The Colorado statesman., 1912-09-14
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

State Worth While.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Coal prices in Denver have been
lowered so cents per ton.
Pear orchards make poor roads.
This is the report of the Grand juno
tion Motor Club.
Mrs. John Lyons of Denver is look
ing for her husband, who disappeared
five months ago.
First-class postmasters of the Unit
ed States will hold their annual con-
vention in Denver next year.
About 500 delegates attended the
convention of Master Car and Locomo-
tive Painters in Denver.
Forty pretty girls served hot bis
cults, sandwiches, coffee and fruit at
Erie's Biscuit Day celebration
The biggest shipments of peaches
ever made from the Western slope in
single week were moved this week.
The placing of a dozen peaches in
the wrong box near Delta resulted in
walk-ouI of 100 Japanese fruit pick
ers.
The voters of Jackson county will
pass on proposition to issue bonds to
build court house at the November
election.
Colorado Harvest Week" is expect
ed to prove one of the main features
of the Festival of Mountain and Plain
at Denver.
At the close of registration at the
State Agricultural college at Fort
Collins $50 students had been enrolled
for the coming term.
With only the family present, Bruce
G. Eaton, one of the wealthiest men in
Weld county, was married to Miss
Martha l.. Finch of Denver at Greeley.
William J. Bryan will probably
speak at the State fair in Pueblo, Sep
tember II. Theodore Roosevelt is the
State fair speaker, September 10.
Northern Colorado is enjoying one
of the most prosperous years in it's
history. Thousands of acres of wheat,
oats, barley and other grains are be-
ing threshed.
A contract was signed in New York
by which Newman Erb and his associ-
ates assume control of the Moffat
road and undertake its future extern
sion and development.
An increase of approximately ST.
100000 over three months ago is
shown by the bank deposits in Colo
RADIO Springs. They total $10,944 ,278,
as against s9,SSS,7O1. in June.
F. H. A. Lyle, manager of the Glen
wood Hot Springs and Hotel Company
and the Glenwood Light & Water
Company, died at a Glenwood Springs
sanitarium, following an operation for
appendicitis.
l.. D. Bromfield won the golf cham
pionship of Colorado from NJ. A. Nc
Laughlin, six up and five to play.
Bromfield was entered from the Den
yer Country Club, and Mclaughlin
from the Colorado Golf Club.
One of the features of the Bent
County fair was the display of the
worlds sugars entered by the Ameri-
can Beet Sugar Company. This inciud-
ed 500 specimens from every sugar
producing country.
A homemade incubator, constructed
by DR.. C. w. Hall at the Denver Coun-
ty hospital in twenty minutes, saved
the life of the three and a quarter
pound baby born to Mrs. Margaret
Robertson.
That her husband was in favor of
her committing suicide and went SO
far as to promise that he would buy
the carbolic acid If she would take it,
DriI Tain
David H. Lain, a railroad man, at
Pueblo.
Miss Katherine Foss of Encamp-
ment, Wyo., has asked Mayor Arnold
of Denver to help find her sister, Lena
Foss twenty-five years old, who dis
appeared from Encampment two
weeks ago and is reported to be in
Denver.
The abundant crops. the increase in
dairying during the past year and the
general good feeling that prevails over
the promising outlook for Weld county
are counted on as factors in making
the greatest fair in history of that
county September 1927.
Raymond Wheeler, who was found
unconscious on the railroad tracks
near Littleton, is at the Denver coun-
ty hospital and doctors say he has
small chance to recover. His injuries
indicate that he fell from a moving
train while stealing ride.
C. d. Miller, fifty-three, who was so
severely burned when an explosion of
gasoline wrecked his tailoring estab-
lishment at Boulder, died of his in
juries at University hospital. Although
Miller's body was stripped of flesh
from the waist up, he retained con-
seriousness almost until the end. He is
survived by a widow.
Three murderers confined in the
state penitentiary are asking Cover
nor Shafroth for pardons. One, who