Eastern Colorado times., 1912-04-26
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Idaho Springs is to have a new $780,
900 hotel
The President nominated Walter l.
Burke as postmaster at Sterling.
M. c. Mckenzie, a rancher of Yuma
county, died at hospital in Denver.
The work Of putting in the new sys-
tenn of street lighting in Rocky Ford
is under way.
Forty suspects arrested in conec.
ton with the Globe Express robbery
at Grand Junction have been released.
Plans are being made for the install
lation of an automobile truck service
between Collbran and Grand Junction
John Hofmund, a pioneer Of Love-
land was found dead in bed. He was
sixty-five and died from heart disease.
The Woodmen of the World held a
largely attended smoker in Rocky
Ford recently. Several of the state Of
ficers were present.
Subscriptions to date to the Com
merce Investment Company for the re.
lief of the destitute farmers of East
ern Colorado total $S,261.5O.
Fred Schaeffeldein, a miner, was
killed in a cave-in in the entry of the
Henrietta mine on Battle mountain
near Red Cliff.
Work on the excavation and founda-
tion OF the new opera house at Idaho
Springs is progressing rapidly with
big force of men and teams.
The Senate public buildings commit
genheim's bill appropriating 100000
for public building site at Monte Vista.
Fruit prospects in the Canon City
district wer never better at this sea.
son Of the year. Every indication
pointe to a bumper crop Of practically
all kinds of fruit.
DR.. Oliver Ebert, one of the most
prominent physicians Of Mesa county.
was found dead on his homestead
twenty-seven miles southeast of Grand
Junction by cowboys.
w. H. Edwards and Frank Rolf were
arrested and are being held in con-
nection with the murder of Jim War
ford, whose body was found recently
on Battle mountain, Cripple Creek.
e. l.. Brown, vice president ard
general manager Of the Denver & Rio
Grande railroad, has been elected to
the directorate of that company, sue.
ceeding Howard Gould, resigned.
With 6,OOO acres pledged for beets
growing, an independent sugar fac
tory probably will be established in
the Greeley district. The proposed fac-
tory will cost S1,OO0,000.
That the National Guard of Colora-
do has been ordered to mobilize and
be in readiness to respond immediate
ly to orders expected from the War
Department at Washington is the sub
stance Of reports current in Denver.
The opening OF 10000 acres Of rich
farming land on the Fort Lewis mesa
near Durango, recently, caused nc
rush of homeseekers as the govern.
ment had not advertised the opening.
Because she refused to permit
tramp to rob the store of which she
was in sole charge, Mrs. John l.. Puck
EFT was probably fatally beaten with a
stove poker by tramp at Nyburg,
fourteen miles east of Pueblo.
Former County Commissioner R. w.
De Vinny of Greeley, who recently
pleaded guilty to the charge of NAL
feasance in office, was fined 5000 and
costs, the maximum, by District Judge
Graham.
Solicitors for packing company
who have been canvassing the Ber-
thoud district for acreage for the grow
ing Of peas have contracted for $50
acres. enough to insure the erection OF
a hulling plant for that town.
The City Council Of Colorado Springs
will Join with Ell Paso and Otero ccun-
ties and the school districts in the two
counties in their fight to compel the
Santa Fe railroad to pay the tax as
sessed against it by the State Board Of
Equalization.
The services of volunteer regiment
Of cavalry made up from the member
ship Of three camps of Spanish-Amer.
lean war veterans Of Denver, were Of
fered the government, in the event of
Intervention in Mexico. The offer was
sent by an officer of the proposed reg
iment to Senator Warren, who trans
mitted 1t to the secretary Of war.
The Lamar Commercial Club adopt
ed vigorous resolutions favoring initia-
ton Of q law guaranteeing the protec.