Eastern Colorado times., 1912-09-27
LITTLE COLORADO IrEMs.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

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western Newspaper Union News Service
The harvesting of Longmont's ST.
250.00 beet crop is now on.
Four thousand pies drew record
crowd to Longmont's Pie Day celebra.
ton.
Boulder county is soon to have an
other big cannery. to be built at Nj
Wot.
Ex-President Roosevelt addressed
more than 10000 people at the Denver
| auditorium.
A murderous assault was made at
Durango upon Juan Josea by Jesse
Mccoy. q white cook.
The forty-fourth annual meeting of
the Colorado Congregational confer
ence was held in Denver.
The Rocky Mountain Hotel Mems
Association will hold its annual meet
ing in Denver November IA to 16.
Harry Davis. the La Sale, ILL.,, aero.
bat. whose back was broken in twen-
ty-foot fall at Montrose, died at Grand
Junction.
Pueblo county captured the sweep
stakes, defeating other counties of the
state for the best varied display at
the State fair.
Col. Geo. T. Shackelford, aged sew
enty-five. a pioneer resident of Den
yer, veteran Of the Civil War, died OF
cancer at his home.
Gerald Tetan, age five, son Of H.
Tetan Of La Sale, may lost his life as
a result of an effort to prevent his
pet dog from being injured.
Blanche Cobacker, Denyer's child
pianist" is to enter upon a professional
career and will leave for New York
to prepare for a tour of the country.
City Marshal G. L. Williams of
Longmont raided a bootlegging joint
in North Longmont and placed John
Helms under arrest and confiscated a.
quantity Of liquor.
The twcnty.ninth annual session of
the Woman's Foreign Missionary Soci-
ETY. of the Methodist Church will be
held in Denver October 16. It is ex-
pected that 1000 women will attend.
1t Is expected that 500 passenger
men from all parts Of America will be
in Denver October to attend the for
tieth annual convention of the Amer
ican Association of Passenger Agents.
Thomas M. Hunter, exalted ruler of
Denver lodge, No. II, B. P. o. Elks.
has been appointed as member OF
the national committee for the preser-
vation of the elk in the United States.
A twenty-five per cent. reduction in
water rates will be made by the city
Of Grand Junction the first Of the year
as the result of economy of manage
ment of Its new 100000 water system.
Tho Boulder Fish and Game Club
received $4,000 native trout from the
state fish hatchery. They were placed
in North and Middle Boulder creeks
and in the other streams in the Eldora
district.
Denver will be on the route of the
new macadam roadway to be built
from New York to San Francisco, a
distance Of 3,340 miles, by the auto
mobile manufacturers of the country
at a cost of $25,00O,OOO.
From an investment of $500 the flax
committee Of the Denver Chamber of
Commerce, appointed last spring, in
duced the planting Of 10000 acres in
this grain, and has announced that the
crop will be worth 100000.
Craig Hartford, Windsor cowboy
employed by the Wyoming Cattle
Company, is not expected to live as a
result of being pinned under a dead
horse in the bed ora caiIon for two
hours before he was rescued.
Memorial services for the late Stu
are D. Walling, justice of the State
Court of Appeals, and five other menu,
bers Of the Denver bar who died dur
ing the last six months, were conduct
ed by the Denver Bar Association in
the third division of the District Court.
Held up at the point of a revolver
by two masked bandits with black
ened faces, Mrs. E. E. Braden, a widow
living at TAI Kearney street, Mont
clair, near the scene of the Carlzen
murder and other crimes, was forced
to hand over purse containing $3.50.
After an hour of wrangling and con-
fusion the Board of Aldermen killed
the bill that would have given the
Burlington railroad a right to lay its
tracks on Market street and a ter
minal in Denver Of its own. Fourteen
aldemen voted against the measure
and two for r.