The Colorado statesman., 1911-09-16
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
state Worth While.
stern Newspaper Union News Service

q AAhN buoiipoos
The Platteville cannery is putting
out 10000 cans daily.
William Clark of Pierce, aged 60,
died from the effects of hiccoughs.
]. b. Bailey has been appointed
postmaster at Pawnee, Morgan coun-
ty.
The fall term of the United States
District Court is in session in Mont
rose.
Meeker will soon have the first wire
less telegraph station of the Western
slope.
The enrolment of the State univer-
sity of Boulder is something over 400
students.
James Wilson and F. Dupree are in
Jail in Colorado City charged, with
forgery.
A fire in Ouray caused damage to
property amounting to several thou
sand dollars.
Ethel B. Fredericks has been APP
pointed postmaster at Paradox, Mont
rose county.
The Colorado Springs postal savings
bank, after being open only two weeks
has 1870 depositors.
Miss Ciprlana Subetona, a Filipino
girl, has entered the Colorado Medical
College at Boulder.
The Colorado Springs police have
been asked TO locate Frank Russell,
20, who has disappeared.
Ninety days in jail is the penalty
Jim Sebers must pay for trying to flirs
on the streets of Greeley.
Robt. Witt, a watchman for the
Santa Fe at Colorado Springs, was
struck by train and killed.
Mine operators of the Rocky Noun
tain district will hold First Aid CON
| test in Trinidad, September 2S.
The ECize stalk of corn for Boulder
county bears eleven large ears and
was grown by o. L. Linch.
Preparations are well under way for
the Weld county fair, to be held at
Greeley September Is to 22.
1t is rumored from New York that
President E. r. Jeffery of the Denver
& Rio Grande will soon resign.
Lloyd Clark, aged twelve, son of ].
A. Clark, of Alamosa, accidentally shot
and killed himself while hunting.
Frank Pollock of Greeley is Sleep
ing under one of his peach trees every
night with a gun under his head.
Farmers have taken up potato rails
ing as never before, and the revenues
from that product will be surprising.
10 dOnphnnt9
pies and cider will be the menu at the
Longmont Pumpkin Pie Day, Sept Is.
The four-year-old daughter of Bert
Reynolds of Kersey, fell into tub of
boiling water and her injuries are
| fatal.
The largest sugar beet reported this
season was grown by G. B. Foster
near Greeley and weighed sixteen
pounds.
After twenty-four years of service as
general claim agent for the Denver
City Tramway Company, Samuel c.
Dorsey has resigned.
Apples are more plentiful than ever
before-at least for many years-and
the Western slope is shipping whole
carloads of cantaloupes.
Visitors from all sections of the
county attended the annual reunion OF
the Routt County Pioneers Associa-
ton at Steamboat Springs
To complete the Prewitt reservoir
dam at Keota according to contract
within ninety days, 800 teams are at
work and 200 more will be put on.
Milliard Hill, aged thirty-eight, was
killed in the Mohican mine, on Battle
Mountain, at Victor, his head being
crushed under a 5O0-pound boulder.
The fifty-first annual communication
of the Grand Lodge, A. F. & A. M. or
| Colorado will be held in Denver, Sept.
10 and 20.
The Fremont County Horticulture
Society has decided to make an ex-
haustive exhibit at the American Ap-
pie Exposition at Denver November
IL to IS.
The government will maintain
fire lookout station" on Cheyenne
mountain, overlooking the eastern
slope of the Front range, near Colora-
do Springs, this fall.
A gain of six per cent is shown in
the building activity in Denver as com
pared with the figures for August,
1910, according to the official reports
compiled by the American Contractor
of Chicago.
A demonstration train showing the
progress of railroading during the last
thirty years is being run over the sys-
tenn of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa
Fe railroad, and it will arrive In Den
yer the evening of Sept rs.
Potatoes weighing over half a
pound each have been shown by