The Colorado statesman., 1911-12-16
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over tho
State Worth While.


sor is dead.
j. B. Johnson, aged So, a Meeker
pioneer, is dead.
The Gilcrest Commercial Club has
been organized.
Joseph Green of Pueblo has been
granted a pension by the government.
L. P. Chester, pioneer of Grand
Junction, died recently OF heart fall
ure.
After a continuous run of sixty six
days the Loveland sugar factory has
closed.
A course in forestry has been begun
at the Colorado College, at Colorado
Springs.
Ten thousand men in the southern
Colorado coal fields are threatening TO
go on strike.
Charles Weatherwax was fined $25
and costs in Montrose for conducting
a disorderly house.
NJ ]. Phelps, non-union miner,
who recently shot up the town of Erie,
was fined $25 and costs.
Judge Sheafor of Colorado Springs
has declared Colorado City anti-saloon
territory by three votes.
The Commercial Law League of
America will hold its annual conven-
tion in Colorado Springs next July.
Kid Dix of Denver and Curley Dunn
of Central City fought six-round
draw before the Central City Athletic
Club.
The Mountain States Telephone
Company will son spend $175,O0O in
improving it's property in Colorado
Springs.
Joe Coconato of Blend, a suburb OF
Pueblo, is held by the police charged
with having shot his father-in-law, An
tone Frollalo.
w. B. Ebbert of Cortez was elected
for four-year term as water commits
sioner of the Montezuma Valley Irriga-
tion district.
The Denver city and county tax levy
| for 1911 is to be 1872 mills instead oil
the 1916 mill levy passed by the city
council in 1910.
w. H. Caywood of Meeker, widely
known as wolf and bear hunter, who
was recently operated on for appen
dicitis, is recovering.
E. E. Mclaughlin, superintendent
of the Colorado Anti-Saloon League,
is in Washington to attend the annual
meeting of the league.
Modern Woodmen of America have
| decided to start work Immediately on
the improvements at the sanatorium
north of Colorado Springs.
For the second time in three weeks
| the safe in the Denver & Rio Grande
Jsdepot at Trinidad was wrecked by
yeggmen. They got rs cents.
Rev, C. C. Dobbs, pastor of the Chris
tian Church of Longmont for num-
ber of years, has rendered his resigna-
ton. the same to take effect in three
| months.
An adjustment between Eastern
and Western railroads was effected at
Chicago whereby through car service
from the East to the Pacific coast by
way of Denver is re-establlshed
The County Commissioners at Grand
| Junction passed resolution o, er-
ing the construction of new bridge
across Main street. The cost is esti-
mated at $35,00O.
Dr. r. E. Chandler, pastor of the
First Presbyterian church of Trinidad,
underwent a delicate and dangerous
mastoid operation recently and is ex-
pected to recover.
Sir Gilbert Parker, the noted Eng.
lish author and statesman, is to visit
| Colorado for the purpose of learning
something of woman's ability to man
age affairs of government.
District Judge Burke permanently
restrained the city of Longmont from
continuing erection of its municipal
lighting plant under the present agree
mcnt with the Longmont Service Com
pany.
Representative Martin introduced a
bill for a new public building at Du-
range to cost $150,000, also bill ap-
propriating $4,000 to find remedy
for leaf shot and curly top disease
in sugar beets.
The annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Fort Lyon Canal Com
pany was held in Las. Animas. The
following directors were elected
Donald Mcintosh, C. B. Ray, T. S.
Hasty and C. B. Movies.
Nothing has transpired during the
last few weeks, according to officers
of the leading coal companies operat-
ing in Fremont county to indicate that
the several thousand miners employed
by them intend to strike.
Mrs. Joe Monachelli and Mrs. Mar
tin Fishlein, wives of strikers and
themselves members of the Woman's
auxiliary at Louisville, were bound
over to the District Court IN the sum