The Colorado statesman., 1910-12-24
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
State Worth Telling.


The name of George b. Herring has
been sent to the Senate for post
master OF Montrose.
A six per cent quarterly dividend
will be paid Jan. by the Denver Gas
& Electric Company.
In the Steamboat Springs vicinity
more than 100 acres of strawberries
will be planted in the spring
Daisy f. Wilde. the seventeen-year-
old girl who shot herself three times
in the breast in Denver is dead.
After an illness of several years of
cancer. Mrs. Sophia Smith, resident
of Weld county for fifty years, died.
The death of Samuel Higgins. n
miner of Frederick was the second IA
tai accident at the mine within three
days.
Death claimed one OF the pioneers
of Pueblo county when J. d. Andrus,
who came to Pueblo in 1865, passed
away.
Amos n. Parrish, Republican. will
represent the Twenty-fifth Senatorial
district at the coming session Of the
Legislature.
Construction work on the Grand
River, Meeker & Salt Lake railroad
has been commenced. Two millions
are subscribed.
The Greenhorn Creek ranch of o.
200 acres, Pueblo, was sold to Thomas
S. Hayden Realty Company of Denver
for about $125,OOO.
X. E. Aylward of Leadville recently
purchased the Jerry Kaufman ten
acre tract east of that town for a con-
sideration of s3.5O0.
w. II. Mcclure, a pioneer of Kan
sas, died in Greeley, aged "a. He was
member of the First Territorial
Legislature of Kansas.
The Pueblo poultry show is the
largest ever held in that city, over
700 entries having been received.
The premium list is also large one.
The commissioners of Ell Paso will
go to Denver to confer with the State
Highway Commission in hope of Sc
curing $4,000 for use on Ell Paso
county roads.
In addition to- the strict quarantine
kept on dogs in Greeley. for the pur-
pose of stamping out rabies, the same
regulations may be established on
cats
Judge Garrigues set aside the YER
dict of murder in the second degree
against Charles George and his wife
Rosena in Greeley and granted them
a new trial.
An appropriation of 100000 for
sprinkling Denver streets during 1911
has been asked for by Thomas Phil
lips, superintendent of the highway
department.
Governor Shafroth has honored
requisition papers issued by Gov.
Hadley of Missouri for the return
from Colorado Springs to that state of
Chester Drake.
Samuel Benberg, Russian miner.
reported to the police in Denver that
he had been lured into a rooming
house in that city and robber of $167.
the savings of three years.
A thief entered Loyola chapel of
the Sacred Heart church in Denver
while Rev. Father Brucker was cele-
brating mass, and stole purse con-
tanning 500 from the sacristy.
Governor Shafroth received check
from Washington for S52,306.1O as Col
orado's proportion of the amount of
money collected from the forestry
reserves in the state.
Because of the heavy fall of snow,
about two and one-half feet on the
Laramie side of the Greeley-Poudre
tunnel, work has been stopped for the
winter on the tunnel reservoir.
William Payne, found guilty of muir
der in the second degree in Colorado
Springs, for stabbing his wife to
death, was denied new trial and SEN
tencved to the penitentiary for life.
Surrounded by the immediate mem
bers of his family, Rev. Thomas A.
Uzzell, pastor of the Peoples Taber-
nacle, died in Denver. Death was
caused by cancer of the liver.
The Rio Grande is planning to intro
duce on their Denver-Salt Lake
through train quick lunch car which
will be equipped with everything
usually found in first class quick
lunch restaurant.
One man is dead and two others are
in the county Jail in Grand Junction
as the result OF battle between a
posse of citizens and three men who
had robbed general merchandise
store at Clifton.
Two young sons of Hon. Archie Nc
Lachlan of Craig broke through the
ice while skating, and sank in ice cod
water. The elder boy was resusci-
tated after nearly two hours work, but
the younger one was drowned.
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