The Colorado statesman., 1912-01-20
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.


H. Madenick was found guilty of
bootlegging at Loveland and fined 5000
and costs.
The Ridgway Electric Company
spent $4,000 in improving its system
last year.
Range stock in eastern Colorado are
dying of thirst on account of water
freezing.
Victor's new auto fire truck has
been given a tryout and found salts
factory.
DR.. L. S. Cornell, prominent physi-
clan of Rerthoud, died recently of
penumonia.
AS result of mistaking strychnine
for cough syrup, Oliver NJ. Hill, OF
Meeker, is dead.
The Lamar High school defeated the
Wiley team in a game of basket ball
by a score of % to 8.
Great preparations are being made
for the Farmers Institute to be held
at Loveland January 26th.
Grand Junction and Paradox have
proposition before the state to con-
struct sixty-mile highway.
Thirty persons who have lived in
Denver twenty-five years or more,
have died SO far this month.
The County Commissioners of Ou-
ray county are seriously contemplating
establishing county farm.
Harold F. Henwood will be placed
on trial in Denver for the killing of
Tony Won Phul, February IL.
Mrs. Fred Hummer, formerly Of
Johnstown, died at Keota, following
the birth of her eleventh child.
Joseph Magnetic, an employe of
the Colorado & Southern at Silver
Plume, was suddenly stricken blind.
Newell w. Banks, champion check
er player of the United States, will
visit Denver the latter part Of jan
uary.
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 a result of the recent severe
cold weather, gray, or lobo, wolves
are unusually active in the vicinity of
Meeker.
Arrangements have been completed
for a ten-round bout between Louis
Newman of Denver and Eddie John
son of Alamosa.
c. C. Doyle, who confessed to oper-
ating lottery, was fined 800 and
sixty days in jail, by the District
Court in Denver.
More than half of the $4,000 nec-
essary to keep in operation certain
branches of the Agricultural college
has been promised.
Placerville station is credited with
shipping the second largest number
of cattle of any station in the state OF
Colorado last year.
]. Maddicks and Jesse Mumm, two
convicts, are at large in the Fort Col
Inns section and the authorities are
trying to run them down.
| "A DUCK SGOWluS Iuo ioouo eihe
drives in the Pixies Peak region has
been issued by the Good Roads AS
;iation of Ell Paso county.
Judge Lewis in the Federal Court
has issued an order enjoining Otero
county from collecting taxes assessed
against the Santa Fe railroad.
For the first time in several weeks
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poses and fire protection. the pipes
having frozen during the recent cold
spell.
Either Pueblo or Grand junction
will bring suit in the Supreme Court
to decide the legality Of the commits
sion form of government for Colorado
cities.
1t is stated that the Pueblo Western
League Baseball franchise is about to
be transferred to Frank Isbell OF
Wichita, who will open a downtown
ball park.
Ranchmen in the vicinity of Salida
met in that city recently and organ
lied company to operate cream
cry. Officers were elected and arrange
ments made to purchase machinery
and equipment.
B. M. Dyson, 25 years old, believed
to be the cleverest swindler in the
country, and whose operations are be-
lieved to have netted him thousands
of dollars, has been arrested by the
police in Denver.
Commercial clubs in northeastern
Weld county advocate that thirty
townships be cut off and made into a
new county. 1t is said the income in
the proposed new county will be suf-
ficient to pay the expenses.
The establishment of cooperative
creamery at Gill, to be controlled by