The Colorado statesman., 1912-04-27
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over tho
State Worth While.

| On ArDor Day over 2O,OOO trees
were planted in Denver.
The President nominated Walter J..
Burke as postmaster at Sterling.
NJ. C. Mckenzie, rancher of Yuma
county, died at a hospital in Denver.
In Boulder hereafter express will pe
delivered free to every portion of the
city.
The Loveland Civic Extension Club
has plans on foot for beautifying that
city.
The ministers of Colorado Springs
are still at work on the proposed Sun
day closing ordinance.
A considerable quantity of seed has
been delivered to the needy farmers
of the Sterling district.
There will be at least quarter of
a million trees and shrubs set out in
Otero county this spring.
The first annual banquet of college
men of the Western Slope was recently
held at Grand Junction, Colo.
DR.. H. w. Kirby of Georgetown las
been appointed to the state board of
health by Governor Shafroth.
The first Labor Temple west of
Omaha is being planned by the Trades
and Labor Assembly of Pueblo.
Peter Campon, nineteen years old,
was drowned while swimming in the
lake at Central park in Trinidad.
Forty suspects arrested in conec-
ton with the Globe Express robbery
at Grand Junction have been released.
The Moffat road, it is reported, has
let twenty-siX-mile tracklaying con-
tract and grading is to begin at once.
Miss Margaret O'Hearn, a teacher
of Johnstown, is under arrest charged
with whipping a ten-year-old boy with
a horsewhip.
A small tornado swept the coun-
try near Sterling recently and de-
stroyed considerable property and
killed many chickens.
Apples in the vicinity of Boulder
have been damaged 70 per cent by
freezes, and cherries and other fruits
are said to be total loss.
Subscriptions to date to the Com
merce Investment Company for the re-
lief of the destitute farmers of East
ern Colorado total SS,261.50.
Work on the excavation and founda-
ton of the new opera house at Idaho
Springs is progressing rapidly with a
big force of men and teams.
That Pueblo is to have a new $780,
900 Pantages theater is the statement
made by Harry Beaumont OF Denver,
district manager of Pantages circuit.
The Senate public buildings commit
tee reported favorably Senator Gug-
genheim's bill appropriating 100000
for public building site at Monte Vista.
In report to the Board of County
Commissioners Jack Kent of Num-
recommends that the county send $500
to supply farmers of that section with
seed.
If a special election held six years
ago, at which it was voted to bond
Johnstown for a $4,000 water plant is
valid, that town will at once install
the plant
The fruit growers of the Uncompah-
the coming of Jack Frost this spring
through the efforts of the United
States weather bureau.
At meeting of the Weld county
baseball league, held in Greeley with
representatives from six teams pres
ent, a schedule which embraces thir-
ty games was arranged for the season
Articles of incorporation of the
Larimer County Fair Association have
been filed in the office of the county
clerk at Fort Collins. The capital is
$4,000, divided into 1000 shares at
$40 each.
Owing to a crowded District Court
docket at Fort Collins, Judge Graham
has called upon District Judge Teller
of Denver to assist him, and two cou1 Is
will be held until the docket is
cleared.
Mrs. Maggie Stoneking, widow OF
James Stoneking, electrocuted by acci.
dent March 81 at Greeley, has filed
suit for $4,000 damages against the
Home Gas & Electric and Northern
Colorado Power companies.
Dry land farmers in the vicinity of
Num- have sent a representative TO
the county commissioners to petit IN
for funds for seed. The farmers ask
for Mexican beans, millet, corn and
cane, and believe $500 will purchase
sufficient seed.
The federal authorities have just
brought about the arrest of NJ. E. and
L. A. Hill-known as G.. L. Lee & Co.
i'm Salida, Colo. They are charged
with using the mails to sell marked
cards, loaded dice, "holdouts" and
"waxed palms."
Denver is to be the gathering place
during the next few weeks of members
of the Industrial Workers of the