The Colorado statesman., 1911-07-29
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small happenings Occurring over the
State Worth While.

COLORADO City has raised the annual
saloon license from $1,000 to $4,000.
1t is announced the Rio Grande will
broad guage between Alamosa and Du'
range
The Senate has confirmed the ap-
pointment of Fred E. Cole postmaster
at Arriba.
1t Is claimed twenty-five cars OF
strawberries will be shipped from
Steamboat Springs.
Colorado agriculturists and fruit
growers are assured of enough cars to
handle their crop.
Andy Potonno, believed to be a
Black Hand letter writer, has been ar
rested in Telluride.
The capital stock of the Denver Ma
tional Bank is to be increased from
$750.OO0 to s1.OOO,OO0.
Strawberries are being shipped from
the Steamboat Springs section at the
rate of one car day.
Two Wright biplanes have arrived
in Colorado Springs and with them ex-
hibition flights will be made.
The Fort Collins Bank and Trust
Company has consolidated with the
First National bank of that city.
The Wisconsin Coal Company Is
preparing to open up extensive coal
deposits at Lay, Moffat county.
C. F. Rigden of Denver, Western
manager of the CapitaI Life Insurance
Company, was found dead in a hotel
in Telluride.
The question of establishing home
for fallen women and orphan children
at Grand Junction is being agitated by
the churches.
For the ground on which the new
Greeley postoffice will be located the
government has given William Maher
a check for 100000.
The prosperous farmers of Nj Wot
have organized company with cap
italization of $4,000 for the purpose of
starting a creamery.
The negro X. of p. of Colorado held
a three-day state convention in Pu-
eblo with about fifty out of town dele
gates in attendance.
State Veterinary Charles Lamb
died over the state, with what is
known in the East as swamp fever.
While swimming in the Grand river
near Grand Junction, Owen Walsh
seventeen-year-old son of NJ. ]. Walsh.
peach king" of Mesa county. was
drowned.
Patrolman William B. Hendrey OF
Trf daI hac Tor M aril lu q
pended from the local police force for
beating a Mexican into insensibility
on the street.
James e. Dean, a farmer living five
miles east of Windsor, struck flow
of artesian water at a depth of 500
feet. He will utilize the flow to irri-
gate his farm.
The Colorado State Highway Com
mission is planning to construct sys-
tenn of highways in the state this year
and next which will be the foundation
of an elaborate system.
Representatives of the Standard Oil
Company are sinking well near the
oil springs near Steamboat Springs.
1t is the plan of the company to sink
several wells in the vicinity.
The Erie Commercial Club has ap-
pointed a committee to investigate
the possibility of securing a cream
cry, and already farmers of that sec
ton have promised support
State Fish and Game Commissioner
Shinn will recommend that the gov
ernment buy the Estes Park fish
hatchery, which was established by
the citizens of Larimer county.
Trouble arising over the shipment Of
Texas cattle into northern Colorado
has resulted in an order from Deputy
Stock Inspector Atkins that all cattle
That mining in Colorado has been
given a decided impetus by the pros
pectors' grubstake campaign is evil
denced by the increased activity in
the mining machinery business.
Denver is soon to be visited by Sec
retary of the Interior Fisher. On Aug.
2, the secretary will start from Chica-
go on his first official Western tour
since he succeeded Richard Ballinger.
The school census for Colorado pre-
pared by the state superintendent OF
public instruction shows that there are
222,63O children of school age in Colo
rado. This is slight increase over
the figures of last year, which were
221.993.
The contract has been let for the
grading of the remaining forty-five
miles on the Laramie, Hahn's Peak
and Pacific from Cowdrey through
Walden to Hebron, which will bring
the road in Jackson county to within
eighteen miles of Steamboat Springs.
Rudolph Wickstorm, seventeen years
old, who had confessed to holding up
Attorney T. A. Nixon, January 25, TAX
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