The Colorado statesman., 1911-11-04
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
State Worth While.

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Rio Blanco county claims the record
production of wheat and oats.
The Boulder City Council has made
reduction of mills in the tax levy.
State Insurance Commissioners W..
l.. Clayton of Greeley is seriously i'll.
The Fort Collins sugar factory is
daily turning out sixty tons of sugar.
The C ON m s sion Government
League of Denver has been Incorporate
ed.
The Rocky Mountain Hotel Mems
Association held their anual conven-
tion in Denver.
The Gllcrest State bank is in the
hands of the state bank examiner
pending investigation.
Joseph Mikulich was found guilty
of second degree murder for killing An
tone Lustik, in Denver.
The Boulder Fish and Game Club
have secured 100000 trout for the
streams of that vicinity.
e. II. Abbott of Greeley has in his
possession a law book which has been
in his family since 1892.
The library of the University of Den
yer has been turned over to the city
and will be opened to the public.
Parties returning from Chambers
lake at the headwaters of the Pouire
river report heavy fall of snow.
Lawrence and Morrell Halton,
brothers, of Cow, were arrested at
Morrison for killing deer out of sea
son.
Trunks containing loot valued at
$500 which had been stolen from the
Santa Fe depot in Denver have been
recovered.
George Brewer, aged seventy, was
caught between coal cars in the Mid
land terminal yards at Cripple Creek
and crushed to death.
As a result of resisting noldups in
Pueblo Orvid Hitchcock lies in hos
pital in critical condition, having
been shot through the groin.
Col. James B. Lynch. one of the
best known railroad men of that sec
tion, and recently live stock agent for
lue santa re- uleu dI uSblO.
P. II. Mcdonald, while in Gunnison
recently, drank a quantity of tincture
of arnica, thinking it was whisky, and
as a result is in serious condition.
Attorney General Griffith has sent
an opinion to State Auditor Leddy in
structing him to pay the salaries OF
the employees of the State Board of
Health.
The contract for the new rock
ribbed dam at Silver lake, near Boul-
der, has been awarded by the City
Council for $52,13G.2O. 1t is possible
that some work may be done this fall.
Bishop William A. Quayle of Okla
homa City, will open the great Home
Mission conference of the Methodist
Episcopal church at Trinity NJ. E.
church in Denver, Thursday, NOV. y.
Colorado is to have at least one
representative-and probably three
on the governors special train that is
to tour the East, about the time Con-
gress adjourns, for the purpose of ad-
vertising the West.
Farmers of the Grover country Will
grow emmer next season, many hav-
ing secured seed from Wyoming and
planted this fall Although the cost
is $40 per bushel, the crop is expected
to yield $50 bushels to the acre.
Ranchers of the Little Beaver sec
ton, twelve miles from Meeker, are
planning to operate a wagon train
from Meeker to Rifle to get their prod
ucts to the railroad, forty-five miles
away, and then into the big markets
of Denver and Salt Lake City.
A committee of citizens represent
ing the Arkansas valley have visited
the irrigated sections of the state to
enlist greater interest in the defense
of the suits brought to divert water,
now used for irrigation in Colorado,
into Kansas and the adjoining states.
South Platte and other ditch own
ers who appealed from Judge Gam
bles decision defining the storage sea-
son of water in reservoirs have FLED
a $4,000 bond in the Supreme Court,
putting into effect the decree issued
by that court stopping the storage OF
water in northern Colorado until
April 1, 1912.
The State Board of Education be-
leves that activity in secret societies
still exists among the students to
certain extent. The board has deter
mined to rid the schools of the fra
ternities and sororities and compel
every high school student to sign
pledge that he or she will not join
school secret society.
Judge Bliss of the District Court in
Denver has resumed the taking of testi-
mony in the suit of the Prowers coun'
ty commissioners against State Audi
tor Leddy The commissioners seek
ruling as to whether or not appro-