The Raymer enterprise., 1912-07-04
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

completely filled with water.
Deposits in the banks of Grand juno.
ton amount to $1,5OO,OOO.
Charles Turner was shot and killed
by Frank Ensign near Telluride.
Fire recently destroyed property in
Loveland to the amount Of $4,000.
A new school building is to be con.
structed at Stewart Mesa, near Paonia.
The Summer Normal school at Gun
nison has been opened for the season.
Thirty-eight thousand dollars in life
insurance was paid in Grand Junction
during 1911.
The ninth annual convention of the
Colorado State Optical Society was
held in Pueblo.
Greeley dog owners contribute about
$3.50 a year towards maintaining the
city government.
Fcrest rangers report the mountains
In many sections of the state still
piled high with snow.
An irrigation district covering ten
thousand acres is being organized in
the Grand valley, near Silt.
The summer school of the Universi.
ty OF Colorado at Boulder has opened
for a six weeks term.
Every thirty-third person of the $780,.
ooo that go to make UP Denver's popu.
latlon owns an automobile.
Morgan county will produce more
small grain this year than any pre-.
fious year in its history.
Ground has been broken for a $4,000
city hall at Sterling. The building Is
to be completed by October /.
The Union Pacific is figuring on fifty
special trains for Knights Templar to
the conclave in Denver next year.
An average of 800 a day has been
paid into the office of the clerk Of the
Denver District Court, for alimony for
June.
clinton Farrar, a pioneer, who lived
at Fort Collins forty-three years, died
recently at Boulder. aged seventy.
three.
A special election will be held with
in sixty days to decide whether or not
Trinidad Is to have commission gov.
ernment.
President Taft has sent to the Sen.
ate the nomination of George II. Charl.
ton to be register Of the Land Office
at Durango.
Education of the people In packing
apples will be taken up this year by
the Grand Junction Fruit Growers
Association.
Fifty.seven car loads of young
steers were recently unloaded at
Steamboat Springs for stockmen in
that vicinity.
keota has Coursing association.
The membership is large and there are
number of good dogs In the bunch
owned by the club.
A cloudburst between the forks of
Gear Creek and Golden washed out
several miles of track from the C. G. S.
railroad In Clear Creek caiion.
The people of Petrolite have
changed the name of that town to Val.
ley View. 1t has ceased to be an oil
camp and Its people are now all farm.
ers.
c. H. Rhodes, his wife and daughter,
comprising the entire family, were
found guilty Of disturbance in Justice
Court at Num-, and Rhodes was fined
s25 and costs.
Mesa county has taken the lead in
preparing for complete exhibit OF
fruits and other products to be ex.
hibited In Denver in June, 1913, dur.
Ing the great Blondes funniest.
According to an official of the Vic.
tor American Fuel Company, the care.
lcssness of John Thomas, fire boss,
caused the Hastings mine explosion,
when twelve men, including Thomas,
were killed
Capt. W. n. Rogers died In Colorado
Springs from blood poisoning resulting
IRON a slight scratch on finger re.
ceived a few days ago. Capt. Rogers
owned the Sunnysde hotel at Manitou,
which he built about thirty years ago.
William Hall, twenty years Of age,
an cmploye Of the Great Western
Sugar Company. was fatally burned al
Brush, Colo, while painting the inside
OF a tank at the factory. II Is thought
that he attempted to light cigarette
and the paint he was using caught
fire, literally roasting him to a crisp.
A strange freak was played by
lightning when 1t struck Gus Ander.
sons house. five miles east OF Lucerne,
burning the sheets on the bed in which
slept Miss Selma Anderson, eighteen
years old. and her aunt. Both escaped
unhurt.
Twelve head OF horses were stolen
from Pueblo recently. A number OF
thefts reported to the police from