The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1912-01-05
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

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house.
A sneak thief robbed the apart
ments of Miss Anna Sholz, who con
ducts rooming house at Durango
and secured $125.
The four-year-old daughter Of Jake
Miller of Loveland lies critically ill al
1er parents home in consequence OF
drinking gasoline.
The local OF the Farmers Co-opera
live and Educational Union at Fort
Collins has laid plans for opening a
cooperative store.
A motion to quash the writ of GER
tiorari in the Denver-Greeley irrigation
district case was denied by District
Judge Graham at Greeley.
Driven to seek forage nearer civiliza-
tion by the heavy snow, herd Of
twenty antelope entered fenced pas
ture on the river flat near Hereford.
Robert Landlord, charged with the
murder OF Clarence White, C. & S.
brakeman of Denver, has been re-
leased on $4,000 bond at Fort Collins.
At Cripple Creek, Frank Holcomb, a
miner. aged As, shot five times at w.
G. Pate, aged rs, three of the shots
taking effect and causing death five
minutes later.
A mountain lion, over seven feet
long and weighing nearly 200 pounds,
was killed on Current creek, fifteen
miles north of Canon City by Thomas
Miller. a ranchman in that country.
On the thirty-sixth anniversary Of
his wedding, Edward 7. Sheldon died
at Colorado Springs. He was seventy
four years old and pioneer of three
states, Iowa, South Dakota and Colo
rauo.
Loveland will have connection with
the main line of the Union Pacific
railroad in short time. 1t is stated
that a motor car service will be es-
tablished between the main line and
Loveland.
Orien Kelso, son of l.. X. Kelso Of
Boulder, is composer of music for a
song entitled THE New Road" which
he will enter in the musical compost
non contest of the Denver Musical
Club.
NJ. C. Morrison of Moundsville, w.
Va, peace officer for more than
twenty years. will locate in Colorado
Springs and bring trained bloodhounds
which, he says, he will lend officers
when needed.
William Moore, wholesale lumber
merchant. with offices in the Mack
block, died of heart disease at the
family residence in Denver. Mr.. Moore
was sixty years old and had lived in
Denver twenty years.
Weld county poultry fanciers will
send number of chickens to the an
nual show Of the Colorado Poultry
Fancfers' Association in Denver and
are confident Of returning with blue
ribbons and other trophies.
At business mems booster meeting
held at Loveland. plans were formed
for the Loveland mid-winter farmers
, institute, to be held January 20, "a.
rs and &c. Over $500 was raised at
this meeting to be used for entertain
ment purposes.
The dedication of the Logan
County Industrial Arch high school at
Sterling completed at cost of $780,
900. will be held January I'd. c.
Thomas of Denver will deliver the
dedicatory address and the building
will be thrown open later for inspec-
ton.
R. F. Walter. director of the Recla-
nation Service in Colorado, is at
Grand junction closing up contracts
with ranchmen for the right-of-way for
the high line canal. He goes from
there. to Washington, to submit the
contracts for approval to Secretary
Fisher.
A movement has been started to Sc.
cure a parole for P. A. Lilly, former
treasurer OF the school board, deputy
treasurer of San Miguel county and
clerk of the city of Telluride. who was
sentenced, in 1907. to thirty-three
years in prison for embezzling $4,000
OF public funds.
A dining car and sleeper on an east
bound Rio Grande passenger train
were wrecked at Canon City when
freight train ran through an open
switch and crashed into the passenger
train, derailing both cars and overturn-
ing the sleeper. The two men in it
were not injured.
1t is believed some plan will be for
mulated to prevent another failure of
the potato crop during the meetings
of the Farmers institute at Greeley
next week. Methods of scientific and
practical farming will be discussed at
the meeting by experts on agricultural
subjects.
But for the presence of mind of her
10-year-old son, who dragged her from
the track of a moving passenger train
at Greeley, when she slipped on the
ice, Mrs. A. X Patterson would have
lost her life or been seriously injured,
The train was in motion when her SOL
pulled her from her precarious posi-
ton.
To accommodate the increasing num-
Der of depositors the First National
bank at Boulder will install a savings
department January list. in addition to
its regular banking business. Savings
of 81 upward will be received, and
earn per cent interest.