The Colorado statesman., 1912-08-03
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
State Worth While.

for Pickle Day." Aug 81.
The new $4,000 Catholic church at
Montrose has been dedicated.
Several large irrigation projectsare
now being planned for Meeker.
The relief fund tor the Denver flood
sufferers has reached approximately
$4,000.
Southern Colorado Pioneers Associ-
alton held big celebration in Pueblo
Aug. l.
Francisco Floris, a Mexican, was
killed at Delta by Carlos Acuma, a
countryman.
Miss Ethel Butler, twenty-nine<
teacher of Pierce, committed suicide
by shooting.
The Northern Colorado Power
Company has established headquar-
ters in Boulder.
Sterling and Logan county are plan
ming to have an old-fashioned harvest
festival this fall.
Two Denver men have been arrested
charged with carelessly firing the for
est at Estes Park.
The Festival of Mountain and Plain,
to have been held in Denver, has been
postponed till 1913.
The annual conference of the Ger
man Congregational church Of Colora-
do was. held in Loveland.
During the run of two weeks at the
Johnstown pea huller, 250,000 pounds
Of early peas were handled.
Arrangements are being made for
the celebration of Rocky Fords silver
anniversary, September 3rd.
A gain in income of $343,O00 is what
Fort Collins beet growers are going to
receive over that of last year.
Fred Tiller, miner working at the
Aduddell mine in Russell district, was
severely injured by p cave-in at that
property.
A representative of Morris & Cots
with a view to establishing a pack
ing plant there.
Farmers on the Western slope are
making an effort to prevent laborers
coming there before the crop is ready
to be harvested.
The two-year-old daughter of lg-
mace C. Palpnek, an Austrian coal
miner, was drowned in an irrigating
ditch at Canon City.
Philip Wehrwin, who was waylaid
on the road between Silverton and
Blackstone and terribly beaten, July 6,
died at his home in Silverton.
DR.. ]. H. Spencer of Colorado
Springs was elected president of the
Colorado Baptist assembly, which
closed its ten-day session there re-
Gently.
Van Fields, nineteen, of Pueblo, is
mentally unbalanced by trip to the
summit of Pixies peak Sunday, when
he experienced high altitude for the
first time.
The body of Arvita Martinez, the
Mexican girl, who drowned herself in
the Arkansas river near Salda recent
ly, was found in the Royal Gorge, near
Canon City.
All records for gain in acreage, quail
ity and enthusiasm in the Arkansas
valley have been broken during the
past month by the strides the beet
crops have made.
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.
Denver citizens, who suffered fl
htr nf
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 $111,510,737.31. The per capita
bank deposit wealth of the United
States is only $34.
Falling from the roof of a three
story building upon which he was
working in Pueblo, John Abrams had
the good fortune to alight upon
clothes line and then upon a dog.
thereby saving his life.
Frederick G. Bonfils, one of the
owners of the Denver Post, was sen.
fenced to sixty days in the county Jail,
assessed fine of $4,000 and half the
costs of suit, by Judge Hubert l.. Shat
tuck in the Criminal Court for criminal
contempt of court.
In a one-sided battle in which Ben
ny Chavez, the Rocky Mountain light
weight champion, satisfied the specta
tors that he was by far the best man,
the Chavez-Shonskey fight at Walsen-
burg was called a draw at the end OF
fifteen rounds.
The Senate public lands committee
has decided to let the Taylor bill