Eastern Colorado times., 1912-08-02
LITTLE COLORADO lTEMs.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
state Worth While.

western Newspaper Union News Service.
Platteville is making arrangements
for pickle Day" Aug II.
The new $4,000 Catholic church at
Montrose has been dedicated.
Southern Colorado Pioneers Associ-.
alton held big celebration in Pueblo
Aug. /.
Recent rains in Ell Paso county have
caused a loss to roads amounting to
$4,000.
Wheat in the vicinity of Briggsdale
Is yielding from fifteen to forty bush
els per acre.
Two Denver men have been arrested
charged with carelessly firing the for
est at Estes Park.
During the run of two weeks at the
Johnstown pea huller. 250,0O0 pounds
Of early peas were handled.
]. P. Robinson, pioneer cattle rails
er and farmer of Fountain valley, died
at his home near Wigwam recently.
Saloons In Marshall. mining camp
In Boulder county, have been closed
for the first time in thirty-five years.
William Morgan, one of the best
known residents of the Snake River
valley. died at his home in Craig re-
Gently.
c II. Irwin. former president of the
La Plata County bank at Durango has
been arrested on q charge Of embezzle-
ment.
Meeker's Catholic church has been
completed. The edifice is one of the
most substantial and beautiful on the
Western slope.
Farmers in the dry land districts.
nea Keota, have cut and stacked hun
dreds of tons of Russian thistles to be
used as fodder.
President C. P. Allen of the state
highway commission is in the Meeker
country in the interest Of public road
Improvement.
The two-year-old daughter of Ig.
mace C. Palpnek, an Austrian. coal
miner, was drowned in an irrigating
ditch at CafIon City.
Loveland is sending a carload OF
raspberries to Denver and Colorado
Springs every other day, for which the
growers receive 81 per crate.
Philip Wehrwin, who was waylaid
on the road between Silverton and
Blackstone and terribly beaten, July 6,
died at his home in Silverton.
The De Beque Town Council is look
ing for man who is willing to dis
charge the duties of mayor of the vii
lage for the salary Of $40 month.
DR.. ]. H. Spencer of Colorado
Springs was elected president of tho
Colorado Baptist assembly. which
closed its ten-day session there re-
Gently.
There has been a heavy loss of cat
tie in the Alder country. Nearly a
head have died thus far this
year. A poison weed is causing the
trouble.
The body of Aryita Martinez, the
Mexican girl. who drowned herself In
the Arkansas river near Salida recent.
ly, was found in the Royal Gorge, near
Cafion City.
Following quarrel over a pool
game, Frank F1orris was disembow-
eled at Delta by Carlos Acuma, beet
worker, who attacked Florris at his
home with knife.
The Jefferson County Fair Associa-
tion has decided to hold the fair Sep
tember to z. Two thousand dollars
in premiums will be offered, with
many special prizes.
The Rocky Mountain Climbers Club
is arranging for trips to include the
ascent of several of the highest noun
tain peaks. The first trip will start
from Boulder Aug. 16.
John D. Rockefeller has donated
SIT, 900 for the Y. M. G A. conference
camp at Estes Park. A. H. Hyde Of
Kansas City has also donated $4,000
and c. p. Dodge of Colorado Springs
has given $4,000.
Denver citizens, who suffered H.
nancial losses by the recent flood Of
Cherry creek in that city, will prob
ably sue the city for damages caused
by the backing up Of water by bridges
built too low.
According to figures compiled by
Emil Pefeiffer. state bank commission
er, there is on deposit in the Colorado
banks Sill. 1.510,737.31. The per capita
bank deposit wealth of the United
States is only $34.
Morris Blackford, gold dredger,
was electrocuted when he came in con-