The Springfield herald., 1911-09-29
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
state Worth While.

or $O,5uu.
The last debt OF the town of ker-
sey has been wiped out.
Nine cars of cabbage have been
shipped from Fort Lupton.
The cornerstone OF the Denver EiKs
new club house will be laid Oct. 1.
DIR. v. w. Porter of Lafayette has
been fined $25 for carrying pistol.
The Milliken lodge. l. o. o. F.. cele-
brated its first birthday with BAN
| quet.
The Colorado order of the Eastern
Star will hold its next annual meet
ing In Pueblo.
Twenty candidates have entered the
field in Pueblo for commissioners un-
der the new charter.
Jacob Haas. aged eighty-five. vet.
eran of the Civil War and pioneer OF
Cripple Creek Is dead.
Ida NJ. Norton has been appointed
postmistress at Brandon. Kiowa coun'
ty. vice C. d. Blanchard.
Olga Martinez. years old. of Eaton.
died from the effects Of falling into
tub of boiling water.
Carl F. Hallin. aged fifty. was struck
by a Rio Grande passenger train In
Denver and instantly killed.
John Fillius, who died In Oakland.
Cal, recently. was a resident OF
Georgetown from 1866 to 1891.
Special arrangements for the pro-
lection of President Taft while in
Denver, Oct 3. are being made.
The two-year-old daughter Of An
ton Grampo OF Pueblo, fell into tub
of hot water and died as result.
The Denver & Rio Grande railroad
is preparing to test the constitution
ality of the national sixteen hour law.
The Union Pacific is putting out
handsome folders advertising the Dry
Farming Congress at Colorado Springs.
| Gov. Shafroth has returned from
| New Jersey, where he attended the
| conference of governors of twenty-six
states.
Rev. s. E. Brewster of Beaver, Pa,
has been called to the pastorate OF the
| First Christian church of Colorado
Springs.
Postmaster George Hohrbaugh OF
Aspen has been notified that that city
| will have a postal savings bank sta
tion Oct. 13.
Mrs. D. w. Garrett, of Canon City,
| recently shot and killed her two
| young children and then shot herself
| through the heart.
The Laramie-P -Poudre irrigation dis
| trict will have water In time for next
| years crop and the farmers are now
blowing their land.
Miss Gladys Jarvis will represent
| Arvada in the contest for apple Girl"
at the apple show. which opens at
Denver in November.
D. Kelley. who recently entered a
saddle and later stole valuable
horse. has been captured.
In the opening football game of TIE
season at Fort Collins the Agricul-
tural College defeated the high school
| team by a score of 26 to o.
The Westren Slope Poultry Associa-
tion was organized at Montrose with
twenty-eight members and E. R
| Blowers, Olathe, was made president.
Sheriff Galloway of Montrose
| stopped the proposed boxing bout be-
| tween Dan Reed and Mickey Haney.
| lightweights from Montrose and Den
yer.
The Wyoming State Dry Farming
Association has reserved 1000 square
| feet space for exhibits at the Dry
Farming Congress. to be held at Colo
RADIO Springs.
The sweepstakes prize in horticul-
tural exhibits at the State Fair IN
| Pueblo, was awarded Baca county
| Mesa county won second place and
Fremont third.
Manager Noble of the Rocky Ford
| sugar factory says grinding of beets
| will start about Oct. 23. The cam
paign will last about as long as last
| year, or 100 days.
knights Templar to the number of
500, from all parts of Colorado, at
tended the thirty-sixth annual con-
clave of the Colorado Ccmmandery at
Colorado Springs.
The Denver ball team has returned
home and will complete the Western
League season on their own groun1.
The season closes october Sth This
will give the Grizzlies sixteen more
| games to play.
Anna Freeze, one of the Freeze
sisters, whose aerial act was feature
at the State Fair at Pueblo, fell dur
ing her performance and suffered a
broken collarbone, a fractured arm
and other injuries.
Suit will probably be begun soon
against State Auditor Leddy and State
Treasurer Kennehan to compel the
payment of money appropriated in the
highway commission bill. A commit
tee has been selected to bring the
| suit.
When Mrs. Hoffman, who had spent
several days in Denver. returned to
her home near Morrison recently. she
found the body of her husband hang
ing to a rafter in the barn.
| Members of the Colorado Electric
| C1uh annorpca that ayarythino 10 L.,