The Colorado statesman., 1912-04-06
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

Western Newspaper Union News Service
John Sproehle has been elected
mayor of Black Hawk.
A Chautauqua is planned for Gree
ley. TO begin June %.
Work has begun on the new opera
house for Idaho Springs.
The Fruita canning factory will be
in operation again this season.
Ward lines in Pueblo have been to-
tally eliminated by the commissioners.
Work on the main line OF the Mis-.
souri, Pacific between Pueblo and Kan
sas City will begin at once.
Rocky Ford has a "Hugging Jack"
who is causing CONSERVATION among
the fair sex.
Farmers in Weld county have begun
their spring work and are plowing for
the first time.
John Liebinger died at Los Angeles.
Cal. He was 3S and lived at Central
City most of his life.
May Day celebration will be given
May 4. on the university campus of
the University of Colorado at Boulder.
More than 1000 hides OF cattle
which starved to death on the ranges
near Fowler, Colo, were shipped re-
Gently.
A new electric light system for Gree
ley will be installed if the franchise
asked from the City Council April 16
is gr4 4nted.
The prices of all kinds of beef, 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.
Joe Fishencord, a stockman of
| Greeley, says he was robbed of $50
in currency while travelling between
Denver and Greeley.
q j. w. Ewing received a record price
for fat lambs shipped from Greeley
this season when he topped the Chi
cago market at $S.25.
At meeting of the directors of the
Brighton Sugar Company, the PROPOSE
tion of raising sufficient money to
build factory was adopted.
The annual report of the coal min
ing industry of Colorado for 1911
shows that eight lives have been sac
rificed for each million tons produced.
E. II. Abbott, an original Union Col
onist, resident of Greeley for forty
one years, and the city's first mayor,
died at his home in that city.
William Neiheisel, proprietor OF
a garage in Boulder had his neck
slashed from ear to ear by c. E. Shli-
yer, a barber, following a quarrel.
/ Interest is already aroused over
postcard day in Colorado when on May
out advertising the resources of the
state.
1t ras been decided to hold the JEFF
ferson county Democratic convention
at Arvada on Saturday, April 20, 1912.
The convention will have 100 dele
gates.
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.
Elias Cohn of Aspen, one of the
foremost mining men of the state, died
at hospital in Denver, where he has
been i'll since last October with malig-
nant. capcar nf tho throat
Denver has been selected as the
meeting place Of the supreme lodge
of the Knights of Pythias, and Au-
! gust to Is of this year will see, it is
estimated, $4,000 members of the or
der in Denver.
Mrs. Elizabeth Ennis, aged ninety
one, a member of prominent Boulder
county family, committed suicide re-
Gently by slashing open the arteries
in her arms and bleeding to death at
| her home in Boulder.
Jimmy Sullivan, for several years
star backstop of the Lincoln team OF
the Western league and manager of
that club two years ago, has been en-
| gagged to manage the La Junta team OF
the Rocky Mountain league.
All midwives and other persons
practicing obstetrics have been placed
under the control of the State Board
of Health by an opinion given by the
attorney general. 1t was made on re-
quest of DR.. Paul S. Hunter, secretary
of the board.
To get $4,000 names in two weeks
on petition to initiate a new law is
the task set for itself by the Colorado
Realty Dealers Association, which is
proposing to reorganize the state bu-
reau of immigration and make it a
more active body.
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