Eastern Colorado times., 1912-03-29
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
In the Colorado Springs school dis
trict there are SITS persons of school
age.
Actual work on street paving will
begin in Colorado Springs within ten
days.
The school census of Grand juno
ton shows 1925 children of school age
within the city limits.
Strawberries are being cultivated in
the mountains near Steamboat Springs
5000 feet above the sea level.
The Fort Morgan basketball team
has gone to Chicago to play Iowa, Ne
braska and Illinois basketball teams.
The annual society circus of the
Denver Y. M. C. A. will be given April
II, IL and 13 in the gymnasium of the
Y. M. C. A.
BY AL overwhelming majority the
$2,100,000 bond issue OF the Granada
Holly Irrigation project carried at the
recent election.
In all probability $4,000 will be ex-
pended by Grand Junction this spring
for the erection of a new fire house
and police station.
Former United States Senator Hen
ry M. Teller of Denver, who has been
seriously i'll for week, is reported to
be slightly better.
Colorado college students at Colo
rado Springs have voted to hold an
other spring high school track and
field meet May 4.
Ben Lundstrom, miner. was shot
in Telluride as a result of interceding
for friend who quarreled with e. J.
Charest, bartender.
The first baseball game of the sea-
son in Pueblo was played between the
Glitch team of Denver and the Pueblo
Rocky Mountain League club.
Close to 100000 will be cleaned up
in Weld county this season as the re-
suit of fattening sheep and cattle for
Denver and Chicago markets.
There are not to exceed thirty car
loads of potatoes in the Greeley dis
trict and these are going out rapidly,
netting the farmers cents pound.
Robert Burke. who robbed the J. A.
Thatcher home in Pueblo of diamonds
valued at 100000, was given six to
eight years in the penitentiary by
Judge Rizer.
The entire $2,9O0,0OO issue of bonds
for the proposed Denver civic center
will be disposed of at home by popular
subscription, if the plans of Denver
bankers are carried out.
In beer alone, Colorado and Wyom-
ing drank 1852 barrels less in the
eight months from July /, 1911. to
Feb 1, 1912, than in the preceding
eight months in 1910 and 1911.
Monroe Fuqua, an ex-convict twen.
ty-two years old, was arrested at Gree
ley charged with Influencing girls to
iead immoral lives and forcing them
to turn over their earnings to him.
John Daefiler, sixty.seven, a pioneer
resilient of Welsenburg, stepped from
the door Of his home into the front
yard and using an automatic revolver.
sent two bullets into his brain.
The Colorado Springs Chamber OF
Commerce has undertaken to raise
fund of $4,000 with which to aid
needy farmers in Ell Paso county and
other counties between that city and
the state line.
Men as well as women are members
Of an embroidery club which meets in
Evans twice week. 1t is known as
the Evans Embroidery Club and Mar
tin Briggs, prominent business man,
Is president.
The student body of the Agricultural
college at Fort Collins is on a strike.
The students want weeks vacation
during the spring and presented a Pc
tition to DR.. Lory yesterday, asking
for it. This petition was denied and
at a meeting of the student body it
was unanimously voted to go on strike
and take weeks vacation.
That the State Land Board would be
making a serious mistake to loan
315O,OO0 out of the school funds to the
State Military Board for the erection
OF an armory in Denver is the opinion
Of many officers of the Colorado Ma
tional Guard.
To encourage the culture of the to
mato, o. e. Frink, proprietor Of thu
Fort Lupton canning factory, has Of
fered a prize Of $25 to the boy or girl
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