The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1910-11-11
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth Telling.

Two hundred bushels of potatoes to
the acre is the record from Haxtun.
At Fort Collins Aaron Kitchel, aged
CS, a 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 1914 100000, nearly
all of which could be raised in Colo
RADIO.
At Hugo John F. Foote, register OF
the United States land office Tor II
years and prominent Republican pol
tician of eastern Colorado, died Sat
urday.
While looking down the shaft at the
James F. Hanson, miner. was struck
upon the head and instantly killed by
a descending cage.
With twenty enthusiastic members,
the Kersey Gun Club has been organ
ized, and already preparations are I'M
der way for the first shoot, which will
be held on Thanksgiving day.
i. 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 Woodmeh of the Worii
initiated class of IA. the largest class
ever taken into fraternal organiza-
ton in this section. l. /. 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 a supply depot for farmers in
this section.
AS result of the visit of two of
their priests here two years ago. Hun
garians from Cleveland. o., will locate
a colony in the Greeley-Poudre dis
trict. in the vicinity of the McGrew
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 300 per cent in population and
while not aspiring to beat New York
or Chicago, by actual count, it did have
twelve strangers to dinner at one time
at the hotel last week.
While digging post hole in his
barn at Montrose, c. r. Smith I'M
covered sigar box which contained
s152 in bills, 81 in silver and 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 a 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 2Ox23 feet, business men
of Greeley will secure funds necessary.
The splendid exhibit of agricultural
products sent by Weld county to the
Pittsburg Land Show will be taken To
Chicago.
At Glenwood Springs C. S. 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 to
uncouple two engines fastened togeth-
er with chains. One was dead and
the other had been towing it abou.
the yards.
That antelope on the plains east of
| Greeley are being ruthleSSly Slaught-
cred is a report being investigated by
game wardens. Seeing a band of
antelope pursued and shot at, James
Armstead followed the frail of the
hunter and was driven back by bullets
fired at him by men supposed to be
killing antelope.
Because it is in splendid repair and
because there are no wilted. frozen,
sliced beets to handle, the Windsor
sugar factory is slicing $50 tons every
twenty-four hours, although the mill
was built for only 600 tons capacity.
From 1000 to 2,4O0 sacks of sugar is
put up every twenty-four hours. each
sack weighing about 1875 pounds.
What is believed to be the biggest
and Oldest tree in Weld county is To-
Gated in the bed of Crow creek, two
miles from Briggsdale. rs miles east of
Greeley The tree is mighty cotton-
wood, having trunk 80 feet in crcum-
ference and II is rs feet high