The Springfield herald., 1912-04-19
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small HappsnInos Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

Gov. Shafroth has purchased an au-
tomobile.
| A commission government charter
league has been organized at Durango.
Capt. John ]. Harris, one OF Boul-
der's best known pioneer mining men,
Is dead.
Ground has been purchased in
Longmont for the new $4,000 pea
hulling plant.
Frank Wallace died at Evans from
| peculiar disease thought to be tuner
culosis of the brain.
Tommy Ryan, wrestler. will take on
Carl Delivuk. the Australian in Colo
rado Springs, April 18.
La Sale is the only town In Weld
county without marshal. and its
citizens say none is needed.
H. l. Pierce of Boston, Mass, is ex-
pected In Rocky Ford soon to investi-
gate an electric road project.
School district No. 1. Grand juno
tion. has voted to add commercial
course to high school studies.
Meeker is to have more fire protec-
ton. which will reduce insurance rates
and give residents feeling Of secur-
ity.
Work has begun on the new $4,000
pea hulling plant at Johnstown. which
1t is expected will be finished by
June l.
Having given $50 to the high sclu,ol
piano fund, the Evans Improvement
Society will now buy fire alarm for
the city.
Members of the new town board
have decided on three saloons for
Evans, 1t is said, and that the licenses
of each shall be $4,000 annually.
Lee Hardesty of Fowler, president
Of the Hardesty Ditch & Irrigation
Company. was instantly killed in ar
auto accident near Fowler.
Dressed meat prices In Denver rose
another 10 per cent recently, making a
total advance of nearly rs per cent
over quotations two weeks ago.
The state can invest public school
funds in irrigation bonds only as an
original purchaser, under an opinion
of Attorpey-General Ben Griffith.
The two-story hotel at Buena Vista
Hot Springs, five miles west of Buena
Vista, was completely destroyed by
fire, entailing a loss of about $4,000.
Preliminary steps toward the erec-
tion of a new church were taken re-
Gently at the annual meeting of the
st. Marks Episcopal Parish In Den
yer.
Jesse Snipes, aged fifty-two, q
prominent and wealthy stockman of
wounded Edward Henderson, aged
thirty-five.
The Commerce Investment Compa-
ny of Denver has now collected about
$4,000 for the aid OF eastern Colorado
farmers. and will begin making loans
at once.
Senator Guggenheim has been 'ld-
vised by the War Department that
army horses will be sent for exhibi-
show next year.
The United Hydro-Electro Company
recently began installing the new light
ing system in Georgetown, for which
it was awarded a six-year contract two
months ago,
The Stath Prison Association gave
assistance during the first three
months of this year to 772 mer,
against 81 men during the same
period last year.
The Antlers Hotel Company at Colo
RADIO Springs will spend several thou
sand dollars improving the handsome
grounds about the hotel, work to be-
gin at once.
There are 12.775 consumptives in
Colorado, according to an estimate
prepared by S. Poulterer Morris. ex-
ecutive secretary of the Rocky Noun
tain Public Health Association.
Colorado women, members of the
Daughters of the War OF 1912, are
making preparations for celebrating
on September IL, the one-hundredsh
anniversary of that memorable con.
flict.
One hundred and fifty gypsies, who
have been living in three small ter
races in Denver for more than week,
will be made the subject OF investi-
CATION by State Humane Officer Nor
ton David.
Aviation has been made a part of
the course of studies of the signal
corps of the Colorado national guard,
and with two Curtiss graduates as in
structors the members are preparing
to become experts.
Taxpayers of Weld county have al
ready paid half of the 100000 to be
collected in taxes this year. Thee is
100000 to be collected in the county
before December. but 100000 of this
is taxes in irrigation districts
George Richter. an old-time and at
Gone time leader in the politics of
the county, and who held an importa-
ant position in Washington under
President Hayes. died in Victor from
an overdose of laudanum.
At Walden a Japanese cook work
ing for a railroad outfit attacked Con
ductor NJ. E. jenkins of the Laramie
Plains line with knife. but was over
powered and arrested. The Jap's dog
had bitten the conductor and fight
resulted.