The Raymer enterprise., 1912-03-28
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.


State Worth While.
Western Newspsoer Union News Service.
In the Colorado Springs school dis,
trict there are S,l75 persons OF school
age.
Actual work on street paving will
begin in Colorado Springs within ten
days.
The school census Of Grand juno.
tion shows 1925 children of school age
within the city limits.
Strawberries are being cultivated in
the mountains near Steamboat Springs
5000 feet above the sea level.
Tho Fort Morgan basketball team
has gone to Chicago to play Iowa, Me-
braska and Illinois basketball teams.
The annual society circus of the
Denver Y. NJ. c. A. will be given April
II, IL and 13 in the gymnasium of the
Y. NJ. c. A.
BY an overwhelming majority the
$2,1OO,O00 bond issue OF the Granada.
Holly Irrigation project carried at the
recent election.
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 NJ. Teller of Denver, who has been
seriously Ill for a week, is reported to
be slightly better.
Colorado college students at Colo
rado Springs have voted to hold an.
other spring high school track and
field meet May 4.
Ben Lundstrom, miner. was shot
In Telluride as result of interceding
for a friend who quarreled with q. J..
Charest, bartender.
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 cleaped up
in Weld county this season as the re.
suit of fattening sheep and cattle for
Denver and Chicago markets.
There are not to exceed thirty car
loads of potatoes In the Greeley dis.
trict and these are going out rapidly,
netting the farmers z cents a pound.
Robert Burke, who robbed the j. A.
Thatcher home in Pueblo of diamonds
valued at $4,000, was given six to
eight years in the penitentiary by
Judge Rizer.
The entire $2,9O0,0OO issue of bonds
tor the proposed Denver civic center
will be disposed Of at home by popular
subscription, II the plans Of Denver
bankers are carried out.
In beer alone, Colorado and Wyom.
Ing drank 1852 barrels less in the
eight months from July /. 1911, to
Feb l, 1912, than in the preceding
eight months in 1910 and 1911.
Monroe Fuqua, an ex-convict TWEEN.
ty-two years old, was arrested at Gree.
ley charged with influencing girls to
lead immoral lives and forcing them
to turn over their earnings to him.
John Daefiler, sixty.seven, a pioneer
resident of Welsenburg. stepped from
the door Of his home into the front
yard and using an automatic revolver,
sent two bullets into his brain.
Men as well as women are members
OF an embroidery club which meets in
Evans twice a week. 1t is known as
the Evans Embroidery Club and Mar.
tin Briggs, a prominent business man,
Is president.
The Colorado Springs Chamber OF
Commerce has undertaken to raise
fund of 100000 with which to aid
needy farmers In El Paso county and
other counties between that city and
the state line.
A delegation Of Pallsade 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 Pallsade
this year.
A huge hens egg, weighing six
ounces-more than three times the
size Of the normal egg-measpring
three inches In diameter and ten
inches in circumference. is on exhibi.
tion at Meeker.
A wage increase ranging from thir.
teen to sixteen per cent. affecting 200
employees on the Colorado divisions Of
the rystem, has been granted by the
Rock Island lines to Its telegraph op.
orators, effective April /.
A summer school will be established
at the State School Of Mines at Col.
den, beginning July l5 and ending Au.
gust 23. for benefit Of matrlculated
students who wish to make up def.
cIencics, and for prospective students.
Miss Helen Gould met four hundred
Denver & Rio Grande shop employees
and their wives and children in the
Denver G. Rio Grande Young Mems