The Glenwood post., 1911-08-26
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
State Worth While.

Tomato Day has been set for Sept.
at Fort Lupton.
At Carr. recently. lightning struck
and killed colt, goat and dog.
Thieves entered the office of JUS
tice Corson, at Pueblo, and stole $162,
The Northern Colorado Railway Co.
has asked for the appointment of re-
ceiver.
Prospects never were more roseatS
Tor the Prowers County Fair than at
present.
Charles Herround, II years old, has
robbery.
Mrs. Sarah E. Peterson, formerly of
Denver. committed suicide in Wash
ington, D. C.
nation of Robert R. Hanna. postmas'
ter at Windsor.
Palisade will enter the race for Ap-
pie Queen at the apple show to be held
IN Denver in November
The Lamar postoffice has been des-
ienated a postal savings bank. effec-
tive September l9.
John Toedder. a tailor, OF Pueblo,
has received a letter signed BLACK
Hand" demanding $4,000.
AS a result of heavy transforms in
the vicinity of Glenwood Springs rail-
way traffic is seriously delayed
rantalp,tna Of I I,n q rn
busy shipping a bumper crop. The
melons are uneXcelled this year.
Negotiations for the settlement Of
the srtike in the northern Colorado
oield fields have been called off.
For the power for an electric light
ing plant, Fort Collins proposes to
use the waters of the Poudre river.
Palisade has already shipped lis
carloads of fruit this season, and for
ty-two of them were shipped in one
week.
The corner stone OF the new Capital
Heights Presbyterian church, in Den
yer, was laid with appropriate cere-
mony.
John Mott, well known in Colorado
criminology. is in jail at Victor
charged with the killing of Richard
Mooney
Luther Grantham, aged % years. OF
Telluride, shot himself with a heavy
revolver at Placerville, dying in.
stantly.
The officers of the Colorado Ma.
sonic Grand Lodge officiated at the
laying of the cornerstone of the new
high school building at Holyoke.
State Bank Commissioner has or
dered the State Bank of Stratton
closed and asked for the appointment
of receiver.
Ell Paso County Horticultural Asso.
cations annual flower show at Colo.
rado Springs was a success from both
financial and artistic standpoint.
The President signed the Guggen-
helm bill granting the state of Colo,
RADIO an additional million acres of
land under the Carey desert land act.
The President has signed the War.
rem bill granting leave of absence to
homesteaders in drought-stricken dis.
tricts of the West until April 15, 1917
Richard Mooney, aged 65 years, a
pioneer of Victor. died of injuries re.
ceived when he fell fifteen feet at a
railing which guarded the sidewalk
which was high above the ground
A suit to recover about $500 in sal
wi due FT,tg l~H- leo
last fall has been instituted against
the park commissioners by Ben Ser.
german, who bought the accounts OF
men.
A suit brought by the Rio Grande
Southern Railway Company against
the Telluride Power Company for
s1SO,OO0 damages to the railway line,
has been settled out of court and the
suit dismissed
Supervisor John B. McGauran will
introduce resolution before the board
cf supervisors in Denver, providing for
the erection OF a memorial tablet
where Ralph Johnstone, the aviator,
fell last summer.
Mrs. Fedelina Macs, a widow and di.
vorcee. was shot and killed in Ala.
mosa by Camilo Herrera in fit of
jealousy. After shooting the woman
Herrera killed himself by sending a
bullet through his heart. He died in.
stantly.
The beet sugar industry is only ten
years old in Colorado, but it has devel-
oped in that time to a point where
the factories are making annual dis
bursements for labor, raw material,
freight charges and other expenses of
S15,000,000.
A campaign to awaken interest in
the COLORADO exhibit of fruit, grains
and vegetables to be t to the Amer.
lean Land and Irrigation Exposition
better known as the New York Land
Shown Madison Square Garden