The Springfield herald., 1912-01-19
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

Three feet OF snow has fallen at
Steamboat Springs.
A recent fire in Greeley did damage
to the extent of $4,000.
The Fori Lupton bank has declared
dl1idend of twenty per cent.
w. S. Sewer of Eaton is one of the
heirs to an estate valued at $4,000. 900.
II. Madenick was found guilty Of
bootlegging at jLoveland and fined 5000
and costs.
Range stock in eastern Colorado are
dying OF thirst on account of water
freezing.
Victor's new auto fire truck has
been given tryout and found salts
factory.
DIR. l.. S. Cornell, prominent physi-
clan OF Berthoud, died recently of
pneumonia.
The Buena Vista dancing pavilion
was burned with loss OF 81 500, with
no insurance.
Rev. Clarence E. Campbell of Chi
cago has been called to the Presby-
terrain church at Greeley.
Great preparations are being made
for the Farmers Institute to be held
at Loveland January 26th.
Mangled beyond recognition, an I'M
identified man was killed in the I'm
ion Pacific yards in Denver.
Paul Pauline, saloonkeeper at Will
liamsburg, was shot and killed by
negro named Will Thomas.
Owing to the unusually cold wealth
er, work in the Gross oil fields, near
Hayden. has been suspended.
w. II. Caywood, of Meeker. the vide
ly known wolf and bear hunter, who
was recently operated on, is recover
ing.
A strong protest has been sent from
Boulder county to President Taft
against making Estes park national
park.
The twenty eighth annual session OF
the Boulder County Teachers Associa-
ton will convene in Boulder January
9th.
The $4,000 Methodist church at
Trinidad was recently dedicated.
siding.
Reports say there are $500 head
OF cattle starving to death in the
snowbound region near Craig, Moffat
county.
AS result of the recent severe
cold weather. gray, or lobo. wolves
are unusually active in the vicinity of
Meeker.
The Exchange National Bank of
Colorado Springs has purchased $685.
600 worth of school bonds at pre-
MUM of $3.50.
To vote an additional $4,000 in
bonds for completion of the Greeley
High school, district No. 6 will hold
a special election.
The Cripple Creek Short Line IL
considering the ACCESSIBILITY of estab-
fishing up-to-date sightseeing automo-
biles in the Pixies Peak region.
The proposed federation of railway
trainmen on the Denver & Rio Grande
has fallen through because of the re.
fusal of the engineers to Join it.
Judge Lewis in the Federal Court
has issued an order enjoining Otero
county from collecting taxes assessed
against the Santa Fe railroad.
Economy in the management of
Greeleys affairs has put surplus of
$15,1SO in the treasury after all ex-
penses for the last twelve months
have been paid.
The largest single shipment OF po-
tatoes from the Greeley district this
season was twenty-three cars, which
went to Kansas and Oklahoma, and
was valued at $4,000.
Grand Junction has offered Jim
Flynn gymnasium and free training
quarters if he will make that city his
headquarters during his training for
his fight with Jack Johnson.
In the game of Billiards in Denver re-
Gently, played between Joe Carney and
Alfredo De ORC. for the world cham
pionship as well as for the Lambert
trophy, Carney won by score of G3
to so.
The recent land middle, as a result
of which between fifty and seventy
five families on the Little Beaver, near
Meeker, were deprived of their homes,
may be adjusted and the filings per
mitted to stand.
The county commissioners have
granted the farmers of the Fountain
valley permission to hold an election
on the proposition to create an irri-
cation district and issue bonds for an
irrigation system.
AT the point Of revolver in the
hands of bandit, DR.. A. M. Forster
was robbed of the money box in the
office of the Cragmore Sanitarium,
about five miles east of Colorado
Springs.
Plans are maturing for the erection
of club house by the Farmers Club
Of Weld county. The building will be
used for club meetings. demonstrations
and experiments, an agricultural IL
brary will be available and legal bu-
reau maintained.
The second fire within a month &C.
Cured at Lakeside park, Denver, de-
stroying the skating rink and damag-
ing the derby, entailing loss Of $751;
900.
In the District Court at Central
City the trial of lack Dunn and Tom