The Glenwood post., 1911-05-06
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over ths
State Worth Telling.

Ben Richards, a miner, was found
dead at Pitkin.
The Pixies Peak road has been
opened to the public
Two million tomatoes have been set
out near Grand Junction.
municipal lighting plant will be
established at Ault in the near future
Arrangements are complete for the
creamery and cheese factory at Wind
sor.
Farmers and business men of Buck
ingham have organized a commercial
club.
Boulder county is engaged in the
greatest road building work in its his
tory
Crop conditions over the state are
much improved by the recent general
rain.
for the organization of boy scouts in
Longmont.
Four men said to be responsible for
many thefts from cars in Pueblo have
been arrested.
The new International State bank
of Trinidad, with capital of 100000
has opened for business.
The eighteen-months-ol son OF E.
c. Campbell of Loveland, came near
dying from drinking gasoline.
The annual May Day festival at the
Agricultural college at Fort Collins
will take place Saturday. May 6.
After working hard for eight years
in hope of securing cannery, Grand
junction it as far from it as ever.
The Pueblo Southeastern Telegraph
& Telephone Company of Pueblo with
$5O,O00 capital has been incorporated
Sheepmen of northern Colorado
will this year lose $l50.OOO or an aver
age of 81 per head on sheep fed for
market.
Fruit growers over the state are
pleased and surprised that the crop
was not damaged by the recent cold
spell.
A. E. Sheldon a cattleman of Ne
braska. and r. j. Dobell of Denver
at Fort Lupton.
In the last intercollegiate debate OF
the year, held in Boulder, the Univer,
sity of South Dakota defeated the Uni
versity of Colorado.
Greeley is to be famed not only as
the home of the Greeley potato, but
of the dasheen, new vegetable re-
sembling the potato.
"Muggsy" School of Cheyenne and
kid" Rose of La Junta are matched
for return go of twenty rounds at
Cheyenne, May 20.
By twisting their clothing into a
rope A. ]. Stearn and Paul Shubeck,
insane patients at the county poor
farm at Pueblo, escaped.
Rev. George Redell Vosburg, pastor
of the First Baptist church of Denver,
the largest of it's denomination in the
state, rendered his resignation.
The Farmers union at Ault has
made remarkable growth during the
last month, having increased its mem
bership from seventy to 176.
Three students of the Agricultural
college at Fort Collins who graduate
with this years class have been of,
fered good government positions.
Fishing in Estes Park promises to
be good this spring and summer and
many fish are now going into the
streams from the Estes Park hatchery
An investigation made by the fac
ulty into the alleged gambling among
high school students of Grand Junction
has failed to find foundation for the
charges.
w. G. Burchsted, treasurer of Nor
gan county, died suddenly at his home
in Fort Morgan. He was sixty-two
and was serving his second term as
county treasurer.
The Collbran Fish and Game Club.
Mesa countys fashionable sporting as.
sociation, has organized for the sum
mer with More Fish for the Fisher
man" as it's motto.
F. A. Ordman, prominent ranch
man of Semper, was shot twice
through the abdomen by F. H. Kenne-
dy, a steam shovelman on the Stand
ley lake dam, near Boulder
In report made by two special
| agents of the land department, the
plan of setting aside Monument park
in Mesa county as national park is
approved.
Eddie Johnson of Pueblo and Johnny
Murphy of Denver have been matched
for fifteen-round boxing exhibition be
fore the Business Mems Athletic Asso
citation at Alamosa, May 10.
Lead arsenate will be manufacturer
in Greeley in large quantities by com
pany Just organized and sold to farm
ers to poison grasshoppers, potato
bugs, etc.
Rev. H. NJ. Pingree, pastor of La