The Colorado statesman., 1912-02-17
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

| 'Si Inns diO preparing ISdl
| winter carnival.
Snow is rapidly disappearing in the
vicinity of Meeker.
Denver showed a gain in building
operations during January.
The Boulder County Grange recently
held business session in Niwot.
A fire bug is said to be busy in the
Bessimer addition of Pueblo.
Loveland has every prospect of hav-
ing an up-to-date, modern hotel.
The Mesa county farmers have or
ganized a permanent Farmers Insti-
tute.
Lincoln's birthday was more gener-
ally observed in Denver than for many
years.
In La Plata county in 1911 there
were SO marriages, 20 divorces and 173
births.
Santa Fe Trail Band of Pueblo" is
newly organized municipal band in
Pueblo.
DR.. H. F. Dunkel, for thirty years a
resident of Gunnison, died suddenly in
that city.
A box factory is to be erected at
Pueblo and started by the middle of
the summer.
Very few farmers attended the
Farmers Institute recently held at
Grand Junction.
Oil in commercial quantities has
been struck near Vernal and the ex-
citement is high.
The Colorado Realty Dealers Asso-
citation will hold it's annual convention
in Denver in April.
The liquor question will be submit
ted to the voters of Evans at the COM
ing spring election.
Owing to the illness of Judge Shu-
mate, District Court at Meeker will
not open until March 4.
Ezra Snyder, aged sixty, who was
badly crushed by boulder in the Port
land mine at Victor, died.
The Elks' club rooms in Canon City,
costing $4,000, have been completed
and are now in use.
Hugh T. O'Reilly, financial secre-
tary of the Denver lodge of Knights
of Columbus, died recently.
The estimated production of the
1912 crop Of Steamboat strawberries
is placed at fifty carloads.
The Larimer County Fair Associa.
ton is being organized for the purpose
of holding annual fairs at Loveland.
E. L. Brown has been elected vice
president of the Denver e Rio Grande
railroad, with headquarters in Denver.
All but two of the Palisade land
owners have signed the contract for
the right-of-way for the highline canal.
Sam Coco, foreman of the steel
works at Pueblo, was ambushed and
shot twice by supposed Black Hand
erS.
The 100000 stock in the store of
the Bell Mercantile Company OF
Yampa was practically destroyed by
fire.
The Arkansas Valley Railway, Light
and Power Company have plans COM
pleted for four-story building in. Pu.
eblo
Crushed rock from the Golden
Cycle mill at Victor will be used in
paving the streets of Colorado
Springs.
Hot soup is being served to the stu
dents Of the Longmont high school
who live too far away to go home for
lunch at noon.
Mrs. Clara Louisa Farley, who has
lived in Trinidad since 1882, claims to
have been for five years housemaid
for President Lincoln.
The Weld County Commercial Club
will supervise the work of securing
complete and accurate statistics OF
every farm in the county.
Fifty million dollars will be spent
in Colorado and Utah during the next
five years by the Rio Grande railroad
in improving the system.
Colorados Stationary Engineers
Association will celebrate it's twenty.
ninth anniversary in Denver with
ball and reception.
At the second annual meeting of
the Prowers County Good Roads Asso-
citation interest in the Santa Fe Trail
highway was aroused anew.
The city of Lyons has filed an in
junction to restrain the town of Long
mont from using water from the St
Vrain river for power purposes.
The electric light and power line,
being constructed from Pueblo
through the Arkansas valley, will be
ready for operation in the spring.
Parents and teachers of the public
schools in Pueblo have taken stand
in opposition to the installing of pool
and billiard tables in the schools
Reports from White River City, twen-
ty miles from Meeker, say wolves, coy