The Holly chieftain., 1911-02-10
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
State Worth Telling.

le QeaQ.
Lamar has good prospects for q new
sugar beet factory.
Recent fire in Ludlow did damage
estimated at 10000.
Plans are on foot to light marble
cave near Canon City.
Plans for Fairgrounds in Colorado
springs will soon materialize.
The farmers of Eaton have taken
firm stand for Sc per ton for beets.
An ice gorge in Fortification creek
near Craig did considerable damage.
Mrs. Irene Robinson. a resident of
Weld county for thirty years. is dead.
The first death in the town of Glade
A cooperative store with a capital
ct $4,000 has been organized at Grow
er.
Mrs. w. H. Conklin, aged Sc. and a
resident OF Sterling for thirty years. is
dead.
The past month was the warmest
and driest January in Colorado since
1872.
Chas. Jones of Plateau raised oats
that weighed sixty-eight pounds per
bushel.
Greeley has sold more Red Cross
stamps than any town of its size in
the state.
The residence of William Orwig in
North Cripple Creek was burned, with
loss of $1,000.
Grand Junction citizens have been
notified to keep their children home
after dark.
DR.. 7. ]. Estill, prominent ply
sician and pioneer of Colorado
Springs, is dead.
The corner stone of the new federal
building in Denver will be laid in the
near future.
Denver has "San Francisco. 1915"
club, probably the first organized in
the country.
Fourteen thousand two hundred ar
rests were made by the Denver police
department in 1910.
Cars of potatoes shipped from
Greeley to Juarez, Mex, have been
broken into and stolen.
Senator Rarela's ranch near Trini-
dad, consisting of 2,4O0 acres, has
been sold for $4,000.
The Farmers Institute at Long
mont has closed and great good re-
suited from the meeting.
No less than $4,000 have been stolen
from telephone boxes in residences in
Denver within two weeks.
The safe of a lumber concern at
Gilcrest was cracked by yeggmen
but no money was secured.
Gov. Shafroth says he will not sign
that portion of the short appropriation
hill which raises salaries.
If plans of an Eastern company are
carried out, Millikep will have to-
mato cannnery costing $4,000.
In the Rifle country in 1910, 1.000,-
900 pounds of potatoes were raised on
thirty-seven and one-half acres of
land.
Northern Colorado farmers have
begun prospecting for grasshopper
eggs by plowing around the edges of
their fields.
Except Wyoming and Nevada, Colo
RADIO has larger area of surveyed
lands not homesteaded than any state
in the union.
By shooting herself through the
head at her home in Denver Mrs.
Nellie Dellacqua, 25 years old, COM
mitted suicide.
Work soon will begin on the new
flour mill at Milliken and 1t will han
die this years crop. with capacity of
l25 barrels day.
Change of venue in the damage suit
against the city of Pueblo by the Pueb-
10 Water Supply Company for $780,
600 has been denied.
The San Luis Oil and Gas Com
pany struck oil of excellent quality
at depth Of $50 feet eight miles
northeast Of Alamosa.
Dr. Samuel D. Hopkins, reputed o.
of the best neurologists In the West
and leading member of the medical
profession in Denver, is dead.
Finishing touches are being put on
the lines which will complete the
great high tension loop of the North
ern Colorado Power Company.
With a mighty rush of water por.
ton Of the intake to the Empire res
erYolr at Harhin WAS torn ont waah.