The Raymer enterprise., 1912-04-11
:. LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over tho
State Worth While.

!Work mas Degun on the new opera
house for Idaho Springs.
Mrs. James Moore, a pioneer of Col.
den, is dead, aged seventy. :!
John R. Arms of Eaton celebrated
his ninety.second birthday recently
Farmers of Carr have organized for
the purpose OF operating a cheese fac
tory.
There Is rumor that, the Evans
municipal election is to be contested
by the drys.
Denver and Colorado are to be ex-
tensively advertised throughout the
East this summer.
c. C. Acton, aged seventy-two, a
prominent placer mine operator Of
Breckenridge, is dead.
The Cheyenne county citizens deny
the reports Of destitution among dry
farmers in their section.
T. A. Wright of Greeley reports that
In the last four months his fifty.eight
hens have laid 1851 eggs.
Burglars broke into the branch Of.
flee Of the Grill Lumber Company at
Lafayette and stole SIS.
J. E. Empson has purchased five
acres at Johnstown and will erect q
pea.hulling plant to cost $4,000.
The State Land Board sold eight
lots in Littleton recently. The high
est price was $3.50 for one pair.
Frank voduski, aged, fifty.two, and
married, was instantly killed by fall
of rock in the Primero mine, near
Trinidad. b,
Rev. NJ. l.. Laybourn. pastor of the
First Presbyterian church Of Loveland,
has rendered his resignation to take
effect June !.
About 1000 acres Of peas, tomatoes
and beans have ben contracted in the
Greeley district for the canneries OF
northern Colorado.
For the thirty.fifth consecutive time
James X. Thompson has been elected
treasurer of the First Presbyterian
church at Greeley. Lila. .,,,
Carlos F. Smith, who came to Colo
RADIO In 1869 and was one Of the found
ers Of Golden. died at his home in Des
Moines, Iowa. aged eighty.
]. Kersey Painter, formerly road
master Of Julesburg branch of Union
Pacific and after whom the town ol
Kersey was named, is dead.
Judge w Hart, pioneer Of Weld
county. died in Ault of apoplexy. He
was fifty.nine years old and had re
sided in Weld county thirty years.
Rev. J. r. RAIDER of Denver will no,
be tried on the charge Of election
bribery preferred by James Franklin
at Greeley. the case having been dis
missed.
Ground has been broken for the
Pleasant View grange hall at Boulder
and work Is to be pushed so that II
can be used for meetings now held at
farmers homes.
The Colorado Fuel & Iron Company
plant at Pueblo is running to capa'
city, night and day, in order to turn
out steel rails for several western rail.
roads. All the orders have been re,
ceived this year.
The jury in the case of Lauro Gar,
cia, charged with the murder of Night
Officer c. A. Brockman, Dec. II, 1911,
at Fort Collins, returned verdict
finding Garcia guilty of murder In the
first degree and imposing the death
penalty.
T. F. Dunaway, general manager OF
the Nevada, California and ;Oregon
railroad. is in Denver for. the purpose
Of purchasing 100000 worth Of mar.
row guage railroad rolling stock from
the Rio Grande and the Colorado e.
Southern systems.
Railroads entering the Walsenburg
and Canon City coal districts are to
be brought before the Interstate Com.
merce Commission by Albert l.. vogl,
representing five coal mining concerns
Of the district. The mining companies
declare that by the present system of
through rates from the districts the
shippers are being overcharged.
Weak and still limping from the
wounds he received March 1Qe when
Andrew Lloyd and William Mcpherson
were shot to death in the VaIverde
saloon, Denver. Oscar Cook and his
companion, Edward Seiwald. appeared
In the West Side Criminal Court and
pleaded not gulity'to two charges OF
murder rfeH ar
Governor Shafroth has taken official
cognizance Of the fact that, during the
year 1911 over s25O,OOo.OOO was lost by
fire throughout the United States, a
large portion Of which is attributed d.
rectly to carelessness. Following a
custom inaugurated by the governors
Of several other state, Governor Shat.
roth. In a proclamation. asks the peo'
pie to observe Thursday, April IS, as
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