The Springfield herald., 1911-12-01
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
State Worth While.

A grand Jury investigation OF the
mint is scheduled.
The total annual tax levy for PAIL
SADIE Is 40 mills.
Roads in the vicinity Of Ramah are
being improved.
The Cripple Creek tax levy has been
fixed at 35.1 mills.
A saloon in Victor was robbed re.
Gently of about $25 in money.
The old Trade building in La lara
was recently destroyed by fire.
Martin Casey. for twenty years in
the Denver police service. Is dead.
Convict labor is to be employed in
building a new road up the Poudre
canon.
Mrs. Bridget Hefferman Of Evans. a
resident of Colorado twenty-five years.
Is dead.
A. G. Sherwin. president of the
Farmers National Bank OF Sterling,
is dead.
Arrangements have been made for
the manufacture of nickels at the Den
yer mint.
More winter wheat is being planted
in the district west Of Platteville than
ever before.
Along the Crested Butte branch of
the D. & r. G. railroad there is ten
feet Of snow.
The Pixies Peak cog road is planning
its equipment.
Cattlemen on the Pihon mesa, In
Mesa county, have placed bounty Of
| 800 on each wolf killed.
Allen Ramsey. an original Union
colonist. for forty-one years a resident
Of Greeley. died. aged eighty-five.
The mayor and city clerk of Denver
probably will move their offices from
the city hall to the court house at
once.
A. j. Schamp. a plasterer, fell from
the dome of the new Methodist
church in Trinidad and was fatally in
jured.
All the lodging houses In Denver are
due for a thorough housekeeping I'M
der the supervision of the City Health
Department.
Eleven names have been added to
the list of pupils suspended from the
Denver high schools for violation or
the fraternity rules.
Mrs. NJ. ]. Goldman, wife of the late
Rev. Robert Goldman, pastor OF the
First Presbyterian church of La Junta.
died from heart failure.
With the football year closing
Thanksgiving the next sport the col
lege will take up is basket ball. The
season will start Monday. Dec. 4.
Frank w. Smylie OF Masters. Colo.
has sold 1000 acres Of land at Mas
tiers, known as the Smylie ranch, to
w. ]. Corneau of Chicago for $4,000.
The cornerstone of the new Evan
gelical Lutheran Congregational
church, West Thirtyfirst avenue and
Irving street. Denver. was laid with
impressive ceremonies.
The explosion OF an electric light
globe, which he attempted to push
into a narrow space behind glass
sign, may cost John Callison OF Gree
ley the sight Of his right eye.
Over a ton of flour was stolen from
the Longmont Milling & Elevator
Company recently. and no trace of the
thieves has been obtained, Several
sacks of flour were dropped near the
mill.
Charles Olson, champion light heavy
weight wrestler, defeated Carl Decker
in two falls out of three in Pueblo.
Decker securing the second fall. OIL
son secured both falls with head and
scissors holds.
Members OF football teams are in
terested in the movement started by
S. H. Hall. superintendent of the Fort
Morgan schools to organize a state atn-
letic association which will control
interscholastic sports.
Fort Collins has been made a com
mon point with Denver. Colorado
Springs and Pueblo and after Dec. l
tickets may be bought at any point in
the country to Fort Collins for the
same rate as to Denver.
Denver is one of the six American
metropolitan cities selected by the In
ternational Congress on Art Education
u Stuu oil CShiDlL vi PuoiiS oSi4ooA
children's art work to the convention
of that body in Dresden, Saxony, in
August, 1912.
Attorney Halsted Ritter for the Col-
sumers' and Shippers Association of
Denver has filed the second petition
asking for reduction in freight rates
between Galveston, Texas, and Denver.
The first petition is now before the
commission.
Harry Lub of Denver lasted but
few seconds more than half Of the first
round in his scheduled twenty-round
fight with Benny Chavez of Trinidad.
in Walsenburg. The men spared for
nearly minute when Chavez succeed
ed in reaching Lub's stomach. A few
seconds later right hook to the jaw
sent Lub to the floor for the count.
After eluding Undersheriff Ince of
Montezuma county and his posse for
eight days. Watt Solka. said to be
wanted for murder in independence,
KopSac and for whose CaDtJre the