The state herald., 1912-03-15
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over tho
State Worth While.

snow.
Grand Junction will pave six blocks
with asphalt.
Alex McKinzie, a resident of Bould
er for fifteen years, is dead.
Loveland is asking for the establish.
ment of an additional rural route
There are ten pairs of twin babies
in the Hotchkiss school district.
Thomas Scott Hayden. president of
the Denver Union Water Company, is
dead.
Clarence Milton Smith, one of the
hest known newspaper men in Denver,
Is dead.
BY a vote of forty-two to one, Gil
crest taxpayers decided to Incorporate
the town.
Boulder has secured an addition Of
three elk for the Chautauqua park in
that jcity.
Trinidad will not enter team in
he Rocky Mountain Baseball League
this year.
La Junta has given a franchise to a
company for lighting the streets of
that town.
No trains have reached Silverton in
several days on account of heavy
snowslides.
Water is now flowing into the Ster-
ling reservoir for the first time since
its completion.
Plans have been drawn for the Den
yer armory, which is to be erected at
cost of s15O,OOO.
Weld county farmers are planning a
cooperative bank to be operated en-
tirely by farmers.
The second shipment of sheep from
Greeley, consisting of fifty cars. mas
been shipped to Chicago.
The temperance people of Evans are
making strong fight against the re-
establishment of saloons.
The Cripple Creek offices of the
Cripple Greek Short Line are being
moved to Colorado Springs.
H. A. Danielson. who has lived in
Colorado for the past thirty years,
died recently at Loveland.
Hudson's high school building. re-
Gently constructed at a cost of IS 900.
has been destroyed by fire.
Eight mines belonging to the Amer
lean Fuel Company in northern Colo
RADIO have resumed operation.
The War Department denies that
Fort Logan is to be abandoned and
the property placed on sale.
City authorities of Greeley have
ruled that snowballing in the business
district of that town must stop.
Colorado Springs will make an eff
fort to secure the next national meet
ing of the Knights OF Columbus,
otero county melon growers met re-
Gently in Rocky Ford and organized
an association for their protection.
Patrick Flemming. an old.tIme min
er in the Animas Forks district, se-
Gently committed suicide by shooting
himself.
Clarence Bloom, while digging well
six miles from Meeker. was seriously
injured when large boulder fell upon
his head.
Burglars looted saloon In Cripple
Creek recently. taking away $500 in
gold ore. but overlooking $500 in ,he
cash drawer.
The high line OF the Colorado &
Southern at Ten Mile canon, near
Breckenridge. is blockaded. following
a big Fnowsllde.
Nineteen and elght.tenths inches OF
snowfall is the total thus far In 1912.
February smashed all the known rec.
ords for snow.
Prominent citizens OF Meekor and
Rifle are agitatlng the question OF
building n macadamized road between
those two towns.
Frui. growers OF Pueblo county are
planning TO organize fruit associa.
tion that will take In all similar organ.
izations In Colorado.
The committee TO have charge OF
the @. A. II. encampment at Boulder.
May Il. IS aud l6. has been named
and Is making plans.
The Union Ladies' Aid Society OF
Greeley Is making good. thick com.
forts for the needy dry.lnnders of that
part OF the country.
One hundred acres have been cou.
tracted for by the Millikcn canning
factory, which will bo ready for busi.
ness In the summer.
Owing to the heavy snow In the
mountains the prospect for bumper
wheat crop In the Mcokcr country is
better than for ten years.
The Gill Farmers Union has or.
ranged for series Of lectures on ir.
rigatlon, cultivation OF the soil. dairy.
ing. poultry and stock rnislng.
Warren Davis. suspected OF stealing
registered package containing az DOO