The Springfield herald., 1911-06-02
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth Telling.

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state bank. capital 100000.
The new Sterling opera house at
Greeley has been opened.
The Elks fair, which has Just closed
at Ouray. was a grand success.
Thursday. June 8. has been set for
the first Pixies Peak Region day.
The name of Ohio creek in Gunni-
son county has been changed to Cold
creek.
| When the home of James Bronelli
burned at Pueblo he lost 5000 In cur
rency.
There was expended in Denver for
all school purposes during the month
of April the sum Of $122.S79.04.
James P. McGarvey has been ap-
pointed postmaster at Hebron. Huerfa-
no county.
Mrs. Sarah Markley. wife of Mat
thew Markley, who came to Platteville
In 1870, is dead.
James Lee, wealthy Johnstown
farmer has been convicted of kidnap-
ping his own child.
An attempt will be made to change
the name of the postoffice at New
Windsor to Windsor.
The total appropriations made by
the Eighteenth General Assembly
amounts to $4,455,369.
John w. Green of Paonia has been
appointed magnetic observer in the
coast and geodetic survey service.
Eve thousand replies have already
been received in Denver from trout
season postcards sent out recently.
The coroner's jury returned a ver-
dict that Miss Bolma Smith of Som
erset came to her death from an over
dose Of laudanum.
Joseph L. Lamb and Mrs. Sophia
Hayden. each of whom are over 76
years Of age, were married at Canon
City
Beet seeding around Fort Morgan
is finished, and considering the dry
spring the crops look exceptionally
we'll.
George W. Click has been appointed
carried and Walter C. Aten substitute
carrier on Grand Junction rural route
No. 4.
The orchardists in the Cedaredge
vicinity have not been hurt by frosts
and full crop of everything Is near
ly certain.
Over fifty Chinese ringneck and
golden pheasants were liberated re-
Gently at the ranch of E. W. Fuqua,
seven miles east of Greeley.
The Southern hotel burned at
Brush. Several Denver travelling men
saved their lives by jumping out of
the windows. The loss is 10000.
Senator Guggenheim has received a
request from the Silverton CONNER
cial Club for assistance in getting a
government mining experiment sta
ton at silverton.
State Superintendent Of public in
struction, Mrs. Helen NJ. Wixon. made
one leap into popularity when she de-
clared there were too many formal
examinations In schools.
When helping guide pile which
was being driven in the bed of the
creek at the bridge being built across
the Uncompahgre. near Ouray, Will
lam McCready was painfully injured.
For several weeks a body Of poll
ticians. under control of the Citizens
party, has been at work on plans for a
new charter to place Denver under
the Commission form of govern
ment"
Midshipman Edward Ellsberg of Col
orato. Of the naval academy gradual
ing class. has ben awarded the medal
presented by the Navy league of New
York for the best essay on naval or
patriotic subjects.
George Gion, the champion middle
superior to Roy Toliver. the champion
lightweight of Colorado, at Greeley.
Gion agreed to throw Tcliver three
times in an hour and made good.
One of the entertainment features
of the G. A. R. encampment at Salida,
on the 9th, 7th and Sth of June will
be an excursion to Marshall pass.
The fare will be only 81 for the round
trip and will be open to everybody.
After vainly petitioning the Union
Pacific to establish a crossing one mile
south of Pierce, wire fences were cut
on the railroad right Of way and farm
ers are now using the opening to pass
over the tracks, saving three miles.
While shooting at sparrows in his
strawberry patch with shotgun, at
Canon City, William Wright shot into
the house of neighbcr. painfully
wounding Mrs. A. H. Jones and her
daughter.
By a vote of four to three, the
board of supervisors. of Denver,
passed an ordinance accepting from
the Colorado Telephone Company, Q
per cent of it's gross receipts for local
service, to be used on parks, boule.
Yards and streets. This would have
amounted to last year to $4,000.
Rufultin Contivas, Mexican sheep
herder, shot and seriously wounded
Samuel Staples, prominent sheep
man of Serro Summit, twenty-five
miles from Montrose.
Gus Hoecher and Jesse Coburn are
now in the county Jail at Buena Vista