The Springfield herald., 1912-03-22
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

annual convention in Denver in Aug
ust.
The first shipment OF spring lambs
from Gill, 2,400 head, were sent to
Chicago.
Greeley school districts $41. 500 bond
issue has been sold. The premium is
$1.713.95.
Gov. Shafroth has issued procla-
nation designating Friday, April 19, as
Arbor Day.
The Colorado & Southern has dis
continued service between Buena Vista
and Hancock.
Water Is now flowing into the Ster-
ling reservoir for the first time since
its completion.
John w. Springer Of Denver has an
nounced himself as candidate for the
United States Senate.
George Sleborn, resident OF Long
mont since 1887. is dead from Bright's
disease. He was sixty-six.
The Postoffice Department desig.
mated Cedaredge as postal savings
depository. effective April -.
Denver is to have Day-and-Night
bank. The new institution is expect
ed to open for business about April L
C. X. Berry of Laramie, Wyo.. prob
ably will install cooperative deliv.
cry system for merchants of Greeley.
John l.. Church. aged seventy-three,
one OF the best known men in BOul-
der county. Civil War veteran, is
dead
Unless Former Judge Richard Den
mis- of Eaton gets stay Of execution,
he must serve a thirty-day sentence
in jail.
The Advertising Club of Denver in
tends to make strong bid for the
national convention of the Associated
Advertising Clubs of America in 1915.
Stockholders of the bankrupt Union
Trading Company met in Pueblo and
planned to purchase the remaining as
sets of the company for rs cents on
the dollar.
Deciding to engage in farming in
the West, Mrs. Rose r. Herkett of
Chicago bought the 320-acre Asa Ster
ling farm. south of Kuner, paying
$4,000 for 1t.
The Santa Fe has cleared its tracks
through Kansas and traffic has been
resumed. About 300 passengers had
been stalled at La Junta and were fed
at local hotels.
Mrs. Nettie Belle Combs, fifty-three,
of Longmont, believed to be the larg-
est woman in Colorado, died at her
home in that city Mrs. Combs
weighed 450 pounds.
Mike Carr, an old time miner, dropped
dead in a restaurant at Central City
from hemorrhage of the lungs. Carr
was sixty-four and had lived in Cen
tral City forty years.
James Wilson, secretary of agricul-
at Fort Collins soon, inspect the gov
ernment horse breeding station and
all departments OF the school,
A vigilance committee of men stu.
dents at the State university at Boul-
der will likely be formed to run down
Jack the pepper who has been
prowling around on University hill.
Bert Gross. an old time miner of
Cripple Creek, was perhaps fatally in
jured when he was struck by a slab
of rock weighing about 1000 pounds
on the 400-foot level of the Ell Paso
mine.
Among recent large deals at Meeker
is the sale of the Martin Paulson
ranch to John Bennett of Victor for
ha nj Of
property to Lorin Clark of Rifle for
$4,000.
Mrs. Sarah Bellville has filed suit
against Pueblo for s3,500 damages for
fall on slippery sidewalk January
27th. She declares she broke an arm
and leg and received many other
injuries.
1t is reported in Meeker that the
Colorado-Pacific Development Com
pany, which quit work on it's oil prop
critics at Rangely last winter, is about
to resume work on as large a scale
as before.
Caught in a snowside that was pre-
cipitated by the concussion following
the discharge of his rifle, David Da-
Wis, aged thirty-two, a former Denver
man, was carried 800 feet to his death
down a mountainside near the quar-
ries of the Colorado Yule Marble Com
pany, at Marble.
The largest damage suit for per-
sonal injuries ever filed in the Colo
rado Springs court was begun in Dis
trict Court when Miss Nellie B. En-
gle sued the Colorado Springs G. inter-
urban Railway Company to recover
100000 for injuries sustained Jan. 19.
Miss Engle was run over by an cleo
trio street sprinkler, losing her left
foot.
Robert Burke, confessed robber of
the John A. Thatcher home of about
$4,000 worth of jewelry, in Pueblo,
waived preliminary examination.
When brought before District Court
Burke will plead guilty. He is endea-
voring to assist in securing the return
of all the jewels he took. About ST.
600 worth has been recovered.
The county grand jury, which has
been in session the past two weeks at
Grand Junction, returned fifteen in
dictments, but the names were not