The Springfield herald., 1912-04-12
LlrrLe COLORADO IrEMs.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

ASyS W oc6iu June EI.
Work has begun on the new opera
house for Idaho Springs.
Mrs. James Moore, a pioneer of Col
den, is dead, aged seventy.
The. Fruita canning factory will be
in operation again this season.
John R. Arms of Eaton celebrated
his ninety-second birthday recently.
Farmers OF Carr have organized for
tory.
There is a rumor that the Evans
municipal election is to be contested
by the drys. 4.
Denver and Colorado are to be ex-
tensively advertised throughout the
East this summer.
c. C. Acton, aged seventy-two, a
prominent placer mine operator OF
Breckenridge. is dead.
T. A. Wright OF Greeley reports that
in the last four months his fifty-eight
hens have laid 2.S51 eggs.
J. e. Empson has purchased five
acres at Johnstown and will erect a
pea-hulling plant to cost $4,000.
The State Land Board sold eight
lots in Littleton recently. The high
est price was $3.50 for one pair.
More than 1000 hides of cattle
which starved to death on the ranges
near Fowler, Colo, were shipped re-
Gently.
Frank Voduski. aged fifty-two. and
married, was instantly killed by fall
of rock in the Primero mine, near
Trinidad.
Rev. NJ. l.. Laybourn, pastor OF the
First Presbyterian church of Loveland,
has rendered his resignation to take
effect June 1.
About 1000 acres of peas, tomatoes
and beans have ben contracted in the
Greeley district for the canneries OF
northern Colorado.
For the thirty-fifth consecutive time
James K Thompson has been elected
treasurer of the First Presbyterian
church at Greeley.
The prices Of all kinds OF beef. in
creased in price in Denver, the IN
creases ranging from twenty per cent.
to fifty per cent.
The Colorado Springs Zooz will be-
gin the game this year with the strong
est semi-professional team that the
city has ever had.
]. Kersey Painter, formerly road
master of Julesburg branch of Union
Pacific and after whom the town OF
Kersey was named, is dead.
Gunnison county took the lead when
group OF her woman met at the
court house in Gunnison and organized
the Gunnison County Women's Good
Roads Club.
Ground has been broken for the
Pleasant View grange hall at Boulder,
and work Is to be pushed so that 1t
can be used for meetings now held at
farmers homes.
Gov. Shafroth sent a telegram to
Darius Miller, president OF the Bur
lington railroad, to reconsider his re-
fusal to help the storm swept dry
farmers of Colorado.
The Colorado Fuel & Iron Company's
plant at Pueblo is running to capa-
city, night and day, in order to turn
out steel rails for several western rail
roads. All the orders have been re-
ceived this year.
Mrs. Elizabeth Ennis, aged ninety
one, a member of prominent Boulder
county family, committed suicide re-
Gently by slashing open the arteries
a n To of
her home in Boulder.
In a decision by the United States
Circuit Court of Appeals it is held that
the town of Fletcher, now Aurora,
must pay to Samuel j. Hickman OF
Westchester. Pa. the sum of $1S0.00o
as the result of its failure to redeem
a bond issue of 900, voted in 1891.
The estate of the late Charles B.
Kountze, president of the Colorado Ma
tional bank of Denver, expects to pay
into the Denver county treasury $43,-
1926 as inheritance taxes due from the
estate, which was appraised at $2,206.-
600.
The Jury in the case of Lauro Gar
cia, charged with the murder of Night
Officer C. A. Brockman, Dec. II. 1911,
at Fort Collins, returned verdict
finding Garcia guilty of murder in the
first degree and imposing the death
penalty.
T. F. Dunaway, general manager of
the Nevada, California and Oregon
railroad, is in Denver for the purpose
of purchasing 100000 worth of mar
row guage railroad rolling stock from
the Rio Grande and the Colorado &
Southern systems.
There will be meeting of the stock
holders of the Denver & Rio Grande
railroad in Denver the last week in
April to authorize the $25,O00.0O0 bond
issue proposed by the directors Of the
road several weeks ago. The funds
from the sale of these bonds are to be
used in improving and extending the
system and renewing equipment.
While extracting a rich streak of
sylyanite ore in the heading of a drift
on the fourth level of the famous Six
Points mine, on Bull hill, Cripple
Creek, F. S. Chillson, aged forty,
drilled into missed shot and as re-
suit of the explosion which followed,
will lose the sight of both eyes, If he