The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1912-03-15
LIrrLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

Palisade will hold its spring election
April 2.
Georgetown has secured a perpetual
water right.
Grand Junction will pave six blocks
with asphalt.
Alex Mckenzie, resident Of Bould-
er for fifteen years, is dead.
Otto Barbro. aged &C., of Durango.
committed suicide by shooting.
Loveland is asking for the establish.
ment Of an additional rural route.
There are ten pairs of twin babies
in the Hotchkiss SCHOOL district.
Greeley is practically certain Of
100000 for its federal building.
A carload of corn was recently
shipped from La Sale to Denver.
Thomas Scott Hayden, president of
the Denver Union Water Company, is
dead.
Clarence Milton Smith, one of the
best known newspaper men in Denver,
Is dead.
By vote of forty-two to one, Gil
crest taxpayers decided to incorporate
the town.
Boulder has secured an addition OF
three elk for the Chautauqua park in
that city.
Trinidad will not enter a team in
the Rocky Mountain Baseball League
this year
La Junta has given franchise to
company for lighting the streets OF
that town.
No trains have reached Silverton in
several days on account of heavy
snowslides.
cooperative bank to be operated en-
tirely by farmers.
Mrs. Marian C. Gilbert, who was &C.
cused of killing her husband in Pueb-
10, was acquitted.
A movement has been started in
in-theslot telephones.
The second shipment of sheep from
Greeley, consisting of fifty cars, mas
been shipped to Chicago.
The temperance people of Evans are
making a strong fight against the re-
establishment of saloons.
In a wreck on the Rio Grande four
miles east OF Salida one trainman was
killed and three injured.
The Cripple Creek offices of the
Cripple Creek Short Line are being
moved to Colorado Springs.
Ell Paso. Boulder. Weld and Pueblo
counties have decided to hold presi-
dental preference elections.
In slashing battle at Longmont
Earl Puryear of Denver won decision
over al Tobin of Longmont.
Eight mines belonging to the Amer.
lean Fuel Company in northern Colo
RADIO have resumed operation.
Colorado Springs will make an ef-
fort to secure the next national meet.
ing of the Knights of Columbus.
Snowslides in abundance are pre-
dicted for the early spring in the East
and West Argentine and Daily dis
tricts.
An epidemic, which has proven fatal
in nearly every case, has broken out
among the horses in the vicinity of
Kersey.
Clarence Bloom, while digging we'll
six miles from Meeker, was seriously
injured when large boulder fell upon
his head.
The State Board OF Health, at q re.
A. e. Ault, who was suspended some
time ago.
Kerseys new Commercial Club,
which has forty members, has offered
a cash prize for the best motto for its
campaign.
The high line of the Colorado &
Southern at Ten Mile caiion, near
Breckenridge, is blockaded, following
a big snowslide.
Nineteen and eight-tenths inches OF
snowfall is the total thus far in 1912.
February smashed all the known rec.
ords for snow.
Prominent citizens of Meeker and
Rifle are agitating the question OF
building macadamized road between
| those two towns.
William Leach, aged 63, an old-tine
miner of Estes Park, was found dead
| in his lonely cabin and his body car
ried to Loveland
| Fruit growers Of Pueblo county are
planning to organize a fruit associa-
tion that will take In all similar organ.
lzations In Colorado.
Owing to the heavy snow in the
mountains the prospect for bumper
wheat crop in the Meeker country ia
better than for ten years.
Three residents of Greeley have pc
titioned the City Council. asking that
the municipality engage in the coal
business and sell at cost.
Warren Davis, suspected of stealing
registered package containing $4,000
from the postoffice at Salida, commit
ted suicide by shooting himself.
Attorney General Griffith has filed a
brief in the Supreme Court attacking
the constitutionality OF the highway
bill, known as House bill No. 200.
0tero county melon growers met re