The Colorado statesman., 1912-10-05
lrTTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over tho
State Worth While.
western Newspaper Union News Service.

A new postoffice building costing
100000 has just been completed in
Fort Collins.
The first miners and farmers jubi-
lee at Firestone was attended by up
wards of 1000 visitors.
A forest fire is raging in the I'm
compahgre national forest twenty-five
miles southwest of Delta.
B. Kawamata, a Japanese. is dead
taurant, kept by a countryman at
Eaton.
September output of gold ore from
the Cripple Creek district amounts to
72,200 tons of 4 gross bullion value of
$1.146,034.
is in Weld county investigating con-
ditions in regard to the shortage of
the potato crop.
From $4,000 to $4,000 people from
all sections of Colorado are planning
to attend the Festival of Mountain and
Plain in Denver October 18th to 18th.
l. w. Hottel of the Montrose mills
has agreed to buy next year of Uncom-
pahgre valley farmers 100000 bushels
of Turkey Red winter wheat at S1.50 a
bushel.
With a display of agricultural and
horticultural products more varied
than heretofore, the Montezuma Coun-
ty Fair at Cortez was an unqualified
success.
Citizens of Fort Collins turned out
en- masse and erected a tabernacle for
Evangelist Charles Ostrun, who has
been conducting a series of meetings
in a tent.
has been organized with a member
ship limited to twenty-five, to take
charge of hunting lodge in the Foun-
tain valley.
The thirty-third annual convention
of the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union of Colorado met in Canon City
Wednesday, October 2, and continued
Thursday and Friday.
James Jarman, twenty-five years
old, salesman, was returned to Den
yer from Council Bluffs, Ia, by Deputy
Sheriff McElroy, to stand trial on
grand larceny charge.
Drawn back to Colorado by his de-
sire to see the girl he loved, Joe Am
alto, alias j. Marino, was arrested at
Rockvale on the charge of killing his
rival and the latter's brother.
Riley Hamilton, a Moffat county
stockman, says 5000 deer are brows-
ing in the section tributary to the Flat
Top mountains. And this is the open
season, and hunters are busy.
A carload of exhibits of Colorado
grasses, grains and vegetables has
been shipped to Lethbridge, Alberta,
Canada. where the international Farm
ing Congress opens October 18th.
More than fifty classifications for
competition are announced by the Col
orado Kennel Club for its eighth an
nual dog show, to be given in the Den
yer Auditorium, October "a to 26.
The Boulder Inter-Fraternity Bas-
ketball League has arranged a COM
plete schedule consisting of twenty
games to be played between the
dates of October Sth and November
7th.
The fate of five men and one wom-
an, on trial for the taking Of human
life, rested in the hands of juries in
Colorado Wednesday. All five of the
men were found guilty. The one wom-
an was set free.
The eighth annual National Western
Stock Show dates have been set for
January 20-25, inclusive, and it is
promised that this big annual exhibit
tion will be even greater and more ex-
tensive than ever before.
Acton Shronts, captain of the Long
mont high school football team and
star player for the last three years,
died as the result of injuries received
in the game bstween Longmont and
West Denver high school.
Struck by scraps of iron from a six
hole kitchen range which exploded at
As South Broadway, Oenver, Ridgway
Zeller, five-year-old son of R. E. Eel
Ter, was blown fifteen feet across the
room and probably fatally injured.
While standing before blazing
CRATE, the clothing of Clara Smith of
Denver caught fire and she rushed to
the street enveloped in flames. She
was taken to the County hospital, but
SO badly burned that there is no hope
of recovery.
Seventy-five carloads of potatoes
from a seventy-acre field on his ranch
near Carbondale, is one of the big
yields figured upon this year by Lou
D. Sweet. He expects to get from this
particular field an average of sixty
sacks of 100 pounds each per acre.
In a letter to Governor Shafroth,
Gilbert McClurg. general manager of
the New York Land Show, has re-
nuested that the states chief executive