The Colorado statesman., 1912-03-16
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.


FIVE feet of snow has fallen at Sill
Verton during the past week.
A Boy Scout organization has been
perfected in Grand junction.
A 100000 fireproof warehouse is to
be erected in Grand Junction.
Loveland is asking for the establish
ment of an additional rural route
The Loveland high school will have
a baseball team in the field this year.
Thomas Scott Hayden, president of
the Denver Union Water Company, is
dead.
The first shipment of spring lambs
from Gill, 2,400 head, were sent to
Chicago.
Clarence Milton Smith, one of the
rest known newspaper men in Denver,
is dead
Greeley school districts $41, 500 bond
issue has been sold. The premium is
s1,713.95.
Gov. Shafroth has issued procla-
nation designating Friday, April 10, as
Arbor Day.
Trinidad will not enter a team in
the Rocky Mountain Baseball League
this year.
No trains have reached Silverton in
several days on account of heavy
snowslides.
The Colorado & Southern has dis
continued service between Buena Vista
and Hancock
Water is now flowing into the Ster-
ling reservoir for the first time since
its completion.
John w. Springer of Denver has an
nounced himself as candidate for the
United States Senate.
The temperance people of Evans are
making strong fight against the re-
establishment of saloons.
The Cripple Creek offices Of the
Cripple Creek Short Line are being
moved to Colorado Springs.
II. A. Danielson, who has lived in
Colorado for the past thirty years,
died recently at Loveland.
Eight mines belonging to the Amer
lean Fuel Company in northern Colo
rado have resumed operation.
The War Department denies that
Fort Logan is to be abandoned and
the property placed on sale.
The contract for the $4,000 build
ing for the Mercantile Bank C Trust
Company of Boulder has been let.
The question of disseminating the
corporation of the town of North
Longmont will be voted on April 2.
G. R. Murphy of Grand Junction
was seriously injured recently by be-
ing kicked in the stomach by a colt.
John l.. Church, aged seventy-three,
one of the best known men in Boul-
der county, Civil War veteran, is
dead
Unless Former Judge Richard Den
mis- of Eaton gets a stay of execution,
| he must serve a thirty-day sentence
in jail.
Since the Hudson school building
was destroyed by fire, church is be-
ing used temporarily to house the
pupils.
The San Juan baseball league, COM
prising Durango, Silverton, Mancos,
Cortez, Ignacio and Bayfield, has been
organized.
Colorado suffragists refuse to nelp
pay for the windows smashed by the
English suffragettes on their recent
rampage.
The Humane Society is feeding large
herds of cattle near Bennett, and hay
by the carload is being shipped from
Platteville.
John Valentinsic, under arrest at Sa-
Ida for dynamiting a saloon several
weeks ago, has been bound over to the
District Court.
The high line of the Colorado &
Southern at Ten Mile canon, near
Breckenridge, is blockaded, following
a big snowslide.
Women of Fort Lupton will put a
third ticket in the field and make the
issue at the municipal election for or
against the pool hall.
The Union Ladies' Aid Society OF
Greeley is making good, thick com.
forts for the needy dry-landers of that
part of the country.
One hundred acres have been cou.
tracted for by the Milliken canning
factory, which will be ready for bust.
ness in the summer.
The Gill Farmers Union has ar
ranged for series of lectures on ir-
rigation, cultivation of the soil, dairy.
ing, poultry and stock raising.
The great warehouse for the storage
of apples in Denver. will be begun in
April. 1t will be built of asbestos,
will be strictly fireproof and will have
capacity of more than 1900 cars of
apples.
To help with the expenses of the