The Springfield herald., 1911-07-21
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

Another rural route will be estab-
lished at Rocky Ford.
A postal savings bank has beer
opened at Fort Morgan.
Morgan county has had one OF the
best rains of the season.
The old electric light plant at Buena
Vista has been destroyed by fire.
G. c. Bruce, for three years post
master at Fort Luptcl. has resigned.
Erie is preparing to make splendid
exhibit at the Weld county fair in Sep
tember.
Horses are beginning to arrive for
the racing matinee at Grand Junction
July 9th.
Steps have been taken to petition
the county judge to incorporate the
town of Clifton.
Work on the Hanemeyer ditch be-
twees Rifle and De Beque will be start
ed at once.
man named Gus Beidler was found
dead in his rom at the Victoria hotel
in Telluride
A party of forty-one tourists, In
automobiles have reached Denver from
Philadelphia.
The Colorado Interstate fair and ex-
position. usually held at Denver, has
been declared off.
The third quarterly conference OF
the Colorado Commercial Executives
was held in Fowler.
A thief stole big pistol from the
desk of the night sergeant in the po-
lice station iii Pueblo.
The boys in Logan county between
the ages of six and twenty-one exceed
the girls by fifty-seven.
Robert Heizer. aged fifty. and one
of the best known citizens in Bent
county, died at Las Animas.
Representative Martin says he will
not return to Washington during the
present session of Congress.
August 18th Millikin will hold an
election on the question of issuing
water works bonds OF $4,000.
About $50 crates of red. raspberries
and 400 crates of cherries are being
shipped daily from Loveland.
Governor Shafroth has issued call
for a public lands convention to meet
In Denver September 29-30. 1911.
Alb Murdock. half-breed. charged
with horse stealing, while resisting
arrest, was shot and killed near Yer
nal.
Four crops OF alfalfa are to be cut
on a number of farms in the Peckham
vicinity, while three is the usual har
vest.
Antoine Johnson, a miner, was fata.-
ly suffocated by mine gas in the Hia-
watha shaft on Beacon hill, Cripple
Creek.
Nine hundred and sixty persons
have filed on 250.240 acres in the
Sterling land district since January l
of this year.
Greeley claims to lead all other
towns of its size in number of post
cards sold within two months. which
is $4,000 or 800 per day.
George Ely. mute, aged twenty
three, giving his home as Madisonville.
Ind, committed suicide in Lamar by
inhaling chloroform.
George King and John Fields. con
victed of the murder Of Ranchman
Peter Jackson, near Ramah, have been
taken to the penitentiary.
There will be no lack of ex-
hibits at the second annual Electric
show to be held by the Colorado Elec-
trio Club in Denver August IA to 81.
W. H. Barger, pioneer ranchman of
eastern Ell Paso county, was shot and
killed by his brother-in-law. Thomas L.
Almond, on his ranch near Kendrick.
Denver is to have a new industry,
one to manufacture steel castings to
supply standard repair parts for loco
motives and rolling stock of all kinds.
Fire destroyed the boiler house, en-
gine room, tpple and all machinery at
the Slope coal mine. owned by the
Frederick Coal & Coke Company at
Frederick.
Charged with selling opium and be-
ing white slave traders. Thomas B. Nc
Cleave and his wife, Dorothy, were ar
rested in Colorado Springs by secret
service men.
When the grand lodge of the
Knights of Pythias meets in Canon
City August Goth, there will be an en-
campment of the Uniform Rank OF
the order.
Samples of wheat from fields which
yield fifty to sixty bushels per acre are
being collected at Platteville by the
Commercial club for the exhibit at the
Weld county fair.
1t is probable that the Northern
Colorado Power Company will extend
its line from Milliken to Johnstown,
a distance of three miles, and provide
Johnstown with electric lights.
Morris Swain, aged 16. and son of
Thomas Swain, an old-time resident of
Paradox, in western Montrose county
was killed while stacking hay when
the stacker broke and the crane fell
upon him.
In the arrest of three Chinese In
Duahlo tho pO1ice beljeye they have