The Colorado statesman., 1912-05-25
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

School census shows that Mesa
county has 6,242 children of school
age.
Women of Auburn have organized
club from which gossip is absolutely
barred.
Grand Junction sugar factory has
secured the largest acreage of beets
in its history.
Grand Junction is building a $780,
900 mountain water system to be com
pleted in June.
A committee of Kersey citizens is
soliciting acreage for an independent
sugar factory.
Daniel Healey, prominent business
man of Leadville, was drowned in Tur-
quoise lake, near that city, recently.
H. p. Tucker, lineman at the Sun
nysides mines, near Silverton, fell
from the tram and was instantly
killed.
The "J.J." ranch, near Rocky Ford,
has recently shipped to the Kansas
City market nearly four thousand head
of cattle.
Business men of Colorado Springs
are considering the advisability of or
ganizing $1,000,000 electric light
company.
John II. Day, aged seventy-seven,
pioneer of Montrose county and a
county commissioner years ago, died
in Montrose.
Lack of funds will prevent the ap-
perance of Colorado university ath-
letes in this years intercollegiate
meet at Chicago.
The st. Vrain river is running bank
full at Longmont and the bottom lands
will be flooded. This has not been the
case for years.
The First National Bank of Engle
wood has been admitted to the cur
rency association of Denver, Pueblo
and Colorado Springs.
The town of Oak. Creek is lighted
by electricity for the first time. The
plant installed by the Oak Creek Ser
vice Company Is completed.
Charred almost beyond recognition,
the body of N. D. Madden, prospec,
tor was found in his cabin, seventy
miles northwest of Fort Collins.
All freight and passenger traffic on
the Rio Grande Southern between Du-
range and Telluride has been aban
doned indefinitely owing to washouts.
Governor Shafroth has appointed
delegates to the National conference
of Charities and Correction, which will
be held in Cleveland, o., June IL to 10.
The bureau of education of the In
terror Department of the United
States has notified Colorado college
that it has been rated in the first
class.
Edwin Kirchbaum, the seventeen
year-cld son of George E. Kirchbaum,
a well-known resident of Trinidad, was
fatally hurt when he was struck on the
temple by baseball.
The farmers of eastern Colorado are
jubilant over the prospects for this
year and conditions were never better
for record crop in that section Of the
state than they are now.
Leroy Lyon, the Boulder marksman,
won the state individual championship
with the revolver and incidentally
broke the state record in the shoot
of the National guard at Golden.
With three of his five brothers in
penitentiaries and jails, on conviction
of burglary, John Dicks, was taken
back to Marysville, Mo-, from Pueblo
to stand trial on the same charges.
For the purpose of voting on the
question of contracting bonded debt
ing of a new school building at Hud-
son, an election is called for June s.
At an enthusiastic meeting OF the
La Sale Commercial Club a commit
tee appointed to investigate the mat
ter of an Independent sugar factory
made a report indorsing such a step.
Mrs. Cora E. Smith of Denver was
elected president of the Colorado and
Wyoming departments, Women of the
Grand Army of the Republic, at the
convention in Boulder, which has just
closed.
The heavy precipitation throughout
the Holly section the last year has put
the soil in fine condition and the
country round about never looked
handsomer, nor the outlook more
promising at this time
AS members of the Colorado tax
commission, recently appointed By
Gov. Shafroth. c. o. Link and j. Frank
Adams will serve terms until Febru-
ary 15. 1913, and February 15, 1915,
respectively.
After eight rounds of terrific fight
ing before the Pueblo Athletic Club,
the bout between Eddie Johnson of
Pueblo and Phil Knight of Kansas
City, terminated when Knight went
down from blow he declared was
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