The Colorado statesman., 1911-06-17
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS,
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth Telling.

july 4ln ID TO DE Sdle anu bahe
celebration in Denver.
The highway between Estes Park
and Boulder via Lyons is assured.
There is now a movement started to
enclose every fruit tree in tent.
An anti-prohibition campaign has
been launched in Grand Junction.
The Gunnison baseball champions
we're defeated by the Pitkin team, IL
to Z.
Mayor James S. Kyle of Montrose
broke an arm while cranking his au-
tomobile.
The Greeley Elks have let the con-
tract for their new club building to
cost 100000.
Philip Schopp. ninety-six years old,
Of Kersey, recently made final proof
On 160 acres of land.
Denver is to have a steel castings
plant, the first of the kind west of
the Mississippi river.
AL Bane, convicted of train robbery
in Pueblo, was sentenced to is to 80
Noio "a thN
Within one week in Denver there
were five suicides, four killings and
three deaths from violent accidents.
Willie McGovern, IA years old, of
Pueblo. caught his right foot in now
ing machine and was severely injured.
The mining pay roll of Cripple
Creek for May, was the heaviest in
fourteen months, approximating 1885,
$50.
Colorado Springs will make an eff
fort to have the Foresters of Amer
ica establish their sanatorium in that
city.
The scnool board of District thirty
eight has let a contract for an eight
room school house in Oak Creek, to
cost s4,424.
Henry Ripple, aged tw enty, of Du-
range, has been arrested on the
charge of attempted assassination of
Isaac Cox.
The fourteenth annual convention of
the National Retail Grocers' Associa-
ton, held in Denver, was attended by
300 members.
Hunting antelope from automobiles
is the latest sport devised by certain
ingenious sportsmen from Colorado
Springs and Denver.
1t is now thought the Gunnison riv-
er, which has been threatening to
leave its banks at Delta, has reached
the high water mark.
The Department encampment of the
Grand Army of the Republic and as
sociated orders, held at Salida during
the past week, was well attended.
Millions of dollars worth of new
improvements and construc-
ton work will be inaugurated by the
railroads in Colorado soon after July
LIST.
Richie Budelier, a former Grand
Junction school boy, has been appoint
ed superintendent of the Big Bonanza
mine, the largest gilsonite deposit in
Utah.
Representative Taylor has intro
duced bill authorizing postmasters to
take subscriptions to the Congress
sianol Record at 81 per year, begin
ming December 1.
Harold Brinker, formerly of Denver,
but now at Cheyenne, hopes to be the
first man to fly in an aeroplane in
He is working on bi-plane
which he expects to try out before the
end of June.
A fine and costs amounting to $3.50
was imposed in the Federal Court in
Denver by Judge Il. E. Lewis on Noah
S. Smernoff after the prisoner hao
pleaded guilty to sending obscene let
ters through the mails.
A picnic party which started from
for Loveland Pass met
with an accident which resulted in
four people being seriously injured
when the team became frightened and
overturned the vehicle.
Prosepcting for oil in the land OF
the ancient cliff dwellers near Cor
tez, Montezuma county, will be done
by the Mesa Verde Oil e Gas Compa-
ny, which leased $500 acres of schoo!
land from the state.
The Colorado & Southern railroad,
the Colorado Midland railroad and the
Denver & Rio Grande road have
agreed to furnish half rate transporta-
ton to all prospectors going out under
the public grubstake fund.
Steamboat Springs has full-fledged
creamery and more than forty farm
ers and dairymen are regular custom
ers, some living out eighteen miles.
It will establish a skimming station
at Hayden and enlarge its output.
Senator Guggenheim has been noti-
fled by the commissioner of fisheries
that rainbow trout will be distributed
in Colorado rs follows: Conejos river,
Z 200; Rio Grande river, 2,400; South
Fork Rio Grande. 1000; Pinos creek,
500.
The coroners jury at the inquest in
to tho death nf Iohp Yang ar Crapda