Eastern Colorado times., 1912-08-23
LlTTLE COLORADO lTEMs.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

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Small Happenings Occurring over the
Stats Worth While.
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silyerton Is making preparations to
celebrate Labor day.
The Ouray Pioneer association will
hold picnic September End.
During a friendly wrestling match at
Evans, William Hill received a broken
leg.
More than 1000 gallons of oil win
be used on the downtown streets OF
Greeley.
The state treasury has been en-.
riched by the addition OF 33.49s.35 in
inheritance taxes.
A bandstand costing nearly 1000
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 a
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 ill srepute.
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 ]. 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 T. Walby, aged fifty-six years,
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 in
Colorado Springs recently. attracted
enc thousand visitors, to Colorado.
J. 8. Shannon, well known resident
of Ignacio and owner Of the largest
herd of goats in the Southwest, died
suddenly of heart failure at Durango.
The pea canning season has closed
at Loveland. The growers received an
average Of $35 per acre for their crop.
tomatoes.
The taxpayers of La Plata county
are to decide at the November election
If they want new county jail at $780,
900, the money to be raised through
bond issue.
Milliken has fine potato crop in
the heart of the city and the aldermen
expect to reap a rich harvest from the
five-acre tract which eventually to be-
come its municipal park.
The state educational institutions
will receive a second twenty-five per
cent. of their aggregate appropriation,
amounting to between $1S0,o0O and
100000, on October 1.
With two carloads of grade and
registered Holsteins coming from New
York state the latter part of Septem-
ber, the Johnstown condensory will
start the 1913 campaign with 900 cows
to furnish its supplN
Dynamite was used by four yegg-
men who blew the safe Of the Platte
vile postoffice and escaped after fight
ing pistol duel with DR.. J. F. Daw-
son, local physician. The robbers
secured $400 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 $S.0O0,000 over that of
1911.
Met by a burglar, when she returned
to her home in Pueblo from church,
Mrs. Bruce Kergan, engaged in
scuffle with the highwayman and after
being overpowered was locked in a
clothes closet while the marauder ran
sacked the house.
Daniel and Lester Baker, two for
mer Boulder children. seven and four