The Colorado statesman., 1911-08-05
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over tho
State Worth While.

Ground has been broken for the new
jail at Greeley.
Oak Creek is having an electric
light plant installed.
Grover and Briggsdale are now con-
nected by a stageline.
The Park hotel at La Junta was
damaged $4,000 by fire.
Boulder will have postal savings
bank, beginning in August.
A movement is ON foot to build
new city hall for Pueblo.
The assessed valuation of Pueblo
county for the year is $27,411,959.
A saloon in Ouray was robbed by a
lone highwaymau who secured $50.
Preparations are being made for
the apple show, to be held at Delta.
Efforts are being made to have the
next G. A. h. encampment in Denver.
County tax assessors of the state, as
required by law, met at Denver August
1st.
Two canleries, employing 200 peo-
pie, are running full time at Fort Lup-
ton.
Chicken thieves are operating on
large scale in the vicinity of Platte
vile.
The cornerstone of the new NJ. E..
Church at Trinidad has been put in
place.
The citizens of Loveland have de-
cided to hold their Harvest Carnival
Aug. 80.
Levi Brown and wife were arrested
In Pueblo charged with manufacturing
opium.
Farmers in the Gill vicinity are TAX
ing great interest in the good roads
movement.
Colorado Springs is celebrating the
fortieth birthday of the city with
six-day fete.
While swimming in the San Juan
river near Creede, Frank Perrk, aged
twelve, was drowned.
The Western Slope Normal summer
school opened at Gunnison with about
seventy-five present.
Denver is to have factory which
will turn out $1,O00,00O worth of photo
graph paper annually.
John Haley was given three years
in the penitentiary at Pueblo, for
stealing two pairs of spurs.
The Wood Mountain Mining and
Milling Company's $4,000 mill at
Boulder was destroyed by fire.
Gottfried Anderson, a baker fror
Denver, is in an unbalanced condition
in padded cell in Jail in Fort Collins.
The new superintendent of the Colo
RADIO district of the Wells-Fargo sys-
TEN, A. T. Payne, has arrived in Den
yer.
President Taft may be the guest of
the Weld County Fair Association on
Potato Day at Greeley, September
21st.
Rev. Samuel B. Meyer, who was con-
fined in a hospital at Pueblo, killed
himself by jumping from third story
window.
The Pueblo postoffice will remain
closed all day Sundays after August
Goth, an order to that effect having
been issued.
The record wheat yield of sixty
three bushels per acre has been
threshed by Adam Mitchie, three miles
south of Fort Collins.
The law passed by the last Legisla-
ture increasing the fees for filing in
the state engineers office goes into
effort early in August.
The Castle Rock Brick & Tile Com
pany has been organized with capital
of $4,000, to manufacture high-class
brick and tile products.
About thirty carloads of a grading
outfit have been unloaded at Merino,
to be used on the Prewitt reservoir,
three miles east of there.
Madeleine Martinez, while coming to
Pueblo on foot after visit with
friends north of that city, was held
up and robbed of $500.
An auxiliary to the Erie Commercial
Club, the first organization of the
kind in the county, has been formed
by the women of Erie.
J.A. Perry, aged 35, laborer on the
1arm OIL Wesley bSlhlh, i'O AiiS'
southwest of Brush, was thrown into
threshing machine and killed
The Bar Association OF the Seventh
judicial district held meeting in
Telluride, followed by banquet which
was attended by members of the bar
from Mesa, Montrose, Delta, Ouray
and the San Miguel counties.
With the greatest secrecy, without
even the knowledge of the local union,
the headquarters of the Retail Clerks
International Protective Association
has been moved from Denver to Lafay-
ette, Ind.
In an exciting wrestling bout before
a packed house in Salida, Tony George,
a Bulgarian of Pueblo, weighing Is
mounds. put Lightweight Ed Davis of