The Colorado statesman., 1912-10-12
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

Chief of Police O'Neill of Denver has
given riders that minors be kept off
of Market street.
Mrs. Carrie Sophia Hetzler, age thir-
ty. died suddenly at Boulder from
eclantsia.
A big good roads convention is
booked for Denver, to open Oct. IA,
and last two days.
Thirty-seven deer were taken to
Loveland during the open season.
They averaged in weight about 100
pounds.
The Pueblo Commercial Club has ap-
pointed a committee to audit the
books of all the city and county Of
ficials.
Judson Harmon, governor of Ohio,
was the guest of honor at an informal
banquet given by Colorado Democrats
in Denver.
Estimates by sheep feeders place the
number of sheep to be fed this year in
the northwestern Colorado district, at
about 100000.
Plans have been completed and ST.
500 subscribed for the rebuilding and
enlargement of the First Baptist
church at Salida.
N. F.. Clute, eighty. a pioneer of
Colorado Springs, sustained fatal inju-
ries when struck by an automobile
driven by Joseph Rieheman.
The Ministerial Alliance and the
City Federation adopted resolutions
approving the teaching of sex hygiene
In the public SCHOOLS of Denver.
The home of Barcley Sanders was
the scene of pleasant gathering
planned by his Boulder friends in COM
memoration of his eighty-eighth birth
day.
When Judge Graham convened Dis
trict Court at Boulder he faced the
heaviest docket in years, forty-tVo
criminal ana over two hundred civil
cases.
Following night of drinking, John
r. Hanson committed suicide at Du-
range in the county Jail by shooting
himself through the head with a re-
volver.
DR.. Elisha Avery Hewitt, eighty-five
years old, for twenty years a resident
of Denver and pioneer of the Rcutt
county coal fields, died suddenly of
pneumonia.
More than 100 persons are securing
the hills in the vicinity of Browns
who disappeared from hunters camp
on Elk creek.
Despondent because of poor health,
George Rutledge, seventy, a promi-
nent farmer near Timnath, committed
suicide by drinking laudanum, iodine
and horse liniment.
The body of Frank Kostansky, at
tired in woman's garb, was found in
the cellar of his home at Loveland by
his daughter. He ended his life by
strangulation.
Edward NJ. Brown, one of the pion-
eer residents of the San Juan basin,
died at his home in Durango, follow
ing stroke of paralysis. He was sew
enty-two years of age.
The Rev. j. C. Jacoby, d. D., pastor
of the Trinity Lutheran church of
Boulder, has rendered his resignation
to accept call to the st. Johns Luth-
eran church in Wellington, Kan.
Edward Garrett, a ranchman of Fal.
con, claims he has discovered a cure
for the plague that has killed thou
sands of horses in Kansas, the secret
Of which he refuses to divulge.
Lost in binding snowstorm near
Cedaredge, on the Grand mesa, the
bodies of two deer hunters were found
covered with ten inches of snow near
a great boulder, where they had
taken shelter.
Governor Shafroth has issued re-
quisition on the governor of Missouri
for A. w. Bishop, alias j. R. Benson,
wanted in Pueblo to answer to the
charge of selling ]. w. Killy, Kansas
farm that he did not own.
Crazed over being lost, an unknown
forest ranger has been sighted near
Rainbow lake The wild ranger has
evidently lost his mind. He shouts for
help and. then runs from rescuers,
shouting and screaming for help.
James, and Jess Mccarthy, who are
mining a copper claim above timber
line on Mount Blanca, report a herd
of wild horses running loose on the
sand dunes of the Uncompahgre range
of mountains, southwest of Mount
Blanca and Mosca pass.
Stabbing fork into the leg of his
mothers assailant with all his tiny
might, four-year-old Marcy Marks ran
screaming for aid shortly after a fruit
pedler attacked his parent, Mrs. Nellie
Marks, twenty-eight. at their home in
Denver.
l.. C. Paddock, state immigration
commissioner, has assembled an as
sortment of products of the dry farm
ing sections of the state to be dis |