The Colorado statesman., 1912-05-18
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
State Worth While,


state where no city marshal is EN-.
ployed.
Bailey and vicinity have been visit.
ed by a heavy rain, the first of the
season.
One hundred Denver business men
League.
Eight deaths have occurred in Den
yer from scarlet fever caused by in.
fected milk
Yeggmen entered a jewelry store in
Denver recently and stole $4,000
worth of diamonds.
Johnstown will hold an election to
vote 100000 in bonds for the construc-
tion of a water system.
After sixty days of strict enforce
ment, the hydrophobia quarantine on
dogs in Windsor was lifted.
The annual convention of the FIRE.
mont County Sunday School Associa-
ton was held at Canon City.
Nearly every locality in the state
has been visited by heavy rain, accom-
panied by considerable snow.
June 10 has been set as the date
on which Johnstown will vote ON d
$4,000 water works bond issue.
Postmasters of Colorado held their
annual convention in Denver, John F.
Morgan of Canon City. presiding.
Veterans of the Civil War who have
homesteads near Raymer, are plan
ming reunion on Decoration Day.
The Burns theater, at Colorado
Springs, built at a cost of 100000
has been opened to the public.
Boulder county fruit men say cherry
and plum trees have been damaged
very little by the recest cold.
De Kalk Sternberg, a popular pio-
neer, died of heart trouble in Boulder.
He settled in Boulder county in 1872.
The Weld County Retail Merchants
Association has been organized at
Greeley with w. c. Wilson, president.
A modern biplane, designed upon
original lines, is being constructed by
Charles Hammondtree of Grand juno
ton.
The shaft house at the Gem mine
at Idaho Springs, was burned, entail
ing loss of about $4,000, partially in
sured.
District Court is in session in Trim
idad and the docket shows eighty-six
civil cases and seventy-two criminal
cases.
Eiftv-Ona mon cOmDnca tho praduat,
ing class of 1912 from the Golden
School of Mines. Commencement ex-
ercises May "a.
w. F. Edmundson, a Grover ranch
man, is installing an irrigation pump
ing plant consisting of one large pump
and forty wells.
Mrs. Eliza Palmer, ninety-three
years old, who said she was a distant
relative of President Taft, is dead in
Colorado Springs.
Good Roads Day was observed in
nearly every locality of the state, but
in many places the road work was in
terfered with by rain.
Construction work on the new St.
Johns German Lutheran church, be-
ing built in Denver at cost of $780,
900, is progressing rapidly.
During the recent storm, snow to
the depth of ten inches fell in most
parts of the state. No freezing tenn
perature has been reported.
Chris Jacobson, forty-one, a coal
miner, was instantly killed in the
Monarch mine near Louisville, when a
loaded car ran over his body.
Work has been begun on the Maroon
creek bridge. at Aspen, which the
state has voted $4,000 to help build
Much will be done by citizens free to
the county.
Denver fight fans may soon have an
opportunity of seeing Rudie Unholz,
the come back" Boer, and Mike Ma,
lone, the Denver fighter, in a ten
round bout.
Kersey is after the $3.50 silver cup
and the $100 in gold offered by the
Great Western Sugar Company for the
best grown beets in Colorado and
seven other Western states.
Six new voting precincts have been
added in Weld county at Raymer, Os-
good, Herford, Gault, Olive Branch
and Briggsdale. There are 16,500 reg
istered voters in the county.
Members of the Grand Junction Rail
way Machinists' Union, affiliated with
the Federation of Federations have de-
cided to go out on a sympathetic
strike with Hartman line strikers.
Judge Harry P. Gamble at Boulder
imposed the first sentence under the
new non-support law, when he gave
Tom Macy one years Imprisonment
for refusing to care for his wife and
children.
Between 5000 and 10000 men will
be put to work on Denver & Rio
Grande improvements at once, and the