The Colorado statesman., 1911-10-14
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
State Worth While.

an athletic club.
The first carload OF potatoes has
been shipped from GIL.
Jack Hendricks will manage the
Denver baseball club next year.
Five thousand people attended
Erie's first annual Biscuit Day.
Twenty cars of Grand valley fruit
have been sold to South American
commission houses.
Edwin Starkey of Greeley has been
appointed deputy insurance commits
sioner of Colorado.
Everything is in readiness for the
Colorado Electric Show, which begins
in Denver October 18th.
Sioux City defeated Pueblo in the
final baseball game of the season in
Pueblo. by a score of 8 to 3.
From all parts of the state exhibits
are being sent into Denver for the big
New York Land Show.
Colonel James Leonard, who has
been "A familiar figure in Denver for
the last thirty years, is dead.
ne 1OlOIduO springs ldih NCihihA'
sion has decided to build new scenic
road through the famous Garden OF
the Gods.
The jury in the Fred Hargis case
at Grand Junction returned verdict
of not guilty. He was. accused of cat
tie stealing.
Northern Colorado is the scene q:
more activity in railroad, ditch and
reservoir building this fall than ever
before in it's history.
a. l.. Atherton, master mechanic of
the Tomboy mine, at Telluride, was
found dead in his home from a bullet
wound inflicted by his own hand.
Adams county has been dubbed
Surprise county on account of the
winning of several prizes for its APP
pies at the Colorado State Fair.
Seven miners were injured when
sixty pounds of dynamite exploded in
the shaft house at the Lewis mine,
six miles southeast of Telluride.
Denver may lose the State Home
for odd Fellows. Florence, Canon
City, Fort Collins, Fort Morgan and
Boulder are contenders for the home.
The oil refining plant of the Colo
RADIO United States Refining Com
pany, in the Boulder oil fields, seven
miles from Boulder, has been put in
operation.
The explosion of a missed" shot
in a mine of the Colorado Fuel and
Iron Company at Tabasco near Trini-
dad, caused the death of Joe Bertek,
an Austrian miner.
Hotel men from all over Colorado,
Wyoming, Utah and New Mexico will
be in Denver November to 4 for the
annual meeting of the Rocky Noun
tain Hotel Mems Association.
The granite monument erected at
cost of several thousand dollars at
Trinidad has been unveiled over the
graves of forty-five Polish miners who
met death in mine disasters in thai
ounty within the past year.
Colorado ranks third in the Western
division and second in the Mountain
division in the value of livestock, ac-
cording to the advance sheets on the
livestock industry issued by the
United States Census Bureau.
What is said to be the only ma
hogany forest outside of tropical coun-
tries has been discovered in the Una
weep canon, twenty-five miles south
west of Grand Junction by John c.
Kelly, prospector.
Investigations into the books of the
Denver National Jewish Hospital for
Consumptives by President Grabfeld-
er, Directors May and Schoenberg and
Treasurer Altheimer indicate that the
total shortage of the late Alfred Mul-
Ter, as secretary, will approximate
$72, 2,221.
Announcement by the Denver Cham
ber of Commerce that it will give
81, 100 in cash, a $500 silver cup and
many other prizes for county exhibits
sent for display in the county exhibit
room of the Chamber of Commerce
Building, has stimulated interest
throughout the state. and many are
entering the contest.
Linquist and Nelson Of Ouray,
known in mining camps everywhere
as the terrible Swedes," champion
double-handed rock drillers of the
state, have been matched with Struth-
ers and Carnboeau of Cripple Creek
for $500 side, to contest for the
championship of the world in Gunni-
son granite in Victor on October 21st.
After saving his mother from drown
ing, Decker Baker, aged twelve, son
of e. e. Baker of Crestone, sacrificed
his own life in trying to save his
father from similar fate. When the
flood came, young Baker succeeded in
putting his mother upon horse which
carried her to safety. When he went
back for his father tree knocked the
horse off its feet and threw the boy