The Colorado statesman., 1912-02-10
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
State Worth While.


public schools in Colorado Springs.
Violence caused thirteen deaths in
Denver during the month of January.
The Colorado Good Roads Associa-
tion is making a fight for 5000 mem
bers.
George Heron, one of the most prom
inent miners in the Telluride district,
is dead.
Mesa county farmers held a three
days farmers institute at Grand
Junction.
Mrs. Sarah Thomas, aged seventy
nine, pioneer of Rio Blanco county,
is dead.
Johnstown has inaugurated "Dai-
ry Day" which will hereafter be an an
nual event.
The postal receipts for the City of
Denver for the month Of January were
$109,900.
Leo Cow, Chinaman, has an
nounced his candidacy for alderman
in Georgetown.
The business men of Weld county
Will lly W get COuNlCIs " WOIh Ou lA0
county roads soon.
Up to January 1, 1912, $4.700.000
had been spent on the Uncompahgre
reclamation project.
The Union Pacific railroad will
spend half million dollars this year
advertising Colorado.
The building occupied as police
headquarters in Buena Vista, was re-
Gently destroyed by fire.
Fort Morgan high school defeated
Julesburg high in basketball game
by a score of 81 to Is.
The farmers in the vicinity of
Steamboat Springs have received S52,-
612 for hay shipped this year.
The ladies of Hudson are planning
leap year ball and will invite the hus-
bands of their friends as escorts.
The First National bank of Pueblo
will erect a new building which will
cost between $250,O00 and 100000.
An interesting program has been ar
ranged for the Hardware Show to be
held in Denver, February 19 to "a.
Solomon Gonzales has been sent to
the penitentiary from Pueblo for ten
tc twelve years for assaulting a small
boy.
The new $4,000 gateway to the City
park in Denver will be completed in
time for the opening of the park, May
80.
Arthur Burnham, who was connected
with the murder Of six people in Colo
rado Springs, some time ago, died re-
Gently.
Farmers in the vicinity of Fort
Lupton are naming their farms and
recording such names according to
the new law.
All owners of dogs in Grand June
tion are required to procure license
for 1912 and have license tag on
each animal.
The Winter Sports Carnival, which
is being held at Sulphur Springs, is
meeting with far greater success than
was at first anticipated.
The Denver Chamber of Commerce
has arranged to maintain an informa-
tion bureau in the Union depot for
the benefit of tourists
The Longmont sugar factory will be
called upon to handle the largest
amount of sugar beets ever grown in
that section.
Four boys have been sent to the re-
fcrmatory from Colorado Springs for
stealing potatoes from farmers in east
ern El Paso county.
Judge Shackelford of Grand juno
tion has issued an order calling spe-
cial grand jury to investigate the sale
of liquor in Mesa county.
Rev. Miss Rachel Dangerfield, the
only woman preacher in northern Col
orado, will begin series of revival
services at Delta soon.
The total assessed valuation of the
property of the new county of Crow
ley, according to the recent report OF
the assessor, is S2,102,551.
The three-year-old daughter of
Former Sheriff, C. C. Hobson, of
Ouray, was probably fatally burned
while playing with other children.
Felix Martinez, the wealthy ranch
er of Trinidad, who had been missing
for some time, was found dead fifteen
miles from Aguilar and it is supposed
he was murdered.
Perry H. Brewington, formerly of
Eaton, has been sentenced to the peni-
tentiary for fifteen months and must
pay fine of $500. at Reno, Nevada,
having been convicted of bigamy
With $4,000 acres pledged to beets
for the Eaton, Greeley and Windsor
factories, it is now claimed that 3O,-
900 acres will be pledged, the largest
in the history of the industry.
A deal which will mean much to ir-
rigation and farming in Larimer
county was closed when the North