The Colorado statesman., 1911-10-07
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
State Worth While.

Fire destroyed one of the buildings
of the Columbia mine. near ouray.
District Court is in session in Boul-
der, with Judge Neil Graham presid-
ing.
In Denver one hundred men were
affected by the strike on the rail-
roads.
Seventeen thousand people celebrat-
ed the eleventh annual Pumpkin Pie
Day at Longmont.
Big game hunters are crowding into
Meeker and outfitting themselves and
going into the hills.
The State Board of Equalization cut
the original assessment of the rail-
roads of the state $4,000.
A. S. Barns, a rancher, residing near
Grand Junction, has an apple tree
which is now in full bloom.
Idaho Springs business men have
subscribed $4,000 for the building OF
the new Floyd Hill wagon road.
James Truett, Is years old, of Cri+-
pie Creek was accidentally shot and
killed while out with hunting party.
The first term of the District Court
of Crowley county was opened at Ord
way Monday, with Judge Essex on the
bench.
Three hundred delegates attended
the annual convention of the Colora-
DO Federation of Women's Clubs in
Denver.
A summer resort is to be built three
miles below Georgetown. 1t is said
the resort will be ready for business
in 1912.
The charred body of a man identi-
fled as that of Stark Zimmerman, was
found after the fire at the Columbia
mine, near Ouray.
One person in every ten who died
in Colorado during the months OF
April, May and June were victims
of murder.
A big feature of the Crowley County
Fair on Sugar Day, at Sugar City, Oct.
18th, will be the drawing for the
horses and saddles.
Mr.. and Mrs. William F. Miller. pio-
neer residents of Grand Junction, eel
tDTdltu luclI my NNNoAAS e-
niversary recently.
Walter Foster, a former Greeley
boy, who escaped from the reforma-
tory at Buena Vista, was re-captured
at Colorado Springs.
Mrs. Mary C. C. Bradford, county
superintendent of schools of Denver,
was the only woman speaker at the
Public Lands convention.
The Northwest Colorado Masonic
Association was recently organized at
Fort Morgan, when several hundred
Masons from that section met.
The government revenue agents in
Colorado have been notified that they
are hereafter to enforce the law con-
crning the adulteration of butter.
The first annual fair of Saguache
county was held in Moffat. The ex-
hibits consisted of agriculture, horti-
culture, live stock and poultry
Governor Shafroth has named Colo
radios twenty-seven delegates to the
Farmers National Congress, to be held
at Columbus, Ohio, October IL to 16.
District Attorney Willis V. Elliott,
of Denver, has filed direct Information
against Mrs. Gertrude Gibson Patter-
son, charging her with numbering her
husband, Charles Patterson.
Because he sat on a bench in the
park with woman not his wife, Alex
Taws, chief OF police oil Colorado City,
has lost his job. Mayor p. j. Handle
dismissed him from service.
j.. Baldwin, for the last six years
one of the officials of the United
States mint in Denver, died suddenly
at his old home in Williamsport, Pa.
Heart disease was the cause of death.
Steps are being taken by the people
of Canon City to secure the proposed
Colorado Odd Fellows home, to be To-
Gated by the grand lodge of that or
ganization at the 1911 session in Den
yer.
United States Senator Cummins of
Iowa, one of the leaders of the Pro
gressive Republicans in Congress as
well as among the people, will visit
Denver and address a mass meeting
October 18th.
When officers went to the home OF
John Rhine, on dry farm west of
Pueblo, they found supply of gro
ceries, provisions and tools which
Rhien admitted he had stolen at diff
ferent times in Pueblo.
Thursday, Oct. &c, has been decid-
ed upon as the date of the annual
banquet of Union Colony Pioneers.
The men and women who founded
Greeley will meet at noon at the Bap-
tist church in that city.
The Holy Name Diocesan union in
Denver, is beginning a special cam
paign for the promotion of clean
speech, and is placing conspicuously