The Colorado statesman., 1911-03-11
LlrrLE COLORADO ITEMs.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
state Worth Telling.

appointed county Judge of Eagle coun'
ty.
A petition to dissolve the municipal
corporation of North Longmont has
been filed. .
A movement has been started to
build a school of psychic research at
Crystola.
Leonora Acosta, years old, died at
Trinidad of hydrophoba. She was
bitten by dog.
Dan Patch, the famous PAGER, VIII
give exhibition heats during the next
state fair at Pueblo.
The contract for the construction of
the $4,000 school building at Long
mont has been awarded
The Senate has confirmed the nomi-
nation of Dewey C. Barley as United
States marshal for Colorado.
l.. j. Seville has been appointed
postmaster at Eden. Pueblo county,
vice F. S. Barnard, resigned.
More than $50 members were added
to the Y. NJ. C. A. by the nine-day
campaign at Colorado Springs.
Gov. Shafroth has announced the ap-
pointment of w. H. Mcdonald, COM
mander of the G. A. r., for the depart
ment of Colorado and Wyoming
over 100 delegates from over the
state attended the eighth annual con-
ference of the Daughters of the Amer
lean Revolution held in Pueblo.
Ninety potatoes, which weighed over
120 pounds, formed part of a load
brought to Greeley. The potatoes av-
eraged one and one-third pounds each.
C. B. Wade, cashier of the City Ma
tional bank of Temple, Texas, has
been made mayor of Byron, Colo, by
decree of the Colorado Supreme
Court.
With twenty-five men at work the
new cement and steel bridge over the
Platte, between Evans and La Sale,
is going up in almost record breaking
time.
The Farmers union held an enthusi-
astic meeting at Eaton and endorsed
the road bill presented in the Legis-
lature by F. G. Madgen, representa-
tive from that county.
Flax is a new crop to be grown in
Weld county by number of progress
sive farmers, who believe it can be
made a highly profitable crop for the
oil which it contains.
w. G. Hubbell, editor of the Fort
Lupton Press. was nominated for may
or on the Taxpayers anti-saloon ticket,
with DR.. Monesmith, H. F. Johnson
and S. McComb for trustees.
At Windsor since the heavy snowfall
of the last two weeks there has been
renewed activity in all lines Of bust
ness and the section is optimistic over
prospects for the coming season.
A proposition to irrigate 1,20O acres
near Fort Lupton for garden truck
has been presented to the Commercial
Club by engineers of the Northern
Colorado Power Company and is con-
sidered feasible.
Nearly 10000 farmers from the agri-
cultural districts along the lines of
the Colorado G. Southern and Santa
Fe railroads visited the agricultural
demonstration car during the two
weeks of it's itinerary through the
northern and eastern sections of the
state.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion will give hearing at Pueblo
April in case brought by the Com
merce Club against the Santa Fe
railroad, in which the club asks a re-
duction of 10 cents per hundred
pounds on dried beans from California
to Pueblo.
Blaine Rickard of Evans nearly
severed the little finger from his right
hand when he picked up handful of
snow to make a SNOWFALL, in which
there was large piece of glass. He
started to mold the snow into shape
when the glass put sudden end to
the operation.
Through a local agent 100 italian
families from all over Colorado are
making arrangements to form a col
ony to farm land twenty miles south
of Pueblo. They will settle on the Pu-
eblo and Rocky Ford Land Company
tracts and new townsite will be plat
ted.
At Grand Junction Father Conway of
st. Joseph's Catholic church an
nounced that 800 babies from New
York city will be imported into Colo
RADIO within the next three weeks, and
that Grand Junction Catholics will be
expected to adopt their portion of the
orphans. Plans are being made by
many families here for adoption Of
some of the children.
George Sykes. an apple man of Chi
cago, is in the city for few days,
and he says that Colorado should de-
vote her time to the raising of the
Jonathan apple, as she excels all other
states in the production of that va
riety. Mr.. Sykes says the Jonathans
which Colorado raises are in great de-
mand all over the East and that no