The Colorado statesman., 1912-07-06
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
State Worth While.

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One firm in Hotchkiss has contract
ed for 300 cars of peaches.
Fire recently destroyed property in
Loveland to the amount of $4,000.
A new school building is to be con-
structed at Stewart Mesa, near Paonia.
The Summer Normal school at Gun
nison has been opened for the season.
The Cross orchards, west of Clifton,
will ship some forty cars of fruit this
year.
The new Methodist church at Rog-
ers, Mesa, Delta county, has been ded-
icated.
The ninth annual convention of the
Colorado State Optical Society was
held in Pueblo.
Greeley dog owners contribute about
$3.50 a year towards maintaining the
city government.
The Grand Junction canning factory
has opened for the 1912 season. About
forty people are employed.
Forest rangers report the mountains
in many sections of the state still
piled high with snow.
An irrigation district covering ten
thousand acres is being organized in
the Grand valley, near Silt.
Farmers in the Maybell and Lay
valleys are sure of the greatest crop
in the history of the country.
The Union Pacific is figuring on fifty
special trains for Knights Templar to
the conclave in Denver next year.
Bonds for $5,25O were sold recently
by the Clifton school board for the con-
struction of new high school build
ing.
An average of S1OO day has been
paid into the office of the clerk OF the
Denver District Court, for alimony for
June.
Clinton Farrar, a pioneer, who lived
at Fort Collins forty-three years, died
recently at Boulder, aged seventy
three.
A special election will be held with
ia sixty days to decide whether or not
Trinidad is to have commission gov
ernment.
President Taft has sent to the Sen
ate the nomination of George H. Charl-
ton to be register of the Land Office
at Durango.
Education of the people in packing
apples will be taken up this year by
the Grand Junction. Fruit Growers
Association.
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Clear Creek and Golden washed out
several miles of track from the c. & S.
railroad in Clear Creek canon.
Mrs. Sarah Crabb will bring suit
against the Salvation army at Greeley
for $1,000, the amount left by her
husband in his will for the army.
H. F. Manley, aged "a, county clerk
and a resident of Hinsdale county
FOR more than 80 years, committed
suicide at Lake City by shooting.
The State Land Board has voted to
refund about $4,000 to some twenty
five settlers who had made first pay
ments on land in the San Luis valley.
The State Home for Mental Defec-
tives has opened at Arvada under the
direction of A. P. Busey, superinten-
dent of the State Insane Asylum at
Pueblo.
The state convention of the Prohi
bition party was held in Denver July
and at which Edward w. Mills of
Paramount, w. Va, was the principal
speaker.
La Plata county central committee
will issue the call for primaries to be
held early in August. The call will be
for state, district and representative
offices.
Fruit prospects never were brighter
around Gunrison, Montrose and Pali-
sade than this year, according to Al
bert Mcfarland, a fruit grower living
about six miles from Montrose.
John Brady, an employee of the
Golden Cycle mill at Colorado Springs
was instantly killed when brok an
belt striking him on the head knocked
him against moving machinery.
The earnings of the Moffat road for
the fiscal year ended June 80 will he
close to $1,2OO,OOO, which is consid-
erably greater than the gross revenue
for any previous year.
A party of surveyors captured
baby antelope recently near Blanca.
Game Warden Walter Campbell Sc
cured the little "fawn" and is bring
ing it safely to maturity on a bot
tle'
Lightning struck the reinforcing
station of the Salida Light, Power &
Utility Company at Salida, burning
out a transformer, it setting fire 20
the building. The loss is estimated
at $1,S00.
Twelve head of horses were stolen
from Pueblo recently. A number of
thefts reported to the police from