The Colorado statesman., 1910-11-12
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth Telling.


The safe and sane" Halloween
seemed to be general.
Two hundred bushels of potatoes to
the acre is the record from Haxtun.
At Fort Collins Aaron Kitchel. aged
es, a pioneer of the Cache la Poudre
valley, passed away Sunday
The ladies Of the Baptist Church OF
Olathe have served an election dinner
for fifteen successive years.
Cattlemen of Weld county nave
mostly retired and sheepmen are'now
fast going out of business because OF
the lack Of open range.
Last year there were imported into
this state meat and food products 10
the value of nearly $34,0O0,O00, nearly
all OF which could be raised IN Colo
rado.
While looking down the shaft at the
Mitchell mine at Louisville Saturday
James F. Hanson, a miner, was struck
upon the head and instantly killed by
descending cage.
Already there has been noticed
stimulating effect on business IN the
Grand valley because of the exhibit
from Grand Junction at the recent
Pittsburg land show.
With twenty enthusiastic members,
the Kersey Gun Club has been organ
lied, and already preparations are un-
der way for the first shoot, which Will
bs held on Thanksgiving day.
At Trinidad Woodmen of the Worlt
Initiated a class of "A, the largest class
ever taken into a fraternal organiza-
ton in this section. l. l. Boak, hean
consul, and other officers were pres
ent.
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.
At the meeting of the Ministerial
Alliance of Fort. Collins, held Monday,
a committee was appointed to devise
a permanent organization, which Is to
have charge of the work of dispens-
ing charity in the city.
The geological department of the
government is establishing elevation
marks in Rio Blanco and Routt coun-
ties, the agents arriving at Steamboat
Springs Wednesday. They show the
elevation of Steamboat as 7,001, this
being twelve and half feet greater
than that given by the railroad COM
panies.
An irrigation project which viii
bring 5000 acres Of Grand valley land
under cultivation and which will cost
1925. 900 has been launched by the
Whitewater Ditch Company. The in
corporators are w. H. Coffman, c. G.
Sergent, Roy Rennick and others. The
company plans to take water from
Hannah creek.
At Boulder burglar entered the
home of Mrs. A. p. Hart on Mapleton
between the hours of IL and $3.50 a.
m. and secured so in cash. He was
evidently an old hand, for he made
himself very much at home and sat
down on the parlor floor to enjoy q
dish of grapes which he found on the
sideboard in the dinning room.
At Glenwood Springs G. S. Burns,
round house foreman for the Rio
Grande, was crushed between two en-
gnes 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.
There is good money in turkeys this
year for the farmers of Weld county,
and already the demand for them is
heavy, and inquiries are coming in
from over the state for the fowls. The
bountiful supply of grasshoppers this
summer gave the birds good start,
and this fall there has been an abun-
dance of feed.
The Grand Junction Orchard Lands
Association has appointed N. A. Gas
CO, chairman; E. E. Udlock, treasurer,
and Chas. A. Smith, secretary of the
committee of three, which will leave
Grand Junction for the Council Bluffs
| National Horticultural Congress AMI
\ the United States Land Exposition in
Chicago to bring in flow OF land
\ seekers.
Estimating the loss to the alfalfa
and other crops in the last year from
grasshoppers as million dollars, the
Empire grange will hold meeting at
the Agricultural college at Fort Col
Inns to arouse interest in campaign
to exterminate the pest. c. Gillette.
director of the experiment station at