The Springfield herald., 1911-08-18
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
state Worth While.

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W. H. Thrown, a pioneer of La Jun
ia. is dead.
The Arkansas river Is clear:r than
1t has been In fifteen years.
The Weld County Fair will he held
September IS to %. inclusive.
George Denton. who came to Colo
RADIO in 1870, is dead at Ouray.
Much mining activity is reported
from Gunnison and Chaffee county.
After October l a rural mail route
will be established out of the Pierce
| postoffce.
Colorado Electric Club will open
their annual electric show in Denver
October IA.
Edward Bernard of Joliet, ILL.,. was
killed at Pueblo by falling beneath
moving train.
Frank Hickey of Weldona has been
arrested and fined 800 for threaten
ing his parents.
Dudley Woodruff of Cherrelyn was
drowned in ditch near his home. He
was twelve years old.
Salida is to have a $4,000 brick
garage. 1t will be fitted up with ev-
cry modern convenience.
Pat Ryan is In the Victor jail
charged with breaking into a saloon
and taking SIS in cash.
]. w. Miller, carpenter. was bad
ly injured while working on the Colo
RADIO Midland, near Salida.
The 5-year-old daughter Of Mrs.
Minnie Baker fell from a moving cab
in Pueblo and was killed.
Denver now has eight national
banks, the newest being the Federal
National Bank of Denver.
The Denver & Rio Grande freight
house in Canon City was damaged by
fire to the extent of $4,000.
Work will be resumed on the Gun
nison tunnel project in Montrose coun-
ty and pushed to completion.
1t is rumored there will be an extra
session of the Eighteenth General AS
sembly before the year ends.
According to a new ordinance. drug
stores in Steamboat Springs will not
be allowed to sell liquor hereafter.
VIM. Burke had his right leg broken
in five places and his foot badly hurt
in mine accident at Lake City.
The contract for the construction of
the Olathe water system has been
awarded. Contract price is $4,000.
The best yield of wheat SO far in
the Longmont vicinity is reported as
being fifty-three bushels to the acre.
The Idaho Spring Mining. Tunnel
and Transportation Company has been
incorporated with capital of 100000.
AS a result of the recent storm and
high water one death and heavy prop
erty damaged is reported from Engle-
wood.
In a saloon broil in Globevi.!e, Joe
Micklowvitch. Servian, stabbed
four men, one of whom died, and made
his escape.
Plans are being perfected for build
ing the largest reservoir in the state
at Shipman Park. seventy-five miles
northwest of Fort Collins.
An expert accountant has Just fin
Morgan county and reports the affairs
in good shape.
During the ten months between July
l, 1910, and April l, 1911, Colorado's
population was increased by the ar
rival of 4,132 immigrants.
The new Court of Appeals will hold
it's first regular meeting Aug. 2S. AT
that time five stenographers, one
clerk and one baliff will be appointed.
For the first time in the history Of
the white man, Squaw rock, in the
bluff country northeast of Greeley,
close to the Wyoming line, has been
scaled, due to the daring of Robert
Waxham.
The new Colorado labor law, which
provides that no child under sixteen
years of age shall be permitted to
work in any kind of employment de-
clared to be dangerous to life or limb,
is being enforced.
Courses in moral and humane educa-
tion will be introduced in every public
school in the state if the plans of E.
X. Whitehead, secretary and active
head of the State Bureau of Child and
Animal Protection, are carried out.
Charged with securing over $4,000
by confidence methods, C. C. Watson
and Harry Ragsdale were arrested at
Fountain while in the act of securing
$3.50 from the Bank of Fountain on a
draft, and are in Jail at Colorado
Springs.
The trial of Joseph Harris, negro,
for completely in the murders of Of
ficers Craig and Ripper was complet-
ed in La Junta and the jury returned
verdict of murder in the second de-
gree. Joseph Harris is the father of
Bob Harris.
Sixty men on horseback are search
ing the country near Meeker for four
teen-year-old Carrie Rescorea, who my
steriously disappeared several days
ago. The child was sent to hunt the
cows late in the evening and has not
been seen since.
Duty amounting to $4,000 on s5s.-
600 worth of ieWelry heoueatbod en-