The Raymer enterprise., 1911-12-07
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

Prospects are bright for the next
irrigation season.
The new Phillips county high school
at Holyoke was recently dedicated.
Ranchers near Meeker report see.
ing numerous gray, or lobo, wolves.
The Monte Vista High school won
from Canon City by score of % to 0.
Money will be secured from Denver
capitalists to finish the Greeley-P Poudre
Irrigation project.
\ ]. A. Hooper, a salesman, was held
up and robbed of $4oO in jewelry and
money In Denver.
Cherokee Bill" aged ia, a resi-.
dent of Grand Junction, is the Oldest
Lying man in America.
Mrs. C. D. Mason Of Wray. who our.
ing her girlhood was Miss Ella Howe,
died in Denver after an operation.
Mrs. James Heury Stead, pioneer
In Colorado and one Of the Oldest and
most respected inhabitants of Salida,
is dead.
The Colorado Live Stock Associa.
tion and the American National Live
Stock Association meets in Denver
December 1914.
Former State Senator Charles Lin.
coin Dickerson committed suicide by
firing shot through his right temple
at bis home in Denver.
Isaac N. Bunting. former mayor of
Grand Junction and owner and pub.
Usher Of the Daily Sentinel of that
city, dropped dead Of heart disease.
All four banks OF Fort Collins will
contribute to the fund being raised for
maintenance of the experimental de.
partment Of the Agricultural college.
William Demetral, the Greek wrest-
ling champion, defeated Charles Olson
Of Indianapolis, after thirty.one
minutes Of brilliant work on the mat
at Pueblo.
In one of the most disastrous games
played on the Meeker gridiron, Meek.
er lost the football championship of
northwestern Colorado to Craig by a
score Of 6 to g..
While crawling out of woodshed at
the home Of his parents in Pueblo
George James, 6-year-old son of ]. w.
janet, was caught under swinging
window and choked to death.
On the new line Of the Rio Grande
between Pueblo and Walsenburg there
are the towns Of Furman, Morrell,
Brooks, Williams, Mustang, Concord,
Roof and Sandy.
The annual football game between
the University Of Colorado and the
State School Of Mines at Union park
in Denver, resulted in a victory for
the university by score of II to O.
Andrew G. Smith, well known
ranchman on Piceance creek, near
Meeker, has been arrested by Deputy
State Game Warden Bush on the
charge of illegally slaughtering deer
Farmers of the Salda vicinity have
taken the matter in their own hands
and are promoting a creamery after
several attempts nave failed to ne.
gotiate the organization of a cream.
cry company.
At Gunnison, Silvia Gowatch of Mar.
Bile was fined 5000 and costs on five
counts charging bootlegging. The
cases were appealed to the County
Court from Police Court, which had
fined Gowatch 3l,443.
James II. Teller. former assistant
attorney general Of Colorado, has
been appointed by Governor Shafroth
to succeed the late Carlton N. Bliss
as Judge of the District Court OF
Denver. Mr.. Teller is a brother of
former United States Senator Henry
NJ. Teller.
Roy Haney OF Montrose knocked
out Danny Reed Of Denver in the
third round OF scheduled twenty.
round bout at Telluride. The bou,
was fast and furious while II lasted,
with honors even until Hancy caught
Reed with right hook to the Jaw
that put him down and out.
Ministers from all parts OF Colo.
rado will meet In Colorado Springs to
attend the neglected fields survey"
conference, to be held by the home
mission union Of the Protestant
churches. 1t will be all all day session
and several executive officers of the
national home mission boards and so.
clety Will take part. ..
Marcus Manzanares, a Mexican re.
siding In Archuleta county, will
serve from one to eight years In the
penitentiary for the voluntary man.
slaughter OF Daniel Martinez, another
Mexican. The crime for which Man.
zanares must serve sentence was com.
mitted In frce.for.all fight at a Mex.
lean dance near Arboles.
The La TERRA Ditch and Reservoir
Company has been organized In Mont.
rnse with A DonnIatnn nrooIdapt