The Colorado statesman., 1911-11-25
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS,
Small Happenings Occurring over the
State Worth While.

The total annual tax levy for Pail.
sade is 40 mills.
Roads in the vicinity of Ramah are
being improved.
Gunnison is soon to have a new
Methodist church.
The new high school building at La
mar has been dedicated.
In the Gunnison schools there is a
total of 213 pupils enrolled.
A saloon in Victor was robbed re-
Gently of about $25 in money.
The old Trade building in La Jara
was recently destroyed by fire.
Convict labor is to be employed in
building a new road up the Poudre
canon.
Arrangements have been made for
the manufacture of nickels at the Den
yer mint.
More winter wheat is, being planted
in the district west of Platteville than
ever before.
Along the Crested Butte branch of
the D. & R. G. railroad there is ten
feet of snow.
Mrs. Gertrude Patterson has been
placed on trial in Denver for the kill
ing of her husband.
Mr. and Mrs. Bradley Rice of Long
uont recently celebrated the sixty-flrst
anniversary of their marriage.
Frank w. Smylie, living near Mast
ers, sold 1000 acres of his ranch to
G. w. Stewart of Chicago for 100000
A. j. Schamp, plasterer, fell from
the dome OF the new Methodist
church in Trinidad and was fatally in
jured.
Pasquale Pachetti, an Italian twenty
three years old, was shot three times
following a saloon row. in Trinidad,
and died.
The 3-year-old daughter of ]. L. Null
Inns of Montrose was probably mortal
ly burned while playing around the
kitchen stove.
Charles Blanchard, for years well
known mining man in the Cripple
Creek district and other parts of the
state, is dead.
The Arkansas valley Railway, Light
ard Power Company will operate in
Teller, Ell Paso, Fremont, Pueblo and
Otero counties.
If the present plans of the mayor
and trustees of Wray mature, that
city will have municipal water sys-
TEN in the near future.
Articles of incorporation of the
Arkansas Valley Railway. Light ana
Power Company have been filed. The
company is capitalized at S10,000,000.
Residents of Colorado Springs must
pay total tax of 53.7 mills, or Ii
mills more than for 1910, due to an in
crease in the state and school taxes,
Word from the East is to the effect
that Manager Dick Cooley of Salt
Lake City has repurchased players
Schimpff, Pendleton and Morgan from
the Denver club.
The Grand Mesa Lake G. Park Com
pany has sold the property of that
company to the Grand Mesa Resort
Company of Delta. The consideration
is said to have been $4,000.
Chris Jensen, the Battling Dane,"
Rose of Fort Collins before any Fort
Collins club at 135 pounds for not less
than five rounds nor more than ten.
One of the most extensive campaigns
of education ever undertaken is being
conducted by the Dupont Powder Com
pany, in showing ranchmen and farm
ers the use of dynamite in doing theiI
work.
Six carloads of fancy steers, owned
by Head brothers of Ridgway, and
several carloads of choice cattle
owned by Leal Meala of Montrose
have been shipped to the Chicago
Stock show.
Fben Serigstad was killed, Kristo-
sen Serigstad has a broken leg and
Francisco Mansueto had narrow es-
cape from being caught under hun
dreds of tons Of ore, when rock fall
occurred in the Liberty Bell mine at
Ouray.
Between twenty and thirty women
members of the w. G. T. u, gathered
at the city hall in Greeley at the in
vitation of Chief of Police d. F. Camp
and witnessed and aided in the de
struction of ITS pints and quarts OF
confiscated liquors.
Colorado mining men want one OF
more metallurgical experiment sta
| tions located in the state by the gov
ernment, and to adopt resolutions for
| these stations and to outline cam
| paign to appeal to Congress for such
| stations there will be meeting at the
| Traffic Club in Denver. Tuesday even
| ing, November 2S.
| The good roads conference at Pu
eblo, in January, will be asked to rec
ommend the construction of at least
four highways across Colorado, az