The Colorado statesman., 1910-12-31
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
State Worth Tslllna.

Walter Lucha, shot Dy lhomas
Tompklns near Calhan December 10th,
is dead.
Mrs. Helen Lunn McGregor, wife of
r. II. McGregor, undersheriff, died In
Fort Collins.
The University of Colorado basket
ball team won over Gunnison Christ
mas, 80 to Il.
The Colorado Agricultural college
will soon be ready to distribute 800
pounds of Grimmalfalfa seed.
A telegram announced the death in
California of Perry A. Kline, aged
seventy-three, of Central City.
Makis Kakis, aged 23, was fatally
crushed betwene the cage and the
sump at the Puritan mine at Freder-
lex.
Company e. N. C. c., contemplates
erection of an $4,000 armory in Wind
sor. The company is in good condi-
tion.
After being in quarantine at her
home in Aiken, S. c., for more than
two years, Miss Mary V. Kirk, leper'
died.
Michael Savo, fireman at the Pu-
eblo smelter. was fatally injured by
boiler on which he was working ex-
ploding.
William ]. Coulter died at the Rio
| Grande hospital in Salida, of which he
had been an inmate for the past
twelve years.
On the charge of giving short weight
warrants have been issued against
twelve leading coal companies In Colo
RADIO Springs.
Joseph Collier, who had conducted
Photographic studios in Colorado for
the past thirty years, died at his home
in Denver
Isaac Pope, an Erie saloon keeper,
was fined 800 and costs in the Dis
trict Court at Greeley for keeping
open on Sunday.
A new depot is being constructed
by the Denver, Laramie & Northwest
| ern railway at the town of Patron, ten
miles north of Denver.
Mike Quintana paid $3.50 fine in
Milllkin for the pleasure of shooting
his wide brimmed felt hat full OF
holes Christmas night.
Marshal Will Truesdale was perhaps
fatally injured in Hotchkiss in a row
with five cowboys who had come into
town to have a good time.
Nearly $S,OOO,OOO in the form of
checks for dividends have been dis
tributed by Denver corporations dur
/
At a special meeting of members
of the Christian church of Windsor,
il was voted to employ Elder Robert
Pegrum of Golden as minister.
For the first time this winter Wind
sor lake is frozen over and old and
young are skating. The thermometer
fell to six below zero Christmas, which
was the record over the county.
Thinking an attempt was BEN 3
made to rob his home, M. E-Goddard,
a ranchman, living eight miles south
of Colorado Springs, shot Sol AndHr-
son through the lung.
In answer to the petition circulated
by ministers in Fort Collins and sent
to Washington, the Postoffice Depart
tribution of mail Sundays in that city.
The United States Reduction & Re-
Filming Company's big plant at Colo
RADIO City has received 151 900 tons OF
ore from the Cripple Creek district
this year, the gross valuation being
S3,171, 900.
For the first time since its constrGe.
ton, water is now flowing through the
Croke canal at Golden, one OF the
/ largest and most important feeders OF
the Denver Reservoir and Irrigation
! Company system.
Because he failed to purchase drinks
promptly after being defeated at
game of dice in a saloon at Lynn, Juan
Pice. a ranchman living near Aguilar,
was shot in the thigh and seriously
wounded.
Thomas Tompkins, aged sixteen,
who is in Jail in Colorado Springs.
charged with shooting his hfe-long
chum, Walter Lucha, in a cabin near
Calhan, recently made statement
that the shooting was accidental
The five young men who brutally as
saulted Marshal Truesdale of Hotch-
kiss Christmas night were arreigned
before the police magistrates, They
waived examination and were bound
over to the District Court in $4,000
each.
1t is expected that George S. An
derson, colonel Ninth cavalry, who
will soon be promoted to brigadier
general, will be detailed to command
of the Department of the Colorado to
succeed General Sarl D. Thomas, who
is to retire.
w. H. Russell, assistant division SUI
perintendent of the Rio Grahde, re-