The Colorado statesman., 1912-02-03
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
state Worth While,

probably borrow to run the town.
The death rate in Colorado Springs
last year was 6.21 per 1000 inhabi
tants.
The title to the Durango postoffice
site has passed to the federal govern.
ment.
George F. Thomas, a pioneer, aged
seventy-five years. of Grand Junction
is dead.
The nine miles of road between Fort
Lupton and Hudson is to be i'm
proved.
Tha cornerstone of Che new Metho-
dist church being constructed in Den
yer has been laid.
The new drop curtain recently hung
in the Burns theater in Colorado
Springs cost $4,000.
An election will be held in Gilcrest
March to vote on the question of in
cooperating the town.
A movement has been launched to
secure the Democratic state conven-
tion for Cripple Creek.
Greeley is making an effort to get
the Christian Endeavor congress to
meet there in February.
The twenty-fourth annual Farmers
Institute closed at Longmont after a
three days successful session.
Business men of Pueblo have taken
up the fight against the suit recently
filed against the city's charter.
,ha 1T oh,
main in the city of Gunnison, has
caused shortage in the supply of wa
ter.
A vigilance committee is being or
ganized in Greeley to rid that town
of bootleggers and undesirable citi-
zens.
Falling down the shaft of the old
Broadhead mine near Aguilar, Rafael
Saccommini, a Mexican, was instantly
killed.
Twelve Steamboat Springs girls
have taken solemn vow to take ad-
vantage of leap year and become en-
gagged.
William Maniece, aged seventy
three of Meeker, and known in that
locality as the dean of the freighters,
is dead.
The Colorado Retail Hardware and
Implement Association will hold its
annual convention in Denver the week
of February 10.
Residents of the Eastern Creek dis
trict, twenty miles from Num-, are
putting in phone system, using their
barbed wires for lines.
Marshal Tucker and Deputy Sheriff
Justice of Valdez were exonerated by
the coroner's jury for killing ]. G.
Smith. the alleged bandit.
The Modern Woodmen of America
will hold the next camp in Colorado
Springs without requiring the bonus
of $4,000 it was intended to ask.
Ground has been broken at Keota
for the First Methodist Church and
the people of the town have offered
their services toward its erection.
John Benson, a Swede miner at
Mary Murphy mine, thirty miles south.
west of Buena Vista, died as result
of inhaling fumes of burning dyna-
mite.
Alfred Williams, proprietor of a
hotel at Frederick, has been arrested
on a charge of seriously injuring his
wife by striking her with monkey
wrench.
The Denver Chamber of Commerce
will have printed several thousand
circulars on How to cultivate arid
lands" and they will be distributed
to the farmers of the state.
The Mesa County Fair Association
has decided to hold another fair in
September, despite the financial
losses of the last season. w. s.
Phillips has been elected president.
All arrangements have been per-
fected for the construction of good
sized flour mill and elevator at Holly.
making this place headquarters for
the wheat growers of that section of
the state.
The farmers in the Greeley district
and Weld county are buying milch
COWS, building silos and working to es-
tablish condensers and creameries.
Hereafter they will combine dairying
with forming.
The estate OF the late Alfred Muller.
according to an inventory just filed in
Denver, amounts to $125,000. Muller
was for ten years secretary of the Ma
tional Jewish Hospital for Consump-
tives, in that city.
The matrimonial bureau, recently
established at Grand Junction, has re-
ceived a letter from young widow
in Arkansas, who proposes matri-
mony, and who says she is the mother
of eight children.
F. D. Trimble of Pueblo, referee in
bankruptcy, has ordered the sale of
all the assets of the Union Trading
Company, a corporation that went un.