The Colorado statesman., 1912-03-30
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over tho
State Worth While.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
A postal savings bank will be op-
ened at Meeker April s.
In the Colorado Springs school dis
trict there are S,175 persons of school
age.
Actual work on street paving will
begin in Colorado Springs within ten
days.
The school census of Grand juno;
ton shows 2,225 children of school age
within the city limits.
Dependency, due to i'll health,
caused Lee Skinner, aged 45, to kill
himself at Rocky Ford.
The spring term of District Court
convened in Montrose with Judge
Shackelford on the bench.
Mrs. Catherine c. Forquer, pioneer,
died at Greeley, aged sixty. She came
to Colorado thirty years ago.
| The Democratic county central com.
mittee of Mesa county ordered prefer.
sntial presidential primary to be held
April 15
The annual society circus of the
Denver Y. M. C. A. will be given April
IL, IL and 13 in the gymnasium of the
Y. NJ. C. A.
By AL overwhelming majority the
s2,100,0OO bond issue of the Granada
Holly Irrigation project carried at the
recent 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
for the erection of a new fire house
and police station.
Former United States Senator Hen
ry M. Teller of Denver, who has been
seriously i'll for a week, is reported to
be slightly better.
Ben Lundstrom, miner. was shot
in Telluride as a result of interceding
for friend who quarreled with 3. j.
Charest, a bartender.
Elijah Salmon, one of the Meeker
valleys earliest and best known pio-
neers and cattleman of prominence,
died in Denver recently
Transportation rates on lemons from
California points to destinations in
Colorado, Utah and Montana must not
exceed 81 per 100 pounds.
Mrs. Anna Eliza Richardson, aged
| 73, a 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
in Weld county this season as the re-
suit of fattening sheep and cattle for
Denver and Chicago markets.
Henry CODY, who came to Colorado
in 1853, and fought in the battle of
Sand Creek in 1864, died at his home
III Colorado City, aged seventy-nine.
When neighbors came to call Thorn
as Gendall, aged 3S, at his cabin four
miles north of Nederland, Boulder
county, he was found dead in bed.
Word has been brought to Aspen
from the Montezuma mill that snow
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bunkhouse, valued at about $4,000.
Many churchgoers have signed petit
tions circulated in the churches for
county local option law for Denver to
be voted for by the people at the polls.
Negotiations have been under way
for several days which may result in
the consolidation of the Capitol Ma
| al AN ,f
| Denver.
District Judge Hunter decreed that
a municipal election should be held
in Lamar in April, ignoring the defi-
ant stand taken by the mayor and
town board.
The entire $2.9OO,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-convict 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.
The society "Sons of Colorado" has
presented to the cruiser Colorado"
Colorado state flag of silk, in honor of
her splendid achievement of becoming
Queen of the United States Navy"
A delegation of Palisade business
men aud ranchmen called on Arthur S.
Currie of Grand Junction recently, and
made him an attractive offer to op.
crate his canning factory in Palisade
this year.
A huge hens egg, weighing six
ounces-more than three times the
size of the normal egg-measuring
three inches in diameter and ten
inches in circumference. is on eXhibi-