The Paonia progressive and the Paonia newspaper., 1911-10-05
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

There are now 100 Boy Scouts in the
organization at Loveland.
Dancing will hereafter be taught in
the public schools of Denver.
warm rain, the first in three
months. has fallen over Weld county.
The Longmont high school football
team defeated the Greeley Normal
team.
In Denver one hundred men were
affected by the strike on the rail-
roads.
c. A. McLea, who was charged with
robbing the depot at Hotchkiss. was
acquitted.
In their last appearance OF the sea-
son in Pueblo Des Moines defeated Pu-
eblo, Z to l.
Prowers county has instituted suit
to test the validity of the state high
way appropriation.
Big game hunters are crowding into
Meeker and outfitting themselves and
going into the hills.
The September term of District
Court has ended at Fort Morgan after
two weeks session.
The State Board of Equalization cut
the original assessment of the rail-
roads of the state $4,000.
The Conejos- Costello fair at Alamo
sa was the largest and best ever held
in the San Luis valley.
An attempt was made by striking
minarG "a I a 20 hn
store of Bermont & Van Derbergh.
John Pritchard, a Platteville farm
er. resident of that vicinity for TWEEN
ty-six years. is dead. aged sixty-eigh,
Robert waddell. aged sixty-seven. a
resident OF Colorado for thirty years.
was found dead in his cabin at Victor.
Francisco Roemro was sentenced to
the penitentiary for thirty-five years
for the murder of James Baer. at Trim
idad
A summer resort is to be built three
miles below Georgetown. II is said
the resort will be ready for business
in 1912.
Developments in the Burnham.
Wayne murder case in Colorado
Springs have taken the detectives out
Of town.
One person in every ten who died
in Colorado during the months OF
April. May and June were victims
OF murder.
Dissension among the Italians and
not the Black Hand is said to be re-
sponsible for the recent dynamiting OF
house in Pueblo.
During the county fair at Cortez the
Indians gave the greatest dance ever
held in the state. Thousands of In
dians participated.
Plans for establishment OF an indie
pendent sugar factory at Greeley are
being made by Eastern men and farm
ers OF that district.
Walter Foster. a former Greeley
boy. who escaped from the reforma-
tory at Buena Vista, was re-captured
at Colorado Springs.
II weather conditions continue as at
present for several days. the big game
season. which is now open, will see
heavy mortality among the deer.
The first annual fair of Saguache
county was held in Moffat. The ex-
hibits consisted OF agriculture. horti-
culture. live stock and poultry.
The government revenue agents in
Colorado have been notified that they
are hereafter to enforce the law con-
crning the adulteration of butter.
The Primero first aid team. skilled
miners, employed In the c. F. & J..
Company's mine, won first prize in
the first annual First Aid to Injured
contest, in Trinidad.
Alfred Muller. until his death sec
retary of the Jewish Hospital Asso-
citation. Denver. is charged with a
shortage OF $4,000 in a report on IN
audit of the association 5 books.
Caught on the railroad bridge over
the Cache la Poudre river, one mile
north OF Greeley. an unknown man
was struck and instantly killed by a
southbound Union Pacific flyer.
James O'Neal, OF the Western Fed
Grafton OF Miners. who was on trial
at Cripple Creek for killing Tom Jones
was found guilty and given four
months in jail
Among other things charged against
her husband, Mrs Carnelius Brimson.
of Berthoud, in asking for a divorce,
claims she and her infant were com
DelIed tn sIeen for months I'm n coon