The Colorado statesman., 1912-07-27
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

| Western Newspaper Union News Service.
This West canal of the Uncompahgre
project is being completed.
w. B. Monson. Doyleville pioneer,
died at his home in Ohio City.
New alfalfa hay is selling on the
Uintah reservation for IS per ton.
The Methodist Episcopal church in
Sterling is rapidly nearing completion.
The rainfall thus far this year in
Colorado has been 3.31 inches above
normal.
Gunnison County Cattlemen's con-
vention at Gunnison was an absolute
success.
DR.. L. c. Stadler Of Ouray has been
arrested on charge of selling cocaine
to young men.
The meeting of the Colorado Stock
growers Association in Glenwood
Springs was well attended.
Farmers in the vicinity OF Windsor
will employ girls in the hay fields this
season, according to reports.
Strawberry harvesting has COM
menced at Steamboat Springs, and the
first shipments are being made.
Ethel Myrtle, infant daughter OF
Thomas Parrot, coal miner of Superior,
was smothered to death in bed re-
Gently.
William Morgan, one of the best
known residents of the Snake River
valley, died at his home in Craig re-
| Gently.
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.
Painters from all parts of Colorado
attended the third annual convention
of Master Painters and Decorators AS
sociation in Pueblo.
Anderson H. Young, aged sixty-nine,
veteran of the Civil War and Colo
RADIO pioneer, died of complication of
diseases recently at Boulder.
The De Beque Town Council is look
ing for man who is willing to dis
charge the duties of mayor of the viii
lage for the salary of $40 a month.
Philip Wehrwin, who was waylaid
on the road between Silverton and
Blackstone, July G, and badly beaten,
died at the Miners Union hospital at
Silverton.
N. Esqueville was shot in the neck
by AlonZo Gomez in a quarrel follow
ing an allnight dance at the Marty NJ.
Howell ranch at Garfield, ten miles
each of Boulder.
Earle Allen, nineteen, was probably
fatally hurt, and Orlin Hendershott,
eighteen, received serious injuries at
Berthoud when they were thrown from
their motorcycles.
The farmers of Morgan county
should receive in excess of 100000 for
sugar beets. This estimate is based
upon supply from 5000 acres for eacn
of the two factories.
Frank S. Smith, president of the
board of the Denver-Greeley Valley Ir-
rigation district, was indicted for per-
jury by the grand jury that has been
in session in Weld county.
From January 1 to July 20 total
of 10.42 inches of water has fallen in
Weld county, according to Govern
ment Observer Nelson Reynolds. This
is the wettest year since 1909.
That Colorado's agricultural output
this year is destined to surpass all pre-
vious records, both in yield and money
value, is indicated by the July num-
Der of the government Crop Reporter
just issued.
District Judge Cavender of Grand
Junction upheld the report Of Referee
Sternberg in the adjudication of wa
ter rights in the Grand valley, declar-
ing valid priorities filed by districts
| before 1908.
Farmers near Durango who planted
| 800 acres of sugar beets wholly as an
experiment are chiding each other for
not going twice as strong into the VEN
ture, for the crop is passing all expec-
tations.
The largest tract Of land in the
White river forest reserve, comprising
| S2,5G0 acres, will, it is believed by Su-
pervisor ]. A. Blair of Meeker, be
open for public entry by the end of
this month.
John d. Rockefeller has donated
| $4,000 for the Y. NJ. C A. conference
camp at Estes Park. A. II. Hyde of
Kansas City has also donated $4,000
and C. P. Dodge of Colorado Springs
has given $4,000.
A party of British and local scien-
lists who have been exploring the fos-
sill beds at Florlssant have unearthed
the fossilized bones of hand and fore
arm of a human being which may
prove to be the missing link which