The Colorado statesman., 1911-05-27
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
State Worth Telling.

Day in June.
License have been paid on thirty
wo dogs in Marble.
Electric arc lights have been
turned on in Milliken.
Cutworms are doing great damage
in northern Colorado.
Robert NJ. Miles shot and killed
Lewis Staten at Trinidad.
The town of Simla is to have a
state bank. capital $4,000.
The Elks fair. which has just closed
at Ouray, was a grand success.
1t is now proposed to connect Evans
and Greeley by electric railway.
Water has been turned into the
Eaton ditch for the first time this
season.
Another forger has been at work in
SaliGa, passing three worthless checks
for s25 each.
With forty-eight members. a new
company of militiamen has been or
ganized at Fort Lupton.
Work on the grade of the Denver
ance has been resumed.
Col. d. c. Dodge of Denver has been
made vice president and general man
ager of the Moffat road.
Mrs. Margaret B. Wicks. aged 72,
pioneer of Pueblo and widow of the
late Platt Wicks, is dead.
Frederick Dearborn Wight, one of
Colorado's wealthiest citizens, died
suddenly at his home in Denver.
Telluride and Silverton have been
designated as new postal repositories
by the postmaster general.
Ditch and reservoir building in Weld
county in both the Greeley-Poudre
and Henrylyn districts is progressing.
Preparations for the proper observ-
ance of Memorial Day are under way
by the Evans post of the G. A. r.
In collision with an automobile
during a dust storm in Grand juno
ton, Theodore Clark had his nose cut
off.
In response to numerous requests
short summer school course will be
conducted at Colorado Springs college
this summer.
| In honor of the laying of the corner
stone of the new school building at
Grand Junction, May "a was observed
as holiday.
Steve Elkin and Chas. Lockett, of
Steamboat Springs, on recent hunt,
captured one male and one female
bear and three cubs.
Trinidad scored it's first shutout of
the season by defeating the Los An
geles team of Japs, with score of
to 0.
Greeley farmers believe that in
flax they have found new crop
which can be grown successfully on
dry land.
United States Senator William E.
Borah of Idaho has been invited to
speak at the dedication of the Pioneer
monument June "a, in Denver.
One of the features of the Woodmen
of the World state convention to be
held in Pueblo July 4th, will be the
initiation of clas of 1000 members.
Andrew Lassey of Georgetown, one
of the best known mining men of
Clear Creek county, committed sui
eide by throwing himself into Whites
lake
A dispatch from Washington, d. c..
told of Eugene H. Grubb of Carbon
dale being there to urge that Uncle
Sam print and distribute booklet on
the potato.
Two $4,000 gasoline eXtractors, ca
pacity 100000 cubic feet per day, to
be installed by the Boulder-Greeley
Oil Company north of here, have
been ordered.
Fred Boulware of Fort Lupton, one
of the best horsemen of northern
Colorado, was thrown from broncho
which he was trying to break and
probably fatally injured.
The orchardists of Montrose who
have given it a test are now thorough
ly convinced of the efficiency OF
smrdging in the protection of the fruit
from the ravages of Jack Frost.
Minneapolis men have invested
s1OO 900 in the Colorado Pressed Brick
Company, which recently bought out
the Colorado Brick & Tile Company
plant north of Colorado Springs
Ar estate of $500,000 was left by
Horace Granfield, the mining man
who was killed in the auto wreck at
Louisville Junction, in which Attorney
E. F. Richardson of Denver also met
his death recently.
]. D. Searcey, a non-union miner at
the Industrial mine at Superior, has
been arrested, charged with having
fired several shots at the house of
Casper Langerer, president of the Su-
perior union.
While chopping wood Dan Coffman
of La Sale nearly killed himself with