The Colorado statesman., 1912-01-06
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

Longmont will hereafter be lighted
by its own electric plant
The Mesa county poorhouse has
been closed for lack of inmates.
The old l.. Spring farm near Wind
sor, consisting of 80 acres, has been
sold for $4,000.
Eight thousand farmers attended
the Weld County Farmers Institute
held at Greeley recently.
A fire recently threatened the
business section of Georgetown, but
only slight damage was done.
In Colorado Springs in 1911 there
were 456 marriage licenses issued and
in the same period 462 suits for di-
vorce were filed.
The University of Colorado basket
ball team defeated the Montrose
County High School quintette by a
score of "a to 8.
A sneak thief robbed the apart
ments of Miss Anna Sholz. who con-
ducts rooming house at Durango.
and secured SIPS.
Special preparations are being made
for the annual Farmers Institute
which is to be held at Loveland
January 23 to 26.
The four-year-old daughter of Jake
Miller of Loveland lies critically i'll at
drinking gasoline.
The local of the Farmers Co-opera-
tive and Educational Union at Fort
Collins has laid plans for opening
cooperative store.
The State Board of Health and the
State Board of Medical Examiners
have organized for the purpose OF
fighting medical quacks.
A motion to quash the writ of GER
tiorari in the Denver-Greeley irrigation
district case was denied by District
Judge Graham at Greeley.
Chicken fanciers from all parts of
the country attended the Poultry
Show at Pueblo. Over six hundred
fancy chickens were entered.
Driven to seek forage nearer civiltla-
tion by the heavy snow, herd Of
twenty antelope entered a fenced pas
Dan Martinez, a non-union miner at
the Parkdale mine, near Lafayette,
was mortally wounded in an acci-
dental shooting and died in Denver.
David Webster, farmer, aged "a,
of Fort Collins, was arrested on a
charge of kidnapping Miss Eva Long,
aged 15, whom he married recently.
Robert Landlord, charged with the
murder of Clarence White, a c. & S.
brakeman of Denver, has been re-
leased on $4,000 bond at Fort Collins.
The citizens of Idaho Springs and
Clear Creek county have expende
more than $4,000 in building the
new automobile road over Floyd
hill
lat Cripple Creek, Frank Holcomb, a
miner, aged As, shot five times at w
G. Pate, aged 25, three of the shots
taking effect and causing death five
minutes later.
Thirty-five or forty miles of irriga
tion bitches have been completed
along the Gunnison by the United
States irrigation project during the
year just closed.
Plans for a new church building for
the Sacred Heart Parish, Denver, have
been completed and a campaign has
been started for the raising of s100,
900 for the erection of the edifice.
On the thirty-sixth anniversary of
his wedding, Edward T. Sheldon died
at Colorado Springs. He was seventy.
four years old and a pioneer of three
states, Iowa, South Dakota and Colo
rado.
Loveland will have connection with
the main line of the Union Pacific
railroad in a short time. 1t is stated
that motor car service will be es-
tablished between the main line and
Loveland.
M. C. Morrison of Moundsville, w.
Va, a peace officer for more than
twenty years, will locate in Colorado
Springs and bring trained bloodhounds
which, he says, he will lend officers
when needed.
r. F. Walter, director of the Recla-
nation Service in Colorado, is at
Grand junction closing up contracts
with ranchmen for the right-of-way for
the high line canal. He goes from
there to Washington, to submit the
contracts for approval to Secretary
Fisher.
A movement has been started to Sc
cure a parole for P. A. Lilly, former
treasurer of the school board, deputy
treasurer of San Miguel county and
clerk of the city of Telluride, who was
sentenced, in 1907, to thirty-three
years in prison for embezzling $4,000
of public funds.
The Boulder County Good Roads AS
sociation held it's monthly meeting at