The Colorado statesman., 1911-09-23
LITTLE COLORADO ir-Ms.
Small Happenings ocourrl, r the
state Worth While.

Greeley is to get the state meeting
Of the Undertakers' association in
1918.
Charles Wiley, county treasurer of
Iilpin county, died at the age of 43
years.
The Presbyterian church of Wind
sor is arranging to open free read
ng room.
Idaho Springs will entertain the
Colorado Elks in their annual conven-
tion in 1912.
The machinery for the Alamosa ice
and cold storage plant has arrived and
been installed.
A meteor, gigantic in its proper
tions, was seen to fall near Fort Col
Inns, recently.
Fifteen hundred autos from out of
own have visited Canon City during
he past summer.
The annual meeting of the Colorado
library Association will be held in
Denver November 27.
Larimer county will receive addition
,oad improvement work.
Authorities say the report that there
will be a coal miners strike in Las
Animas county is untrue.
L. M. Rich, laborer, was run down
oy a Boulder interurban near Bloom
'ield and instantly killed.
A general movement of Rio Blanco
,outny cattle to Denver and Missouri
liver markets has begun.
Heavy frosts are reported in the vi
Unity of Meeker. and the deer are
eaving the hills as a result.
Carl F. Hallin, aged fifty, was struck
oy a Rio Grande passenger train in
Denver and instantly killed.
Experienced burglars made an or
ganized attempt to work the entire
own of Trinidad one night recently.
The ladies' of Empire are planning
heir annual dance for the benefit of
St. Joseph's hospital at Georgetown.
Fishing is reported at it's best in all
parts of the state, the weather and
ow water being favorable to large
catches.
A direct long distance telephone
line has been completed between Den
yer and Ell Paso, Texas, distance of
750 miles.
Bitten by centipede at her home
in Pueblo, Mrs. S. e. James is in
serious condition, with two physicians
attending her.
Rio Blanco county farmers will not
lind it necessary to take vacation as
has other portions of the state, on ac-
count of the drouth.
Claude o. Akers, while riding a mo-
torcycle near Colorado Springs on the
Pueblo road, collided with an automo-
bile, and died two hour later.
Ranchmen in the vicinity of Salida
are very much interested in establish
ment of a creamery at that place, and
1t is probably movement now on foot
will succeed.
Assistant Superintendent Hughes of
the Department of Fisheries, Washing
ton, D. c., planted half million fish
In Big Thompson river between Love
land and Estes Park.
Colorado College at Colorado
Springs has changed its regular re-
ligious exercises by the introduction of
weekly vesper service to be held
every Sunday afternoon.
The Santa Fe, Union Pacific, Colo
RADIO & Southern and Denver & Rio
Grande are contemplating improve
IN, il
nails, the entire cost to be $2,000,000.
1t is reported that the promoters of
the Estes National Park scheme, are
again appearing before the commercial
bodies of the northern towns to Sc
cure their cooperation in putting
through their plans.
The Board of County Commission
ers of Las Animas county has ordered
steel sign posts placed on the highway
that follows the Santa Fe Trail and
also on the superb scenic highway to
Ration pass and to Walsenburg and La
Junta.
1t was reported by fishermen that
thousands of fish ranging from two to
twenty inches in length are floating
on the surface and washed upon the
banks in the vicinity of the Halligan
dam, several miles from Fort Collins.
Several counties in the state threat.
en- to institute mandamus proceedings
against State Treasurer Roady Kene-
han and State Auditor Michael A.
Leddy, to secure an aggregate OF $40,.
900 which they claim was appropriated
to them by the Seventeenth General
Assembly for road building.
Peaches have been going out of
Delta for ten days at the rate of fifty
to sixty cars a day. Nearly 500 car.
loads have already left the county and
between 200 and 300 cars are still to
be shipped. At Paonia hundreds of
boxes have gone to waste for want
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