The Springfield herald., 1912-09-20
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
State Worth While.

convention OF Master Car and LOcOmO-
tive Painters In Denver.
/ The placing OF q dozen peaches in
the wrong box near Delta resulted in
a. walk-out of 100 Japanese fruit pick
ers.t Z B& 9s,E II iE 4
, The voters OF Jackson county will
pass on a proposition to issue bonds to
build q court house at the November
election.
4 After forty-eight years bullet has
been discovered in the chest of Joseph
Blonger of Denver, veteran of the
Civil War 'i'.F ~ !
James Thomas fell from swiftly
moving Rio Grande passenger train
north of Pueblo escaped without brok-
en- bones. 7ss t-f' 91aT rr+t1 .ts
Melvin Blum. eighteen, son OF ia
cob Blum and a senior at Centennial
high school. died at Pueblo from spin
al meningitis. ~a lt r<-r
3 AS an Inheritance tax from the es-
tate of the late Thomas s. Hayden the
state of Colorado will receive the sum
OF, $S,323.19. ..,....-..-. ....... u.
! The burial of Richard John Van Val
.kenburg. pioneer and one, of the old
est Odd Fellows in the state, took
place in Denver.
NJ. Norris, stranger at Pueblo.
committed suicide In Jail few min
utes after he had been locked up on
charge of forgery. sar arr- tf
Heavy rains set back cantaloupe
picking in the Rocky Ford district and
have made the fruit soft and unfit to
ship for several days.
Governor Wilson. Democratic candi-
date for president. will speak in the
Auditorium in Denver. according to ad-
vices received by s. H. Thompson.
The body of baby girl, which ap-
parently had been dead but short
time, was found in box floating in a
creek at the west end of Colorado
City.
Newman Erb. controlling factor in
the Moffat road, has signed contract
for 425 freight cars. most of them for
coal traffic, to be delivered at an
early date.
Northern Colorado is enjoying one
of the most prosperous years in its
history. Thousands of acres of wheat,
oats. barley and other grains are be-
ing threshed.
Prominent men OF the bar in Colo
RADIO including two Supreme Court
justices, were honorary pallbearers at
the funeral of District Attorney JOS
eph E. Ferguson at Colorado Springs.
Two days after celebrating her fifty
eighth wedding anniversary, Mrs. An
geline Locey. wife of NJ. M. Locey,
died at Colorado Springs. She was
seventy-five and had lived there
twenty-one years.
The last detachment of cavalry
troops from Fort Russell. Wyoming.
to Douglas. Arizona, passed through
Denver. -Four special trains, consist
ing of eighteen coaches. were required
to transport the 900 soldiers.
Mrs. Helen NJ. Laybourn, a bride Of
three months, residing at Longmont,
has instituted suit in the District
Court at Boulder against her mother
in-law, asking for $4,000 damages for
alienation of her husbands affections.
Friday, the thirteenth. proved hoo
doc at Loveland when rain interfered
with the program of fair attractions.
In spite of the inclement weather
thousands turned out and declared the
fair the best in the history of Larimer
county.
That Western Colorado is to be sep
arated into a new diocese of the Cath
NJ; ch, of yvh Inv of IN
will be headquarters, and that a new
bishop will be in charge, is the state
ment made by members of the church
at Grand Junction.
The Great Western Sugar Company,
in suit filed in the United States
District Court by Assistant United
States Attorney Lacey, is accused OF
fraudulently acquiring title to tract
of eighty acres in Laramie county,
Colorado. valued at $4,000 and rich in
lime deposits.
The Colorado Springs police have
been notified of the theft of chata-
laine bag containing my and jew
els to the value of $1,000 from the
lavatory of Pullman car on Denver
& MO lITdnQe tTaln. L ne owner OF
the money, amounting to 5000 and the
j Is, has not divulged her name ex-
cept to the railroad officials.
Mrs. Julia Finley of Denver. ninety
nine years of age and the Oldest sur
viving relative of Milton Jerome, who
died in Chicago in 1856, leaving an es-
tate of mSre than $1,OOO.OOO. is seek
ing in the District Court to have the
property divided. asserting that the
terms of the unique will, which pro-
vided that no division of the estate
should be made until there no longer
existed any chance Of further heirs
being born, have been complied with.
1t is estimated that $4,000 acres of
the public domain in Colorado are il
legally fenced in and have been fenced
in for years by stock men. The fed
eral government has taken the first
step to compel the return of these
lands, valued at more than 100000
The day of the big cattle drives has
not passed after all. despite the cur
tailment year by year of the open
range. This was evidenced when one
of the largest herds in years was driv-
en- through Meeker, bound for the