The Colorado statesman., 1910-12-17
LITTLE coLoRADo ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
State Worth Telling.

bone on Mill creek near Aspen.
Burglars entered the postoffice at
Pueblo recently and secured $50.
In El Paso county. since January 1st
last, 16S divorces have been granted.
Boggio Listului was killed by a fau
Of rock in the Regson mine near Trim
idad.
Two full blooded Cherokee Indians
were divorced in County Court in Fort
Collins.
A permanent organization of Weld
county commercial clubs was effected
in Greeley.
Henry G. Rathbun, a prominent
business man of Colorado Springs, died
of typhoid fever.
Herman Miller, aged so, was shot in
Leadville, with rifle and two parties
are in Jail charged with murder.
Sheep have been slaughtered in
wholesale manner by dogs or coyotes
near Greeley the past few nights.
1t is reported that the farmers of
Fort Lupton get $4,000 year from
the milk from about 1,200 cows.
Mayor Todd of Grand Junction has
signed a contract for 60-horsepower
auto fire wagon which will cost $4,000.
John Pomsick was held up and
robbed of check for $3.50 and small
change by two masked men in Pueblo.
Grant Woods, aged 2S, an employe
of the Trinidad Tile works was
whirled around fly wheel at the
liant early and killed.
Because of failure to pay a fine of
5000 Mrs. Lizzie Loffer is in Jail after
conviction of selling liquor in Wind
sor without license.
The new filter basin at the head of
the Greeley waterworks is complete
and awaits formal acceptance by the
Board of Councilmen.
The assay office of the zinc smelter
in Pueblo was entered by burglars re
Gently and platinum valued at $40 stol-
en-.
Charges of cruelty to hogs-an IN
usual charge-were preferred in the
County Court at Greeley recently
against A. c. Randall of Evans.
The Denver G Rio Grande depot at
Salida was damaged by fire. The
building is valued at about $4,000 and
the damage is estimated at $1,000.
All the mining counties of the state,
with the exception of San Juan, show
a decrease in population. All of the
agricultural counties show an increase.
Active work on the middle lateral
of the GreeleyPoudre Irrigation sys-
TEN was commenced when ten men
with teams started work northeast OF
Camfield.
Eugene II. Grubb of Carbondale and
widely known as ptotato specialist
has been appointed by the New York
Central railroad as agricultural conf
missioner.
The Pueblo Poultry Show will be
held during the week of Dec. 10 and
promises to be the most successful
event of its kind ever held in Colo
RADIO.
S. B. Silberg was killed while work
ing on the grade of the Denver,
Laramie & Northwestern railroad,
above Virginia Dale, forty-five miles
from Fort Collins.
Pueblo will be represented at the
Denver Apple Show by George McLag-
an, Harvey Nuckolls, J. M. Slater, y.
w. Brinkley, F. w. Pressey, H. F. SUIT
ton and ]. H. Collins.
William ]. Walker has been ap-
pointed by Governor Shafroth as
county commissioner of District No.
in Ouray county, in place of r. R. Nc
Donald, who has resigned.
Conductor /. p. Kilborn of Denver,
in charge of a northbound Santa Fe
freight train, was struck and instantly
killed by the engine of southbound
freight at Monument.
The last beets of the 1910 crop have
been ground up the early part of the
week by the Windsor, Greeley, Eaton,
Fort Collins and Loveland factories,
Longmont having finished earlier.
Women residents of East Greeley
established new record for Colorado
women when they undertook and sue
cessfully accomplished the digging Of
a long and deep trench on Tenth
street for a city water main.
With 100 men and teams, work on
the plains bitches for the Greeley-Pou-
Dire irrigation system has been re-
sumed and Engineer Workman believes
that because of the dry condition of
the ground work can be continued
without interruption.
In District Court in Colorado
Springs, Judge Sheafor entered de-
ficiency verdict for s57,225.10 in favor
of the Colorado Title & Trust Com
pany against the Colorado Springs
Brick & Artificial Stone Company
and George A. Krause, George Foster