The Raymer enterprise., 1912-01-18
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

A recent fire in Greeley did damage
to the extent of $4,000. !
Tle Fort Lupton bank has declared
q dividend Of twenty per cent
W. s. Sewer of Eaton is one Of the
heirs to an estate valued at $4,000, 900.
H. Madenick was found guilty of
bootlegging at Loveland and fined 5000
and costs.
Range stock in eastern Colorado are
dying of thirst on account Of water
freezing.
Victors new auto fire truck has
been given tryout and found salts
factory.
DR.. L. S. Cornell, a prominent physi-
clan Of Berthoud, died recently Of
penumonia.
The Buena Vista dancing pavilion
was burned with loss Of $1,000. with
no insurance.
Rev. Clarence E. Campbell Of Chi
cago has been called to the Presby-
terian church at Greeley.
Great preparations are being made
for the Farmers Institute to be held
at Loveland January 26th.
Mangled beyond recognition, an un-,
Identified man was killed in the Un-
Ion Pacific yards In Denver.
Paul Pauline, saloonkeeper at VIII.
'liamsburg, was shot and killed by q
negro named Will Thomas.
Owing to the unusually cold wealth.
err work In the Gross oil fields, near
Hayden, has been suspended.
w. H. Caywood, Of Meeker, the wide
ly known wolf and bear hunter. who
was recently operated on, is recover.
Ing.
A strong protest has been sent from
Boulder county to President Taft
against making Estes park national
park.
The twenty-eighth annual session Of
the Boulder County Teachers Associa-
ton will convene In Boulder January
9th.
The $4,000 Methodist church at
Trinidad was recently dedicated,
Bishop Quayle Of Oklahoma City pre-
siding.
Reports say there are $500 head
Of cattle starving to death in the
snowbound region near Craig, Moffat
county.
AS result Of the recent severe
cold weather, gray, or lobo. wolves
are unusually active in the vicinity Of
Meeker.
The Exchange National Bank Of
Colorado Springs has purchased $685..
900 worth Of school bonds at q pre-.
MUM Of $3.50.
To vote an additional $4,000 In
bonds for completion OF the Greeley
High school, district No. will hold
special election.
The Cripple Creek Short Line Is
considering the advisability Of estab-
fishing up.to-date sightseeing automo.
biles In the Pixies Peak region.
The proposed federation Of railway
trainmen on the Denver & Rio Grande
has fallen through because Of the re.
fusal Of the engineers to join it.
Judge Lewis In the Federal Court
has issued an order enjoining Otero
county from collecting taxes assessed
against the Santa Fe railroad.
Economy in the management Of
Greeley's affairs has put surplus of
sl5,1SO in the treasury after all ex.
penses for the last twelve months
have been paid.
The largest single shipment of po.
tatoes from the Greeley district this
season was twenty.three cars. which
went to Kansas and Oklahoma, and
was valued at $4,000.
Grand Junction has offered Jim
Flynn a gymnasium and free training
quarters II he will make that city his
headquarters during his training for
his fight with Jack Johnson.
In the game Of Billiards in Denver re.
Gently. played between Joe Carney and
Alfredo De Oro. for the world cham.
pionship as well as for the Lambert
trophy. Carney won by score OF CO
to so.
The recent land muddle. as a result
Of which between fifty and seventy
five families on the Little Beaver, near
Meeker, were deprived Of their homes,
may be adjusted and the filings per.
mitted to stand.
The county commissioners have
granted the farmers Of the Fountain
valley permission to hold an election
ON the proposition to create an irri
CATION district and issue bonds for an
irrigation system.
AT the point Of revolver In the
hands Of bandit. DR.. A. M. Forster
was robbed Of the money box In the
office Of the Cragmore Sanitarium,
about five miles east Of Colorado
Springs.
Plans are maturing for the erection
OF o club house by the Farmers Club