The Colorado statesman., 1912-04-20
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
State Worth While.

Longmont for the new $4,000 pea
hulling plant.
The work of putting in the new sys-
tenn of street lighting in Rocky Ford
is under way.
Meeker is to have more fire prOtec-
tion, which will reduce insurance rates
and give residents a feeling of secur-
ity.
For the first time this season. wa
ter is running into the Latham reser-
voir at La Sale, through the Union
ditch.
Having given $50 to the high scluol
piano fund, the Evans Improvement
Society will now buy fire alarm for
the city.
Telephone communication between
Denver and nearly every point in the
state was seriously effected by the re-
cent windstorm.
The Woodmen Of the World held
largely attended smoker in Rocky
Ford recently. Several of the state of
ficers were present.
The Colorado Library Association
will hold it's annual meeting at Pueblo
May and s. An interesting program
has been prepared.
The corpse of Joseph C. Hallowell,
war veteran, aged about seventy of
Boulder, was found west Of the city
dump at Nederland.
Shade trees for Milliken is the slo-
gan of the Commercial Club and hun
dreds of trees will be set out provided
water rights can be secured.
Meekers' new Town Council has
named April 16 as cleanup" day and
instructed the city marshal to see that
all property owners do their duty.
The Paris-London Oil Company, one
of the largest concerns operating in
the Green River fields near Meeker,
will install shortly two large oil rigs.
At Fort Collins Robert Langford
was acquitted of the murder of Clar-
ence T. White, Denver railroad man,
who was stabbed to death on Dec. 8.
The Brighton school board has
called an election for May 1 on the
question of issuing $4,000 in bonds
for the erection of a high school build.
ing.
The Colorado and Southern has de-
posted 10000 trout fry in a small
lake at Bailey which will be fed until
they grow large enough to turn into
the river.
The effort of the utilities corpora
tions of Colorado to have the commits
sion form of government declared un-
constitutional has reached the Su-
preme Court.
There are about twenty cases of
smallpox within the limits of Lafay-
cite, and the officials are considering
closing the schools and stopping all
public meeting.
State Senator John S. Cary died at
the Denver Club building in Denver.
He was taken i'll with an acute attack
of edema of the glottis, a swelling of
the glands of the throat.
All the eleven nurses at the univer-
sity hospital, in Boulder presented
themselves in a body at the office of
the matron, Miss Elizabeth V. Miller.
and notified her of their resignation.
Rev. ]. C. Klene, pastor of the First
Presbyterian church at Fort Collins,
claims the state championship for his
flock of nineteen hens that laid $50
eggs in one month.
John C. Hill, one of the veteran cat
tie and sheep men of Holly, now in
Texas, has purchased 10000 sheep,
which will be fattened for the market
in the Holly district.
Yampa intends to have a higa
school. The Chamber of Commerce is
working day and night with that OBJ
ject in view and it has made up it's
mind to land the goods.
Abraham La Gale, known also to
many as Hubert La Croix, an old-time
miner, was found dead in his cabin at
Central City. He was siXty-fiye and
came here ten years ago from Cripple
Creek.
For the fourth time within the last
two months, Frank Perry, an Italian
truck gardener of Grand Junction, re-
ceived a letter signed with a black
hand demanding the payment of $2,-
coo.
One more railroad station near Den
yer will be added to the Union Pacif-
les map. 1t will be known at Roys
Crossing, near Aurora, and the Union
Pacific has agreed to build depot
there.
Mayor Speer will ask the leading or.
ganists of Colorado to help him select
an organ for the Auditorium in Den
yer. The $4,000 purchase money is
now available and all that remains is
to award the contract.
AS a result of a three-cornered fight
for cantaloupe acreage, the biggest
crop in the history of the famous Cliff