The Raymer enterprise., 1912-02-01
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over ths
State Worth While.

Ouray.
A campaign is now on to incorporate
the town Of Austin.
Mrs. Anna Wood. aged eighty, an old
time resident, died recently at Boul.
der.
Mat Grurrich, Z miner, was almost
instantly killed at Rugby in a rock
slide.
The death rate in Colorado Springs
last year was 6.21 per 1000 inhabl-
tants.
The title to the Durango postoffice
site has passed to the federal govern
ment.
Pueblo has a new ordinance which
is intended to control all motor.driven
vehicles.
The nine miles of road between Fort
Lupton and Hudson is to be i'm
proved.
Durango and the San Juan basin
are experiencing the mildest winter In
their history.
Twenty.seven car loads Of potatoes
were recently shipped from Denver
to Wichita, Kans.
The La Junta High school basket
ball team defeated the Rocky Ford
team by score Of 81 to IL.
Tha cornerstone Of the new Metho-
dist church being constructed in Den.
yer has been laid.
A movement has been launched to
secure the Democratic state conven.
tion for Cripple Creek.
Greeley is making an effort to get
the Christian Endeavor congress to
meet there in February.
A blind pig" operated by a won.
an, has been discovered In Marble and
Mrs. j. ] Gurley was fined 5000.
The Fort Lupton town hall has
been completed at a cost Of $4,000.
1t includes Jail and fire house.
The twenty-fourth annual Farmers
Institute closed at Longmont after a
three days successful session.
Roy Paul. who was found dead re-
Gently at Delta, is said to have been
the victim Of headache powders.
The Evans Improvement Society,
composed Of women, has decided to
purchase and install fire alarm sys-
TEN.
The breaking Of twelve.lnch water
main in the city of Gunnison, has
caused q shortage In the supply of wa
ter.
The city Of Greeley has set aside
$4,000 for improving vacant tract for
park and also $1,000 for improving
an old park.
Over 10000 people attended the
Farmers Institute at Loveland on the
last day. Gov. Shafroth was the prin.
cipal speaker.
Mrs. B. F. Thompson, aged fifteen,
Of Durango, has been given a divorce
from her husband. B. F. Thompson.
aged twenty.one.
While lighting fire with kerosene,
Rose Amicarelli, aged twelve, of near
Glenwood Springs, was so severely
burned that she may not live.
For returning pocketbook. which
he saw woman drop and which con-
talned $3.50, John Wilson, Of Colorado
Springs, received reward Of rs cents.
Now that one.quarter OF the educa.
tional appropriation Is available. much
work will be done by the Gunnison
Normal in the way Of improvements.
A new law in Pueblo makes 1t pos.
slble for drug store to dispense
liquor for license of $400 year
while saloon is required to pay
$1,000.
Because her husband refused to &C.
company her to q picture show. Mrs.
Minnie Wright Of Montrose, ATTEMPTED
to commit suicide by drinking car.
bolIc acid.
Paul v. Maris. dairy expert Of the
State Agricultural College, has &C.
cepted a position with the Agricul.
tural College Of Oregon at an ad.
vanced salary.
After having mourned the loss OF
5000 diamond for several days. Harry
Swanson. Of Greeley. ran his hand
into his coat pocket and found the
stone where he had put II.
Thirteen thousand new ties, two
flat cars and q tool shed were burned
and 200 new rails were ruined, en-.
falling loss OF $4,000 to the Colo.
RADIO & Southern at Argo.
The Old Soldiers Home at Monte
Vista recently received from Wash.
ington $5,125, being the governments
quarterly payment Of their regular do.
nation Of 500 per year per inmate.
All arrangements have been per.
fected for the construction Of good
sized flour mill and elevator at Holly,
making this place headquarters for
a