The Colorado statesman., 1911-07-15
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
state Worth While.

ne 1lhllt river 10 hibhti NA"h -
has been for two years.
Mrs VIM. Smith. a pioneer OF Wind
sor, after long illness, is dead.
The Salida Commercial Club VIII
give its first annual banquet soon.
The Colorado Springs carnival taxes
place July 81 to August 8, inclusive.
The contract for the new county
Jail at Greeley has been let for $4,000
The Fort Collins branch OF the un-
lon Pacific will begin business on July
18th.
A postal savings bank OF the first
class will be established at Pueblo
soon.
Greeley has a cat that likes beer.
takes its drink each night and whines
for more.
Conditions in northern Colorado and
Little Snake river valley are better
than ever before.
Clyde Shropshire has been arrested
at Grand Junction on a charge OF
cattle stealing.
The trial of Bob Harris for killing
Chief of Police Craig of Rocky Ford,
has been set for August Z.
Dan Cassidy, one OF the motorcycle
riders at Lakeside park, Denver, was
badly hurt in an accident recently
Pueblo is making preparations for
the entertainment of the State Asso-
citation of Insurance Men July 26.
The Methodist church of Grand
Junction has raised $685. to educate
the poor white trash" of the South.
The Boulder Business Girls Club
will open up large ice cream parlor
and donate the profits to the Boulder
band.
The Pueblo state fair and the Den
yer Interstate fair have agreed to CO.
operate in an effort to have better at
fractions.
Several hundred miners will be put
| at work by the Colorado Fuel & Iron
| Company to fill large orders for coke
and coal, just received.
E. B. Burke, who was injured some
time ago in the Pinto mine at Cripple
Creek, has been awarded $4,000
damages.
The Senate passed the bill provid-
ing for the appointment of an addi-
tional federal judge for the district
of Colorado.
Martin Van Buren Kelsey, one OF
the first settlers of the Platte valley,
and resident since 1859, died at Fort
Lupton, aged 72.
The public playground at Montrose
has been opened and 300 children are
using the swings and teeter boards
and played games.
Spontaneous combustion caused
fire which threatened the Hillrose al
falfa mill, but the blaze was extin-
guished with damage of 5000.
John Herman, a rancher, aged fifty
of Salida, fell head first from tree
eighteen feet above the ground. He
ran home and fell unconscious. He
was seriously hurt.
Richard B. Camp of Buffalo, N. Y,
who was found in the bath room of
his private suite at the Kaiserhof ho-
tel in Denver. with his throat cut from
ear to ear, died.
Julian Gradell, for many years a
Justice of the peace at Louisville, was
accidentally shot and killed at Log
Cabin, a little settlement about thirty
miles north of Fort Collins.
In a shooting scrape in the grocery
of Marcus Pretovitch, at Monarch,
mining camp twenty miles from Sa
Ida, an Austrian bystander, Ace Lop'
er, was twice shot and will probably
die
Driving his own engine from Delta
to Grand Junction, fifty-one miles, in
less than forty minutes. Enginer Will
liam Scholtz won a race with death
and arrived at the bedside of his wife
before she passed away.
Dexter T. Sapp, of Gunniscn. the
newly elected commander of the De-
partment of Colorado and Wyoming,
of the G. A. r., has been appointed
member of the board of trustees of
the Soldiers and Sailors Home at
Monte Vista.
The Palisades orchardists who are
in controversy with the government
over the construction of low line
canal in connection with the Gunnison
project have been given more time in
the negotiations going on.
After every arrangement had been
completed for the funeral of Thomas
Carr, Jr., who died in Chicago, July
8, the remains of another man sent
to Trinidad from Chicago, reached the
home of Mrs. Thomas Carr, Sr.
Seventy-five citizens of Palisade,
armed with rifles and masked, sur
rounded tho restaurants owned by T.
NJ. and Charles Ferguson, at Palisade,
and at the point of guns forced two
boys to deliver a message to the Fer
guson brothers, ordering them to close
up their business, take their families
and leave town within ten days, never
to return. The warning was signed