The Springfield herald., 1911-04-07
little COLORADO lrEMs.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
State Worth Telling.

The Main hotel at Pueblo has been
sold for $4,000.
Potatoes have jumped from 80 cents
to $1.15 per 100 pounds.
The net worth of the city OF Den
YER is $l9.677.336.30.
Thos. ]. Burns, resident OF La
Junta since 1880. is dead.
Pueblo may have an aviation meet
of three days during April.
William E. WinthYow. city attorney
Of Central City. is dead.
James II. Kay, a resident of Denver
for twenty-three years, Is dead
E. L. Sholtz was elected president of
the Retail Association of Denver.
A postal savings bank will be estab-
lished at Colorado Springs July Is.
The Boulder and Weld reservoir is
tc be enlarged in the near future.
The North Park Rifle club has been
organized at Walden with fifteen men,
bers.
1t is estimated that 10000 acres OF
grain have been planted in the Gree
ley district.
H. P. Smith of Estabrook has shot
mountain lion measuring seven feet
from tip to tip.
1t Is likely that a creamery will be
established in Kersey in connection
with the ice plant.
For the first time in history there
will be no spring elections held this
year in Central City
Miss Martha Stevenson of Yampa is
on trial at Steamboat Springs. on
charge of stealing cattle.
Burglars entered the l.. ]. Hardware
Company's store at La Junta and stole
quantity of knives and guns.
The first annual meeting of the
Western Colorado Teachers Associa-
ton was held in Grand Junction.
The War Department will permit
three Colorado National Guard off
GERS to attend the war maneuvers in
Texas.
An artificial ice plant to cost $4,000
will be built Immediately by COM
pany composed of local men at Ker-
sey.
Otto Costello. aged five. has been
put on record as the youngest case
of intoxication ever treated by a Pu
eblo police surgeon.
For the first time in the history of
the present city administration wom-
an has been arrested in Greeley on
the charge of bootlegging.
Some 500 acres of tomatoes have
been contracted for the cannery at
Ft. Lupton with 40 acres of pumpkins,
IS of beans and rs of sweet corn.
Other towns will probably join with
Canon Cityl in the big celebration there
May 12 and 13 over the opening OF
the road to the top of the Royal
Gorge.
The liberal stopover privileges and
low summer rates which the railroads
have announced for Colorado points
are expected to bring more tourists to
tho Pixies Peak region than ever be-
fore.
Work along the inlet and outlet
bitches of the Milton reservoir near
Greeley has begun. Men and teams
are on the jof and the numbers will
be increased as other works get under
way.
A landslide at Lookout mountain.
one-half mile down the gulch from
the portal of the Roosevelt tunnel,
Cripple Creek, will block the Canon
City & Cripple Creek railroad for
weeks.
The Western Slope Teachers Asso-
;y, Ipp fAr
two-days' session. A special train
brought about 100 teachers from Mont
rose and Delta, making about 200 in
attendance.
Accused of stealing several hundreds
of dollars from the Colorado & South
ern railroad, l.. F. Freiger, aged twen-
ty-six, formerly station agent at Su-
perior, is being sought by railroad de-
tectives.
c.. A. King, superintendent of the
Saratoga mine, Idaho Springs, was in
stantly killed when the skip in which
he was descending the Sun and Moon
shaft dropped 300 feet to the level of
the Newhouse tunnel.
Greeley, Denver. Boulder, Longmon;
any many other Colorado towns are to
be supplied with power and light gen
Grated by the big hydraulic plants of
the Central Colorado Power Company
at Boulder and Shoshone.
During the meeting of the religious
educational association to be held at
Greeley April to April TO- Judge A. z.
Blair, who disfranchised 1000 voters
for five years in Adams county, Ohio,
will be one of the speakers.
William G. Evans, president of the
Denver, Laramie & Northwestern rail-
road, is in the East to resume nego-
tiations for financing the extension of
the road beyond Steamboat Springs,
where they were interrupted by the
death of Mr. David H. Moffat.
One girl was seriously hurt and the
lives of fifty others jeopardized by the
explosion of giant powder caps near
the Washington school at Cripple
Creek.