The Colorado statesman., 1912-06-15
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
State Worth While.

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June 21 and % will be Strawberry
Festival days at Glenwood Springs.
Orchard City is new incorporated
town on the Western slope.
Hugo has new municipal water
works and fire department.
Construction work has been started
on Grand functions new federal
building
Gunnison county will have to rebuild
several bridges on account of the re-
cent high water.
The Summer School for State
Teachers opened at Greeley with 1000
teachers enrolled.
The Colorado G. Kansas, Pueblos
new railroad, twenty-one miles long,
has been opened.
A gain of $3.50 was made last month
over May of 1911 in the receipts of the
Grand Junction postoffice.
Meeker proposes to have a Frontier
Day on the Fourth that will rival the
celebrations of Cheyenne.
Montrose Chamber of Commerce is
preparing to issue 10000 postal cards
to advertise the county.
The Denver Chamber of Commerce
has started a campaign to raise $780,
900 for advertising purposes.
The Marble mills shipped fifteen
cars of finished stone to the postoffice
in Denver one week recently.
Golden is greatly excited over the
finding of free gold by G. w. Parfet in
his clay drifts south of the city.
Longmont has decided to send an au-
tomobile on the Sociability run to Chi
cago, which leaves Denver June 25.
John Daniels, for years a prominent
fish culturist of Colorado, died in Den
yer at the age of eighty-five years.
1t is estimated by state officers that
the cost of printing the bills already
initiated and referred with be $350,000.
Jammed into flume in the North
side lateral, at Gill, the body of John
Losser, aged three, was found by l. N.
Ball.
The Roam Creek reservoir dam,
twenty miles north of De Beque went
our recently, resulting in loss of $780,
900.
Mrs. A. D. Droll of Greeley was Sc
she attempted to relight fire with
coal oil.
AS result of a hail storm, which
visited the vicinity of Fort Morgan,
garden truck, alfalfa and sugar beets
were damaged.
In the District Court at Greeley,
Charles G. Shelley pleaded guilty to
the charges of bribing County Com
missioner Devinny.
1t is estimated that Mesa, Delta
Montrose and Garfield counties will
ship approximately 10000 car loads of
fruit this season.
Rev. c. w. Dyer of Hastings, Neb,
has accepted the pastorate of the First
Presbyterian church of Pueblo. The
salary is $4,000 annually.
Within the next two months hun.
dredS of entrymen in Weld county will
prove up on their homesteads under
the new three-year homestead law.
Otero county is laying plans for an
active advertising campaign this sum.
mer, and the County Commissioners
appropriated $1,000 for the purpose.
Philip Deter. Jr., nine-months-old
child, was probably fatally burned at
Windsor, when he pulled a can of
melted lard boiling hot from the stove
Gioacchina Lananna, under arrest in
Pueblo on charge of murder commit.
ted in San Francisco June 10, 1901
will be returned to that city for trial.
The new experimental ore-dressing
and metallurgical plant built for the
School of Mines at Golden, at a
cost 81 s125,000, will be opened July l.
Using the same revolver with which
his father committed suicide in 1906
Benny Parks, nineteen years old, killed
himself in the Burlington freight de.
pot at Lafayette.
Work has begun on an irrigation
project which will reclaim 100000
acres of land lying along the Utah
and Colorado lines between the Green
and White rivers.
The mystery surrounding the dis
appearance of Fred Riggs of Victor,
on May 10, remains unsolved, al
though the police all over the United
States have been looking for him.
All available space in Denver hotels
has been engaged for delegates and
visiting members of the knights
Templar, who will hold their triennial
conclave there in 1918.
Work has been resumed on Meek
er's Catholic church, after a suspen-
sion since last fall. Construction VIII
be pushed in an effort to complete
the building by midsummer.
Finding his wife in conversation
with another man on a street corner