The state herald., 1912-08-23
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

celebrate Labor day.
The Ouray Pioneer association VIII
hold picnic September End.
During friendly wrestling match AT
Evans, William Hill received broken
leg.
More than 1000 gallons of oil VIII
be used on the downtown streets OF
Greeley.
The state treasury has been en-
riched by the addition of $3,496.3o IN
inheritance taxes.
A bandstand costing nearly 1,OOo
has been erected on the courthouse
lawn in Boulder.
Three men were hurt when engine
No. 2 of the Moffat road jumped the
track at Willow station.
Johnnie Carver, nine, fell under
heavy ore car at Pueblo and had both
legs cut off at the knees.
More than 1000 cases, of $4,000 cans,
of stringless beans are being put up
daily by Fort Lupton factories.
The mayor of Colorado City has Or
dered the police to close all gambling
places and houses of i'll repute.
An exhibition bull fight was held at
La Junta to raise funds to equip the
recently erected Mexican church.
Jesse Calderhead, eighteen of Colo
RADIO Springs, was accidentally shot
and killed while hunting on Cheyenne
mountain.
John j. Hitchings, ninety-two, pio-
neer printer and mining man of the
state, died at Boulder. He came to
Colorado in 1858.
The good roads fund being raised
by the Chamber of Commerce is still
growing rapidly, and is now nearing
the $4,000 mark.
Hugh 7. Walby, aged fifty-six years
a resident of Pueblo county for thirty
five years. died at Pueblo. He crossed
the plains with an OK team.
Miss Ruth Shepherd of Eaton has
received word that she has been
awarded one of the Henry Strong
scholarships at Colorado College.
The International Supreme Council
of the knights of Columbus. held il
Colorado Springs recently. attracted
cne Thousand visitors to Colorado.
]. S. Shannon. well known residen
of Ignacio and owner of the larges
herd of goats in the Southwest, die'
suddenly of heart failure at Durango
The pea canning season has closet
at Loveland. The growers received al
average of s35 per acre for their crop
| The factory is now canning beans AM
tomatoes.
The taxpayers OF La Plata count.
are to decide at the November election
il they want new county jail at $50
bond issue.
Milliken has a fine potato crop IL
the heart OF the city and the aldermen
expect to reap a rich harvest from tn,
fiye-acre tract which eventually to be
come its municipal park.
The state educational institution
will receive second twenty-five pc
cent. OF their aggregate appropriation
amounting to between siS0,000 an,
100000. on October i.
With two carloads of grade ant
registered Holsteins coming from New
York state the latter part Of. Septem
Der. the Johnstown condensory will
start the 1918 campaign with 900 cowi
TO furnish its supply.
Dynamite was used by four yegg
men who blew the safe OF the Platte
Vile postoffice and escaped after fight
ing pistol duel with DIR. ]. F. Daw
son. a local physician. The robbers
secured $500 In stamps.
The abstract OF assessment turned
In To State Auditor Leddy from fifty
out OF the sixty-two counties In the
state shows that the Increase of value
in property In Colorado this year will
be in excess OF 100000 over that OF
1911.
Met by burglar. when she returned
to her home In Pueblo from church,
1880 AfshN' ih'ANhht III
scuffle with the highwayman and after
being oyerpowered was locked In A
clothes closet while the marauder ran.
sacked the house.
Daniel and Lester Baker. two for.
mer Boulder children. soyen and four
years old. were seriously injured near
Estes Park village when an automo.
bile driven by a Denver man crashed
into the rear OF spring wagon driven
by II. A. Baker.
Dressed In deepest mourning and
bearing visible signs OF suffering ana
worry. Mrs. George c. Ballew, sixteen.
ycnr.old widow Of the South Platte
desperate. arrived In South Platte TO
look after his estate. She was accom-.
panied by her mother and younger
sister
within the next few days thousands
OF acres OF wheat. oats, barley. black