The Elbert County tribune., 1912-07-05
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

Charles Turner was shot and killed
by Frank Ensign near Telluride.
Fire recently destroyed property in
Loveland to the amount of $4,000.
A new school building is to be con-
structed at Stewart Mesa. near Paonia.
The Summer Normal school at Gun
nison has been opened for the season.
Thirty-eight thousand dollars in life
insurance was paid in Grand Junction
during 1911.
The ninth annual convention of the
Colorado State Optical Society was
held in Pueblo.
Greeley dog owners contribute about
$3.50 a year towards maintaining the
city government.
Forest rangers report the mountains
In many sections of the state still
piled high with snow
An irrigation district covering ten
thousand acres is being organized in
the Grand valley. near Silt.
The summer school of the Universi-
ty of Colorado at Boulder has opened
for a six weeks term.
Every thirty-third person of the $780,
600 that go to make up Denver's popu-
lation ownS, an automobile.
Morgan county will produce more
small grain this year than any pre-
yious year in its history.
Ground has been broken for $4,000
city hall at Sterling. The building is
tn hn t,t,Ia ~
The Union Pacific is figuring on fifty
special trains for Knights Templar to
the conclave in Denver next year.
An average of s1OO day has been
paid into the office OF the clerk of the
Denver District Court. for alimony for
June.
Clinton Farrar, pioneer, who lived
at Fort Collins forty-three years, died
recently at Boulder. aged seventy
three.
A special election will be held with
in sixty days to decide whether or not
ernment
President Taft has sent to the Sen
ate the nomination of George H. Charl-
ton to be register of the Land Office
at Durango.
Education of the people in packing
the Grand Junction Fruit Growers
Association.
Fifty-seven car loads of young
steers were recently unloaded at
Steamboat Springs for stockmen in
that vicinity.
Keota has a Coursing association.
The membership is large and there are
a number of good dogs in the bunch
owned by the club.
A cloudburst between the forks of
Gear Creek and Golden washed out
several miles of track from the c. G. S.
railroad in Clear Creek canon.
The people of Petrolite have
changed the name of that town to Val
ley View. 1t has ceased to be an oil
camp and its people are now all farm
ers.
c. II. Rhodes, his wife and daughter,
comprising the entire family, were
found guilty of disturbance in Justice
Court at Num-, and Rhodes was fined
$25 and costs.
Mesa county has taken the lead in
preparing for a complete exhibit of
fruits and other products to be ex-
hibited in Denver in June, 1913, dur
ing the great Blondes funniest.
According to an official of the Vic
tor American Fuel Company, the care.
lessness of John Thomas, fire boss,
caused the Hastings mine explosion,
when twelve men. including Thomas,
we're killed.
Capt. w. N. Rogers died in Colorado
Springs from blood poisoning resulting
from slight scratch ON a finger re-
ceived a few days ago. Capt. Rogers
owned the Sunnyside hotel at Manitou,
which he built about thirty years ago.
William Hall, twenty years of age,
an employe of the Great Western
Sugar Company, was fatally burned at
Brush, Colo. while painting the inside
of tank at the factory. 1t is thought
that he attempted to light cigarette
and the paint he was using caught
fire, literally roasting him to crisp.
A strange freak was played by
lightning when it struck Gus Ander-
sons house, five miles east of Lucerne,
burning the sheets on the bed in which
slept Miss Selma Anderson. eighteen
years old. and her aunt. Both escaped
unhurt.
Twelve head of horses were stolen
from Pueblo recently. A number of
thefts reported to the police from
Canon City lead them to believe an or
ganized gang of horse thieves who op-
Grated in that section of the state four
months ago, are again at work