The Lamar register., 1911-04-05
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth Telling.

The outlook for afruit crop in Colo
RADIO Is good.
The Main hotel at Pueblo has been
sold for 100000.
Potatoes have jumped from 80 cents
to $1.15 per 100 pounds.
The net worth of the city Of Den
yer is $19.677.336.30.
Thos. ]. Burns, resident of La
Junta since 1880, is dead.
Pueblo may have an aviation meet
OF three days during April.
E. l. Sholtz was elected president of
the Retail Association of Denver.
A postal savings bank will be estab-
lished at Colorado Springs July LIST
The Boulder and Weld reservoir is
tic be enlarged in the near future.
1t is estimated that 10000 acres OF
grain have been planted in the Gree
ley district.
II. p. Smith of Estabrook has shot
a mountain lion measuring seven feet
from tip to tip.
Word has begun on the $4,000
Elks club at Greeley and will be fin
ished by June 18th.
Ed East. proprietor of q Trinidad
store. met with a serious injury in a
runaway near Aguilar.
The Rocky Mountain Limited on
the Rock Island will be resumed out
of Pueblo April End.
Miss Martha Stevenson OF Yampa is
on trial at Steamboat Springs. on a
charge of stealing cattle.
Burglars entered the l.. ]. Hardware
Company's store at La Junta and stole
a 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 maneavers in
Texas.
An artificial ice plant to cost $4,000
will be built Immediately by a CON-
pany composed Of local men at Ker-
sey.
Segundo. a mining camp about
twenty miles from Trinidad. is stirred
up by a recent BLACK Hand" attempt
to extort money.
Otto Costello. aged five. has been
put on record as the youngest case
eblo police surgeon.
For the first time In the history OF
the present city administration a wom-
an has been arrested In Greeley on
the charge of Bookkeeping.
Extensive plans are being made for
the entertainment OF the Colorado
State Sunday School Association dur
There will be $50 women delegates
in Greeley to the convention of the
women's General Missionary Society
OF the United Presbyterian Church.
which convenes May 18th.
Other towns will probably Join with
Canon Cityl in the big celebration there
May IL and ID over the opening of
Gorge.
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.
Seventy-five ladies OF the w. c. T.
U. of the Western slope met in Mont
rose for a three-day convention. the
fourth annual gathering OF this organi-
cation.
Work will be commenced immeli-
ately by Superintendent Deacon on
construction of two additional stories
to the library of the Union Printers
home. in Colorado Springs.
The Leyden Coal Company has
authorized an isue of 100000 worth
OF bonds to carry on the reconstruc-
ton of the company's shaft No. at
Leyden, which was damaged by fire
last December.
James Mitchell and Charles VIII
liams, two of the most notorious
yeggmen in the country. who belonged
to gang that terrorized Colorado
from 1905 to 1907, have been ar
rested in Denver.
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.