The Springfield herald., 1911-01-06
LIrrLe coLonApo ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
State Worth Telling.

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Work of grading on the Grand
River,-Meeker railroad is now In prog
ress.
Jose Sanchez, miner. was killed
ty rock fall in the Wootton mine at
Trinidad.
Bessie w. Crossman of Denver has
been appointed clerk in the U. s.
geological survey.
Attorney General Barnett advocates
a four-year term for state officials,
with recall feature.
The Colorado Osteopathic Associa-
ton opened its fifteenth annual con-
sention in Denver.
Montrose Elks will erect a home of
their own to cost $4,000. Work will
start early in the spring.
For the fourth time. a COW belong
ing to Benjamin Roll. of Colorado
Springs. has given birth to twins.
The first successful attempt at Il
business directory for Alamosa has
been made by F. A. Mckinney.
While skating on Calkins lake at
I.ongmont, Carl Wilhelm broke
through the ice and was drowned.
Makis Kakis. aged 23. was fatally
crushed betwene the cage and the
sump at the Puritan mine at Freder-
ick.
Preparations are being made in
Greeley for the State Retail Grocers'
| Association meeting, which will be
held January 18th.
Assistant Superintendent Russell OF
the Rio Grande died in Pueblo from in
juries received in wreck near Wal
senburg.
The Arkansas valley section OF the
National Reform Congress held two
day session in Lamar, all valley towns
being represented.
John S. F. Squire. for twelve years
register of the United States land Of
flee at Glenwood Springs, has ten
Gered his resignation.
Shooting himself through the head,
John Lubin. aged II, and well known
III the Morrison section as "Old Man
Lubin,' committed suicide.
The Inland Oil Company of Boulder,
in the last year drilled twelve wells.
SISul Whith NSie IN ouuNSiS, hNts'hts
a daily output of 175 barrels of oil
and 100000 cubic feet of gas.
j. C. McLucas and John Starcher,
who have been trapping on Hay and
Fish creeks and the main Poudre in
Weld county, say fur bearing animals
are plentiful and the fur unusually
thick.
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medium of the Dry Farming Congress,
for an appropriation Of 100000 for
use in a systematic campaign Of agri-
cultural education in the state Of
, Colorado.
| After several months of figuring
plans for the new Y. NJ. C. A. building.
to cost $4,000 have been accepted by
the building committee of Colorado
Springs, and 1t is expected work will
start by April 1st.
A determined war upon tobacco
dealers who sell their wares to chill
dren was begun in Denver in the Ju-
venile Court. when three indi-iduals
were fined for non-observance OF the
laws in such cases.
The Midway coal mine, one of the
| largest producers in southern Colo.
RADIO, and the largest producer in Las
Animas county, has been sold by the
Chicosa Fuel Company to the Colo
rado Fuel and Iron Company.
W. f. Day of Riverside of Greeley,
will spend $4,000 in building drain
ditch three miles long, which shall
answer not only for the purpose of
draining, but also provide irrigation
for land along the Platte river.
State Game Commissioner T. ]. Hol-
land has dispatched several game
wardens to eastern Colorado, where
it is reported hunters are shooting
antelope. Four animals are said to
have been killed at Aroya.
Headquarters of the national Irriga-
ton Congress, recently held at Pueblo,
have been removed to Chicago, pre-
paratory to conducting campaign
| for the nineteenth irrigation congress,
TO be held in Chicago in 1911.
To provide Montrosc county with
an excellent country road at prac-
/ tically no cost is the object of the
Road Drag Club, which has been or
ganized there by c. II. Nickel, assist
ant cashier of the Home State bank.
To add new fame to her hundreds
of acres of deep green alfalfa fields.
il has been given that Rifle proposed
to christen her new alfalfa meal mill.
which is practically an assured fact at
this time. with an alfalfa banquet"
A large section Of territory hereto
fore without telephone connection
with the outside world has been con-
nected by the completion of the toll
line of the Colorado Telephone Com
pany from Telluride to Norwood.
John Leonard Ballou, pioneer OF
Las Animas county, died recently at
his ranch in the Sunflower valley,
twelcve miles northeast of Trinidad.
Ballou was a native of Kentucky and
had been in that district twenty-five
years.
Patrick Lynch, a pioneer of Evans.
the first section boss on the Union