The Colorado statesman., 1912-07-20
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over tho
State Worth While,

has been dedicated
TWO canning factories are now in op-
Grafton at Loveland.
Arthur Johnson, aged twenty-six, of
Greeley was killed by lightning.
Pueblo and vicinity have been visit
ed by heavy rains within the last few
days.
Milliken is to have $4,000 flour
mill and elevator, to be erected imme-
uiately.
The rainfall above the town of Sui
livan caused heavy loss of livestock
and crops.
Boulder and immediate vicinity suf-
fered little damage from the recent
cloudburst.
Harry n. Haynes of Greeley has
been elected president of the Colorado
Bar Association.
Seventy-five thousand cans OF peas
were put up at the Greeley factory
one day recently.
According to reports crops in tn.
vicinity of Elizabeth were damaged
by the recent rains.
John w. Vandeventer, former state
statistician and Colorado newspaper
man, is dying at Minkato, Kan.
San Luis Valley Drainage district
No. 1, at recent election at Alamosa,
voted unanimously for a bond issue.
Mrs. Hanna NJ. Earnest, aged sixty
eight for forty years resident of Col
orado, fell dead in her home in Den
yer.
The "Gipsy war" in Pueblo is daily
waxing warm. Several of the nomads
have been arrested charged with as
sault to kill.
Assessment returns this year on dia-
monds and jewelry by tax payers o.
Mesa county total less than $4,000, eX-
cluding jewelry stores.
The Y. NJ. C. A conference at Estes
Park is being attended by two hun
dred delegates, representing nearly ev-
cry state in the Union.
Helen Hopper, nine years old, daugh-
ter of T. H. Hopper of Boulder was
killed by falling off of Santa Fe train
No. 5, near Howell, Kas.
Three hundred teachers are expected
in Colorado Springs to attend the an
nual institute of the Fifth normal dis,
trict, July 22 to August 2.
Christopher Jensen, nine-year-old
son of August Jensen of Castle Rock,
was drowned in the flood that came
down Plum creek recently.
The forest ranger reports that deer
and elk in the hills around Meeker are
increasing. They are now running in
lunches of dozen or more.
Sufficient guarantees have been Sc
cured from the business men of La
mar to insure the running of the
County fair at Lamar this year.
The initiative, referendum and re-
call and the system of three commits
sioners will be Incorporated in the Del
ta charter, now in process of forma-
rion.
Ellis, the four-year-old son of Richie
Blackwood, is at his home at La Sale
in a critical condition as the result
of falling backward into a tub of boil
ing water.
Pueblo police believe they have
clue that may lead to the arrest of
counterfeiters who are flooding the
country with bogus dollars, halves and
quarters.
An auto going almost sixty miles an
hour struck and instantly killed John
NJ. Lloyd, aged sixty, at Colorado
Springs. Lloyd was dragged 300 feet
and his skull fractured.
David Ashbrook, sixty-five years old,
pioneer, who gave all his earnings
TO religious organizations, died recent
ly in Greeley. He bought 500 valen-
tines on February IA, and distributed
them from house to house.
Contracts for 1900 freight cars, to
cost $1,1OO0O0, have been awarded to
various car companies by Vice Presi-
dent E. l.. Brown of the Denver & Rio
Grande railroad The cars are to be
delivered within ninety days.
Since the passage of the Borah-Tay
lor homestead bill few months ago,
desert claim entrymen who live in the
White River valley are making appl..
cations for a change of their desert
claim filings to homesteads, and are
establishing residence.
Two known deaths, the serious in
jury of eight persons, and s4,000,000
worth of private and city property de-
vastated, is the toll paid by Denver to
the flood which swept down Cherry
creek Sunday night, vaulted the shat
tered retaining walls and inundated
miles of adjoining territory in its fu-
rious onslaught.
Weld county, it is expected, will
harvest sS,OOO,0OO worth of crops this
season. The grain crop promises to be
the greatest the Greeley district has
known. The first cutting of alfalfa is
in the stack, making more than the
entire cron of last season, and the sec.
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