The Raymer enterprise., 1912-06-06
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.


Small Happenings Occurring Over the
!. State Worth While.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
The Rocky Ford Chautauqua starts
June 23rd.
A new Presbyterian church is to be
built in Pueblo by the negroes.
Philip Petrie, a pioneer, aged ninety.
TWO, of Cripple Creek, is dead.
The movement OF cattle froh tho
winter to. the summer ranges has be.
gun near Meeker.
Z Strontia Springs has a newspaper,
TIE Platte Canon Fly. w. G. Thomp.
sch is the publisher.
Six Grand Junction youths were
Tined 5000 for using an automobile
four hours without leave.
Colorado Woman's college boasts
an enrolment Of 1O3 students In the
third year of its existence.
Last month was the wettest May for
Colorado Springs since 1874. The total
precipitation was 2.49 inches.
1t took Canon City Just ten innings
to win thesseond contest in the Rocky
Mountain League from Pueblo.
Five full grown bears were killed
and two cubs captured by party Of
Alamosa big game hunters recently.
Gov. Shafroth announces he will not
call an extra session of the Legisla.
ture to re.enact House bill No. 200.
Directors Of the Larimer County
Fair Association have decided to erect
an art building on the Fairgrounds.
June % to July 10 are the days when
the great Denver.Chicago run will be
the main automobile event in the
West.
The White and Big Beaver rivers
continue to rise. having already
reached a height unusual for this time
Of the year.
Frank Ferraro and Frank Mario,
charged with the murder OF Felix Mar.
tinez on January 9th, were acquitted
at Trinidad.
]. Fl. ]. Ramsey Of Cripple Creek has
been arrested, charged with embez.
cling money from the Cripple Creek
National bank.
William Menagh, a ranchman living
near Greeley, lost his house by fire
twenty-four hours after his insurance
policy had expired. ,s,.s
A. B. Whitmore, curio hunter, I'M
earthed the remains of a prehistoric
mammal in Garden park, twenty miles
from Cripple Creek.
Business men in the Hudson district
vii grubstake twenty prospectors and
send them into undeveloped mineral
districts Of Colorado.
Breckenridge, for the first time in
her history, observed Memorial Day
without a parade-there were no yeter.
ans left to march in it.
Jim Bailey and Jack Murphy, self.
confessed horse thieves, escaped from
the pest house, Grand Junction, both
suffering with smallpox.
Former Senator A. 7. Stewart of
Pueblo has been appointed to succeed
Felix O'Neill as warden Of the state
reformatory ut Buena Vista.
Thomas c. Bunyan, organizer of the
Bank Of Berthoud, now the First Ma.
tional bank, and well known man
throughout the state, is dead.
The first excursion has been run
over the new Colorado.Kansas rail.
road to the Turkey Creek district,
twenty-five miles northwest Of Pueblo.
1t is reported that oil has been
struck at Cross Hill. near Steamboat
Springs, and that the flow from the
well is filling the basin In front of the
derrick.
The Postofflce Department has or.
dered rural delivery service estab.
lished August 1. from Boone, Pueblo
county, to supply one hundred and
eight families.
The Pueblo North Side School
Board, District No. 20. has Just IN.
nounced the purchase OF a site for a
new school building to be located on
the East Side.
Farmers OF Weld county are rejoic.
ing over ten hours Of rain which fell
recently. 1t came at time when 1t
was most needed by the newly.planted
beet crop.
Moving pictures will be used by the
Colorado Congress OF Mothers In a
campaign to educate the women Of the
state In housewlfely duties II the pres.
cnt plans Of the organization are car.
ried out.
A heavy rain has fallen throughout
northwestern Colorado. following a
heavy windstorm, blowing down tele.
pSone poles. uprooting threes and un'
roofing the recently completed hotel
at Oak Creek.
In the first game on the HON,