The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1911-12-08
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

Small Happenings Occurring over the
State Worth While.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Prospects are bright for the next
irrigation season.
The new Phillips county high school
at Holyoke was recently dedicated.
Ranchers near Meeker report see
ing numerous gray. or lobo. wolves.
The Monte Vista High school won
from Canon City by score of % to o.
Money will be secured from Denver
capitalists to finish the Greeley.Poudre
irrigation project.
]. A. Hooper. salesman. was held
up and robbed Of $500 In jewelry and
money In Denver.
Cherokee BILL" aged ia. a resi-
dent OF Grand Junction, Is the Oldest
living man In America.
Mrs. C. D. Mason of Wray. who dur.
Ing her girlhood was Miss Ella HOWE,
died in Denver after an operation.
Mrs. James Henry Stead. pioneer
In Colorado and one of the Oldest and
most respected inhabitants of Salida,
Is dead.
The Colorado Live Stock Associa-
tion and the American National Live
Stock Association meets in Denver
December 1914.
Former State Senator Charles Lin
coin Dickerson committed suicide by
firing a shot through his right temple
or h{o hoy,a In, nopvar
Isaac N. Bunting, former mayor Of
Grand Junction and owner and pub
Usher of the Daily Sentinel Of that
city. dropped dead of heart disease.
All four banks OF Fort Collins will
contribute to the fund being raised for
partment of the Agricultural college.
William Demetral. the Greek wrest-
ling champion, defeated Charles Olson
Of Indianapolis, after thirty-one
minutes of brilliant work on the mat
at Pueblo.
In one of the most disastrous games
played on the Meeker gridirbn, Meek
er lost the football championship of
northwestern Colorado to Craig by a
score of 6 to S.
While crawling out of woodshed at
the home of his parents in Pueblo.
George James. 6-year-old son of ]. w.
James, was caught under swinging
window and choked to death.
On the new line of the Rio Grande
between Pueblo and Walsenburg there
are the towns of Furman. Morrell.
Brooks. Williams, Mustang, Concord,
Roof and Sandy.
Tie annual football game between
the University of Colorado and the
State School of Mines at Union park
in Denver. resulted in a victory for
the university by a score of IL to o.
Andrew G. Smith, well known
ranchman on Piceance creek, near
Meeker. has been arrested by Deputy
State Game Warden Bush on the
charge of Illegally slaughtering deer.
Farmers of the Salida vicinity have
taken the matter in their own hands
and are promoting creamery after
several attempts have failed to me-
gotiate the organization of a cream
cry company.
At Gunnison, Silvia Gowatch of Mar
BILE was fined $500 and costs on five
counts charging bootlegging. The
cases were appealed to the County
Court from Police Court, which had
fined Gowatch SLAB.
james H. Teller. former assistant
attorney general of Colorado. has
been appointed by Governor Shafroth
to succeed the late Carlton N. Bliss
as Judge of the District Court of
Denver. Mr.. Teller is brother of
former United States Senator Henry
M. Teller.
Roy Haney of Montrose knocked
out Danny Reed of Denver in the
third round of a scheduled twenty
round bout at Telluride. The bout
was fast and furious while it lasted,
with honors even until Haney caught
Reed with a right hook to the jaw
that pat him down and out.
Ministers from all parts OF Colo.
RADIO will meet in Colorado Springs to
attend the neglected fields survey
conference, to be held by the home
mission union of the Protestant
churches. 1t will be an all day session
and several executive officers of the
national home mission boards and So
clety Will take part.
Marcus Manzanares. a Mexican re-
siding in Archuleta county, will
serve from one to eight years in the
penitentiary for the voluntary man.
slaughter Of Daniel Martinez. another
Mexican. The crime for which Man
zanares must serve sentence was com
mitted in free-for-all fight at Mex
lean dance near Arboles.
The La TERRA Ditch and Reservoir
Company has been organized in Mont
rose with A. A. Denniston president,
w. A. Green secretary, and r. X.
Humphrey. treasurer. The company
seeks to reclaim 10000 acres of land
on Hosefly creek, fourteen miles south
of Montrose. The construction of two
reservoirs for the storage of flood wa
ter to bring the water to high mesa
lands is the first thing on the pro-
gram.
Tho patition of the Denver Con.