The Springfield herald., 1911-10-13
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

ot way.
The boys OF Windsor have formed
an athletic club.
The d. G r. G. freight depot at
Canon City is completed.
The first carload OF potatoes has
been shipped from Gill.
The D. & II. G. depot at Olathe was
entered by thieves and 500 stolen.
Potato cellar parties promise to be-
come popular in Windsor society.
A company will be organized to
prospect for oil in the vicinity OF
Pierce.
The campaign in Denver for the
summer White House fund is progress
ing finely.
Thomas II. Johnston has been ap-
pointed postmaster at Saltwater,
Grand county,
Mrs. Mary A. Kretchmer. for forty
years q resident of Colorado, died in
her home in Pueblo.
The assessed valuation of Greeley
for 1911 is $2,7O2.56O. about $4,000
less than last year.
Everything is in readiness for the
Colorado Electric Show, which begins
in Denver October 18th.
Colonel James Leonard, who has
been a familiar figure in Denver for
the last thirty years, Is dead.
A bitter cold rain. with snow in
some sections, has given southern
Colorado its first touch OF winter.
Beet digging is on In all parts OF
the Greeley district and recent rains
have put the ground in excellent
shape.
G. C. Phillip of Fort Lupton. has a
hen which has adopted family of
eight young kittens and is taking good
care OF them.
Frank r. Castleman, director of
athletics at the University of Colo
RADIO, is advocating an intercollegiate
cross-country run.
Northern Colorado is the scene o.
more activity in railroad. ditch and
reservoir building this fall than ever
before in Its history.
Harvey Marquis. a carpenter. was
killed by locomotive when crossing
bridge at San Carlos. on the Rio
Grande, south Of Pueblo.
G. w. McGovern of Salida has on
exhibition turnip weighing ten
pounds and measuring % inches in
circumference.
Paul Frank, an employe of the
puob1n IsIaCtrjc f'omnnpy ic a nrn-
carious condition as the result Of a
rattlesnake bite.
OF the iO.3O3 children enrolled in
the public schools OF Denver for the
present year 3G,522 are the sons and
daughters of American parents.
The annual meeting of the Woman S
Board of Missions of the Interior viii
be held in the Congregational Church
in Denver October cath, 25th and 2Gth.
In order to boost the Denver Apple
Show the Grand Junction Fruit Grow
| ers' Association has offered to pay the
freight charges on fruit sent to Den
yer from the Grand Valley.
The high school building at Steam
boat Springs, Just being completed at
cost of $4,000, was built in the rec
ord time Of two months to replace the
| building destroyed by fire.
The Burlington railroad has formed
| an alliance with the Santa Fe and
| hereafter tourists from the Northwest
| will come to Denver via Omaha II
| Santa Fe cars.
Planning to invest 100000 in Grand
valley real estate, with the eNpecta
ton of clearing s1,000,000, syndicate
OF Los Angeles men is preparing to ell
ter the field at Grand Junction within
a few months.
The granite monument erected at Il
cost of several thousand dollars al
Trinidad has been unveiled over the
graves of forty-five Polish miners who
| .iet death in mine disasters in tina,
unity within the past year.
The Ditch Association of the Ar
kansas valley met at Lamar and
| levied an assessment OF $3.50 pei
cubic foot on the established priorities
| of the valley to get money to fight
the suit brought against the valley
bitches by Kansas bitches.
Reports from the cloudburst on the
summit of Sierra Blanca mountain
sweeping both sides of the range, car.
rying millions OF tons of water into
the lower valley, breaking reservoirs
and drowning settlers, are slowly com
ing in. The isolation of the flood
swept district makes it impossible to
get authentic news concerning the loss
of life.
After saving his mother from drown
ing. Decker Baker, aged twelve, son
of e. E. Baker of Crestone. sacrificed
his own life in trying to save his
father from similar fate. When the
flood came. young Baker succeeded in
putting his mother upon horse which
carried her to safety. When he went
back for his father n tree knocked the
horse off it's feet and threw the boy
into the water. The elder Baker was
saved.
That the Colorado Fuel and Iron
Company has collected illegally not
less than $4,000 for rental of state
school lands on which 1t holds leases
for operating coal mines at Berwind,
near Trinidad, was one of the charges