The Colorado statesman., 1912-08-10
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
State Worth While.

crop at Carbondale is good.
Cantaloupes in carload lots will pc
shipped from Rocky Ford by August
18th.
A large amount of small fruits and
vegetables is being shipped from
Canon City.
The highway between Meeker, Colo.
and Vernal, Utah, will be put in first
class condition.
1t takes 10000 gallons of water a
day to sprinkle the streets of Grand
Junction.
The French beetle is causing beet
growers considerable trouble in the
Rocky Ford country.
The roads between Marble and
Crested Butte are still in bad shape
from snowslides and washouts.
For beans which are allowed to dry
on the vines the Fort Lupton canning
factory will pay the farmers s105 per
acre.
Fifteen hundred Methodists of the
state gathered at Stratton park, Colo
rado Springs, Aug. G, for basket
picnic.
Kersey is going after the big silver
loving cup offered for the best district
exhibit at the Weld Comfy fair in Sep
tember.
Harry Winslow, forty years old, a
farm hand, was drowned in Seeley's
lake near Greeley at the inlet of No.
ditch.
An organized band of horse thieves
is operating in the vicinity of Rocky
Ford, and the losses have been con-
siderable.
Gophers. burrowing in the bank of
the Evans town ditch, caused a leak
that inundated crops, causing losses
estimated at $4,000.
A heavy hailstorm swept the Eaton
district, covering a path twelve miles
wide and twenty miles long. Hundreds
of acres were destroyed.
One report says that during a recent
hail storm in Weld county stones
twenty feet long, fourteen feet wide
and eight inches thick fell.
DR.. f. A. Bushee, head of the depart
has resigned to take a professorship
in the State university at Boulder.
A hailstorm, almost a cyclone, swept
the Lakespur district, destroying
everything in it's path and causing
damage to crops estimated at 100000.
Mrs. ]. w. LASER, sixty-two, was Sc
riously injured at Grand Junction
xtrha ip
ing auto struck her on the head with
rock.
Perry Lewis, foreman of a switch
crew on the Santa Fe, was instantly
killed at La Junta by losing his bal
ance and falling from swiftly moving
freight train.
Stanley Caywood, age nineteen, son
of Arthur Caywood of Nederland,
Boulder county, was drowned in
gulch north of the Nederland reser-
voir
The thirteenth annual international
council of the Knights of Columbus
was held in Colorado Springs, several
hundred delegates being in attend
ance.
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 a twenty-round bout with Monte
Attel of San Francisco, at Santa Fe,
Labor Day.
This coming fall for the first time
Colorado voters will nominate their
candidates for all state, district and
county offices under what is known as
the direct primary law.
Actual construction of the woman's
building at the University of Colorado
at Boulder, to be erected as a me-
mortal to Mrs. Sarah Platt Decker,
probably will be started soon.
The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
is the third railroad running into Den.
yer to organize safety bureau for the
protection of it's passengers. The Den
yer & Rio Grande and Union Pacific
have within three months, adopted
this method.
Robert w. Speer, publisher of the
Times, and former mayor of Denver,
was fined $1,000 and given a jail SEN
tence of five days in the county Jail by
Judge Shattuck in the West Side
Court on charge of publishing ar
ticles in contempt of court
Exhausted from lack of food and
exposure to zero weather in the for
ests of Buffalo Pass, the eight men,
bers of the Steamboat Springs party
lost in the mountains for two days
were brought to that city by rescu-
ing party.
That a milling company holding
rights to non-consumptive use of wa