The Colorado statesman., 1912-06-22
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
State Worth While.

Mrs. Ika Martinez of Olathe is the
mother of triplets, born recently.
The Argentine Central railway has
been sold at sherff's sale for s224,000.
Delta fruit people fear serious dam
age to the crop from a shortage OF
telp.
Rains throughout the Platte valley
have done crops thousands of dollars
of benefit.
The property of Asa Mead, who died
recently at Greeley, is valued at
$685.
A class of two boys and thirteen girls
graduated from st. Joseph's academy
at Trinidad.
The Argentine Central railroad was
sold recently at the court house in
Georgetown.
The mountains in the vicinity of
Central City are covered with three
inches of snow.
The road to the Santiago mine in
East Argentine district is opened aft
er a blockade of six weeks.
Seventy-five feet of the cement re-
| tanning wall of the big Miller creek
| ditch at Meeker, has caved in.
Because of the rock slide above Sui
phur Springs all passenger trains on
the Moffat road have been delayed.
The hay now being harvested in the
| Ordway country is the best that has
been cut in that section for years.
Pricking a pimple with pin has
resulted in a bad case of blood pois-
oning for Miss Annie Dupper of La
| Sale.
John Anderson and Abraham ALL
dred were crushed to death in an &C.
cident at the Last Chance mine at
| Creede.
Fred Pill, who killed George Kerber
Oct. "a, 1909 at Johnstown, has been
sentenced to eight years in the peni-
tentiary.
Horace Greeley Dixon, the first baby
born in Greeley, celebrated the forty
second anniversary of his birth June
18.
Several Colorado educational insti-
| tutions may not be able to open for
| the fall term on account of a shortage
of funds.S
Repair of the damage done recently
| by high water in the Grand river at
Glenwood Springs is rapidly nearing
completion.
The Methodists of Meeker have just
completed one of the best and most
comfortable parsonages on the West
ern slope.
The offices of light inspector and
garbage inspector for Denver have
been consolidated, saving the taxpay-
ers s1,sO0 a year.
Alfred Faynor, who recently died in
the poor house at Pueblo, was heir to
an estate of 100000, which he would
have soon received.
An unusually brill'an program OF
| public lectures has been arranged for
the summer session of the University
of Colorado at Boulder.
The Colorado State Fair Association
is sending out programs of the Santa
Fe race meet, which commences at
Las Animas August 2S.
Ernesto Quinonez, a Mexican, was
shot and almost instantly killed by
Daniel Fernandez. in a quarrel follow.
ing an all-night dance ten miles east
| of Boulder.
The Colorado & Southern's motion
for a change of venue in the suit to
compel them to resume operations be.
tween Como and Breckenridge has
been denied.
Representatives of the Greeters' AS.
sociation of America, are in Grand
| Junction seeking a location for the
| 100000 home they propose building
for worn out hotel clerks.
Financial, political and industrial
education for boys of Grand Junction
| is the purpose Of a new movement
launched by Secretary e. S. Galloway
of the boys department of the Y. NJ.
| C. A.
In the Frederick municipal election
contest case, Judge Bradfield reversed
the decision of the election board ano
found that the Citizens ticket instead
of the Peoples Party ticket was elect
ed April 2.
BY vote Of 43 to 4, taxpayers of
Oak Creek authorized a bond issue OF
$4,000 for construction of a municipal
gravity system water works, the work
to be commenced Immediately and
completed before fall.
Eight miles of wire were recently
cut on Wild Cat, seven miles north OF
Fort Morgan. The damage is attributed
to cattlemen by the homesteaders who
fenced the land along the creek near
ly it's entire length in the range
country.
BY decision of the Supreme Court
which declares the sales of two sec
tions of state land near Wfay, to c.
Rripps and l.. d Brown Wera conduct.