Eastern Colorado times., 1912-06-07
LiTTLe COLORADO lrkMs.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
The Rocky Ford Chautauqua starts
June 23rd.
A new Presbyterian church is to be
built In Pueblo by the negroes.
Philip Petrie. pioneer. aged ninety.
two. Of Cripple Greek. Is dead.
The movement of cattle from tho
winter to the summer ranges has be-
gun near Meeker.
strontia Springs has a newspaper.
the Platte Cafion Fly. w. G. Thomp-
son is the publisher.
Six Grand Junction youths were
fined $500 for using an automobile
four hours without leave.
Colorado Womans college boasts
an enrolment of 103 students in the
third year of its existence.
Last month was the wettest May for
Colorado Springs since 1874. The total
precipitation was 2.49 inches.
1t took Canon City just ten innings
to win the second contest In the Rocky
Mountain League from Pueblo.
Five full grown bears were killed
and two cubs captured by party of
Alamosa big game hunters recently.
Gov. Shafroth announces he will not
call an extra session of the Legisla-
ture to re-enact House bill No. 200.
Directors Of the Larimer County
Fair Association have decided to erect
an art building on the Fairgrounds.
June 25 to July 13 are the days when
the great Denver-Chicago run will be
the main automobile event in the
West.
The White and Big Beaver rivers
continue to rise, having already
reached height unusual for this time
of the year.
Frank Ferraro and Frank Mario.
charged with the murder of Felix Mar
tinez on January 9th, were acquitted
at Trinidad.
J. H. ]. Ramsey of Cripple Creek has
been arrested, charged with embez-
zling money from the Cripple Creek
National bank.
William Menagh, ranchman living
near Greeley. lost his house by fire
twenty-four hours after his insurance
policy had expired.
A. B. Whitmore. curio hunter, un-
earthed the remains of a prehistoric
mammal in Garden park, twenty miles
from Cripple Creek.
Business men in the Hudson district
will grubstake twenty prospectors and
send them into undeveloped mineral
districts of Colorado.
Breckenridge, for the first time in
her history, observed Memorial Day
without a parade-there were no veter-
ans left to march in it.
Jim Bailey and Jack Murphy, self
confessed horse thieves, escaped from
the pest house, Grand Junction, both
suffering with smallpox.
Former Senator A. T. Stewart OF
Pueblo has been appointed to succeed
Felix ONeill as warden of the state
reformatory at Buena Vista.
Thomas c. Bunyan, organizer of the
Bank of Berthoud, now the First Ma
tional bank, and well known man
throughout the state, is dead.
The first excursion has been run
over the new Colorado-Kansas rail-
road to the Turkey Creek district,
twenty-five miles northwest of Pueblo.
1t is reported that oil has been
struck at Cross Hill, near Steamboat
Springs, and that the flow from the
well is filling the basin in front of the
derrick
The Postoffice Department has or
dered rural delivery service estab-
lished August /. from Boone, Pueblo
county, to supply one hundred and
eight families.
The Pueblo North Side School
Board, District No. 20, has Just an
nounced the purchase of a site for a
new school building to be located on
the East Side.
Farmers of Weld county are rejoic-
ing over ten hours Of rain which fell
recently. 1t came at a time when it
was most needed by the newly-planted
beet crop.
Moving pictures will be used by the
Colorado Congress of Mothers in a
campaign to educate the women Of the
state in housewifely duties If the pres
ent plans of the organization are car
ried out.
A heavy rain has fallen throughout