The Colorado statesman., 1912-03-09
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

Alex McKinzie, a resident of Bould
er for fifteen years, is dead.
The twenty-seventh storm OF the
winter has visited Trinidad.
Otto Barbro, aged &c, of Durango,
committed suicide by shooting.
Greeley is practically certain of
100000 for its federal building.
A carload of corn was recently
shipped from La Sale to Denver.
A new grandstand at the Longmont
baseball grounds is being constructed.
Construction work has been started
on new Catholic church at Meeker.
Col. A. w. Jones, a resident of
| Greeley for twenty-eight years, is
dead.
The Silverton branch of the Denver
& Rio Grande is tied up by snow
slides.
BY vote of forty-two to one, Gill
crest taxpayers decided to incorporate
the town.
Forty-two miles of the Old Santa Fe
trail from Denver will be a twenty
foot pike.
Boulder has secured an addition of
three elk for the Chautauqua park in
that city.
Mrs. Marian C. Gilbert, who was ac-
cused of killing her husband in Pueb-
10, was acquitted.
For the first time pea acreage will
be contracted for in the Fort Lupton
district this season.
Claude Streppy, miner of Victor,
fell siXty-three feet from a hoist and
was fatally injured.
A special grand jury has convened
in Grand Junction to investigate the
hootlegging situation.
A movement has been started in
in-theslot telephones.
The second shipment of sheep from
Greeley, consisting of fifty cars, has
been shipped to Chicago.
In a wreck on the Rio Grande four
miles east Of Salida one trainman was
killed and three injured.
In June Grand Junction will cele-
brate the thirtieth anniversary of the
incorporation of the town.
The Windsor creamery has been
opened for business. Cream will be
furnished from 250 cows.
Ell Paso, Boulder, Weld and Pueblo
counties have decided to hold presi.
Dental preference elections.
In slashing battle at Longmont
Earl Puryear of Denver won a decision
over AL Tobin of Longmont.
Members of the Kersey Commercial
Club are going out among the farm
ers and soliciting membership.
The Routt county extension of the
Laramie, Hahn's Peak & Pacific rail-
way will be commenced April 1.
During the time between 1904 and
1909 the manufactured products of
Denver increased $14,S7S,137 in value.
Adjutant General Chase has re-
quested the State Land Board to
loan $15O,O00 for the erection of
an armory at Denver.
The Greeley Hydro Electric Compa-
ny will ask that city for a franchise
to furnish a current for heat, light and
power purposes.
Several of the Farmers Union Trad
ing Compay stores on the Western
slope, recently closed, have been re-
opened.
The State Board of Health, at a re-
cent meeting, refused to reinstate DR..
A. E. Ault. who was suspended some
time ago.
Kersey's new Commercial Club,
which has forty members, has offered
a cash prize for the best motto for its
campaign.
William Leach, aged 63, an old-time
miner of Estes Park, was found dead
in his lonely cabin and his body car
ried to Loveland.
Stockmen of Moffat county have or
ganized wolf bounty association and
$40 each will be paid for grown wolves
and $40 for pups, this amount being
in addition to the bounty paid by the
county.
The Aurora State bank was entered
by lone robber recently who secured
between $500 and 5000 in cash. While
the bandit was attempting to make
his escape he was shot and mortally
wounded.
Grand Junction has raised the $500
bonus asked by the Ziegler Brothers,
of Muscatine, Ia, and the latter will
invest 100000 in cannery in that
city. The plant will be completed in
the spring.
Attorneys for the Colorado G South
ern and Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
railroads have filed brief in the Su-
preme Court, in which they declare
that the law of 1907 creating the rail
road commission is unconstitutional.