The Colorado statesman., 1911-09-09
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
state Worth While.

State Worth While.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Mrs. A. p. Gilkison, a pioneer, died
at Fort Collins.
Denver will soon have a 100000 au-
tomobile factory.
Robert Pchalley. a pioneer, died re-
Gently at La Junta.
The fall term of District Court has
convened at Gunnson.
At Victor Tom Jones shot and IA
tally wounded James O'Neill.
The grounds around the union de-
pot at Eaton are being improved.
A thief entered the residence of C.
]. Diehl of Montrose and took $1S5.
The La Junta public schools opened
with fifty teachers and 1900 pupils.
Yuma county farmers have been
made glad by an inch fall of rain.
The United Brethren will build a
$4,000 church in Colorado Springs.
The Milliken State bank has made
application for a national bank char
ter.
There are on deposit in the six
banks in Colorado Springs $11,O29,-
1925.
DR.. B. F. Woodlng has been dis
missed from the State Board OF
Health.
The manufacture OF car seals will
be a new industry for Greeley by Oc-
tober 1st.
Great preparations are being made
for Fruit Day at Grand Valley, Sep
tember 20.
Guiseppi Amatesa shot and instantly
kill Salvatore Polauntonio at Valdez
near Trinidad.
Ebert johnson of Pueblo won the
motor cycle race from Pueblo to Fow-
Ter and return.
The cornerstone of the Fort Collins
federal building was laid by the Ma
sonic grand lodge.
A shelter home for women and chill
dren is to be established by the Den
yer Woman's Club.
The Old Settlers Reunion and Pump
kin Pie Feast will be held at Longmont
on September 2Sth.
The capital stock of the Denver Ma
tional bank has been increased from
$750,OOO to $1,0OO,0O0.
Herman Arndt of Montrose, who was
thrown from a horse two weeks ago, is
dead from injuries received.
Members of the Mothers Congress
at Pueblo will turn Bessemer Park
into a Fairgrounds for children.
William Seymour, convict No. 1918,
paroled Aug. 26, is in jail in Trinidad
charged with burglary and larceny.
Bessie, the four-year-old daughter of
D. L. Arthur, of Montrose, was kicked
in the head by horse, and may die.
In Colorado Springs. fire damaged
the elevator and warehouse of the
Seldomridge Grain Company to the ex-
tent of $4,000.
Boulder claims the record for law
abiding citizens, the records for Au-
gust showing no arrests and no cases
in Police Court.
The old wire tapping swindle, for
the first time in several years, has
been discovered in operation in Den
yer and several parties arrested.
An aged woman, identified as Mrs.
Helen F. Dixon, at one time promi-
nent figure in Colorado politics, was
found dead at her home in Denver.
La Junta is shipping three to four
carloads of melons per day. The
"Beryl Gems" are bringing top prices
in Chicago and are in great demand.
Canon City is to have new banking
and trust company, which has been or
ganized under the state law with a
capitalization of $4,000, fully paid up.
With ten new instructors, five from
the State university and five from
Eastern colleges, the State Prepara-
tory School at Boulder, opens Sept. IL.
e. Lorge of Denver has been ap-
pointed state meat and slaughter plant
inspector by Dr. w. w. Yard, state
veterinarian. He succeeds Walter j.
Miles.
Report on the condition of the grow
ing crop August 25th, which was esti-
mated at 1872 per cent of normal,
as compared with S9.1 per cent July
25th last.
When the twentieth annual Ar
kansas Valley Fair opened at Rocky
Ford, the entire Arkansas Valley was
represented with the best exhibit ever
offered.
One of the largest land transactions
If the year was put through when 49,
100 acres of land owned and con-
rolled by the Teller Reservoir and Ir-
ifgation Company was sold for $780,
100.
Motion pictures taken in the Royal
Gorge, Black river canon and other
points on the Denver & Rio Grande
railroad, are now being shown in Phil