The Colorado statesman., 1911-12-09
LITTLE coLoRApo ITeMs.
Small Happenings Occurring over tho
State Worth While.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
The factory of the Great Western
Sugar Company at Fort Collins has
closed.
Miss Lillian Strong of Trinidad was
seriously burned by the explosion of
gasoline.
The Fort upton City Council has
refused 10 accept the pumping plant
recently erected in that city.
Organized labor in Denver contrib
uted approximately $4,000 to the de-
fense fund for the McNamaras.
Carpenters are at work in the Den
yer jail constructing stage and scenery
for the annual Christmas minstrels.
The estate of the late Frank
ReistIe, pioneer engraver, who died
recently in Denver, amounts to $4,000.
Frank Peduttia, coal miner. 40, was
asphyxiated in the abandoned work
ing of the Royal coal mine near
Aguilar.
Robert L. France of Denver has
been appointed clerk in the new divi-
sion OF postal service located at
Omaha.
Louis Hanson, aged 9S,- and thought
to be Pueblo county's Oldest inhabit-
ant, was found dead alone in his hut
in Pueblo.
More than half a thousand people
attended the opening of st. Peters
Catholic church's eighth annual fair
at Greeley.
Land in Hudson has been purchased
by representatives of the Burlington
road on which to build homes for con-
struction forces.
William ]. Knowles, son of Police
Magistrate James Knowles of Ouray,
was killed at Sisson, Cal, by being run
over by freight train.
Governor Shafroth has issued the
call for delegates TO the second ad-
maui good roads conference to be beld
in Pueblo, January IL and -.
The Pueblo Commerce Club has
asked the county commissioners to
contribute 5000 for the state Agricul-
tural college at Fort Collins.
p. ]. Lewis, 60 years old, whose
home is in Denver, met death in Pitts
burg, Colo, when the roof of store
fell, pinning him to the floor.
The Western league owners are pull
ing for a 154-game series to begin
about the same time as last year and
get out of the way before snow flies.
On December the Great Western
Sugar Company paid out to farmers of
Weld county $29S,100, making a total
of s1,132S92.77 for the season of 1912.
0. e. Rink of Fort Lupton has en-
tered his famous OK team for the horse
show in Denver next month, and the
steers will haul float in the parade.
All four banks of Fort Collins will
contribute to the fund being raised for
maintenance of the experimental de-
partn.ent of the Agricultural college.
In one of the most disastrous games
played on the Meeker gridiron, Meek
er lest the football championship of
northwestern Colorado to Craig by
score of G to 5.
A piece of steel that flew from
blacksmiths anvil pierced the right
eye of l.. p Lawton, young business
man of Colorado Springs, and he may
lose the optic.
For permitting young men to drink
beer in their restaurant at Colorado
| Springs three Cinnamon were fined
$1O0 and costs in police court, and the
young men $40 each.
With William G. Evans as president.
the Northern Construction Company
has been organized for the purpose OF
completing the Greeley-Poudre Irriga-
ton district, embracing 125,000 acres
Operators in the northern Colorado
coal fields met recently and passed
resolutions condemning the Boulder
county, district and state officials for
failure to properly protect their en-
ployes in the mines.
Lost in a blizzard on their honey
moon, near Meeker, John L. Hadden,
an attorney of Cambridge, Mass, and
his bride of three weeks battled for
eight days against the rigors of zero
weather and the terrors of insanity.
Word from Chicago is to the effect
that Tim O'Nei!l is to be matched
| with Jim Flynn of Pueblo. The match
will be of great interest, as not only
is Jim Flynn we'll known in Colorado,
but O'Neill spent last winter in Den
yer.
Craig peace officials who are
searching for clews that might dis
close the identity of those responsible
for the death of 100 sheep in George
Woolley's corral recently are of the
opinion that five men took part in the
actual slaughter, and that two stood
guard on either side of the road to the
entrance to the Woolley ranch.
For town of 1900 people to be
without a rural mail service during
the 20 years of its life is an unusual