The Colorado statesman., 1912-01-13
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small happenings Occurring Over tho
State Worth While.

The Antonito postoffice will soon be
admitted into the third class.
A fire in Montrose recently did dam
age to the extent of $4,000.
The total valuation of property in
Ell Paso county is s22,209,2z0.
A factory to make stock food will
soon be established at Greeley.
The Fort Lupton bank has declared
dividend of twenty per cent.
The bridge in Grand Junction to
cost S67,215, has been started.
w. S. Sewer of Eaton is one of the
heirs to an estate valued at s8,000,000
The Capitol Heights Presbyterian
church, in Denver. was recently dedi'
Gated.
The city authorities of Rocky Ford
have abolished the office of heal, n
officer.
Station A postoffice at Pueblo was
recently robbed of $500 in stamps and
money.
AS result of the protracted cold
the city of Greeley is threatened with
water famine.
Grand Junction will make a strong
fight for the Republican state conven-
ton next summer.
| Armed guards are patroling the Al
pha mine near Fort Lupton, where riot
ing has occurred.
Joseph H. Harrison, former senator,
| it is reported, will be the next post
master of Denver.
A modern sanitarium for tubercu'
| losis will be established in the near
future at Greeley.
! The government is now ready to be-
| gin the construction of the Grand Val
ley irrigation project.
George Johnstone, a pioneer and
veteran of the civil war, died at La
! Sale, aged II years.
The Olathe Produce Association has
capitalized at $4,000.
The Arkansas Valley Light and
| Power Company is putting in line
from Pueblo to La Junta.
All ot the right-of-way contracts for
the government high line canal at
Palisade have been signed.
Weld county farmers who have po.
tatoes in their cellars are using stoves
to keep them from freezing.
Judge Greeley w. Whitford of Den
yer granted the first Japanese divorce
in the history of the Colorado courts.
R. F. Backus, postal clerk a,
Canon City, was fined s25 for replac'
ing good stamps with cancelled ones.
John Coulton, a ranchman, living
near Rocky Ford, was SO badly frozen
recently that his feet may have to be
amputated.
An interesting program has been
arranged for the Farmers Institute
which is to be E&ld in Longmont Jan
rs, &c and 27.
The County Commissioners of Pueb
10 county have issued a neat little
booklet entitled Seeing Along the
Santa Fe Trail"
To vote an additional $4,000 in
bonds for completion of the Greeley
High school, district No. 6 will hold
a special election.
A bill has been introduced in the
Senate having for it's purpose the re.
moval of the Federal Court from Mont.
rose to Grand Junction.
The Cripple Creek Short Line is
considering the advisability of estab,
fishing up-to-date sightseeing automo'
biles in the Pixies Peak region.
Lyman Robinson, one of the wealthi.
est and best known citizens of Canon
City and Fremont county, died at his
residence on South Canon of paraly
sis.
A Catholic mission, something on
the order of the evangelical services
held by the Protestants has been start
ed in Grand Junction by ST. Joseph's
church.
Machinery, which will doubt the ca
pacity of their power plant, has been
ordered by the Redlands Irrigation
Company, near Grand Junction, at a
cost of $4,000.
Churches, the w. T. c. U. and other
temperance organizations of Evans are
merging their forces to inaugurate an
active campaign for local option, the
election to be held in April.
The Breckenridge Chamber of Com.
merce has drawn up resolutions cen
surfing the mail service accorded Sum,
NIT county since the Colorado &
Southern ceased operating the South
Park branch.
The farmers and stockgrowers in
the eastern part of Colorado and the
Arkansas valley are shipping their
stock to Pueblo and other places
where food and shelter can be pro-
:ured for them.
Inundation of that portion of Meeker
abutting on the White river, caused
by the biggest ice gorge recorded in