The Colorado statesman., 1911-09-30
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
state Worth While.

| JhCoD nan, a years olu, plohSS''
died in Cripple Creek.
The Milliken lodge, |. o. o. f., cele-
brated its first birthday with ban
luet.
The Emma Gold Mining Company
in Dolores county has been sold for
taxes.
Fire destroyed the wall paper store
)f e. w. Hoyt at Montrose, with loss
If $4,000.
Twenty candidates have entered the
field in Pueblo for commissioners un-
der the new charter
Olga Martinez. years old, of Eaton,
died from the effects of falling into
tub of boiling water.
More than $4,000 in prizes were
lwarded at the second annual Trini'
lad-Las Animas county fair.
1t is estimated the Harp ranch, near
Meeker, will produce over seventy
bushels of wheat per acre.
Construction of a new house of wor-
ship for the Evangelical Lutheran
,hurch will begin at once in Denver.
ne DenNtI az INlO ldlllOuN
is preparing to test the constitution
ality of the national sixteen hour law.
Gov. Shafroth has returned from
| New Jersey, where he attended the
conference of governors of twenty-six
states.
The contract for paving the bust
less section of Colorado Springs has
Jeen let to a Chicago company for
;141 ,2S1.
Two persons are held in Colorado
| Springs for investigation in connec-
| don with the recent Burnham-Wayne
murder.
Knights Templar are in Denver
making arrangements for the triennidl
conclave of the order, to be held there
in 1913.
Mrs. d. w. Garrett, of Canon City,
recently shot and killed her two
young children and then shot herself
through the heart.
At the annual meeting of the Farm
ers' Union at Grand Junction, Presi-
lent C. D. Lang resigned and Star
Nelson succeeded him.
Thieves entered the furniture store
Of Burdette & Pinchon at La Junta
md stole valuable property and a
small amount of money.
In the opening football game of tie
season at Fort Collins the Agricul-
tural College defeated the high school
team by score of &c to 0.
Dudley Hiles, a 16-year-old boy, dis
appeared f.om a dairy ranch con-
Quoted by d. w. Mickle near Brush,
early in August and has not been seen
| since.
| Frank Gorse, 10, was shot through
The left hand by Tony Bussale, II, dur
ing a pitched battle in which a num-
Der of boys of the Austrian settlement
in Pueblo participated.
Alfred Muller, until his death sec
retary of the Jewish Hospital Asso-
citation, Denver, is charged with
shortage of $4,000 in a report on an
audit of the associations books.
Members of the Colorado Electric
Club announce that everything is in
readiness for the opening of their sec
ond annual Electrical Exposition, to be
held in Denver october 14th.
The theory has been advanced that
the suicide under bridge at La Junta
may have been a party to the whole
| sale murders recently committed at
Colorado Springs. He was apparently
laborer.
Government experts at washington
are busy analyzing diseased potato
vines, seeking to discover the cause
of blight, which it is now believed
will ruin between S5 and 80 per cent
of the crop.
P. w. O'Brien, 20, one of the most
prominent men of Douglas county for
over a quarter of a century, and at
one time a member of the Colorado
General Assembly, died at his ranch
home, Castle Rock.
Quite an important transaction in
coal lands near Louisville has been
consummated The American Fuel
Company bought the Centennial coal
mine. 1t consists of $50 acres, and IS
entirely underlaid with siX-foot vein
of fine Ignite coal.
To carry $4,OO0,O00 across Arapahoe
street, in Denver, without soul being
wiser, except those who carried The
money, was the accomplishment of the
employees of the Central Savings Bank
and Trust Company of that city re-
Gently.
H. C. Giese, superintendent of the
Fort Morgan district for the Great
Western Sugar Company, states that
the rumor that beets raised in the
Fort Morgan district would be shipped
to the Brush and Sterling factories
this fall is erroneous.
Judge Schumate of Steamboat
Springs denied a motion for a new