Eastern Colorado times., 1912-04-19
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over tho
State Worth While.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Pueblo is holding Home Industries
week.
Gov. Shafroth has purchased an au-
tomobile.
A commission government charter
league has been organized at Durango.
Capt. John J. 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 a
peculiar disease thought to be tuner
culosis of the brain.
Meeker is to have more fire protec-
ton, which will reduce insurance rates
and give residents a feeling of secur-
ity.
For the first time this season, wa
ter is running into the Latham reser-
voir at La Sale, through the Union
ditch.
Having given $50 to the high sclu'ol
piano fund, the Evans Improvement
Society will now buy fire alarm Tor
the city.
Telephone communication between
Denver and nearly every point in the
state was seriously effected by the re-
cent windstorm.
Members of the new town board
have decided on three saloons for
10 hot hn
of each shall be $4,000 annually.
Lee Hardesty of Fowler, president
OF the Hardesty Ditch & Irrigation
Company, was instantly killed in an
auto accident near Fowler.
Shade trees for Milliken is the slo.
gan of the Commercial Club and hun
dreds of trees will be set out provided
water rights can be secured.
Dressed meat prices in Denver rose
another 10 per cent recently, making
total advance Of nearly 25 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 Attorney-General Ben Griffith.
At Fort Collins Robert Langford
was acquitted of the murder of Clar-
ence T. White. a Denver railroad man.
who was stabbed to death on Dec. 5.
The two-story hotel at Buena Vista
Hot Springs. five miles west Of Buena
Vista, was completely destroyed by
fire, entailing loss of about $1,000.
Colorado women, members of the
Daughters of the War of 1912, are
making preparations for celebrating
on. September II, the one-hundredth
anniversary of that memorable con-
flict.
The Brighton school board has
called an election for May l on the
question Of issuing $4,000 in bonds
for the erection Of high school build.
ing.
Among the finest deposits of brick
clay to be found in the state are those
on the north side of the Arkansas riv-
er, some five or six miles from Rocky
Ford.
There are about twenty cases Of
smallpox within the limits of Lafay-
cite, and the officials are considering
closing the schools and stopping all
public meeting.
For the fourth time within the last
two months, Frank Perry, an Italian
truck gardener of Grand Junction, re-
ceived a letter signed with a black
hand demanding the payment of $2,-
coo.
One more railroad station near Den
yer will be added to the Union Pacif-
les map. 1t will be known at Roy's
Crossing, near Aurora, and the Union
Pacific has agreed to build depot
there.
One hundred and fifty gypsies, who
have been living in three small ter
races in Denver for more than a week,
will be made the subject Of investi-
cation by State Humane Officer Nor
ton David.
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.
1t is said. that the town of Cripple
Creek and the Cripple Greek Water
Company will drop their protests
against the passage by Congress Of