The new era., 1911-01-26
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
State Worth Telling.

Milliken is preparing to establish
water works by boring a 500-foot arte-
sian well.
| Colorado sheriffs want change in
the laws governing the fees paid into
their offices.
After a fight of nearly two years
rural free delivery has been secured
| for Arvada.
A movement is on foot to establish
commission form of government in
Fort Collins
The annual convention OF the Colo
RADIO Retail Merchants Association
was held in Greeley.
John Bostrom was fined $50 and
costs by Judge Hatch, at Greeley for
stabbing his brother.
Over 200 dairymen of the state
gathered at the Windsor hotel in Den
yer in annual meeting.
AT a meeting of the Farmers Union
it was voted TO proceed with plans to
put in store at Windsor.
Articles of incorporation of the In
vestors Mining Company, capitalized
at $4,000, were filed in Boulder.
Mack F. Bebee, pioneer OF the
state, died at his home in Denver. Mr..
Bebee was in his eightieth year.
The first annual exhibition of the
Western Slope Poultry Association
which was held in Delta was a success.
Miss Alice Morrison, who has been
! for the past twenty-eight years
teacher in the Denver schools. is dead.
The Great Western Sugar Company
reports that 1000 acres of beets have
been contracted for the Greeley fac
tory.
Joe Anstead, miner about 30 years
old, was found dead in a cabin in
Longfellow's gulch. four miles east of
| Salida.
Neil F. Graham of Fort Collins, has
been appointed to succeed Judge Gar
rigues of Eighth Judicial District
Court.
The Colorado & Southern has sold
| s1,400, 900 worth of its refunding and
| extension bonds to Proctor & Borden
| of New York.
James A. Hill. the Denver banker.
who has been serving five-year term
in the penitentiary for fraud, has been
released on parole.
| There were number of snow
\ slides ION the run" recently, on both
the Sneffles and the Red Mountain
roads, near Ouray.
L ,H nj in h.
ern Colorado have petitioned Governor
Shafroth to appoint Emmett c. Nc
Anelly o. Fort Collins, state engineer.
A movement is on foot to organize a
Western Slope Teachers Associatian.
! composed of the educators from the
seven counties of the twelfth normal
district.
II the dispatches from Washington
are correct, the Uncompahgre valley
project has been allotted the total sum
of $3,545.000, in the recommendation
from the army board.
Many wholesale and retail lumber
dealers attended the eighth annual
convention of the Colorado-Wyoming
/ Lumber Dealers Association in Den
yer.
Without a dissenting vote, land
holders to the number of forty-two
decided to form the Poudre valley
Weld county irrigation district, EN-.
| bracing $4,000 acres to be irrigated by
flood waters.
Nebraska wants to adopt an anti
pest law similar to the one drafted at
the grasshopper convention in Greeley
recently for determination of grass
boppers and which has been intro
duced in the Colorado Legislature.
There seems to be fight on over
the postoffice in Georgetown. There
are two candidates, Thomas H
Hamill, who has held the office for the
last three terms, and w. S. McGintie,
deputy district attorney.
A telegram was received by Jim
Flynn, the Pueblo heavyweight fight
er. offering him bout with Jack
(Twin) Sullivan, the light heavyweight
of Cambridge, Mass. Flynn is offered
guarantee of $4,000 for battle, pro
vided Sullivan will agree to met his
old rival, the Pueblo fighter.
Colorado will have decidedly the
largest and most attractive exhibits
at Omaha, which will consist of pota
toes, cereals, grasses and fruits grown
in the state. In addition there will be
Q model sixty feet long of an irriga
ton plant This model will be paper
mache reproduction of section oi
Colorado with an irrigation system in
operation.
If the proposed plan submitted by
the Northern Colorado Power Compa-
ny to the merchants of Boulder for the
installation of a lighting system along
the four principal blocks, consisting OF
thirty-two poles. each carrying two
1sOu,ot Trpyctop ,onps coc,ino