The Raymer enterprise., 1911-03-09
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over tht
state Worth Telling.

A strike OF the painters In Colorado
Springs is probable.
Work on the state road up Ute Pass,
Manitou is progressing.
Mrs. P. Tague of Red Cliff has been
appointed county Judge Of Eagle coun.
ty.
A petition TO dissolve the municipal
corporation Of North Longmont has
been filed.
A movement has been started to
build a school Of psychic research at
Crystola.
Leonora Acosta, 3 years old, died at
Trinidad of hydrophobia. She was
bitten by dog.
Fire destroyed the plant Of the Colo.
rado City Ice & Coal Company, with
a loss Of $4,000.
Dan Patch, the famous PAGER, will
give exhibition heats during the next
state fair at Pueblo.
The Boulder postoffice will here.
aftersbe closed on Sunday by order OF
the postmaster general.
Mrs. Mary J. Highly. aged 70, and
one OF the pioneers of the Greeley dis.
trict, died OF pneumonia.
1t Is probable that Weld county will
get its photographic survey from the
government next summer.
The Senate has confirmed the nomi.
nation OF Dewey G. Bailey as United
States marshal for Colorado.
l.. J. Seville has been appointed
postmaster at Eden. Pueblo county,
vice F. S. Barnard. resigned.
More than $50 members were added
to the Y. NJ. c. A. by the nine.day
campaign at Colorado Springs.
Awards fixed by the appraisers upon
property involved In Denver's Civic
Center project total $2.523, ,463.1O.
AS result of pairing a corn with a
razor, A. T. Wed!nnd of Greeley, lest
his left leg below the knee by ampu.
tation.
The farmers of Spring Creek mesa
two miles west of Montrose, are being
supplied with electricity from the city
plant.
The biggest snowslide in that sec.
tion for some time has occurred eight
miles north of Silverton, blocking the
railroad.
w. l.. Sutton Of Parkdale, section
foreman for the Rio Grande, was seri.
ously injured by landslide in the
Royal Gorge.
A Santa Fe freight engine blew up
at Earl station near La Junta, injur.
ing George F. Brown, conductor, so
seriously that he died.
Much work is being done near Mead
in the way of reservoir building along
draws where water will be impounded
for irrigation Of fertile lands adjacent
to the settlement.
The Senate committee on public
buildings reported fayorably Senator
Guggenheim's bill appropriating sl5,.
600 for purchasing site for public
building at GlenwOod Springs.
The City Council of Montrose has dc.
cided to submit 70 voters at the Gem.
Ing municipal election the question of
establishing commission form of
government.
The officials Of the Western Slope
Development Congress have issued a
comprehensive call for the second an
rual convention Of the Congress to be
held at Delta. Colo, March 1928.
Every man his own lawyer" proved
costly to DR.. W. c. Lucas, who pleaded
guilty to the illegal sale of liquor in
District Court in Colorado Springs
and was fined $25 and costs, totallng
W2.
A decline of s2O.O0O.0OO In nine years
In the output Of Colorado mines is
largely attributed to excessive taxes
placed on mining properties in this
state. according to a report submitted
to the Denver Chamber OF Commerce
at its weekly meeting by Its mines
and mining committee.
The sundry civil appropriation bill
as passed carried building appropria.
tion items as follows: Colorado
Denver, continuation Of building, ST..
100000; Colorado Springs. completion
Of federal building. $4,000: Durango.
for site, 100000; Fort Collins, site and
completion Of building. $4,000; Fort
Morgan. site. 10000; La Junta. site
and commencement. 10000.
The first strawberries Of the season
are ripe. They were raised by c. V.
Wasson Of Grand junction. on his
ranch in the Pomona district and he
expects to have enough for shipping
to market within few weeks. The
early berries are due to q short
season Of warm weather, and the fact
that they were well covered. as they
ripened without being put under glass.
George Sykes, an apple man OF Chi.
cago. is In the city for a few days,
and he says that Colorado should de.
vote her time to the raising OF the
Jonathan apple, US she excels all other