The Glenwood post., 1910-09-24
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over tho
State Worth Telling.

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Fort Collins beets are found to con-
tain better sugar content than during
the two previous seasons.
Secretary Ballinger was in Denver
Wednesday and delivered an address.
He is on his way to Washington.
Daniel Straight, his daughter, Ellen,
an automobile and a shotgun captured
three tramps who had robbed lady
of SIS.
Farmers of the Grover district are
planning to raise an immense amount
of winter wheat One man has 1000
acres planted.
| D. H. Carlton, one of the first set
tiers of Greeley and an original Union
colonist, died Monday night in Pleas
ant Valley, aged Sc.
Pres. o. S. Davis of Chicago Semi
nary addressed the forty-second an
nual meeting of the Congregational
Association of Colorado Monday.
Brig Gen. Earl d. Thomas and aide
de-camp, commanding the Department
of Colorado, has gone to inspect FITS
Douglas and Du Chesne. in Utah.
At Cripple Creek A. Haffentlug
lugged in two large black bears Mon
day, which he killed in a days hunt
in the Black mountains. One weighed
427 pounds.
An Illuminated elephant stands
guard at the entrance of the Antlers
hotel at Colorado Springs. The air Is
vibrant with gossip of candidates and
platforms.
In the Walsenburg and Picton dis
tricts the towns have turned out to
run down a half blood negro-Indian,
named Henry Wortham, who assaulted
an 1S-year-old girl.
Colorado Springs is in correspond
ence with the Wright Brothers. plan
ming an aviation exhibition next fall
suggestive time of the year to an
aviator. by the way.
Many notable men from various sec
tions of the country will attend the
celebration at the formal opening of
the Denver Chamber of Commerce's
new building November 18th.
The famous Horace Greeley stage
coach, which was used over the old
Santa Fe trail into La Junta many
years ago, was feature in the Irriga-
ton Congress industrial parade at Pu-
eblo.
The Boulder Commercial Club is
planning a new road to the farming
districts, running from Boulder to Val
mont and connecting with Louisville.
Lafayette and other eastern towns by
the old Arapahoe road.
Most of the witnesses and jurors at
Steamboat Springs, in attendance on
the District Court had to bring their
own bedding, on account of the Hahn's
Peak fire of two months ago. There
are about $50 in attendance.
Sunday forty-five cars Of cattle
were shipped from Cheyenne, ten from
Keota, fifteen from Sterling and thir-
ty-three cars picked up between Stsr-
ling and Curtis, total OF eighty-three
carloads, consigned to Omaha and
eastern points.
At Greeley Carl Muelhauser, liquor
solicitor for n Denver firm, was Thurs
day found guilty of violating an ordi-
nance which prohibits his occupation
being practiced here. and was fined a
total of $500 and costs. The defendant
will appeal
Glimpses of street life in all climes,
true in detail and picturesque and
pleasing in effect, will be given at the
Streets of All Nations" to be held in
the auditorium, Denver, under the au-
spices of the Woman's club during the
week beginning October II.
Monday President Taft's army en-
gineer inspectors met with Palisade
ranchers who are protesting agains.
the proposed dam and tunnel Of the
$3O0O,O00 Grand Valley irrigation prof.
ects, claiming their orchards will be
destroyed.
The State Board of Health has re-
ceived a report of the birth of triplets
in Weld county. They are of the
good, old and somewhat numerous,
family of Jones and their names are
Vivian, Verna and Vada. Any idea
that the Jones family are liable to be-
come extinct should be put in cold
storage.
Governor John f. Shafroth is heart
lily in favor of the proposition made
by the national government more than
year ago that the state take over
the Fort Lewis Indian school, near Du-
range. And when the eighteenth reg
ular session of the Colorado Legisla-
ture convenes next January. the gov
ernor will urge that 100000 be set
aside for the maintenance of the in
stitution.
Through a mutual agreement the
towns of Kansas holding membership
in the Arkansas Valley Commercial
Association have withdrawn from the
association and henceforth there will
be two associations, known as the Ar.
kansas Valley Commercial Association
of Kansas and the Arkansas Valley
Commercial Association of Colorado