The Colorado statesman., 1912-02-24
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over she
State Worth While.


against the division of Weld county.
An unusually heavy snow fall is re-
ported in the mountains west of Sa-
Ida.
There were 1000 fewer deaths in
Denver in 1911 than in the preceding
year.
Richard Richardson, one of the
earliest settlers of Cripple Creek, is
dead.
Western slope convention of w. G.
T. U. will be held in Delta March
to 6.
A man, his wife and four sons are in
jail in Walsenburg awaiting sentence
by the court.
Four children of Diego Seracina, an
Italian miner of Segundo, have died
within week.
The Louden Irrigation district has
decided to enlarge the capacity of its
ditch at Loveland.
Kersey farmers and business men
will cooperate in the organization of
commercial club.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Camp of Platte
vile, recently celebrated their golden
wedding anniversary.
A new Sunday closing ordinance
has been passed by the City Council
of Colorado Springs.
Ben Peck, aged sixty-three, at one
time county assessor of Routt coun-
ty is dead at HAYDEN.
The Longmont Commercial Associa-
tion has sent grain exhibit to the
Kansas City Land Show.
The twelfth district convention Of the
w. C. T. U. will be held in Salida Feb
ruary 20 to March 1.
Mrs. HANNAH Dutton, sixty-five, the
largest woman in Colorado, weighing
$50 pounds, died in Rifle.
Civil Service examinations will be
held March 13 and IA for school
teachers in the Philippines.
R. G. Wallace, a pioneer, seventy
three years old, was found frozen to
death recently at Hahn's Peak.
For failure to take out city license
to run an employment agency in Pu-
eblo, Japanese was fined $100.
State Treasurer Kennehan has an
nounced that his office will accept NO
transportation from the railroads.
A heavy snow slide occurred on
Ruby mountain, near West Argentine,
and considerable damage was done.
w. E. Wilson, convicted of wife
beating at Pueblo, was sentenced to
serve out s1OO fine on the city wood
pile.
Nearly every portion of the state
has been visited by heavy snowfall,
ranging in depth from one inch to
seven feet.
Fred w. Springer, prominent
young man of Trinidad, was instantly
killed when he was struck by an auto
mobile.
In Weld county there is an entire
school district owned by one man and
the pupils in the district are all his
children.
Rev. G. w. Noble, veteran of the
Civil War and for over fifteen years
a minister of the Methodist church,
died at ICollbran.
Kid Anaya of Fort Collins. in the
seventh round of scheduled ten
round bout at Fort Lupton.
The Colorado Midland road has or
dered two extra trains put into SER
vice daily between Denver, Grand
Junction and Salt Lake.
The state auditor has refused to pay
the employees of the penitentiary until
the warrants have the o. X. of the
Civil Service Commission.
The tenth annual convention of the
Colorado Retail Hardware and Imple-
ment Dealers Association is being
held in Denver this week.
All races on the Western slope are
to be classified and purses arranged
so that owners of strings of horses
may enter at every county fair.
The Uinta railroad in the western
Iart OF the state, destined for the
vernal section of Utah, is letting con-
tracts for standard gauge ties.
Five members of the Baldwin fam
lily, the father and four sons, were
sentenced at Walsenburg to terms
ranging from three to ten years in the
penitentiary for robberies in southern
Colorado.
Homesteaders in the Little Beaver
section, near Meeker, will be allowed
to retain their homesteads, as the case
wherein the government threatened to
dispossess between 800 and 500 farm
ers has been settled. The State Land
Board has relinquished its claim.
The young women of Loveland have
organized Girl Scout movement and
will make the Boy Scouts hustle to
keep ahead Of them in membership.
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