Eastern Colorado times., 1912-04-12
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

Work has begun on the new opera
house for Idaho Springs.
Mrs. James Moore, a pioneer of Col
den, Is dead, aged seventy.
John R. Arms of Eaton celebrated
his ninety-second birthday recently.
Farmers of Carr have organized for
the purpose of operating cheese fac
tory. y
There is a rumor that the Evans
1unicipal election is to be contested
by the drys.
Denver and Colorado are to be ex-
tensively advertised throughout the
East this summer.
C. C. Acton, aged seventy-two,
prominent placer mine operator Of
Breckenridge, is dead.
The Cheyenne county citizens deny
the reports of destitution among dry
farmers in their section.
, T. A. Wright of Greeley reports that
in the last four months his fifty-eight
hens have laid 1851 eggs.
Burglars broke into the branch Of
flee of the Grill Lumber Company at
Lafayette and stole $75.
]. E. Empson has purchased five
acres at Johnstown and will erect a
pea-hulling plant to coI $4,000.
The State Land Board sold eight
lots in Littleton recently. The high
est price was $3.50 for one pair.
Frank Voduski, aged fifty-two, and
married, was instantly killed by fall
Of rock in the Primero mine. near
Trinidad.
Rev. M. L. Laybourn, pastor of the
First Presbyterian church of Loveland,
has rendered his resignation to take
effect June l.
About 1000 acres of peas, tomatoes
and beans have ben contracted in the
Greeley district for the canneries of
northern Colorado.
For the thirty-fifth consecutive time
James K. Thompson has been elected
treasurer of the First Presbyterian
church at Greeley.
Carlos F. Smith. who came to Colo
RADIO in 1869 and was one of the found
ers of Golden, died at his home in Des
Moines, Iowa, aged eighty.
j. Kersey Painter, formerly road
master of Julesburg branch Of Union
Pacific and after whom the town of
Kersey was named. is dead.
Judge w Hart, pioneer of Weld
county, died in Ault of apoplexy. He
was fifty-nine years old and had re-
sided in Weld county thirty years.
Rev. J. R. RAIDER of Denver will not
be tried on the charge of election
bribery preferred by James Franklin,
at Greeley, the case having been dis
missed.
The Colorado Fuel G Iron Company'5
plant at Pueblo is running to capa-
city, night and. day, in order to turn
out steel rails for several western rail-
roads. All the orders have been re-
ceived this year.
The jury in the case of Lauro Gar
cia, charged with the murder of Night
Officer c. A. Brockman, Dec. II. 1911,
at Fort Collins, returned verdict
finding Garcia guilty of murder in the
first degree and imposing the death
penalty.
Governor Shafroth has taken official
cognizance of the fact that, during the
year 1911 over $25O,OOO,0OO was lost by
fire throughout the United States, a
large portion of which is attributed di.
rectly to carelessness. Following a
custom inaugurated by the governors
Of several other state, Governor Shat
roth, in a proclamation, asks the peo-
pie to observe Thursday, April 1S, as
Colorado Fire Protection Day, by de-
voting at least a portion of their time
to the cleaning up and destruction of
all inflammable debris which has &C
in streets, alleys, vacant
lots, yards and in houses.
While extracting rich streak of
sylvanite ore in the heading of drift
on the fourth level Of the famous Six
Points mine, on Bull hill, Cripple
Creek, F. s. Chillson. aged forty.
drilled into missed shot and as a re-
suit of the explosion which followed,
will lose the sight of both eyes, if he
recovers from his injuries.
Elias Cohn of Aspen, one of the
foremost mining men OF the state, died
at hospital in Denver, where he has
been i'll since last October with malig.
nant cancer of the throat.