The Springfield herald., 1912-07-12
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
State Worth While.

OHe llrm IN HOtcnklSS mas cOntract-
ed for 800 cars of peaches.
Fire recently destroyed property in
Loveland to the amount OF $4,000
The Cross orchards, west of Clifton,
will ship some forty cars of fruit this
year.
The new Methodist church at Ros-
ers. Mesa, Delta county, has been ded-
icated.
For the third time in three months
the Miles drug store in Pueblo has
been robbed.
The Grand junction canning factory
has opened for the 1912 season. Abou:
forty people are employed.
Farmers in the Maybell and Lay
valleys are sure of the greatest CROP
in the history of the country.
Floyd w. Paige of Wigwam. is dead
as a result of having his left les
A lighted match thrown into five
pound keg of powder caused the death
of Rudolph Petranschke in Denver.
Bonds for $5.25O were sold recently
by the Clifton school board for the con
struction of new high school build
ing.
The state convention of the Colorado
Prohibition party. held two-day ses-
sion in Denver. One hundred members
were present.
Two barns at Rocky Ford burned
down recently, the result of careless
ness of boys who were smoking. The
loss will not exceed 5000.
More than 500 commercial travellers
attended the convention in Trinidad.
Colorado, Wyoming. Utah and New
Mexico were represented.
The railroad from Golden to the
summit of Mt. Lookout. which has
been under construction for several
months, has been completed.
Mrs. Sarah Crabb will bring suit
against the Salvation army at Greeley
for $1,000, the amount left by her
husband in his will for the army.
Joseph Shaw, age five of Meeker,
swallowed a scent piece with which
he was playing and died at the Grand
Junction hospital few hours later.
II. F.. Marley. aged "a. county clerk
and a resident of Hinsdale county
for more tLan 80 years. committed
suicide at Lake City by shooting.
The farmers of the Nederland dis
trict, in Boulder county, are beginning
the hay harvest which promises to be
unusually heavy and of excellent grade.
The State Land Board has voted to
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five settlers who had made first pay
ments on land in the San Luis valley.
The number of visiting automobiles
in the state this year greatly exceeds
that of any previous one, as is shown
by the records kept in different towns.
While riding his motorcycle. Father
Antonine the aged priest of the Soitn
Boulder Catholic church. was gravely
injured in collision with horse anI
buggy.
The State Home for Mental Defec-
tives has opened at Arvada under III.
direction of A. p. Busey, superinten-
dent of the State Insane Asylum at
Pueblo.
The state convention of the Prohi-
3 and at which Edward w. Mills of
Paramount, w. Va, was the principal
speaker.
La Plata county central committee
will issue the call for primaries to be
held early in August. The call will be
for state, district and representative
offices.
,,,,t h.. h at,tC ~
was given the decision over Harry
Reide of Aspen July 4, in the eighth
round of the fastest fight ever seen in
| Trinidad.
Patrick McColgran, an insane man,
who for the past three weeks has been
| terrorizing farmers wives in Crowley
county, has been placed in the asylum
| at Pueblo.
The Yampa Valley Railroad Compa-
ny, organized to build branch of the
Moffat road from Steamboat Springs
to Craig, is preparing articles of in
| corporation.
One of the biggest celebrations of
the Fourth ever held in the San Luis
valley was held in Alamosa. A street
|
| and other events were featured.
Fruit prospects never were brighter
| around Gunrison, Montrose and Pali-
sade than this year, according to Al
bert Mcfarland, a fruit grower living
about six miles from Montrose.
The earnings of the Moffat road for
the fiscal year ended June 80 will he
close to s1,200.O00, which is consid-
erably greater than the gross revenue
| for any previous year.
Cherokee Bill of Grand Junction
aged lis years, who, according to the
! United States census, is the oldest
man in the country, has discarded the
set OF false teeth which has done duty
for fifty years. for six pearly white
teeth which are appearing in his
gums.
The Direct Legislation League CT
| Colorado will send five representatives
10 the midsummer convention of the
| Colorado Stock Growers Association,
to be held at Glenwood Springs July
| % to "a, to discuss the several legis-
| Iatiye measures initiated by the