight-inch flow of water has
been struck in the municipal well at
Milliken, supply which it is believed
will supply the town. The well is down
446 feet, and rejoicing followed the
news that the "gusher" was working.
Judge G. w. Allen has issued an or
der on the District Court on the appli
cation of Joseph Standley, receiver of
the Denver Reservoir & Ditch Com
pany, making it possible Immediately
to enlarge Barr lake. one of the res
ervoirs of the system.
At Pueblo, Thomas Martinelli, en-
ployed at the Minnequa steel plant,
aged thirty-five, was instantly killed
when he was struck by piece of
sheet steel blown from the roof of the
bolt mill A high wind prevailed all
day.
At Pueblo three fine two-year-old
buffalo have been purchased by the
commissioners of park district No. 2
and will be brought to Pueblo some
time during the coming month. TIL