The Springfield herald., 1912-06-21
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over ths
State Worth While.

FESTIVAL uayS at GlenWOOu Springs.
Orchard City is new incorporated
town on the Western slope.
Hugo has u new municipal water
works and fire department.
Mrs. Ika martinez of Olathe is the
mother of triplets, born recently.
Delta fruit people fear serious dam
age to the crop from shortage of
telp.
Construction work has been started
on Grand functions new federal
building.
The Argentine Central railroad was
sold recently at the court house in
Georgetown.
Heavy rains have fallen in Routt
county, doing a great amount Of good
to the farmers.
Gunnison county will have to rebuild
several bridges on account of the re-
cent high water.
The Summer School for State
Teachers opened at Greeley with 1000
teachers enrolled.
The Colorado & Kansas. Pueblo's
new railroad. twenty-one miles long.
has been opened.
A gain of $3.50 was made last month
over May of 1911 in the receipts of the
Grand Junction postoffice.
Meeker proposes to have Frontier
Day on the Fourth that will rival the
celebrations of Cheyenne.
A total Of s.. 900 has been allowed for
flood damage by the County Commits
sionsrs OF Montrose county.
John Hopkins and Frank Sturgeon
pleaded guilty in the District Court at
La Junta to the theft of beef.
The Colorado Springs Chamber of
Commerce will maintain an informa,
ton bureau during the summer.
1t is estimated by state officers that
the cost of printing the bills already
initiated and referred with be $350.00O.
An contract has been let at Sterling
for the erection of a $4,000 city hall.
to be finished in Colorado-Yule mar
BILE.
The Roam Creek reservoir dam,
twenty miles north OF De Beque went
our recently. resulting In loss of $780,.
900.
Pricking pimple with pin has
resulted in bad case of blood pois-
oning for Miss Annie Dupper of La
Sale.
Guy Kaufman, wealthy ranchman
of Montrose, suffered a fractured jaw
bone recently when he was kicked by
a mule.
Tho largest cinnamon bear killed in
Mesa county in the last two years was
shot recently by Carl Bowers, eleven
years old.
A total damage of $4,000 will be
sustained by Mesa county this spring
by loss from the high water in the
Grand River.
The twenty-six-months old baby of
Ray Richel. residing on tho Mann
ranch near Boulder, was drowned in
the Farmers ditch.
The county of Garfield faces loss
of not less than S150,O00 as a result of
the high water on the Grand and Roar
ing Fork rivers.
1t is estimated that Mesa, Delta,
Montrose and Garfield counties will
ship approximately 10000 car loads of
fruit this season.
The Steamboat Springs Commercial
Club is arranging to entertain the
State Druggists Association which
convenes there July 19 and 20.
The Colorado Grain Dealers Associ-
otion hold itc annual noatipp in Cpln-
RADIO Springs Several Kansas and Ne
braska grain men were present.
Miss Lizzie Sampson of Berthoud
was elected president OF the Fifth dis
tiict of the w. C. T. U. at business
session of the convention in Greeley.
A Fellowship meeting" or retreat"
will be held by the Congregational
ministers of Colorado at the Congrega-
tional church in Manitou June 21-2s.
Howard Baker of Boulder was
awarded the decision at the end of ten
rounds of slow. one-sided fighting in
his bout with Guy Buckles of Omaha
at Cripple Creek.
Louis Fregangchich. an Austrian
miner living in Russell Gulch, Gilpin
county, committed suicide in the cem-
ctery beside the grave OF his wife, who
died five years ago.
! Using the same revolver with which
his father committed suicide in 1906,
Benny Parks, nineteen years old, killed
himself in the Burlington freight de-
pot at Lafayette.
Work has begun on an irrigation
project which will reclaim 100000
acres of land lying along the Utan
and Colorado lines between the Green
and White rivers.
Citizens of Loveland will join Fort
Collins in monster Fourth of July
celebration. Fort Collins will recipro-
cate the action by helping Loveland
in her county fair next fall.
Colorado college at Colorado Springs
has received $4,000 for a new gymna-
sum on condition that $5O,0O0 more be
raised in Colorado The name of the
donor was withheld.
The mystery surrounding the dis
appearance of Fred Riggs of Victor,
on May 10, remains unsolved, al
though the police all over the United
C.,.a, ha,a haon loDEipU him