The Springfield herald., 1912-05-10
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

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An epidemic of German measles has
broken out in the schools of Meeker.
Swat the fly" is the slogan OF the
women of the Civic league of Colorado
Springs.
One of the worst windstorms for
years visited the Rocky Ford valley
recently.
= The Christian churches OF Northern
Colorado held their conference in
Boulder.
After being dry town for four
years, three saloons have been opened
in Evans.
The new Burns theater in Colorado
Springs. costing 100000, has been
completed.
A quarter OF million new trees,
mostly cherries, are being planted In
Otero county.
A case Of scarlet fever is reported at
the Farmers Home, a hostelry in the
heart of Meeker
The new union depot for the Rock
island and Union Pacific roads at Ii
mon has been opened.
Ranchmen report that many dead
cattle. victims of the long and hard
winter. are being found.
Arrangements have been made for
the celebration Of the thirtieth ami
versary Of Grand Junction.
The three-year-old son of William
Kruger Of Pueblo died from the ef-
fects Of drinking gasoline.
James Thompson. for twenty-eight
years a resident of Denver, is dead at
his home in Aberdeen, Scotland.
The citizens of Sugar Loaf have de-
cided to build a new school house. the
proposed structure to cost $4,000.
BY order of the city commissioners
of Grand Junction no city employees
can smoke cigarettes and hold his Job.
The Trout Season Postcard Day"
has been set for May IS in an official
proclamation issued by Governor Shat
roth.
Company F, C. N. G., has issued a
challenge to the cadet battalion of the
drill.
John Hansen of Strawberry gulch,
near Meeker, one of the best known
cattlemen in the White River valley.
is dead.
In order to definitely establish the
line between San Juan and Ouray coun-
ties the Supreme Court has been ap-
pealed to.
S. 2. Schneck, formerly manager of
the Union Trading Company. arrested
in Denver recently has been released
on bond of $4,000.
Although the winter market for coal
is not now a factor, shipments from
Oak Creek district during April
reached 1885 carloads.
Daniel Leonard, former deputy sher
iff and county jailer of Trinidad,
one OF the best-known residents Of Las
Animas county, is dead.
Santa Fe Trail chapter of the Daugh-
ters of the American Revolution has
been instituted in Trinidad by Mrs.
Freeman Rogers of Denver, state re-
gent
Records Just prepared by Commis-
sioner Holmburg show that there has
not been a case of typhoid fever in
Grand Junction since November ~.
1911.
Eddie Johnson. the Pueblo light
weight, has been matched to met Phil
knight of Kansas City, in ten-round
bout at the Pueblo Athletic Club
May 20.
To protect the dam at Whites lake,
two miles below Georgetown, from
breaking on account of heavy pres
strengthening it.
A Utah company has begun work on
the big $6,000000 irrigation project,
which will furnish water for thousands
of acres of desert land in eastern Utah
and western Colorado.
Hundreds of White River and Grand
valley people will assemble in Rifle
to celebrate the opening of the twen-
ty-nine-mile Havemeyer irrigation tun-
mel. just completed.
A wreck occurred on the Rio Grande
Southern narrow guage, two miles
from Ouray, the second within a week
on the Ouray-Salida division. No one
was seriously injured.
Lynn Matthewson of Denver recent
ly drove from Denver to Idaho Springs
in an automobile in hours and IA
minutes, which is the best record for
an auto run made over the present
route.
The City Council of Boulder has en-
ployed John j. Wilson to draw plans
for municipal lighting plant, $4,000
in bonds having been voted for that
use. 1t is expected that this will cover
all expenses.
More than 100000 attractive post
cards and other styles of literature
advertising Colorado's many advan-
tages and attractions will be mailed
to other states from all over Colorado
May 1S.
Mike Malone of Denver, and Phil
Knight, the Kansas City lightweight,