The Glenwood post., 1912-03-30
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over tho
State Worth While.

In the Colorado Springs school dis
rict there are S,175 persons of school
age.
Actual work on street paving will
begin in Colorado Springs within ten
lays.
| The school census of Grand juno
| ion shows 2,225 children of school age
within the city limits.
Dependency, due to ill health,
caused Lee Skinner, aged As, to kill
himself at Rocky Ford.
The spring term of District Court
convened in Montrose with Judge
5hackelford on the bench.
Tho Fort Morgan basketball team
1as gone to Chicago to play Iowa, Ne
oraska and Illinois basketball teams.
The Democratic county central COM
nittee of Mesa county ordered prefer
entail presidential primary to be held
April Is.
The annual society circus of the
Denver Y. NJ. C. A. will be given April
IL, u and IS in the gymnasium of the
Y. NJ. C. A.
By all overwhelming majority the
S2,100,000 bond issue of the Granada
Holly Irrigation project carried at the
'ecent election.
Two valuable elk belonging to the
Boulder city zoo at the Chautauqua
grounds escaped, jumping over the
high wire fence.
In all probability $4,000 will be ex-
pended by Grand Junction this spring
or the erection of new fire house
and police station.
Former United States Senator Hen
y NJ. Teller of Denver. who has been
seriously ill for week, is reported to
De slightly better.
Ben Lundstrom, miner. was shot
IN Telluride as a result of interceding
FOR a friend who quarreled with E. J.
Charest, a bartender
Mrs. Anna Eliza Richardson, aged
10, pioneer of Meeker valley, for
many years a resident of Thurnburg
and later of Flag creek, is dead
The first baseball game of the sea-
son in Pueblo was played between the
Glitch team of Denver and the Pueblo
Rocky Mountain League club.
Close to 100000 will be cleaned up
n Weld county this season as the re-
suit of fattening sheep and cattle for
Denver and Chicago markets.
Word has been brought to Aspen
rom the Montezuma mill that snow
| lad carried away the boarding and
Dunkhouse, valued at about $4,000.
When neighbors came to call Thom-
miles north of Nederland, Boulder
county, he was found dead in bed.
There are not to exceed thirty car
loads of potatoes in the Greeley dis
trict and these are going out rapidly,
netting the farmers cents pound.
Negotiations have been under way
,or several days which may result in
che consolidation of the Capitol Ma
Lional with the First National bank of
Denver.
District Judge Hunter decreed that
municipal election should be held
in Lamar in April, ignoring the defi-
ant stand taken by the mayor and
town board.
The entire S2,9OO,OOO issue of bonds
for the proposed Denver civic center
will be disposed of at home by popular
subscription, if the plans of Denver
bankers are carried out.
Monroe Fuqua, an eX-convct TWEEN.
| ty-two years old, was arrested at Gree
ley charged with influencing girls to
iead immoral lives and forcing them
to turn over their earnings to him.
Men as well as women are members
of an embroidery club which meets in
Evans twice a week. 1t is known as
the Evans Embroidery Club and Mar
tin Briggs, a prominent business man,
is president.
A delegation of Palisade business
men and ranchmen called on Arthur S.
| Curric of Grand Junction recently, and
made him an attractive offer to op-
crate his canning factory in Palisade
this year.
One of the largest shipments of
postal CdIuS ever oeill W lHe Stale W do
received by the Pueblo postoffice for
distribution in that district. There
were 100000 cards in the shipment,
valued at 100000.
A wage increase ranging from thir-
teen to sixteen per cent. affecting 200
employees on the Colorado divisions of
| the sy stem, has been granted by the
Rock Island lines to its telegraph op-
orators, effective April 1.
Miss Helen Gould met four hundred
Denver & Rio Grande shop employees
and their wives and children in the
Denver & Rio Grande Young Mems
| Christian Association in Denver. She
shook hands with and spoke word to
each.
Probably the most important work