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


rado Springs Young Mems Demo-
cratic Club.
On June 13 Guy Buckles of Omaha
will fight Howard Baker of Boulder at
Cripple Creek.
The President has appointed Ella
New postmaster at Delta and Frank
Silonton at Victor.
Six Grand Junction youths were
fined 5000 for using an automobile
four hours without leave.
If plans of Greeley men work out.
alfalfa breakfast food will soon be man
ufactured In Weld county.
Montrose Chamber of Commerce is
preparing to issue 10000 postal cards
to advertise the county.
DR.. C. A. Stewart of Denver has de-
parted on an automobile tour from
Denver to New York and Boston.
Golden is greatly excited over the
finding of free gold by G. w. Parfet in
his clay drifts south of the city.
Longmont has decided to send an au-
tomobile on the Sociability run to Chi
cago, which leaves Denver June 20.
The government has appropriated
$4,000 for the commencement of the
federal building at Grand Junction.
Five full grown bears were killed
and two cubs captured by party of
Alamosa big game hunters recently.
Gov. Shafroth announces he will not
call an extra session of the Legisla-
ture to re-enact House bill No. 200.
The Hotchkiss Fair Association
gave a barbecue on June Z in place of
the spring races which were called off.
T. A. Arneal of Cripple Creek was
elected president at the annual con-
ference of the BARRIERS union in Den
yer.
Jammed into flume in the North
side lateral, at Gill, the body of John
Losser, aged three, was found by l. N.
Ball.
In Grand Junction the health COM
missioner is arresting every one who
permits unscreened offal heaps on
their premises
The state treasurer received a
check for s1,131 from the estate Of
Robert A. Austin. who died recently
in Conejos county.
Every dandelion plant in Fort Nor
gan will be cause for information If
still growing after the new anti-dande'
lion ordinance becomes law.
There will be no work done on tho
dam for the Boulder city water works
this year, the contract for which was
let last November for. $52,196.2O.
A bill is now before Congress allow
ing 100000 for the Denver postoffice.
completing the appropriation of s2,-
100000 for site and building.
c. R. Mohr, of Cripple Creek. was
perhaps fatally shot at Trinidad by
Miss Ethel Doyle of Colorado City,
who claims to be his wife.
]. w. Tunison, a farmer of Gribble
park, forty-five miles southwest of
Canon City killed George Amstey, a
neighbor, in a fight over water rights.
The largest class in the history of
the institution was graduated from
the Agricultural college at Fort Col
Inns, when forty-eight received diplo-
mas.
w. L. Carroll, a Perkham mer-
chant, poured vinegar down his baby's
throat Immediately after the little
one had swallowed lye water, and may
have saved the childs life.
Stockholders in the Pierce lateral
ditch may form water users associa-
tion for mutual benefit This ditch
beets, the first to be grown in that
locality.
The State Land Board recently sold
1000 acres of state lands in Routt,
Moffat and Pueblo counties at public
auction in the chamber of the House
of Representatives. Highest price paid
was $14 an acre.
The damage by the flood in the Un,
compahgre river and its tributaries in
Montrose county is believed by the
County Commissioners to be $4,000.
Several bridges have been washed
away and others are almost gone.
A twenty-year electric lighting fran
chise was granted A. NJ. Gooding and
associates by the Town Board of
Steamboat Springs. Work on the plant
is to start within sixty days and be
completed within year.
Hereafter there will be fraternities
at the secondary schools of agricul-
ture controlled by the State Board of
Agriculture, the board having passed
resolution forbidding students in
these schools from joining organiza-
tons of this character. =
Arrangements have practically been
completed whereby the Rocky Noun
tain League is to be organized with
Trinidad succeeding Pueblo, Ration
taking the place of Canon City and
Rocky Ford taking over the Colorado
Springs team.
The first rain in two months COW
cred the southwest section of the state
recently and was thankfully received.
although every stream has furnished
an abundance Of water for irrigation.
The State Board of Immigration is
discussing the advisability of compa-
ny capitalized at 100000 to foster
Colorado land projects and assist set
tiers in obtaining farms at low prices.
Secretary Blanchard of the Mont
rose Chamber of Commerce estimates