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

Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
The state has taken over the Estes
Park fish hatchery.
Dependency, due to Ill health,
caused Lee Skinner, aged As, to kill
himself at Rocky Ford.
Tw3 cases of ptomaine poisoning
were reported recently in Loveland
from canned tomatoes.
Mrs. Catherine c. Forquer, a pioneer,
died at Greeley, aged sixty. She came
to Colorado thirty years ago.
Work on the main line Of the Mis-.
souri, Pacific between Pueblo and Kan.
sas City will begin at once.
May Day celebration will be given
May 4. on the university campus Of
the University Of Colorado at Boulder.
Mrs. E. P. Fink will build the new
rtate armory at Fort Lupton. to be
leased to Company at q cost Of $S,.
900.
A new electric light system for Gree
ley will be installed If the franchise
asked from the City Council April 16
Is gr .nted.
Farmers around Windsor have be,
gun a series of meetings with the OBJ.
Ject OF promoting the dairy industry
Of that district.
A. 7. Stewart Of Pueblo has been
chosen president of the State Insane
Asylum Board and DR.. Louis Haugh Of
Denver, secretary.
]. w. Ewing received q record price
for fat lambs shipped from Greeley
this season when he topped the Chi
cago market at $S.25.
e. H. Abbott, an original Union Col
onist, a resident OF Greeley for forty
one years. and the city's first mayor.
died at his home in that city.
The growth Of Oak Creek during the
last year is clearly shown by the regis
,ration for town election, which is 1868,
compared with 21O year ago.
w. c. Winbourne Of Fort Luptoh
will pioneer corn growing and plant 100
acres of corn on his dry farm east of
that place, II he can rid 1t Of prairie
dogs.
Interest Is already aroused over
postcard day in Colorado when on May
IS thousands of postcards will be sent
out advertising the resources Of tho
state.
1t las been decided to hold the JEFF
ferson county Democratic convention
at Arvada on Saturday, April 20, 1912.
The convention will have 100 dele
gates.
A commercial invasion of southern
Colorado and a portion Of New Mexico
has been decided on by Pueblo jobbers
and manufacturers to start April %
and last week.
The work of raising $4,000 in Pueb-
10 to buy seed grain for the destitute
farmers Of Kiowa county has been COM
pleted and the grain will be shipped
to the settlers at once.
One Of the largest eagles in captivi.
ty was taken TO Mayor Speer's office
in Denver y J. W. Davis, Byers.
Colo, ranches. 1t is said to be a per.
feet type Of the American eagle.
Both batteries of the Colorado Ma.
tional Guard have been invited AMI
will attend the joint camp Of instruc.
tlon to be held under the direction OF
Unitea States army officers at Fort
Riley, Kan, June 15 to June "a.
The Fort Lewis Indian school, for
which the last Legislature appropriat'
ed 100000 for maintenance, may be
able to collect the entire appropriation
Immediately on account Of Its relation
with the United States government.
Following an operation for enlarged
tonsils and adenoids, which had not
been regarded as dangerous. Kathleen
Seaman. the threeyear-old daughter of
X. u. Seaman Of Idaho Springs, died
In Boulder at the University hospital.
As he leaned from his cab window
to signal the crew OF another train.
near .'ulesburg, Walter Hlnkley, a Un.
ion Pacific fireman, was struck on the
head by coal. chute which his engine
was passing at that instant, and killed.
The first smelter to be erected on
the Moffat railroad Is now being con.
structei by the Mollie Groves Mining
3 Milling Company on its properties
near T'arshall. The smelter, which will
cost about 100000. will have q cape
city OF thirty tons daily.
To get $4,000 names in two weeks
on q petition to initiate q new law is
the task set for Itself by the Colorado
Realty Dealers Association. which is
proposing to reorganize the state bu.
reau OF immigration and make 1t a
more active body.
Another large order for steel rails
was received at the Minnequa plant Of
the C. F. & |. Co. In Pueblo and con,