The Raymer enterprise., 1912-06-27
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

ts~ opShSu june slSt.
Henry d. L. Morse, aged 72, a pio.
neer of Colorado Springs. is dead.
Littleton is making preparations for
big Fourth of July celebration.
Gov shafroth addressed the Glen
wPd Springs Strawberry Festival.
Daniel Henny. pioneer Of Love.
land, died recently ut the age OF so
Years
.fEght of the twelve victims of the
| Hastings mine disaster were buried In
Trinidad.
Rains throughout the Platte valley
have done crops thousands of dollars
Of benefit.
The property Of Asa Mead, who died
recently at Greeley, is valued at
sY5,OOO
~ Iaida has raised a fund of 81, 1000 by
bular subscription for the Fourth of
celebration.
AN Wo masked men held up the pat
rohs Of saloon at Walsenburg and
robbed them of 5000.
For the first time in over twenty
years, grand jury has been In ses.
sion in Central City.
Secret societies among students will
not be tolerated by the school board
OF Grand Junction.
ArtesiaE water 10 being drilled for
on desert land near the Sedalia mills,
three miles north Of Salida.
The road to the Santiago mine in
East Argentine district is opened aft.
er blockade of six weeks.
Seventy.five feet Of the cement re-
tanning wall Of the big Miller creek
ditch at Meeker, has caved In.
The property on which the Denver
court house stands is worth $1,00O00O,
according to the latest valuation.
Eward D. Hamilton, cashier OF the
First National bank Of Julesburg, died
recently Of appendicitis and complica.
tions.
Colorado druggists have closed
their convention at Steamboat Springs.
The meeting was successful In every
respect.
The Greeley Chautauqua opened
June % for its fifth annual session
and Is well attended. 1t will continue
ten days.
Fred Pill. who killed George Kerber
Oct. "a, 1909 at Johnstown, has been
sentenced to eight years In the peni.
tentiary.
Paul Hutchinson, aged 10, Of Love.
land, pleaded guilty to the theft OF
a bicycle and was sent to the state
industrial school.
Grandma Hahn. a pioneer Of the
Meeker section, died at her ranch
home in Rangely. She came to Colo.
IhuO tuC otNChtieS.
William A Zelder OF Foxtown was
brought into Denver under arrest re-
Gently on charge Of cutting timber
on government land near Kremmling.
District Judge Essex Of Pueblo re-
Gently held that 1t is not lawful for one
corporation to vote stock In another
en- bloc. Two mining companies were
interested.
A state convention of Socialists will
be held In Denver July 4 Tor selection
Of two or more candidates for the elec.
tive offices to go on the referendum
ballot for nomination.
Samuel |. Altman, fifty-tive years old,
after whom the town of Altman In the
Cripple Creek district, was named,
died in Colorado Springs following an
operation for appendicitis.
The Rio Grande has opened Its line
between Dolores and Telluride, estab.
fishing daily train service which had
been abandoned for the last thirty
days on account OF high water In the
Dolores river.
The application for clemency OF
Louis Wechter, sentenced from Den.
yer for murder, has been denied by
the state board Of pardons. Wechter
will be hanged in August at Canon
City.
The State Railroad Commission has
instituted suit against the Colorado &
Southern railroad for the purpose Of
having the road restore service from
Breckenridge to Como. twenty.three
miles.
The Colorado Fuel & Iron Company
will pay dividend Of 2s per cent
amounting to 100000 on Its $4,000, 900
Of preferred stock outstanding July 20,
and another Of similar amount Janu.
ary 20. 1918.
There are two constitutional amend.
ments to be voted on this fall. One
OF the amendments to be voted on
provides for a bond Issue Of 10000.
600 for road purposes by the state.
sl.0oOOOO to bo issued each year.
fhe lnterurban Power and Light
Company has been Incorporated; cap.