The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1912-02-09
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

sold for $4,000.
During January Denver enjoyed 202
actual hours of sunshine.
The Farmers Institute held three
days session in Boulder.
Jennie Ross has been made post
master at Cheyenne Wells.
There are 1851 pupils attending the
public schools in Colorado Springs.
Manitou is short of money and will
probably borrow to run the town.
George Heron, one of the most prom
inent miners in the Telluride district,
is dead.
Mesa county farmers held three
days farmers institute at Grand
Junction.
Mrs. Sarah Thomas, aged seventy
nine, a pioneer of Rio Blanco county,
is dead.
The postal receipts for the City Of
Denver for the month Of January were
$1O9.9O0.
The sale of cocaine in Colorado
district attorney.
Up to January /, 1912, $4,700.000
had been spent on the Uncompahgre
reclamation project.
1t is reported that deer are being
killed in large numbers in the noun
tains west of Loveland.
Union Evangelistic services will be
held in Canon City during February
and part of March.
Ell Paso County Commissioners will
probably replace convict road labor
with needy farmers.
The Union Pacific railroad will
spend half million dollars this year
advertising Colorado.
Fort Morgan high school defeated
Julesburg high in a basketball game
by score of 81 to Is.
j. Frank Anthony, employed in the
Oak Creek coal mines. was crushed to
death between two mine cars.
The Lovella ditch and reservoir,
near Hereford, have been sold to Chi
cago capitalists for $325,0O0.
The farmers in the vicinity of
Steamboat Springs have received $751;
612 for hay shipped this year.
Mystery surrounds the discovery of
two dynamite bombs in the basement
Of a house in Cripple Creek.
George Lucas, boy of five years,
of Georgetown. has captured a live
owl that weighs fourteen pounds.
The residence of John A. Thatcher
of Pueblo, was entered by burglars
and diamonds valued at $4,000 taken.
Dr. A. L. Gresher has been arrest
ed at Fort Morgan on a charge of
practicing medicine without license.
Mrs. Harriet Van Deusen. aged
eighty. of Denver, has instituted a
suit for divorce from her husband.
Solomon Gonzales has been sent to
the penitentiary from Pueblo for ten
to twelve years for assaulting a small
hoy.
| Twelve Steamboat Springs girls
have taken solemn vow to take adj
vantage of leap year and become en-
gagged.
Loveland is to have a municipal
light plant costing 100000 if the
present plans of the council are car
ried out.
The Longmont sugar factory will be
called upon to handle the largest
amount of sugar beets ever grown in
that section.
The appointment of Harry E. Kelly
as United States attorney for the dis
trict of Colorado has been confirmed
by the Senate.
Four boys have been sent to the re-
fcrmatory from Colorado Springs for
stealing potatoes from farmers in east
ern Ell Paso county.
The Supreme Court has dismissed
the suit attacking the validity of the
s6,100,000 bond issue of the Greeley
Poudre irrigation district.
Rev. Miss Rachel Dangerfield, the
only woman preacher in northern Col
orado, will begin series of revival
services at Delta soon.
The total assessed valuation of the
property of the new county of Crow
ley, according to the recent report of
the assessor, is $2,102,551.
A great stir has been caused by the
report that Idaho Springs will attempt
to wrest the county seat of Clear
Creek county from Georgetown.
The Modern Woodmen of America
will hold the next camp in Colorado
Springs without requiring the bonus
o. $4,000 it was intended to ask.
| Ground has been broken at Keota
for the First Methodist Church and
the people of the town have offered
their services toward it's erection.
John Benson, a Swede miner at
Mary Murphy mine, thirty miles south
west of Buena Vista, died as result
of inhaling fumes of burning dyna-
| mite.
The Santa Fe has started the con.
struction of freight and packing
house at Canon City for the use of the
Royal Gorge Fruit Growers Associa-
| ton.
Felix Martinez. the wealthy ranch.
er of Trinidad, who had been missing
| for some time, was found dead fifteen