The Colorado statesman., 1912-06-29
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over tho
State Worth While.

meets in Steamboat Springs July 8
and 8.
Daniel Henny. pioneer of Love-
land, died recently at the age of 80
years.
Eight of the twelve victims of the
Hastings mine disaster were buried in
Trinidad.
At Erie's second annual Biscuit Day
celebration, biscuits, money and coffee
will be served.
Two masked men held up the pat
rons of saloon at Walsenburg and
robbed them of 5000.
For the first time in over twenty
years, grand jury has been in ses-
sion in Central City.
Carl Fitch, prominent German
American citizen of Golden, commit
ted suicide recently.
Secret societies among students will
not be tolerated-by the school board
of Grand Junction.
The summer school of the Universi-
ty of Colorado at Boulder has opened
for six weeks term.
Every thirty-third person of the $780,
600 that go to make up Denver's popu-
lation owns an automobile.
Morgan county will produce more
small grain this year than any pre-
vious year in its history.
ArtesiaE water is being drilled for
on desert land near the Sedalia mills,
three miles north of Salida.
Ground has been broken for 1000
city hall at Sterling. The building is
to be completed by October l.
Secretary Fisher of the Department
of the Interior has approved the plan
for the high line canal at Fruita.
Eward D. Hamilton, cashier of the
First National bank of Julesburg, died
recently of appendicitis and complica-
tions.
An average of $1OO a day has been
paid into the office of the clerk of the
Denver District Court, for alimony for
June.
The Greeley Chautauqua opened
June % for it's fifth annual session
and is well attended. 1t will continue
ten days.
Fifty-seven car loads of young
steers were recently unloaded at
Steamboat Springs for stockmen in
that vicinity.
Grandma" Hahn, a pioneer of the
Meeker section, died at her ranch
home in Rangely. She came to Colo
rado in the early seventies.
The State Land Board has declined
to invest school money in irrigation
bonds or securities, until further leg
islation on the subject is enacted.
The people of Petrolite have
changed the name of that town to Val
ley View. 1t has ceased to be an oil
camp and it's people are now all farm
ers.
Fred Walker, colored, was found
guilty of murder in the first degree in
District Court in Pueblo. He killed
another negro by the name of Link
Earl.
District Judge Essex of Pueblo re-
Gently held that it is not lawful for one
corporation to vote stock in another
en- bloc. Two mining companies were
interested.
A state convention of Socialists will
be held in Denver July 4 for selection
of two or more candidates for the cleo
tive offices to go on the referendum
ballot for nomination.
Samuel l. Altman, fifty-five years old,
after whom the town of Altman in the
Cripple Creek district, was named,
died in Colorado Springs following an
operation for appendicitis.
According to an official of the Vic
tor American Fuel Company, the care
lessness of John Thomas, fire boss,
caused the Hastings mine explosion,
when twelve men, including Thomas,
were killed.
j. o. Williams, the expert in charge
of the government horse breeding sta
tion at Fort Collins, has been selected
as one of the judges at the American
Horse Show to be held in Kansas City
in October.
There are two constitutional amend
ments to be voted on this fall. One
of the amendments to be voted on
provides for a bond issue of $10,0OO,-
600 for road purposes by the state,
$1.000.000 to be issued each year.
Although diligent search has been
kept up by the coroner of Arapahoe
county, and a large force, the body of
Miss Candace Wheeler, drowned in
Bowles lake, near Littleton, Sunday
afternoon, has not been recovered.
Because he used a rubber stamp
bearing his name in signing official
documents issued from his office,
Thomas Carbon, justice of the peace in
Denver, finds that some LOO judg-
ments have been rendered illegal dur