The Colorado statesman., 1912-06-08
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over tho
State Worth While.


Fort Lupton.
There has been organized at Colo
rado Springs Young Mems Demo
cratic Club.
On June 13 Guy Buckles of Omaha
will fight Howard Baker of Boulder at
Cripple Creek.
The President has appointed Ella
New postmaster at Delta and Frank
Silonton at Victor.
Six Grand Junction youths were
fined $500 for using an automobile
four hours without leave.
Colorado Woman's college boasts
an enrolment of 1O3 students in the
third year of its existence.
Last month was the wettest May for
Colorado Springs since 1874. The total
precipitation was 2.49 inches.
DR.. c. A. Stewart of Denver has de-
parted on an automobile tour from
Denver to New York and Boston.
The government has appropriated
$4,000 for the commencement of the
federal building at Grand Junction.
Five full grown bears were killed
and two cubs captured by a party of
Alamosa big game hunters recently.
Gov. Shafroth announces he will not
call an extra session of the Legisla-
ture to re-enact House bill No. 200.
The Hotchkiss Fair Association
gave barbecue on June Z in place of
the spring races which were called off
T. A. Arneal of Cripple Creek was
elected president at the annual con-
ference of the BARRIERS union in Den
yer.
Gilcrest has decided free to the Ger
man Baptist church ground on which
church building will be erected to
cost $4,000.
]. H. ]. Ramsey of Cripple Creek has
been arrested, charged with embez-
zling money from the Cripple Creek
National bank.
In Grand Junction the health com
missioner is arresting every one who
permits unscreened offal heaps on
their premises
William Menagh, a ranchman living
near Greeley, lost his house by fire
twenty-four hours after his insurance
policy had expired.
Business men in the Hudson district
viii grubstake twenty prospectors and
send them into undeveloped mineral
districts of Colorado.
Every dandelion plant in Fort Nor
gan viii be cause for information if
still growing after the new anti-dande.
lion ordinance becomes law.
4 bill is now before Congress allow
ng 100000 for the Denver postoffice.
completing the appropriation of 81
100000 for site and building.
The jury in the case of Fred Piel,
charged with killing George Kesler at
Greeley last October, returned a ver-
dict of voluntary manslaughter.
j. w. Tunison, a farmer of Grbble
park, forty-five miles southwest Of
Canon City killed George Amstey,
neighbor, in fight over water rights.
The first excursion has been run
over the new Colorado-Kansas rail
road to the Turkey Creek district,
twenty-five miles northwest of Pueblo.
1t is reported that oil has been
struck at Cross Hill. near Steamboat
Springs, and that the flow from the
well is filling the basin in front of the
derrick
Farmers, OF Weld county are rejoic-
ing over ten hours of rain which fell
recently. 1t came at a time when it
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beet crop.
Twenty-Five horses have already ar
rived at the fairgrounds race track
at Montrose for the spring race meet
of the Western Slope Fair Association.
which takes place June 13 and IA.
State Treasurer Roady Kenehan is
the donor of a gold medal which he
will award this year for the first time
to the student at the State university
taking the highest rank in geology.
A heavy rain has fallen throughout
northwestern Colorado. following a
heavy windstorm, blowing down tele-
phone poles, uprooting threes and un-
roofing the recently completed hotel
at Oak Greek.
Water in the Nederland reservoir of
the Central Colorado Power Company
has reached the 1O0-foot mark for the
first time, making approximately three
hundred million cubic feet of water
now impounded.
Directors of the Colorado State Fair
Association at Pueblo are preparing
to appeal to the courts to force State
Auditor Michael Leddy to turn over
the appropriation made for the fair
association by the last General AS
sembly.
Twenty-Five thousand head of cattle
and 100000 head of sheep will be
shipped out of Dolores, Montezuma