The state herald., 1912-03-22
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

AlamOSa Will hold CITY electloh w
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, 2,400 head, were sent 10
Chicago.
Greeley school districts $41,5O0 bond
issue has been sold. The premium Is
s1,713.95.
Gov. Shafroth has issued procla'
nation designating Friday, April ~, 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 Brights
disease He was sixty-six.
The Postoffice Department desig'
mated Cedaredge as postal savings
depository, effective April IL.
The Meeker Rod and Gun Club, the
only society Of its kind on the west
ern slope, has been organized.
C. X. Berry of Laramie, Wyo., prob
ably will install cooperative deliv'
cry system for merchants of Greeley
A fire destroyed a two-story mer
camille building on Main street IN
Fort Lupton, entailing loss OF $50,
600.
Unless Former Judge Richard Den
his of Eaton gets stay of execution
he must serve thirty-day sentence
in jail.
Isabelle Amado, aged thirty-twc
mother of five children, committed
suicide on ranch at Hohney, neal
Trinidad.
II. E. Black of Eaton was elected
president of the Northern Colorado
Teachers Association at the annua
business meeting in Boulder.
The Town Board and all citizens o.
Erie will cooperate in celebrating Ar
bor Day. Each family will contribute
tree for each OF its members.
The Fort Collins branch of the
Farmers Educational and Co-opera
tive union voted to send $25 to ait
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
]. II. Hollis, well known among Col
orado commission men, was arrested
in Colorado Springs charged with EN-
bezzlement by a warrant sworn out a,
La Junta.
Stockholders of the bankrupt Unior
Trading Company met in Pueblo ant
planned to purchase the remaining as
sets OF the company for rs cents oil
the dollar
William Hilliar. Sr., one OF the bes,
known coal miners in the Oak Creel
district, was fatally crushed by falling
rock In the Juniper mine and lived bu
short time.
People are looking for warm fight
over the removal OF the Routt county
seat and while Steamboat Springs Il
the largest town in the county II vii
have a hard scrap.
Deciding to engage In farming In
the West. Mrs. Rose II. Herkett oI
Chicago bought the 320-acre Asa Ster
ling farm. south OF Kuner. paying
$4,000 for Il.
The Santa Fe has cleared It's track,
through Kansas and traffic has beer
resumed. About 800 passengers hat
been stalled at La Junta and were fed
at local hotels.
Mike Carr, an old time miner. dropped
dead In restaurant at Central City
from hemorrhage OF the lungs. Carr
was six,y.four and had lived In Cen
,ral City forty years.
A vigilance committee OF men stu
dents at the State university nj Boul
u'i VIII hh''s bt ioEmtu 10 run uONt
n Jack the Pecper who has beer
prowling around on University hill.
Bert Gross. an old time miner o
Cripple Creek. was perhaps fatally In
Iured when he was struck by n slal
OF rock weighing about 1000 pound,
on the i0o-foot level OF the III Pnsc
mine.
The county grand jury. which ha,
been In session the past two weeks a,
Grand Junction. returned fifteen In
dictmonts. but the names were no,
made public. Most OF the cases ar,
believed to be against boo,leggers.
Caugh, In snowullde that was pro
cipi,atcd by the eoncuHslon following
the discharge Of his rifle. David Da
Wis. aged ihirty.two. former Denver
man. was carried 800 feet TO his deati
down u mountalnside near the quar-
rlcs OF the Colorado Yulo Marble Com
pany. at Marble.
Tho largest damage suit for Der
sonnl Injuries ever filed In the Colo
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