The Raymer enterprise., 1912-07-18
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

Nleeiey was kllleQ ny HSntnlnS.
Grand functions new $4,000 high
school building has been completed.
Milliken is to have a $4,000 flour
mill and elevator, to be erected imme.
diately.
The rainfall above the town of Sui.
livan caused heavy loss of livestock
and crops.
Mrs, Augusta II. Gleason, aged eigl.
ty.one, pioneer Of Gunnison county.
died recently.
Harry n. Haynes Of Greeley has
been elected president of the Colorado
Bar Association.
Seventy.five thousand cans of peas
were put up at the Greeley factory
one day recently.
According to reports crops in tho
vicinity of Elizabeth were damaged
by the recent rains.
Professor Lorren d. Osbourn, Ph.D..
has been elected to the chair OF socl
ology OF the University Of Colorado.
The Loveland Ratchet Wrench Man.
ufacturing Company, capitalized at
100000, has filed articles of incorpor
alton.
The new Colorado School Of Mines
metallurglcal plant, at Golden, cost.
ing $4,000, will be completed this
month.
Harry Charles, twenty-five years
old. was struck by lightning and killed
at the j. Arnold ranch, seven miles
from Fowler.
Three hundred teachers are expected
in Colorado SPRINGS to attend the an
nual institute of the Fifth normal dis
trict. July % to August 2.
John Sederlun, twenty.one years old,
son Of q farmer near Sterling, was
drowned in Dillon reservoir. about
five miles south Of Tiff.
Christopher Jensen, nine-year-old
son Of August Jensen of Castle Rock.
was drowned in the flood that came
down Plum creek recently.
The forest ranger reports that deer
and elk in the hills around Meeker are
increasing. They are now running in
punches OF dozen or more.
An eighty-horsepower Seagraves au.
tomobile fire-truck has replaced the
horse drawn hook and ladder wagon OF
the Trinidad fire department.
The Denver, Laramie & Northwest.
ern railroad is making arrangements
to extend It's line from Greeley to Sew.
erance, a distance Of twelve miles.
Overcome by bad air. Christian
Marks and Andrew Vogessor plunged
to instant death in the shaft Of the
Yellow Bird mine. on Gold hill. Grip.
pie Creek.
A storm cyclonic in fury swept Sui.
Dhur Springs recently tearing down
barns, fences, telephone poles and
breaking windows downtown. Heavy
rain followed.
The Weld County Fair Association
has announced that it would give any
couple who will get married in front
Of the grandstand Potato day, Sep.
tember &c. at Greeley, enough furni.
ture for home.
In the sundry civil bill reported to
the Senate in Washington regular ap.
preparations for Mesa Verde National
Park, Colorado, was increased from
$500 to $4,000, the increase being
for road building
The June payroll for all state, edu.
catlonal and penal institutions,
amounting to $4,000, is being held up
because Secretary A. l.. Fribourg Of
the Civil Service Commission has re-
fused TO o. X the bills
Graft, fraud. corruption, malfeas'
ance In office and other crimes,
charged against officials Of the las.
administration In Denver, will be thor,
oughly investigated by a Joint commit
tee of the City Council.
Edward p Costigan, chairman Of
the provisional State Central commit
tee OF the Progressive party Of Colo.
RADIO, and Philip S. Van Cise. secrc.
tary. have issued the official call for
the state assembly Of that party 10
meet In Denver Thursday. August /.
1912.
The State Court Of Appeals July Z
handed down decisions In twenty-five
cases, opinions on nine petitions for
rehearIngs. and dismissed six cases
for the want Of prosecution. This is
said to be n record. The court will
now adjourn for the summer, the next
session to be held In September.
Weld county, II is expected. will
harvest sS,0OO,O0O worth Of crops this
season. The grain crop promises to be
the greatest the Greeley district has
known. The first cutting of alfalfa Ia
in the stack, making more than the
entire crop Of last season. and the sec
ond cutting Is making luxurIan,
growth. Potatoes are In healthy condl
tlon and garden crops OF peas. beans
onions. cabbage and tomatoes. grown
on $4,000 acres, are better than the
average.