The Springfield herald., 1912-09-13
LlTTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small happenings Occurring Over the
state Worth While.

at fueDlo.
kelim brothers of Loveland are
planning the erection of flour mill
at Officer.
Mrs. Nadine Parce Davis. wife of II.
T. Davis of Longmont. died suddenly
at Los Angeles OF peritonitis.
Colorado's valuations for 1912 total
$423.555,S7G.17, an increase, in round
figures. of $9.74O.OOO over 1911 fig
ures.
The meeting of the Colorado Good
Roads Association has been postponed
until Carnival week in Denver, Oct.
1919.
The annual council of the sixth de.
partment of the Episcopal Church will
be held in Grand Junction October
1S-19-20.
The home Of Mr.. and Mrs. Dan Cor
man, of Salida was robbed Of num-
Der of valuables worth in all approxi-
mately 500.
The fight for the removal Of the
county seat of Clear Creek county
from Georgetown to Idaho Springs is
on in earnest.
Figures announced show that be-
tween February 20 and June IA saw
ings banks in Colorado increased their
deposits $76O.215.35.
William Weymore, sixty-one. was
ranch of Edward Wolfley seven miles
east Of Grand Junction.
A Meeker dispatch says the new
| line-the Provo and Eastern Utah rail-
way-which proposes to enter that sec
ton. is now an assured fact.
Miss Elsie Fl. Clarw of Boulder is
the bride of Robert Eli Clark, deputy
national forest supervisor of the Lead
Vile National forest service.
| On the pretense of taking "just a
little trip to Morrison" Miss Olive
Sutton. nineteen. of Denver. eloped to
Golden with Leonard Wood. where
they were married.
| After having been mourned as dead
for seventeen years by his wife and
family. Montaville Woodworth will be
the honor guest at family reunion at
Eaton in few days.
The Colorado Auctioneers' Associa-
tion held its annual convention at
| Glenwood Springs and an elaborate
entertainment program was prepared
by the local business men.
Glenwood Springs won the final
game In the polo series between the
Denver Country Club and Glenwood
and won the Rocky Mountain chal-
lenge cup. The score was to 5N.
Ten thousand horses. belonging to
Colorado stockmen and now running
on prairies of Western Kansas, must
remain there exposed to a mysterious
epidemic now raging through that
state. .r4--
The gamiest game banquet that was
ever served in Denver was placed be-
fore the delegates to the convntions
of tn National Association of Game
Wardens and the American Fisheries
| Society.
Mrs. Philippine Frein. blind. age eigh-
ty- one years two months and sixteen
days. died of senility at the home OF
her daughter. Mrs. Annie Szynskie, in
Salida, after lingering illness of sew
| eral years.
Four persons were killed and two Sc
riously injured at Glenwood Springs
when runaway trolley car ran
against stone wall, completely
wrecking the car and crushing four OF
the passengers.
A legacy awaits Terscater Roberts,
age twenty-one. whose father deserted
her at Colorado Springs. eleven years
ago. In the shape of the insurance car
ried by her father, who died recently
at Salt Lake.
| A new state record was made at
the closing of the Arkansas Valley
fair at Rocky Ford, when Marie
Louise. owned and driven by E. A. Col
burn of Denver, went mile in 2:15A,
over a half-mile track.
gasoline explosion wrecked the
rear of the Miller tailor shop at Boul-
der and C. D. Miller. the proprietor,
was probably fatally burned. His as
sistant. Richard Stoneman, also was
severely burned.
Denver detectives are seeking Ber-
nice Whitley, fifteen-year-old step
daughter of Thomas Crouch, a ranch
man, living half mile northeast OF
| Mt. Olivet cemetery, who disappeared
under strange circumstances.
Attacked by an infuriated bull elk
that was corra,ed at the Chautauqua
grounds near Boulder, Emil NJ. Ben
esch, thirty-one, barely escaped being
gored to death as the huge animal
charged upon him again and again.
Ute Indians, returning to the Pixies
Peak region, once the favorite hunting
and worshipping grounds of the tribe,
dedicated the old trail leading from
the mineral springs at Manitou into
the mountainous country across the
range.
While Charles Miller, aged thirty
two, inspector at the Sterling depot,
was working under some freight cars,
the cars were set in motion by
train, and Miller was caught and
rolled along beneath them, and injured
internally.
Alex Keil, Alex Poplar and John
Weitzel were fined $3.50 and costs and
given a severe lecture in Justice
Lightncr's court at Fort Collins when
they were tried on a charge of at
tempting to take Carl Schaeffer's