The Springfield herald., 1911-11-10
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
state Worth While.

The State Bank Of Gilcrest. recently
closed, has been reorganized.
A new negro educational institution
will be opened in Pueblo in 1912.
Wisconsin is to furnish Greeley
with the bulk of the potato seed for
next year
Henry C. Oots, aged seventy of Den
yer, was struck by train in Greeley
and killed.
The Rocky Mountain Hotel Mems
Association held their anual conven-
tion in Denver.
Nineteen hundred cars of apples
have been shipped from Grand juno
tion this season.
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.
The convention of the Home and
Foreign Mission of the Methodist
church was held in Denver. $50.
The library of the University OF Den
yer has been turned over to the city
and will be opened to the public.
The Sterling High School football
team defeated the Brush High School
eleven by score of 81 to o.
Parties returning from Chambers
lake at the headwaters of the Pou,ire
river report heavy fall of snow.
Joseph Shoemaker, a ranchman.
eight miles from Delta realized $4.-
600 from the apple crop of six acres.
Lawrence and Morrell Halton,
brothers, OF Cow. were arrested at
Morrison for killing deer out OF sea
son,
Farmers OF the Big and Glade Park
country, near Grand Junction, have be-
gun the formation of an irrigation dis
trict.
The Eaton football team has been
barred from playing in the Northern
Colorado Inter-scholastic League this
season.
Frank Reiman, well known farmer
residing on Pine river, near Bayfield,.
committed suicide by swallowing car
bolic acid.
The apple crop of Boulder county
will net the farmers about 100000
and compares favorably with any in
the state.
The financial affairs Of Arapahoe
county are in such tangled state that
nothing but settlement in court will
satisfy the taxpayers.
The annual report of the Colorado
Fuel and Iron Company, recently
made, shows decrease Of nearly
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 climax. and from Montrose
to Grand Juction the situation is Sc
rious.
William Wills, employed In the
Aduddel mine. Russell Gulch. near
Central City. was electrocuted by con.
tact with an electric power switch in
the shaft house.
The contract for the new rock
ribbed dam at Silver lake, near Boul-
der, has been awarded by the City
Council for s52,13C.20. 1t is possible
that some work may be done this fall.
Clifford and Eugene Van Zant. aged
seven and eight years. respectively.
sons of William T. Van Zant. a clerk,
were terribly burned when they at
tempted to start fire with coal oil
at their home in Denver.
Samuel II. Enrich, former city de-
tective of Denver, serving 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.
over 500 farmers of the Poudre Val,
ley at meeting in Fort Collins re.
Gently condemned what they called
discrimination in water rights and ap
pointed committee to begin imme'
diate action to relieve the situation
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 national sanitarium for consump-
tives in Denver, maintained by the
Catholics of the country. ta
District Judge Sheafor has decided
that Colorado City went dry at the
last election by three votes. The vote
announced after the judge had thrown
out ten votes as illegal from ballot
boxes brought into court. stood 739 in
favor of anti-saloon territory, and 736
against.
Various lodges and the women's
clubs of Delta have recommended
erection of a hospital there and it is
thought one will be built within -four
months. An effort is being made to
secure the cooperation of people oi
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