The Colorado statesman., 1912-07-13
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.


| $4,000 fire station.
Two new sanitary drinking foun-
tains have been erected in Rocky
Ford.
For the third time in three months
the Miles drug store in Pueblo has
been robbed.
The Swift ranch in North Platte, in
cludlng three thousand head of cattle,
has been sold for $1S7,000.
Floyd w. Paige of Wigwam, is dead
as result of having his left leg
caught and crushed in a hay press.
Fifteen men were injured when d
| tire truck hit the curb while answer
ing false alarm of fire in Loveland.
| Lying face-down on a pillow in
box, the month-old baby OF William
Rutz of Windsor, was found dead by
The mother.
Miss Eugenia Kelly of Grand juno
lion is to be a candidate for county
;lerk of Mesa county on the Demo
cratic ticket.
Between $50 and 400 Colorado edi-
| tors attended the State Editorial AS
,ociation's convention in Steamboat
Springs July Sth.
Mrs. A. Guiraud, a pioneer woman
Of Colorado, died in Cripple Creek re-
Gently, aged eighty-three. She came tc
Colorado in 1859.
Thurmond Collins and Fred Dopps
| Of Boulder won the $3.50 prize in the
mine drillers' double.hand contest at
| Leadville on the 4th.
Two barns at Rocky Ford burned
lown recently, the result of careless
less of boys who were smoking. The
css will not exceed 5000.
Secretary of State Pearce will sub
nit thirty-three bills filed with him for
initiation and popular vote at the gen
sral election in November.
The railroad from Golden to the
summit of Mt. Lookout, which has
oeen under construction for several
months, has been completed.
Joseph Shaw. age five of Meeker,
swallowed a scent piece with which
ne was playing and died at the Grand
Junction hospital few hours later.
David l. Bailer, a rancher, aged fif-
y, was instantly killed near Glenwood
Springs when the derrick with which
1e was stacking hay fell, crushing his
skull.
The flags on city hall and the state
house in Denver were placed at half
mast as a mourning emblem to Mrs.
Sarah Platt Decker, who died recently
N California.
A pretty, well-dressed girl, aged
about sixteen, and believed to be Vita
Martinez committed suicide by jump
| ing into the Arkansas river mile be-
low Salida.
Bennie Chavez, the bantamweight,
was given the decision over Harry
Reide of Aspen July 4, in the eighth
round of the fastest fight ever seen in
Trinidad.
An employment bureau to supply
district fruit growers with help will be
maintained at Paonia by special ar
rangements accepted by numerous
commercial and growers associations.
An increase of resources of $1,S53,-
614.9S in 1875 state, private, savings
and trust company banks since March
IL is shown by a report recently is
sued by State Bank Commissioner E.
w. Pfeiffer
At a meeting of the county high
school committee at Montrose G. A.
Wright of the Colorado Agricultural
college was employed to inaugurate a
farm department in the county high
school course.
In the sundry civil bill reported to
the Senate in Washington regular ap-
preparations for Mesa Verde National
Park, Colorado, was increased from
| $500 to $4,000, the increase being
for road building.
Representatives of the Farmers un,
ions of Erie, Garfield and Idaho
Creek met at Garfield recently and ap.
pointed a committee to secure pledges
for acreage for an independent sugar
factory in that district.
The twenty-siXth annual session of
the State Normal Institute, District
No. 2, will be held at the Teachers
College in Greeley August 5th to 10Th.
The district includes Weld, Larimcy
Boulder and Jackson counties.
The Colorado Stockgrowers' Assoc.
alton will hold its annual state meet
ing in Glenwood Springs in conjunc.
tion with the State Agricultural and
Western Slope district conventions,
July % to "a.
Edward p House, the Colorado
Burbank" of Greeley after long expert
Imenting, perfected new variety of
wheat which he calls the "Norcross,"
which he says is hardy, prolific and
will make the best of flour. 1t is
particularly adapted for growth on
dry" farms.
The State Court of Appeals July s
| handed down decisions in twenty-five
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