The Glenwood post., 1911-11-11
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
State Worth While.

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Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Joseph E. Ong. prominent pioneer
of Grand junction, is dead.
A new negro educational institution
will be opened in Pueblo in 1912.
Henry C. Oots, aged seventy of Den
yer, was struck by train in Greeley
and killed.
The new Catholic church of Sterling
has been dedicated, Bishop Matz of
Denver officiating.
Farmers around Eaton will engage
extensively in the sheep feeding busi-
ness this winter.
The search for oil. which has been
going on for some time near Greeley,
has been successful.
Platteville is preparing for the an
nual coyote hunt. in which 200 men
will take part. Nov IS.
The convention of the Home and
Foreign Mission of the Methodist
church was held in Denver.
The Sterling High School football
team defeated the Brush High School
eleven by score of 81 to 0.
Mrs. Frank H. Gaughan, a Leadville
pioneer, but a resident of Cripple
Creek for the last few years, is dead.
Farmers of the Big and Glade Park
country, near Grand Junction, have be-
gun the formation of an irrigation dis
trict.
The apple crop OF Boulder county
will net the farmers about 100000
and compares favorably with any in
the state.
The City Council of Pueblo has fixed
the tax levy for 1912 at 1873 mills,
reduction of six-tenths of mill over
the previous year.
Rev. Randolph Cook, pastor of the
Christian church at Trinidad, has been
elected president of the Trinidad AS
sociated Charities.
The annual report of the Colorado
Fuel and Iron Company. recently
made, shows a decrease Of nearly a
million dollars in earnings.
The will of Edward West, who died
suddenly in Trinidad, was filed in
County Court and the value of the es-
tate is placed at 100000.
A car shortage, which is causing
much trouble to fruit growers has
reached a climax, and from Montrose
to Grand Juction the situation is Sc
rious.
Russian thistle, the pest of the dry
land farmer, may be found to be of
use, for experiments are being made
near Keota with a view to determine
its iood value for stock
Raphael Sarry and Antoine Bring
were precipitated into a deep well and
ten feet of water at Trinidad when a
pipe on which they were standing
broke, and Sarry was drowned.
Clifford and Eugene Van Zant, aged
seven and eight years, respectively,
sons of William T. Van Zant, clerk,
We're terribly burned when they at
tempted to start a fire with coal oil
at their home in Denver.
Samuel H. Enrich, former city de-
tective of Denver, serving a term of
from fourteen to sixteen years in the
Canon City penitentiary for the mur.
der of William Malone, will regain his
liberty early next month.
Colorado is to have at least one
representative-and probably three
on the governors special train that is
to tour the East, about the time Con
gress adjourns, for the purpose OF ad-
vertising the West.
At the meeting of the archbishops
and bishops of the Catholic church in
Washington next April, Cardinal Glib
bons will present the matter of build
ing a national sanitarium for consump-
tives in Denver. maintained by the
Catholics of the country.
The grand jury of the November
term of the Federal Court has been
sworn in by Judge Robert E. Lewis in
Denver, and its Investigations into al
legged violations of the federal laws
has begun. About 200 witnesses have
been summoned by the marshal's of
flee to testify in the various cases to
With 75S voting, out Of total mem
bership of 1853, the Denver Chamber
of Commerce has gone on record in ia.
vor of revision of the city charter,
providing for the introduction of such
reforms as direct primaries, short bal
lat, preferential system of voting,
headless ballot, elimination of national
politics in city elections and the re-
tention OF the initiative, referendum
and recall, now part of the charter.
Metalliferous mines of the West are
to be made the subject of a strongly
organized appeal for recognition dur
ing the next Congress by members
from Western states. When the Bu-
reau of Mines was authorized by the
last Congress it was generally sup