The Colorado statesman., 1912-01-27
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.


tenburg next season.
recent fire in Cripple Creek
caused damage of $4,000.
Greeley's car seal factory will be in
operation within thirty days.
PaeDsa Springs has been designated
as a postal savings depository.
w. D. Snow, aged sixty-eight, a pio-
neer of that district, died in Ault.
A postal savings bank will be es.
tablished at Arriba, February 18th.
The new Knights of Pythias' hall at
Rocky Ford has been formally opened.
There is considerable trouble in
Boulder county over mining matters.
The Knights of Pythias of Rocky
Ford have dedicated their new build
ing.
Mat Grurrich, a miner, was almost
instantly killed at Rugby in rock
slide.
viii Stanley, living one mile north
of Greeley, has sold his 80-acre farm
for $4,000.
Mrs. Fred Allen, a farmers wife,
living near Wray. killed herself by TAX
ing strychline.
Twenty-seven car loads of potatoes
were recently shipped from Denver
to Wichita, Kans.
Rev. Father Richard De Palma,
Trinidad of cancer.
The machinery for the new ice plant
at Rocky Ford has arrived and will be
installed at once.
Charles L. Hill. pioneer mining op-
orator, of Colorado. died recently at
Santa Monica, Cal.
Mrs. Mary N. Great, aged 70, resi-
dent of the Trinidad vicinity for
thirty-six years, is dead.
At Delagua, Abraham Lubich, a
miner, was electrocuted when he came
in contact with live wire.
The Eaton High School basketball
team defeated the Denver Y. M. c. A.
team by score of 35 to 16.
The Senate has confirmed the nomi-
nation of John P. Dickinson as receiv
er of the Hugo land office.
The ninth annual convention of the
Colorado-Wyoming Lumber Dealers
association was held in Denver.
Boulder Troop D. of the Colorado
National Guard has begun a campaign
for an increased enlistment.
Mangled beyond recognition, the
body of Anton Manzarita, an Italian,
was found on railroad in Pueblo.
Fully 1,5OO farmers and business
men attended the opening of the an
nual Farmers Institute at Loveland.
d. NJ. Collins of Lamar died in hos
pital at Albuquerque, N. NJ, as re-
suit of having an arm and leg cut
off.
county judge of Crowley county to
succeed ]. C. Lewis, who recently re-
signed.
The city of Greeley has set aside
$4,000 for improving a vacant tract for
park and also $1,000 for improving
an old park.
Hudson residents are using empty
potato dugouts for storing ice and
several hundred tons of ice have been
thus stored.
At Walsenburg. recently, robbers
stole the United States mail sack from
the rear of the postoffice in daylight,
and rifled it.
Rev. Greer A. Foote, pastor of the
Presbyterian church at Glenwood
Springs, died following an operation
for appendicitis.
The Colorado Springs Chamber of
Commerce will make a vigorous fight
to land both the state political con-
yentions this year.
A bill has been introduced in both
Houses of Congress for the removal of
the Federal Court from Montrose to
Grand Junction.
The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union began its campaign for 1912 by
circulating petitions calling for anoth-
er prohibition election.
There was considerably more snow
In the mountains at the end of De-
cember than at the same period year
before, according to the snowfall bull
letin.
There is a plan on foot to merge
the Chamber of Commerce, Retail
Merchants Association and Retail
Credit Mems Association at Fort Col
Inns.
Rev. Elmer E. Higley, pastor of the
Grace M. E. church, Denver. has an
pounpod that wenlyly moving Dicture
shows will be given at his church until
March
The State Board of immigration has
, elected l.. C. Paddock of Boulder to
be immigration commissioner, succeed
ing Alfred Patek, who recently re-
signed.
The hold-up of freight train at
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