The Holly chieftain., 1912-07-26
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
small happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While,

Grafton at Loveland.
Inc West canal of the Uncompahgre
project is being con. pleted.
w. B. Monson. Doyleville pioneer.
oled at his home in Ohio City.
New alfalfa hay is selling on the
olntah reservation for IS per ton.
Gunnison County Cattlemen's con-
vention at Gunnison was an absolute
success.
The assessed valuation of the city OF
Grand Junction will exceed $4,000, 900
for 1912.
John W. Vandeventer, former state
statistician and Colorado newspaper
man. is dying at Minkato. Kan.
The Crowley County Agricultural
Fair Association holds the second an
nual fair at Sugar City Sept. "a. rs.
26 and 27.
Ellis. three-year-old son of Richard
Blackwood of La Sale. died from
burns received when he fell into tub
of boiling water.
Former Governor Alva Adams has
formally announced his candidacy for
United States senator as successor to
Senator Guggenheim.
Thirty feet of the water main Of
Canon City leading down the Royal
Gorge, was washed away by the flood
waters and a number Of cattle
drowned.
Philip Wehrwin, who was waylaid
on the road between silverton and
Blackstone. July 6, and badly beaten.
died at the Miners Union hospital at
Silverton.
N. Esqueville was shot in the neck
by Alonzo Gomez in quarrel follow
ing an all-night dance at the Marty M.
Howell ranch at Garfield, ten miles
each Of Boulder.
The farmers Of Morgan county
should receive in excess Of $500, 900 for
sugar beets. This estimate is based
upon supply from 5000 acres for each
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 / to July 20 total
of 1912 inches Of water has fallen in
Weld county, according to Govern.
ment Observer Nelson Reynolds. This
is the wettest year since 1909.
Reformatory officers identified the
unknown man shot and killed in Lead.
Vile as Stephen Marko, q convict who
escaped from the institution. No trace
of his assailant has been found.
Henry Coons, forty-four. yardman,
was arraigned in Justice Court at
Pueblo charged with a statutory of.
tense. The complaining witness was
Mary Ossanko, an Austrian girl.
That the streams in Colorado ara
the property Of the people Of Colorado
was the decision made recently in the
District Court of Grand county. in a
United States Intervention case.
Amos Roster, a veteran Of the Civil
War, died suddenly of heart disease at
Boulder. He was sixty-eight years OF
age, served three years in the Civil
War, and had resided in Boulder twen-
ty-two years.
Farmers near Durango who planted
300 acres Of sugar beets wholly as an
experiment are Gliding 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
S2,560 acres. will, 1t is believed by Su-
pervisor ]. A. Blair of Meeker. be
open for public entry by the end Of
this month.
Free peaches, band concerts. old
fashioned speeches and good old Iowa
stories will be on tap at Palisade Au.
gust 1. when the Iowans all over Mesa
county will gather and talk over old
times and enjoy the new times.
A cloudburst on Currant creek.
twenty miles west of Canon City.
washed out fifty feet of the pipe line
which supplies water to the city. The
city will probably not suffer a water
famine as repairs were started at once.
A party of British and local scien-
lists who have been exploring the fos-
sill beds at Florissant have unearthed
tha fossilized bones Of hand and fore
arm Of human being which may
prove to be the missing link which
Darwin describes.
Governor Shafroth has appointed
twenty delegates to represent Colo
rado at the trans-Mississippi CONNER