The state herald., 1910-11-11
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth Telling.

liquor is taboo.
Milliken is the only "wet' town in
Northern Colorado.
Two hundred bushels of potatoes to
the acre is the record from Haxtun.
At Fort Collins Aaron Kitchel, aged
GS, pioneer of the Cache la Poudre
valley, passed away Sunday.
At Pueblo burglars entered the store
of Nathan Goodman on Union avenue
and stole goods valued at $4,000.
Work has begun on the new bridge
which is to span Plum creek between
the town of Castle Rock and the Santa
Fe depot.
Cattlemen of Weld county have
mostly retired and sheepmen are now
| fast going out of business because of
the lack or open range.
Last year there were imported into
this state meat and food products to
the value of nearly $34, 100000, nearly
all of which could be raised in Colo
RADIO.
At Hugo John f. Foote, register OF
the United States land office for IL
years and prominent Republican pol
itician of eastern Colorado, died Sat
urday.
While locking down the shaft at the
Mitchell mine at Louisville Saturday
James +. Hanson, miner, was struck
upon the head and instantly killed by
descending cage.
the kersey Gun Club has been organ
i2ed, and already preparations are un-
der way for the first shoot, which will
be held on Thanksgiving day.
A representative of the Wright
brothers has been at Colorado Springs
several days trying to arrange for an
aeroplane flight, but the guarantee he
insists on is considered too high.
At Trinidad Woodmen of the Worii
initiated class of "A, the largest class
ever taken into fraternal organiza-
tion in this section. /. /. Boak, hean
consul, and other officers were pres
! ent.
Fort Collins.-This city will get the
benefit of the decrease in freight rates
recently ordered by the Interstate
Commerce commission to apply be-
tween Chicago and st. Louis, Denver
and Pueblo.
A branch of the Farmers union has
been organized at Montrose, with a
membership of eighteen. The union
plans to establish branch store there
soon as supply depot for farmers in
this section.
AS a result of the visit of two OF
their priests here two years ago, Hun.
! garians from Cleveland. o., will locate
colony in the Greeley. .Poudre dis.
trict, in the vicinity OF the McGTew
reservoir.
At Steamboat Springs Walter l..
While. deputy county clerk and dep.
uty clerk OF the District Court. was
shot in the back. the bullet passing
downward through his right lung and
/ puncturing the liver
The census shows that Kelly has in.
creased 800 per cent in population and
while not aspiring to beat New York
or Chicago. by actual count, 1t did have
| twelve strangers TO dinner at one time
at the hotel last week.
While digging a post hole in his
barn at Montrose, c. r. Smith un.
covered sigar box which contained
1852 In bills. 81 In silver and a small
diamond. The box had been buried
for some time, as the wood was de.
cayed.
Arthor Denton, is years old. and
| Raymond Officer were killed Instantly
at Trinidad by the premature eXplo.
sion OF n shot In the old Thompson
mine near Sophris. operated by the
Maitland Coal Company. The men
were going through the mine firing the
shot.
To Increase the space allotted to
Weld county's exhibit At the Chicago
Land Show To 90x23 feet. business men
| Of Greeley will secure funds necessary.
| The splendid exhibit of agricultural
| products sent by Weld county TO the
Plttsburg Land Show will be taken u
Chicago.
Al Glenwood Springs &. $. Burns,
round house foreman for the Rio
Grande. was crushed between two en-.
gines and instantly killed. He was
working in the yards and sought -
uncouple two engines fastened togeth.
or with chains One was dead and
the other had been towing II abou'
the yards.
That antelope on the plains east Of
Greeley are being ruthlessly Hlnught.
cred Is n report being investigated by
gamc wardona. Seeing band OF
antelope pursued and shot at. Jnmoa
Armstead followed the frall of the
hunter and was driven back by bullets
fired at him by men supposed to ba
killing antelope.
because II Is In splendid repair and
because there are no wlltcd, frozen,