The Colorado statesman., 1911-09-02
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
state Worth While.

donate a site for canning factory.
w. E. Meek, resident of Colorado
Springs for thirty-eight years. is dead.
Eaton people have invited President
Taft to visit that city on his western
trip.
The Canon City apple crop promises
10 be the largest and best ever har-
vested.
J. p. Carraher killed himself by
shooting at rooming house in
La Junta.
The City Council OF Trinidad has or
Tered the streets OF that town sprin-
lied with oil.
c. l.. Seymour of Buffalo, N. Y,
died in Meeker following an operation
for appendicitis.
Grand Valley will celebrate Fruit
Day September 20. The fruit crop is
n fine condition.
The annual conference of the Meth
)dist church will open in Colorado
Springs Aug. 80.
Herbert Carlson was killed in Tom
Boy mine at Telluride by being caught
n the shafting.
Myers Liant, fifteen years old, OF La
Iunta, was fatally injured by the ex-
plosion of powder.
In the Bohemian community, near
Ramah lightning killed three cows be-
longing to Mike Dzurochin.
Erie is preparing to feed 5000 vis-
tors on biscuits October 10. The OBJ
ect is to advertise Erie wheat.
F. E. Armstrong of Colorado Springs
was killed in a Denver & Rio Grande
accident near Salt Lake, Utah.
At the Davis Wolgamott place, near
Hayden, lightning struck the big gran
lry, smashing it to kindling wood.
1t is estimated that $500 people
nave visited Estes Park this summer
and as yet the park is full of tourists.
Albert Compton of Fort Collins was
arrested in Denver charged with rails
ng checks and returned to Fort Col
iins.
Nearly one thousand employees OF
the Colorado & Southern took part in
the family reunion" at Dome Roch
recently.
That the $25O,OO0 sanatorium of the
Foresters of America will be built in
Colorado and almost certainly in Boul
der is announced.
Florence CLASSY, of Fort Morgan, is
winner of the $40 state prize for the
best temperance essay in a contest
conducted by the State w. G. T. U.
A $4,000 blaze destroyed the lum'
ber yards, hardware store and resi-
dence of C. o. Cooper at Nucia, in
the western part of Montrose county.
William Stacy, aged 20. of Devers
Texas, who stopped in Pueblo few
days ago, while on his way to Cali
fornia ON an extended pleasure trip
died.
Reservoir filings on government
land cannot be made for speculative
purposes, and the Department Of JUS
tice intends to see that this practice
is stopped.
j. F. McCreery, secretary of the
Weld county and the Greeley Com
mercial clubs, has invented an ex
! hibit box for grain, which promises to
be widely used.
Thousands of acres, twelve miles
southeast of Greeley, are being
brought under cultivation by means OF
wells sunk deep enough to tap the
underflow.
With bumper apple crop and
yield of small fruits far above normal
Boulder county growers expect this
season to double last years receipts
from their orchards.
Fruit shipping season now in full
blast in Delta county. Ranchers, ware.
house men and train crews are work
ing over time to handle the splendid
crop just beginning to move from this
section.
Announcement has been made that
the Santa Fe railroad will inaugurate
about December 1st, a special extra
fare train between Chicago and the
Pacific coast, cutting five and one
hours from the eastbound running
ne.
Manager w. A. Groom, of the Bould
er Fruit Growers Association, pre-
diets the most successful year in
Boulder county's history. Already
three carloads of apples have gone tc
Texas. The crop has been unusually
large.
At meeting at Cedaredge, at which
more than $50 fruit growers were pres
ent, the proposition of selling fruit
through the various associations on
consignment, as heretofore, which has
been so unsuccessful, was strongly
rotested against.
The first school of pharmacy to be
established in Colorado will be op
ened next fall at the state University
at Boulder, under H. C. Washburn, B.