The Colorado statesman., 1911-07-22
LITILE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
State Worth While.
Western Newspaper Union News Service

lorceu IN Greeley.
Another rural route will be estab-
lished at Rocky Ford.
A postal savings bank has been
opened at Fort Morgan.
Morgan county has had one of the
best rains OF the season.
Felix Hogberg has been arrested at
Loveland on a charge of forgery.
The old electric light plant at Buena
Vista has been destroyed by fire.
G. C. Bruce. for three years post
master at Fort Lupton, has resigned.
A party of forty-one tourists, in
automobiles have reached Denver from
Philadelphia.
Paddy Kerr of Superior, has been ar
rested for keeping his saloon open
after midnight.
Dominic Pistone is in jail at Trini-
dad on charge of killing Ignazio Dis
tantio, at Aguilar.
The Colorado Interstate fair and ex-
position, usually held at Denver, has
been declared Off
The third quarterly conference OF
he Colorado Commercial Executives
was held in Fowler.
A thief stole big pistol from the
desk of the night sergeant in the po-
lice station in Pueblo.
The boys in Logan county between
he ages of six and twenty-one exceed
The girls by fifty-seven.
Weldon defeated the Merino ball
team by a score of to 4, securing l6
hits off Herb Bandemoor.
In a fall from a willow tree, Frank
Newbury, aged years, of Steamboat
Springs, bit his tongue in two.
August 18th Millikin will hold an
election on the question of Issuing
water works bonds of $4,000.
Over two hundred men and children
are engaged in gathering the straw
berry crop at Steamboat Springs.
The 22-months-old baby of Paul
Traverse of Montrose, died from the
effects of eating parlor matches.
Charles Holcomb was drowned in
the Uncompangre river near Delta,
while in swimming with a friend.
Four crops of alfalfa are to be cut
on a number of farms in the Peckham
vicinity, while three is the usual har-
vest.
Roy Jamison and Lloyd Holman,
two boys of Boulder, were badly in
jured by the explosion of .22-caliber
cartridge.
The Pueblo Traction and Lighting
Company plans to spend nearly two
million dollars in improvements and
extensions.
The Tri-State Telephone Company,
has been merged into the Colorado
Telephone Company.
A Grand Junction man has invented
a machine, by the use of which one
man can operate and care for forty
acres of smudge pots.
Greeley claims to lead all other
towns of its size in number of post
cards sold within two months, which
is $4,000 or 300 per day.
Ell Paso county is to have dry
farming exhibit of its own in connec-
ton with the International Congress
show at Colorado Springs.
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 21.
Peanuts are being grown success
fully in the country about Greasewood
lake, thirty-five miles east of Greeley.
The crop is planted on a sandy loan.
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.
NJ H. Aylesworth, prominent
young attorney of Fort Collins, has
been appointed county attorney by
the county commissioners of Larimer
county.
Ralph Van Horn, ranchman, who
lived about nineteen miles south of
Wray, died from lockjaw, the result
of being scratched on the thumb by
an old nail.
Harry B. Davis of Colorado Springs,
the new state golf champion, will be
one of the contestants in the annual
tournament of the Western Golf Asso-
citation which meets soon at Detroit.
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.
The estate of Frederick D. Wight,
pioneer and prominent cattleman, who
was found dead in his home about two
months ago, in Denver, is worth 50,
041, ,511.03, according to the report of
the appraisers.
Albert Johnson, an employe of the
Million Ctona Companv which iS Dilr-