Eastern Colorado times., 1912-05-10
LIrrLE. COLORADO iTEMs.
small Happenings Occurring Over the
state Worth While.

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Small Happenings Occurring Over the
state Worth While.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
The new Burns theatsr in Colorado
Springs. costing 100000. has been
completed.
A quarter Of million new trees.
mostly cherries, are being planted In
Otero county.
A case of scarlet fever is reported at
! the Farmers Home, hostelry in the
heart of Meeker.
The new union depot for the Rock
Island and Union Pacific roads at Ii
mon has been opened.
The cornerstone of the new $50, 900
Sacred Heart Catholic church at Pu-
eblo has been laid.
Clayborne Hayes, a ranchman OF
Hayden, was killed by lightning dur
ing snowstorm recently.
David Howard, former treasurer OF
Arapahoe county and prominent cattle
man, died at Littleton recently.
James Thompson, for twenty-eight
years resident Of Denver, is dead at
his home in Aberdeen, Scotland.
By order of the city commissioners
can smoke cigarettes and hold his job.
The "Trout Season Postcard Day"
has been set for May 1S in an official
proclamation issued by Governor Shat
roth.
Company F. c. N. G.. has issued a
challenge to the cadet battalion OF the
Agricultural college for competitive
drill.
Miell Yard, aged seventy-six, one Of
the first settlers in the Cripple Creek
district, died of blood poisoning re-
Gently.
Oak Creek, on the twentieth of this
month, will begin the enjoyment Of an
electric light service furnished by its
own plant.
A petition is being circulated to
have the county seat of Clear Creek
county moved from Georgetown to Ida
no Springs.
The San Juan league made It's debut
into the baseball world at Durango
under favorable prospects for sue
cessful season.
The youngest Exalted Ruler of any
Elks' lodge in the world is Richard
Dowrey, twenty-five years old, of
Grand Junction.
Denver pastors have decided to hold
union religious meetings in all of the
parks during the summer and also to
hold street meetings.
Nearly 5000 in cash and pledges
have been raised by the Y. M. c. A. of
the University Of Denver to defray ex.
penses Of next year.
The Denver park board has paid out
approximately $1,250.000 for property
in the proposed civic center, leaving
about $1,350,000 yet to be disbursed.
A match has been made between
Eddie johnson of Pueblo and Phil
knight of Kansas City, for ten
roundfiEht in Pueblo May goth.
2. Sato, q Japanese, charged with
forging q postal money order for $40
in Fort Morgan three years ago, has
been arrested and carried to Denver.
Eddie Johnson, the Pueblo light
weight, has been matched to met Phil
knight Of Kansas City, in ten-round
bout at the Pueblo Athletic Club
May 20.
Records Just prepared by Commits
sioner Holmburg show that there has
not been a case Of typhoid fever in
Grand Junction since November ~,
1911.
w. H. Edwards and Franz Russ
are charged with the murder of Jas
A., Warford, whose body was found
near Cripple Creek, riddled with bull
let's.
William G. Thompson, eighty-six
years old, tho pioneer stockman of
Colorado who went to Trinidad from
Tennessee thirty-eight years ago. is
dead.
Lynn Matthewson of Denver recent
ly drove from Denver to Idaho Springs
in an automobile in hours and IA
minutes, which is the best record for
an auto run made over the present
route.
A fund of $4,000 is said to have
been started by Denver laundry pro-
prietors to resist the section of the
factory inspection law which requires
tho oho1ic chmon< ~ tho rollor fowol In