The Raymer enterprise., 1911-06-15
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over tn
State Worth Telling.

Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth Telling.
western Newspaper union.News Service.
VIM. W. Draper, pioneer Of Pueblo,
is dead.
Fishing over the state is reported as
being good.
July 4th Is to be safe and sane"
celebration in Denver.
There Is now movement started to
enclose every fruit tree in a tent.
A. V. Hunter Of Leadville is the new
president Of the First National Bank
of Denver.
A barn in Colorado Springs was de-.
stroyed and several head Of horses
cremated.
Fire did damage to the First Ma.
tional Bank of Greeley to the amount
of 100000.
The Greeley Elks have let the con.
tract for their new club building to
cost $6O,OOO.
The deposits Of the National banks
OF Colorado Springs amount to $1O,.
324,743.99.
Denver Is to have steel castings
plant, the first of the kind west Of
The Mississippi river.
AL Bane. convicted of train robbery
In Pueblo. was sentenced to 1S to 30
years in the penitentiary.
The heavy rainfall throughout north.
western Colorado gives plenty Of mois.
ture for the ranchers.
For the seventh time. John Conlou
has been elected president Of the Den.
yer Board Of Aldermen.
From the effects of an overdose Of
laudanum. Charles Murray fell dead in
a saloon in Cripple Creek.
To equip branch OF the bureau of
mines at Silverton, Congressman Tay.
lor has asked for $25,OO0.
Sixty-five thousand rainbow trout
have been delivered by the govern.
ment to Colorado Springs.
A plan is materializlng to connect
Florence and the surrounding mining
camps by an electric interurban.
Willie McGovern, IA years old, OF
Pueblo, caught his right foot in a mow-
ing machine and was severely injured.
The Mesa county commissioners has
asked the State Highway Commission
for $4,000 to be used in road building.
Resistance of hignwaymen in
Pueblo will cost Frank Friestaff his
life. He was shot and relieved of $27.
Fire early destroyed the surface
plant of the Williamsville coal mine,
north Of Colorado Springs. Loss,
$4,000.
Strawberry men around Steamboat
Springs are keeping their smudging
pots In shape as they fear another
frost.
The mining pay roll of Cripple
Creek for May. was the heaviest in
fourteen months, approximating $685..
75O.
The ranch house and farm buildings
OF William Stewart, at Prairie Divide,
In northern Larimer county, were
burned.
Within the next six weeks a twenty.
mile link will be added to the Colora.
do-New Mexico highway between Trim.
idad and Ration.
In the District Court of Pueblo, on
charge Of holding up a C. & S. pas.
senger train on January 18th, Al Bane
pleaded guilty.
Forty.four young men and women
graduates Of the State Agricultural
College at Fort Collins have received
their diplomas.
II. Z. Girt has been arraigned at
Greeley, charged with the murder of
Charles Sigman at Frederick on the
night of June 7th.
Plans are being perfected for the
organization Of a Western Slope base
ball league, to be composed Of either
four or six clubs
Maude Keller was acquitted by the
jury at Steamboat Springs OF the
charge Of killing w. l.. White In
Hahn's Peak lost November.
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