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LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS. Small Happenings Occurring Over the State Worth While. Western Newspaper Union News Service. The new home of the Denver Elks was dedicated recently. Meeker's postal savings bank is proving a marked success. All the rural schools in Pueblo county have closed for the season. The Elks of Grand Junction have decided to erect a $40,000 home. The International Asociation of Auctioneers will meet in Denver June 5. The contract for water works at Miliken, to cost $12,985, has been let. School census shows that Mesa county has 6,242 children of school age. Water is running into the Milton reservoir near Eaton, for the first time. Grand Junction sugar factory has secured the largest acreage of beets in its history. May 24 Lamar celebrated the twenty-sixth anniversary of the sale of its first town lots. Fire destroyed the Big Bear stamp mill at Telluride. The plant was valued at $500,000. Grand Junction is building a $450,000 mountain water system to be completed in June. A committee of Kersey citizens is soliciting acreage for an independent sugar factory. Wednesday, June 5, has been set for the observance of Pike's Peak Day at Colorado Springs. The largest class in the history of the Colorado School of Mines was graduated this year. A fund has been completed to maintain an information bureau at Estes Park next summer. At a cost of $13,000 Greeley has completed a filtration basin at the head of its water works system. Milliken's City Council has planted the City park, consisting of several acres, with tomatoes in place of grass. Warm weather has caused a rapid rise of the White river, until it is now on the verge of breaking its banks. Business men of Colorado Springs are considering the advisability of organizing a $1,000,000 electric light company. Sixty-five men have been enlisted during the month of May at the Denver United States marine recruiting station. The preferred creditors of the longsince defunct State Bank of Rocky Ford will soon have their claims settled in full. The Redland dam, two miles south of Grand Junction, is threatened with destruction by high water in the Gunnison river. David H. Wilson, a prominent Denver newspaper man, editor of Municipal Facts, died suddenly in his home in that city. John H. Day, aged seventy-seven, a pioneer of Montrose county and a county commissioner years ago, died in Montrose. From now on every rail turned out from the Pueblo iron works will undergo a thorough inspection before being accepted by railroads. J. E. Coulter, bird fancier of Meeker, is undertaking to raise for game purposes in that section the Chinese ringed-neck pheasants. Before 1,000 spectators, the annual May Day frolic at the Teachers' college at Greeley too place, 400 students participating in the Greek festival. Petitions for submission of the constitutional amendment that will give cities in the state commission government have been circulated in Pueblo. All freight and passenger traffic on the Rio Grande Southern between Durango and Telluride has been abandoned indefintely owing to washouts. Dr. J. H. Spencer, acting as supply pastor of the Capitol Hill Baptist church of Denver, has been called to the pastorate of the First Baptist church of Colorado Springs. Leroy Lyon, the Boulder marksman, won the state individual championship with the revolver and incidentally broke the state record in the shoot of the National guard at Golden. For the purpose of voting on the question of contracting a bonded debt of $2,500 for the erection and furnishing of a new school building at Hudson, an election is called for June 8. Charles Durning was fined $100 in Rocky Ford for bootlegging. With costs, the penalty amounted to $114. He has begun the serving of the fiftyseven days that it will take to work out the fine. Renewed interest is being shown in the, Denver-Chicago automobile run, under the auspices of the Chamber of Commerce and other local commercial
