The Springfield herald., 1912-08-09
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
State Worth While.

crop at Carbondale is good.
Rocky Ford's new system of street
lighting has been finished.
Delta county farmers will ship H.
600 cars of fruit this season.
Mrs. Jean Hooper Page, writer and
poet, died recently at her home in Den
| yer.
Cantaloupes in carload lots will ne
shipped from Rocky Ford by August
18th.
The beet and potato crops in the vi
cinity Of Hardin have been destroyed
by hail.
Hail did severe damage In some in
stances destroying crops. around Hugo
recently.
A large amount OF small fruits and
vegetables is being shipped from
Canon City.
The Northern Colorado Power
Company has established headquar-
ters in Boulder.
Colorado Springs has been damaged
thousands of dollars by the overflow
Ing of Fountain creek.
A heavy wind and rain storm swept
the Virgins country. causing great
damage to crops and roads.
Over two miles of track near Well
ington on the Colorado & Southern
was washed out by cloudburst.
For beans which are allowed to dry
on the vines the Fort Lupton canning
factory will pay the farmers $1O5 per
acre.
An organized band of horse thieves
is operating in the vicinity Of Rocky
Ford, and the losses have been con-
siderable.
1t is now believed that five people.
one woman and four men, lost their
lives In the recent Rock Island wreck
at Pueblo.
Gophers, burrowing in the bank of
the Evans town ditch, caused leak
that inundated crops. causing losses
estimated at 10000.
A heavy hailstorm swept the Eaton
district, covering path twelve miles
wide and twenty miles long. Hundreds
of acres were destroyed.
Christian Maniatis, Greek restau-
rant keeper in Denver. has received u
black hand letter ordering him to quit
business and leave the city.
Thirty-two persons were killed in
Colorado mines during the first four
months of 1912, according to the Bu-
reau of Mines in Washington.
A hailstorm, almost a cyclone, swept
the Lakespur district, destroying
everything in its path and causing
damage to crops estimated at 100000.
Perry Lewis, foreman of switch
crew on the Santa Fe, was instantly
killed at La Junta by losing his bal
ance and falling from swiftly moving
freight train.
With their town taxes at 50 mills,
the people of Platteville at mass
meeting refused to assume any addi-
tional burden in the way of bonded in
debtedness.
The flow of water from the Roose-
welt tunnel at Cripple Creek has in
creased to 10000 gallons per minute or
more, as against 5000 gallons two
weeks ago.
Benny Chavez, the Trinidad Mexi-
can prize fighter, has been matched
for twenty-round bout with Monte
Attel of San Francisco, at Santa Fe,
Labor Day.
Maldartz Gomez of Fort Collins was
arrested for beating his sixteen-year-
old wife with knotted "blacksnake"
until blood dripped from her shoul-
ders and back.
Actual construction of the woman's
building at the University of Colorado
at Boulder, to be erected as me-
mortal to Mrs. Sarah Platt Decker,
probably will be started, soon.
F. ]. Bawden, treasurer of San
Juan county, and Socialist, has re-
fused to collect the military poll tax
in that county. His political views
caused him to take this action.
Believing they were administering
EPSON salts, the parents of Frank
Brock, age eighteen. of Denver, gave
him a large quantity of cyanide of
potassium, which caused his death.
Edward McCullom. 80, wanted for
embezzlement in Utah, and Lester Aid
rich, 20. charged with kidnapping, es
capped from the Delta Jail by burrowing
a two-foot hole through the wall
The first pest district formed under
the new pest law for fighting grass
hoppers, prairie dogs, weeds and 9th
er pests, is now being operated to
good advantage in the Atwood section.
Andrew Mckay, the third man to To-
cate a claim in Cripple Creek twenty
years ago and at one time one of the
richest mining men in Colorado, was
arrested in Grand Junction recently
upon a charge of drunkenness.
Socialists of Boulder county ap-
peared before the County Commits
sioners with request that the coun-
ty take steps to give employment to
the idle men of the county. They
want the county to finance an expert
mental cooperative plan in producing
the necessities of life.
For the purpose of discussing ways
and means to prevent discrimination
against wheat growers of northern
Colorado and if possible to combine
forces that better prices may be Sc