The Colorado statesman., 1912-08-17
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

N tASi SallllS green CuCuLuDelS.
Only one arrest has been made by
the Boulder police in two months.
George Sherman, fifty-two, commit
ted suicide at his livery stable in Moi
fat.
The state treasury has been en-
riched by the addition of $3,496.35 in
inheritance taxes.
A bandstand costing nearly 1000
has been erected on the courthouse
lawn in Boulder
Mrs. Ella Celeste Adams, a we'll
known newspaper woman of the state,
died in Colorado Springs.
With the exception of fruit, the low
er Arkansas valley, clear to the Kansas
line, has the best crops in it's history
William Brand, the "bee man." of
LaSalle, was driven nearly crazy when
a bee stung him on the tip of his
tongue.
Work will be commenced on three
irrigation projects in Routt county in
the near future, involving over 100000
acres of land.
Seventy-nine residents of Ell Paso
county are seeking nominations for
county offices at the coming primaries,
September 10.
The International Supreme Council
of the knights of Columbus, held in
Colorado Springs recently, attracted
enc thousand visitors to Colorado.
Charles Bowman, a well known cat
tie man of Grand Junction, has
bought an automobile which he will
use in rounding up his cattle.
On the Suter place, near Kersey,
where there was over $50 acres of
grain harvested, the average was near
ly sixty-four bushels to the acre.
Cowgirls of Colorado and adjoining
states will contest for the champion
ship of the world at the State fair, to
be held in Pueblo Sept. 16 to 81.
The highways leading into Denver
are to be paIrolled at intervals by men
on motorcycles to prevent the over
flow of irrigation bitches on the roads.
AS a result of the visit of thirty-five
farmers from Nebraska and Kansas to
the San Luis valley, more than 5000
acres of land in that valley has been
sold.
Simon Schwalm, business man OF
Johnstown, is the victim of a tropical
disease, amoebic dysentery, although
he has not been outside Colorado for
twenty years.
A fine Jersey COW, the property of
Walker Grayson, rancher of Louis
vile, was found absolutely uninjured
at the bottom of an abandoned mine
shaft, eighty feet deep.
Thomas B. Wilmington, for thirty
eight years an employe of the c. F.
and l. Company, most of that time
superintendent of the pipe foundry at
the Pueblo plant, is dead.
Mayor Arnold has signed the Nc
Gauran bill, which provides that
growers of fruits and vegetables shall
have the right to sell their products
in Denver without license.
The finding of the body of j. E.
Marthar floating on Sloan's lake, at
Manhattan beach, Denver, marks the
thirty-eighth violent death that has oc
Cured in that city since July 1.
Miss Signe Carlzen, thirty-eight
years old, music teacher, was as
saulted and killed near East Alameda
avenue and Forest street, in South
Montclair, Denver, by an unknown
fiend.
May Doran and Daniel Eisenberg
of Denver are being held in custody
in Canon City pending an investiga-
tion into the death of Morris Williams,
convict No. S205, at the state peni-
tentiary.
There has not been a time in three
years when machine shops, foundries,
steel mills, bridge and structural iron
fa ctories and similar manufacturing
concerns in Denver and all Colorado
employed more men or worked full
er hours than now.
Fleeing before Robert Freeman of
Glenwood Springs, his employer, with
whom he had ben engaged in a fight
Robert Roberts, a negro ranch hand,
ran half a mile before he reached the
the Grand river, into which he went
headlong and was drowned.
Jean Talbot Miller, who fired four
shots into the head of his sweetheart,
Georgiana Lichtenwalter, because she
would not elope with him, was SEN
fenced to serve a term of from seven
to fourteen years in the penitentiary
by Judge Shattuck of Denver.
The eleventh of list of auto fatal.
ties that have saddened Denver since
July l may be added as the result of
an accident on the Decentralization
road, in which three-year-old Harry
Chase was probably fatally injured,
while his father was badly hurt.
The government has filed three
suits for judgment amounting to S13,-
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