The Colorado statesman., 1912-03-02
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
State Worth While.

Horace w. Ferguson, pioneer of
Evans is dead.
Denver postoffice is to have two ad
ditional mail carriers.
A beet dump will be built in the new
farming country east of Eaton.
The Sacred Heart church at Boul-
der suffered $500 loss by fire.
The total value of assessable prop
erty in Colorado is $1,267 .160,O62.
During the recent snowstorm about
/ fifteen inches Of snow fell in Denver.
At Windsor the temperature recent
ly went to fifteen degrees below zero.
Eastern and southern Colorado are
/ suffering from the effects of the bliz.
zard.
Arbor day Erie will plant tree for
every man, woman and child in the
| town.
jerome L. Terry, an employe of the
D. e R. G. at Salida, shot and killed
his wife.
The turkey trot and the bunny hug
dance hav been introduced in Grand
| Junction.
The Mineequa steel works at Pueblo
| has received an order for $1,000 tons
of steel rails.
Not in several years has Colorado
experienced as heavy a snowfall as
the recent one.
A Congregational church has been
organized at Spring Creek, six miles
west of Montrose.
Derricks are being erected in the
Gross oil field sixteen miles from
| Steamboat Springs.
The state fish hatchery at Steam
boat Springs has just Matched out
| 100000 brook trout.
Range cattle in the Meeker country
have suffered as the result of the re-
cent cold and snow.
Italian, Archuleta countys famous
sub-chief, died recently at his home
near Pagosa Junction.
Business men of Weld county de-
clare here is more money in the coun-
| ty than there is borrowers.
Farmers of La Sale plan to shower
| Congress with postcards requesting
passage of the parcels post law.
The National Sugar Manufacturing
! Company has advanced the price of
beets from $3.50 to Sc per ton.
Weld county's new Jail is completed
and has room for 100 prisoners. The
cost of the building was 100000.
Frank Du Cray of Grand Junction
threw Lars Olson of Indianapolis twice
in wrestling match at Montrose.
An armory to cost $4,000 is being
built in Johnstown and will be leased
by the state for a term of five years.
Holly now has an anti-horsethief as
sociation whose members are con-
stantly on the outlook for evil-doers.
At Windsor, in fight which result
ed from a quarrel over a jug of whis-
key, Otto Hinkle had an ear bitten
off.
Chas. H. Lasche, of Valverde
sneezed and broke a blood vessel in
his side and is now in serious con-
dition.
Robert Stevens, aged eighty-eight,
who had lived in the vicinity of Long
mont since 1870, died in that city re-
Gently.
In the Greeley district twenty-one
thousand five hundred acres have al
ready been pledged for the growing of
| sugar beets.
L. C. Moore of Leadville has been
! placed in the federal ward of the Den
| yer Jail on the charge of impersonat-
ng an officer.
Z The Colorado Whist League held
one of the most successful tourna-
ments in the history of the organiza-
ton in Denver.
In wrick on the Colorado Midland
'ecently at Niger, five coaches were
thrown into the Grand river. The en-
gineer was injured.
John Fox, farmer of Garfield
county, was recently fleeced of $2,700
N Denver in fake match. Police
Are looking for the sharpers.
An appropriation of $4,000 has been
made by the Trinity Lutheran church
1t Grand Junction for the erection of
4 church building in that city.
company will be organized at
JuCS " dufdhCS lnOuey W tue IdTIueTS
the dairy districts around Elizabeth
and Larkspur for the purpose of build
ng silos.
Seized with an epileptic fit as she
was about to descend a flight of
'tairs, Mrs. Pearl H. Lewis of Trinidad
ell headlong to the floor below and
vas almost instantly killed
Construction of an irrigation sys-
TEN covering 100000 acres in San
Miguel and Montrose counties to be
watered principally from the San Mi