The Colorado statesman., 1912-06-01
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
State Worth While,


proving marked success.
The mayor of Ouray has designated
June 18th as cleanup day.
All the rural schools in Pueblo coun.
ty have closed for the season.
The International Association of Auc'
tioneers will meet in Denver June 5.
The contract for water works at
Milliken, to cost $12,9S5, has been let.
Water is rinning into the Milton
reservoir near Eaton, for the first
time.
The estate of Robert A. Austin will
pay $4,000 inheritance tax to the
state.
The highway from Boulder to Estes
Park has been opened and is in per-
feet condition.
Fire destroyed the Big Bear stamp
mill at Telluride. The plant was val
ued at 100000.
The Idaho Springs baseball team de-
feated the Gilpin Mines team of Cen
trail City, to 8.
Robert l.. Thasteen, one of the early
scettlers of Loveland and pioneer Of
Colorado, is dead.
A new state anthem has been writ
ten for Colorado by Miss Marie Anne
Singletary of Denver.
Strontia Springs has a newspaper,
the Platte Canon Fly. w. G. Thomp-
son is the publisher.
Improvements planned to cost $780,
600 for the state insane asylum at Pu-
eblo have been started.
The acreage pledged for the pro-
posed La Sale Independent sugar fac
tory has reached 5000.
The 1000 laborers at work in the
Weld county beet fields are in
sufficient to handle the crop.
1t took Canon City just ten innings
to win the second contest in the Rocky
Mountain League from Pueblo.
Mrs. Bertha Dohney, for eleven
years police matron in Denver, has
been placed on the retired list with a
pension of $42.50 month.
The new contract between the city
of Rocky Ford and the electric light
company will save the city. $1,000 u
year.
A mass meeting of citizens almost
unanimously voted down the proposed
commission form of government for
Trinidad.
The White and Big Beaver rivers
continue to rise, having already
of the year.
Frank Ferraro and Frank Mario,
charged with the murder of Felix Mar
tinez ON January 27th, were acquitted
at Trinidad.
A. B. Whitmore, curio hunter, IN
earthed the remains of prehistoric
mammal in Garden park, twenty miles
from Cripple Creek.
j. S. Westfall, a rancher living near
Rocky Ford, was probably fatally In.
jured when a load of hay upon which
he was riding upset.
Slowly but surely all the rivers in
the San Juan basin are rising by
inches, and reports of damage will
soon come thick and fast.
Potato planting has been started
throughout the Greeley district. At
least $4,000 acres of potatoes will be
planted in the county this season.
A. j. Woodruff of Denver has been
appointed by Governor Shafroth as a
member of the State Board of Immi-
grafton, to succeed Thomas F. Ma.
honey.
A call for a charter convention has
been signed by citizens of Delta to
nominate twenty-one members of a
charter committee to be voted for at
an election later.
Twenty-Five miles of the Rio Grande
Southern railroad is washed out and
the town of Rico is entirely cut off
from communication with the outer
world except by wire.
Charged with the Misrepresentation
of $1,100 from the funds of the First
National Bank of Wellington, John S.
Cusack, former cashier of the bank,
has been arrested at Saratoga, Wyo.
A steel bridge at Una, Garfield
county, which cost the state $24,OO0
anu was CoiHpIeleu idsl november
was washed out recently with the
flood in the North Fork of the Gunni.
son river.
A local fight between oil dealers at
Grand Junction has brought the price
of gasoline in fifty-gallon lots down to
20 cents a gallon, and kerosene to 15
cents. Other Western slope towns
have met the cut.
The following additional appoint
ments have been announced by the
new Denver city administration: John
S. Macbeth, president of the park
board; John T. Kenney, undersheriff;
James S. Temple, chief deputy treas
urer; Miss Hettie E. Westover, chief
denutv recorder