The Raymer enterprise., 1912-08-29
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

at Colorado Springs.
Big crowds attended the Prowers
county fair at Lamar.
Harrison Albertson, pioneer resident
Of Trinidad, died there.
The problem Of how to dispose of
the city garbage is agitating Colorado
Springs.
Theodore Roosevelt will speak to
the citizens of Rocky Ford Septem.
ber 18th.
Ten citizens OF Weld county have
met violent death within the last
ten days.
The Windsor hardware store was en-.
tered and cash and goods to the value
of $500 stolen.
The Arkansas valley, In the vicinity
Of Pueblo, is in the~very midst of the
richest harvest in Its entire history.
Two horses. two sets of harness and
a saddle were stolen from the barn on
the Emil Affolter ranch near Long.
mont.
1t Is estimated that about $4,000 was
cleared by the fete at Elitch's Gardens
In Denver for the benefit of the Chill.
dren's hospital.
To keep her husband from being
bigamist Mrs. Leonora Henry quietly
sued for and obtained divorce at
Colorado Springs.
Mike Miller, twenty.eight years Of
age. was arrested at Colorado Springs
charged with stealing $S5 from the
Modern Woodman home.
Colorado Springs and the entire
Pixies Peak region were resplendent
in gay colors and bright lights at night
during the Shan Kive. held there.
While several of his fellow ranch
hands slept on either side Of him, W..
H. Rice, forty.five. employed near
Brighton, died from heart trouble.
For the first time in the forty .one
years OF its existence the American
Fisheries Society will hold its annual
meeting In Denver, beginning Septem-
Der 3.
Two well known Denver lawyers
Judge Stuart Douglas Walling Of the
State Court Of Appeals, and Judge
Sterling B. Tohey-passed away sud
denly.
President J. II. Baker OF the State
University landed huge twenty.six-
inch twelve-pound trout at Stapp's
lake, near Boulder. after a fight Of
twenty-five minutes.
1t is stated that Alburt Yoder, a for.
mer member OF the Denver police
force, has confessed to completely In
the brutal murder OF John Zabransky.
the Brighton jeweler.
Struck on the head by a spring from
an air cylinder. William Pierce, TWEEN.
ty.three years of age, an air man on
the Santa Fe railroad, was probably
fatally injured at Pueblo.
Suffering with a terrible toothache,
Samuel Rice started to ride twenty-five
miles to dentist at Grover, when his
horse threw him off, kicked him in the
mouth and knocked out the aching
Tolars.
W. w. Gayton, seventy.five years
old, a pioneer resident of Golden. fell
from the roof Of two-story dwelling
house and received injuries which on
account OF his advanced age may
prove fatal.
One of Colorado's Oldest and. at one
time, best known pioneers, John A.
Heison, was found dead In a practical.
ly destitute condition in a cabin on the
kisinger ranch, about eleven miles
from Meeker.
Judge Riddle of the Denver District
Court has decided that the initiative
and referendum law was not properly
submitted to the people In 1910 and
Is, therefore. void, and must again go
before the people.
The Colorado Springs Chamber Of
Commerce made bid by wire for one
of the five institutions which the 10y
al Order of Moose, at its convention
In Kansas City, voted to establish at
cost Of s5,OOO.0OO.
William Jones, thirty.cight a miner
at the Golden Cycle, was killed rs
the result of being struck by rock
which stunned him. He fell from the
l.GOO.foot level into the water at the
bottom OF the shalt.
lnseparable In death as in life, the
bodies OF Forrest and Floyd Reed,
killed by lightning. were buried In the
Greeley cemetery. The funeral ser.
vices were held at the home of the
parents and were attended by 800 per.
sons.
More than 3l.0OO,OOO from the beet
crop Of the Fort Collins district Is the
conservative estimate by the experts
OF the sugar factory. according to a
statement given out There are l2,4O0
acres OF beets TO be harvested, which
will yield more than 10000 tons.
The activity OF Los Angeles In seek.
Ing to establish close trade relations
with the San Juan territory In south.
western Colorado Ia to be investigated