The Springfield herald., 1911-08-04
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
Ctate Worth While.

Ground has been broken for the new
Jail at Greeley.
Oak Creek Is having an electric
light plant installed.
Thieves stole $3.50 from !.ongmcnt
store in daylight.
Grover and BriggsSn. rae are now con
nected by a stageline.
The Park hotel at La Junta was
damaged $4,000 by fire.
Boulder will have a postal savings
bank, beginning in August.
The rainfall over the San Luis val
ley recently has been heavy.
The D. G. R. G. Is to build new $780,
600 depot at Montrose.
The citizens Of Hereford have organ.
lied commercial club.
The postoffice at Briggsdale has
ben made a money order office.
The Western Slope fair is to be held
at Montrose September 10 to 49,
The date of Platteville's Pickle Day
has been set for September 2.
Rocky Ford and La Junta have been
recently visited by heavy rains.
Efforts are being made to have the
next G. A. r. encampment in Denver.
Fifty business men of Boulder have
organized a mutual insurance compa
ny.
The cornerstone of the new Nj. e.
Church at Trinidad has been put in
place.
The U. p. has begun the erection of
a new $4,000 pressed brick depot at
Eaton.
The citizens OF Loveland have de-
cided to hold their Harvest Carnival
Aug. 30.
Levi Brown and wife were arrested
in Pueblo charged with manufacturing
opium.
Fourteen thousand sheep were recent
ly shipped from Mack to parties at
Omaha.
Colorado Springs is celebrating the
fortieth birthday OF the city with a
six-day fete.
The twenty-fifth anniversary Of the
establishment of Fort Morgan was eel
ebrated recently.
VIM. II. Smith harvested from four
acres near Boulder, eighty bushels of
oats to the acre.
While swimming in the San Juan
river near Creede, Frank Perrk, aged
twelve, was drowned.
The St. Peters Catholic church at
Montrose was recently damaged to the
| amount NJ 81 600 nv fire
The new federal building at Fort
Collins will be constructed OF lime
stone and block granite.
John Haley was given three years
in the penitentiary at Pueblo. for
stealing two pairs of spurs.
William Buttle, shift boss in the
Smuggler-Union mine at Telluride.
was killed by fall Of rock.
The Wood Mountain Mining and
Milling Company's $4,000 mill at
Boulder was destroyed by fire.
The first carload of string means
ever shipped out of northern Colorado
went from Fort Lupton to Kansas
City.
The new superintendent of the Colo
RADIO district of the Wells-Fargo sys-
ten, A. 7. Payne, has arrived in Den
yer.
President Taft may be the guest OF
the Weld County Fair Association on
Potato Day at Greeley, September
21St.
Rev. Samuel b. Meyer, who was con.
fined in a hospital at Pueblo, killed
himself by jumping from n third story
window.
The Pueblo postoffice will remain
closed all day Sundays after August
goth, an order to that effect having
been issued.
Madeleine Martinez, while coming to
Pueblo on foot after visit with
friends north of that city, was held
up and robbed of s400.
An auxiliary to the Erie Commercial
Club, the first organization of the
kind in the county, mas been formed
by the women of Erie.
On the charge of being the man who
drugged and robbed c. f. Hewitt OF
La Junta, Will Lawrence, a negro. has
been arrested at Pueblo.
The State Military Board has or.
dered that the First Regiment bani
be mustered out of service. This is
the only military band in the state.
Members of the Colorado Electric
Club are now actively preparing for
the coming second annual electric
show to be held at the Auditorium In
| Denver the week commencing Octobe.
14th.
Judge Lewis in the United States
Circuit Court has dismissed the suit
brought by the government against the
Home Coal & Coke Company. of Trim.
idad, to cancel the company's patent
to eighty acres Of coal land in Las
Animas county alleged to have been Sc
cured through dummy entrymen.
The 12-year-old son of NJ Brown, a
farmer of Severance, is seriously i'll
with what is thought to be arsenic
poisoning from handling Paris green.
The Colorado Metal Culvert Com
pany. which has been operating at La