The Springfield herald., 1911-07-14
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over tho
State Worth While.

well near SiTOFeT.
The Platte river is higher than 1t
has been for two years.
The mail route between Lamar and
Wiley has been discontinued.
Mrs. VIM. Smith. pioneer Of Wind
,or. after long illness. is dead.
The Salida Commercial Club will
give its first annual banquet soon.
The Poudre and Platte rivers are
rising and bitches are running full.
Loveland is to have a new hotel and
one which will be credit to the city.
Lincoln county has one field of 900
acres in flax, the largest In the state.
The school census of Mesa county
shows 6.121 children In the scholastic
age.
The cottonwood trees on the streets
of Loveland will be cut down Lext
winter.
The Greeley beet and potato crop
are said to be past danger. fine rains
having fallen.
The Colorado State Bankers Asso-
citation held its tenth annual tconven-
tion In Denver.
Fred Allen has killed seventy-sev-
en- rattlesnakes on his quarter sew
ton near Fooston.
H. A. Edie is the only rural mail car
rier in Colorado who delivered mail
in an automobile.
]. NJ. McCutcheon, wealthy pion-
eer of La Sale has donated land to
that town for park.
C. w. Jones, aged sixty. who was
fatally hurt by being thrown from his
wagon near Boulder, died.
A man believed to be Ellis Uselton,
Of indianapolis. Ind, was killed by a
Rio Grande train in Pueblo.
Dan Cassidy, one Of the motorcycle
riders at Lakeside park. Denver, was
badly hurt in an accident recently.
Ignacio Revoc, a miner from Old
Mexico, was killed by fall Of rock
In the C. F. G l. mine at Berwind.
Heavy rain throughout the Kiowa
section insures bumper crops In the
Divide country as well as the Kiowa
valley.
Martin Olson, aged 81. was acci-
dentally drowned In Oberon lake. one
and one-half miles northwest Of Ar
vada.
The Boulder Business Girls Club
will open up large ice cream parlor
and donate the profits to the Boulder
band.
A. T. Waterbury, aged 65. ranch
man of Sugar Loaf. Boulder county.
was thrown from his wagon and badly
hurt.
The Union Pacific has changed
names OF the station on the new line
to Fort Collins from Kidder to Boyd
Lake.
Secretary Wilson of the Department
of Agriculture will attend the
Dry Farming Congress in Colorado
Springs.
L. b. Burke, who was injured some
time ago in the Pinto mine at Cripple
Creek, has been awarded $4,000
damages.
Canon City will be compelled to pay
$500 before it can secure two con.
demned brass cannon for park orna.
mentation.
The Senate passed the bill provid.
ing for the appointment of an addi.
tional federal Judge for the district
of Colorado.
The customs department in Denver
handled $23S,S66.74 worth of business
for Uncle Sam during the month end
ing June 30th.
William Throop, aged AZ, was killed
almost instantly at Longmont. when
his team ran away and he was thrown
from his wagon.
Martin Van Buren Kelsey, one of
the first settlers of the Platte valley,
and a resident since 1853, died at Fort
Lupton, aged ~.
The Grand Junction $450,000 water
bonds have been sold for 81 cents flat.
The bonds call for the delivery Of
s2SO,000 on August S1st.
In a contest for commercial club
membership, for prize given by the
Denver Commercial Club, Platteville
won by a gain of APO per cent.
Leandro Vigil. three years old, son
Oh J. L.. NlSll Vi lcIClO, thirty HllleS
west of Trinidad, is dead as a result
of eating box of strychnine pills.
Officers are taking every precaution
to protect the negro. Bob Harris, who
is in Jail in Pueblo charged with kill
ing Chief of Police John B. Craig at
Rocky Ford.
Guy l.. Allen of Boulder is inventor
of a new sewer tile pipe making ma
chine which it is said will receive
ready backing of both Boulder and
Denver capital.
Governor Shafroth has been served
with papers in the case brought in
the Supreme Court of the United
States by the state of Wyoming
against the state of Colorado for the
purpose of preventing the diversion OF
water for the Laramia-Poudre irriga.
tion project in the northern part Of
the state.
Jim Flynn of Pueblo has gone to
New York to make arrangements to
meet Carl Morris, the white mans
hope" in boxing contest in the lat
ter city in the near future.
Ten miles of track of the South
Park line of the Colorado e South