The Colorado statesman., 1911-02-25
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
state Worth Telling.

Fruita has commenced the construc-
/ tion of S2S,000 sewer system.
Judge James L. Mccain, a Colo
RADIO pioneer, is dead at Greeley.
New numbers have been placed on
doors of residences in Monte Vista.
Peter Presler, pioneer OF Colorado
aged fifty-three, died at Cripple Creek.
/ recently.
VIM. H. Madden, a railroad man Of
Salida, committed suicide by shoot
ing himself.
John Tate, travelling man, was re-
Gently held up in Colorado Springs and
relieved of $25.
Mrs. George Buckley of Montrose is
/ the only woman brick manufacturer in
the United States.
The Ladies' Civic Club of Durango
have inaugurated a movement to
teautify the city.
The Boulder Booster Association
will attempt to double its present
membership of 175.
The Boulder County Commissioners
have appropriated $1,000 to aid in ad
vertising that community.
At a recent election a school dis
/ trct was voted for Vollmar and a
/ school house will be built.
Irrigationists are rejoicing over the
recent snowfall at the head of the
Poudre river and on the Grand.
Farmers in the vicinity of Plate
vile and Fort Lupton are being urged
to plant more early cabbage than eve"
before.
The Denver Glee Club will hold a
series of entertainments in Cheyenne,
Wyo., extending over a period of three
weeks.
| A bill has passed Congress length
ening the time allowed homesteaders
for making entry and establishing res
idence.
The disappearance of Sam Gliorio,
merchant at Segundo, has caused con
siderable mystery among his relatives
and friends.
Three big steam shovels are at
ork on the grade for the Colorado &
Southern extension from Wellington
to Cheyenne.
Encouraging developments continue
at the oil well near Lamar and there
is every evidence of an extensive
flow of oil.
Work on excavation has begun on
the new armory for the Windsor
militia company. The building will
cost about $4,000.
To replace the schoolhouse burned
at Bracewell recently, the district has
voted to erect a $4,000 building and
the contract has been let.
MANY Montrose farmers and ranch
men are either using the road drag
or arranging to accomplish similar
results this spring.
Rev. G. A. Monroe, pastor of the
First Congregational church of Grand
Junction has ordered regular paid ad-
vertisements in the newspapers.
The Trinidad baseball season was
given it's starter when number of
the business men and interested fans
met for the purpose of organization.
Miss Beda Bogue of Holly was
awarded first prize in the annual state
high school essay contest under the
auspices of the Sons of the Revolution
of Colorado, at Denver.
Greeley and Denver men are behind
a project, contemplated several years,
by which factory for car seals will
be erected at Greeley, giving employ
ment eventually to force of GOO.
The President has reappointed the
following Colorado postmasters: Jes'
sic l.. Thurston, Carbondale; Francis
NJ. league, Las Animas; Robert w.
Wrenn, Seibert.
Three members of a gang, which
the police say was organized to raid
freight cars in the Burlington yards
in Denver and steal lead and copper
bullion, have been arrested.
Several officers of the State Fair
Association will go to Denver from
over the state to meet the appropria-
tions committee of the Legislature and
discuss proposed appropriation of $25,-
600 for the fair.
Work of surveying for the ditch of
the new West Sterling irrigation dis
trict has begun, and, according to l..
l.. Stimson, construction engineer,
the ditch, to be about sixty miles long,
will cost 100000.
In one of the fastest and most eX-
citing bouts witnessed in Pueblo, Ed
die Johnson of Salt Lake knocked out
Kid Taylor of Pueblo in the ninth
round of a scheduled 10-round battle.
The contest was the wind-up of
German-American club smoker.
All farming animals, excepting sheep
showed an increase in average value
per head on January l, 1911, compared
with their value on that date in 1910,
according to the Department of Agri-
culture. Mules showed the greatest in
crease in value, it being $5.7S, the pre-
sent value being $125.62 per head.
Thirty-eight new members have