Eastern Colorado times., 1912-05-24
LiTTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
State Worth While.

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Street crossings are to be put in by
the city OF Salida.
The Chaffee County Sunday School
convention was held in Salida.
La Sale is the only town in the
state where no city marshal Is em.
ployed.
Women Of Auburn have organized b
club from which gossip is absolutely
barred.
Eight. deaths have occurred in Den
yer from scarlet fever caused by in
fected milk.
After sixty days of strict enforce
ment, the hydrophobia quarantine on
dogs in Windsor was lifted.
The annual convention Of the Fre-
mont County Sunday School Associa-
ton was held at Canon City.
June 10 has been set as the date
on which Johnstown will vote on a
$4,000 water works bond issue.
Postmasters of Colorado held their
annual convention in Denver, John F.
Morgan of Cafion City. presiding.
The Weld County Retail Merchants
Association has been organized at
Greeley with w. G. Wilson. president.
H. P. Tucker, a lineman at the Sun
nysides mines, near Silverton, fell
from the tram and was instantly
killed.
District Court is in session in Trim
idad- and the docket shows eighty-six
civil cases and seventy-two criminal
cases.
The "J.J." ranch, near Rocky Ford,
has recently shipped to the Kansas
City market nearly four thousand head
of cattle.
Lack OF funds will prevent the ap-
perance Of Colorado university ath-
letes in this years intercollegiate
meet at Chicago.
While returning home from his
place of business in Pueblo, John
Sweeney. saloon man, was robbed by
two Japanese.
The st. Vrain river is running bank
full at Longmont and the bottom lands
will be flooded. This has not been the
case for years.
Several hundred beet tenders have
arrived in Longmont to care for the
enormous beet crop which will be
raised this year.
Chris jacobson, forty-one, coal
miner. was instantly killed in the
Monarch mine near Louisville, when a
loaded car ran over his body.
The First National Bank of Engle-
wood has been admitted to the cur
rency association Of Denver, Pueblo
and Colorado Springs.
Lewis Kolb, aged twenty-five, ur.
ion miner employed at MatchlesJ
mine. near Louisville, was crushed to
death under 1,50O-pound rock.
Governor shafroth has appointed
delegates to the National conference
Of Charities and Correction, which will
be held in Cleveland, O., June IL to 10.
Edwin Kirchbaum, the seventeen
year-old son Of George E. Kirchbaum,
a well-known resident Of Trinidad. was
fatally hurt when he was struck on the
temple by a baseball.
William M. Graves, former Jefferson
county commissioner. and for twenty
three consecutive years president Of
the Arvada school board, died at the
age of sixty-six years. ..
tremendous waste Of gas-about
five million cubic feet monthly-is re-
ported at the De Beque oil wells, and
all attempts to prevent the loss have
SO far proved fruitless.
With three OF his five brothers in
penitentiaries and jails. on conviction
of burglary, John Dicks, was taken
back to Marysville. Mo-, from Pueblo
to stand trial on the same charges.
At an enthusiastic meeting OF the
La Sale Commercial Club a commit
tee appointed to investigate the mat.
ter Of an independent sugar factory
made a report indorsing such step.
The movement among Colorado
Springs business men to raise $500
for the purchase Of baseball park for
Ira Bidwell's proposed Rocky Noun.
tain league team has been abandoned.
Mrs. Cora E. Smith OF Denver was
elected president Of the Colorado and
Wyoming departments. Women of the
Grand Army Of the Republic, at the
convention in Boulder, which has just
closed.
Representatives Of twenty cities and
towns in Colorado, New Mexico. wyo.