The Arvada enterprise., 1912-10-17
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.


Paonia football all-stars defeated
Gunnison in hard-fought game, Al to
0, in favor OF Paonia, at Gunnison.
Sixty thousand persons from various
parts Of Colorado invaded Denver to
attend the Mountain and Plain Fest.
val.
w. G. Wamplin of McComb, H.,
became temporarily insane while pass
ing through the Royal Gorge near
| Pueblo.
Miss Katherine St. Clair was de-
clared Larimer countys maid of honor
at the Festival of Mountain and Plain
in Denver.
Over 1000 Odd Fellows and Rebek.
abs gathered in Canon City for the
iorty-iifth annual convention of their
grand lodge.
The Loyeland High school has been
| presented with a seven-foOt statue of
Diana, queen of the chase, by the
class Of 1912.
Hearing OF the attempted assassina-
ton OF Colonel Roosevelt, Denver per-
sons OF all parties hagtcned to pay
tribute of respect to him.
About 1000 cars of apples remain to
| be shipped from the Grand valley, and
there is many moro to be sent out of
the Delta and Montrose sections.
Mrs. Fannie Franklin, 7G, Denver
pioneer and charity worker, resident
for more than forty years, died at her
home in the Marquette apartments.
Rather than accept Mayor Arnold's
terms for its further occupancy, the
Union Pacific railroad will order its
tracks on Blake street in Denver
torn up.
The Colorado chapter of the Moth.
ers Congress will battle for women's
emancipation from the corset. The
mothers demand equal waists as well
as equal rights.
The team match played between the
Denver Country Club and the Colorado
Golf Club, on the latters links, was
won by the Colorado team by the close
score of II to 15.
Arrangements have just been com.
pleted by which the Rocky Mountain
Fuel company will increase Its bono
issue to s10,000,00O and its capital
stock to the same amount.
To the strains of the coronation
march, Governor Shafroth and Miss
Ruth BOettcher, queen of the carnival,
led the grand msrch at the state bali
at the Auditorium in Denver.
The Festival OF Mountain and Plain
races at Overland Park opened under
most favorable auspices The crowd
was enthusiastic and witnessed an ex-
cellent card OF six running races.
Meekor will soon have the only com.
munity dairy in the state, conducted
Ey a colony of Frenchmcn, who have
come from France for the purpose
1t will be operated on a large scale.
Henry Williams, 40. a negro hod-
carrier of Denver, FELL five stories
down the elevator shaft of the new
Shubert thcater building, lighting on
his head-and still lives to tell the
tale.
After a voting contest conducted by
newspapers of the district, Miss Anna
Stoddart of Goldfield, aged nineteen,
was selected maid of honor to the
Queen of the Mountain and Plain Fes-
tiyal.
The transcontinental highway path
finder car arrived at Grand Junction.
Members of the party were enter
tanned at banquet by local autoists
and resumed their journey to Salt
Lake City.
Antonio Cribaro of Denver has filed
application in the district court for an
injunction to restrain eight goats who
live next door to him from making
loud and unusual noises" while he Is
trying to sleep.
Attorney Willis Stdger filed a mo-
ton in the West Side Court at Denver
asking for a new trial for Oscar
George, convicted of murder in the
second degree for the killing of his
brother, John George.
For the first time since the estab-
lSDluent OIL Deel sugar factories IN
Weld county the beet dumps were
kept open on Sunday for the delivery
of beets. This was made necessary
by the serious delay in harvesting the
crop, caused by rainy weather,
\ race between the Union Pacific
and Moffat roads for the rich mineral
and agricultural districts Of Mosfat,
Routt and Jackson counties is seen by
Denver railroad men as . result Of
the visit to this state and Wyoming
OF President A l.. Mohlcr Of the Union
Pacific and Vice President julius
Kruttschnitt Of all the Hartman lines.
Two men wore perhaps fatally scald.
ed and two others frightfully burned
at the Lamar sugar factory when a
plug in one of the vats broke, cover.
ing the men with steam and boiling
syrup. Dudley Roe, master mechanic,
and A. Rienko, his assistant received
the most serious burns and are not
expected to live. Ed BalllnEer and
John Oberg also were badly burned.
Newman Erb, head OF the syndicate
hohtnd the MOffat road annnuncna