The Raymer enterprise., 1912-03-21
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over The
State Worth While.

Alamosa will hold a city election on
April 2.
A $4,000 fireproof warehouse is to
be erected In Grand Junction.
Colorado druggists will hold their
annual convention In Denver in Aug.
ust.
The first shipment Of spring lambs
from Gill. 2,4O0 head, were sent to
Chicago.
Greeley school districts $41, 500 bond
issue has been sold. The premium is
S1,713.95.
Gov. shafroth has issued procla-
nation designating Friday, April 10, as
Arbor Day.
Jacob Berger, aged seventy-eight,
a resident Of Boulder county for the
past twenty years, is dead.
George Sleborn, resident Of Long.
mont since 1887, is dead from Bright's
disease. He was sixty.six.
The Postoffice Department desig-
mated Cedaredge as postal savings
depository, effective April 12.
The Meeker Rod and Gun Club. the
only society of its kind on the West.
ern slope. has been organized.
G. X. Berry Of Laramie, -Wyo., prob
ably will install cooperative deliv.
cry system for merchants Of Greeley.
A fire destroyed two.story mer.
camille building on Main street In
Fort Lupton. entalling a loss Of $780,.
900.
Unless Former Judge Richard Den.
mis- Of Eaton gets q stay of execution.
he must serve thirty.day sentence
In jail.
Isabelle Amado, aged thirty.two
mother Of five children, committed
suicide on a ranch at Hohney, near
Trinidad.
H. E. Black OF Eaton was elected
president Of the Northern Colorado
Teachers Association at the annual
business meeting In Boulder.
The Town Board and all citizens Of
Erie will cooperate in celebrating Ar.
Dor Day. Each family will contribute
a tree for each Of IT'S members.
The Fort Collins branch of the
Farmers Educational and Co-opera.
tive union voted to send $25 to aid
destitute farmers in eastern Colorado.
The Advertising Club Of Denver In
tends to make strong bid for the
national convention Of the Associated
Advertising Clubs of America in 1915.
]. H. Hollis, well known among Col.
orado commission men, was arrested
in Colorado Springs charged with EN-.
bezzlement by warrant sworn out at
La Junta.
Stockholders Of the bankrupt Union
Trading Company met in Pueblo and
planned to purchase the remaining as.
sets Of the company for rs cents on
the dollar.
William Hilliar, Sr., one of the best
known coal miners in the Oak Creek
district, was fatally crushed by falling
rock in the Juniper mine and lived but
short time.
People are looking for a warm fight
over the removal of the Routt county
seat and while Steamboat Springs Is
the largest town in the county 1t will
have a hard scrap.
Deciding to engage in farming In
the West, Mrs. Rose R. Herkett Of
Chicago bought the S2O.acre Asa Ster.
ling farm. south Of Kuner. paying
$4,000 for 1t.
The Santa Fe has cleared its tracks
through Kansas and traffic has been
resumed. About 300 passengers had
been stalled at La Junta and were fed
at local hotels.
Mike Carr. an old time miner. dropped
dead In q restaurant at Central City
from hemorrhage Of the lungs. Carr
was sixty.four and had lived In Cen.
trail City forty years.
A vigilance committee of men stu.
dents at the State university at Boul.
der will likely be formed to run down
a Jack the pepper who has been
prowling around on University hill.
Bert Gross, an old time miner OF
Cripple Creek. was perhaps fatally In.
jured when he was struck by slab
Of rock weighing about 1000 pounds
on the 400.foot level Of the FL Paso
mine.
The county grand jury. which has
been In session the past two weeks at
Grand Junction, returned fifteen In.
but the names were not
made public. Most Of the cases are
believed to be against bootleggers.
Caught In a snowsllde that was pre-.
6pitated by the concussion following
the discharge Of his rifle, David Da.
Wis. aged thirty.two, former Denver
man. was carried 300 feet to his death
down mountalnside near the quar-.
rles OF the Colorado Yule Marble Com.
pany, at Marble.
The largest damage suit for per.