The Raymer enterprise., 1912-04-18
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

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Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Pueblo is holding a Home Industries
week.
Gov. Shafroth has purchased an au.
tomobile.
A commission government charter
league has been organized at Durango.
Capt. John ]. Harris, one of Boul-
der's, best known pioneer mining men,
is dead.
Ground has been purchased in
Longmont for the new $4,000 pea
hulling plant.
Frank Wallace died at Evans from q
peculiar disease thought to be tuner
culosis Of the brain.
Meeker is to have more fire protec-
tion. which will reduce insurance rates
and give residents a feeling of secLr.
ity.
For the first time this season, wa
ter is running into the Latham reser-
voir at La Sale, through. .the Union
ditch.
Having given $50 to the high scl.,ol
piano fund, the Evans Improvement
Society will now buy fire alarm for
the city.
Telephone communication between
Denver and nearly every point in the
state was seriously effected by the re-
cent windstorm.
Members of the new town board
have decided on three saloons for
Evans, 1t is said, and that the licenses
Of each shall be $4,000 annually.
Lee Hardesty Of Fowler, president
Of the Hardesty Ditch & Irrigation
Company, was instantly killed In an
auto accident near Fowler.
Shade trees for Millken is the slo-
gan of the Commercial Club and hun.
dreds of trees will be set out provided
water rights can be secured.
Dressed meat prices In Denver rose
another 10 per cent recently, making a
total advance of nearly rs per cent
over quotations two weeks ago.
The state can invest public school
funds in irrigation bonds only az an
original purchaser, under an opinion
of Attorney.General Ben Griffith.
At Fort Collins Robert Langford
was acquitted of the murder Of Clar.
ence T. White, Denver railroad man,
who was stabbed to death on Dec. 5.
The two.story hotel at Buena Vista
Hot Springs, five miles west of Buena
Vista, was completely destroyed by
fire, entailing loss of about $1,000
Preliminary steps toward the erec'
tion of new church were taken re-
Gently at the annual meeting of the
st. Marks Episcopal Parish In Den.
yer.
The Brighton school board has
called an election for May on the
question Of issuing $4,000 In bonds
for the erection Of high school build.
! ing.
Among the finest deposits of brick
clay to be found in the state are those
on the north side of the Arkansas riv.
er, some five or six miles from Rocky
Ford.
There are about twenty cases OF
smallpox within the limits of Lafay.
cite, and the officials are considering
closing the schools and stopping all
public meeting.
Colorado women, members OF the
Daughters OF the War of 1872, are
making preparations for celebrating
on September II. the one.hundrcds III
anniversary Of that memorable con.
flict.
For the fourth time within the last
two months. Frank Perry. an Italian
truck gardener Of Grand Junction, re.
ceived a letter signed with black
hand demanding the payment of $2,.
600.
One more railroad station near Den
yer will be added to the Union Pacif.
les map. 1t will be known at Roy's
Crossing, near Aurora. and the Union
Pacific has agreed to build depot
there.
One hundred and fifty gypsies, who
have been living In three small ter.
races In Denver for more than a week,
will be made the subject Of inves,i.
CATION by State Humane Officer Nor.
ton David.
Aviation has been made part Of
the course Of studies OF the signal
corps Of the Colorado national quad,
and with two Curtiss graduates as In.
structors the members are preparing
to become experts.
Taxpayers of Weld county have al.
ready paid half OF the 100000 to De
collected In taxes this year. Thee IS
100000 to be collected In the county
before December, but 100000 Of this
is taxes in irrigation districts.
George Richter, an old.time and at
Gone time a leader In the politics OF