Eastern Colorado times., 1912-07-12
LlTTLE coLoRADo lTGMe.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
state Worth While.

western Newspaper Union News Service.
Two new sanitary drinking foun-
tains have been erected in Rocky
Ford.
The Cross orchards, west Of Clifton.
will ship some forty cars Of fruit this
year.
The new Methodist church at Rog-
ers. Mesa, Delta county. has been ded-
icated.
For the third time in three months
the Miles drug store in Pueblo has
been robbed.
Tho Grand junction canning factory
has opened for the 1912 season. About
forty people are employed.
Farmers in the Maybell and Lay
valleys are sure of the greatest crop
In the history of the country.
Floyd w. Paige of Wigwam, is dead
as result Of having his left leg
caught and crushed in hay press.
A lighted match thrown into five
pound keg of powder caused the death
Of Rudolph Petranschke in Denver.
The state convention Of the Colorado
Prohibition party, held two-day ses-
sion in Denver. One hundred members
were present.
Between $50 and 400 Colorado edi.
tors attended the State Editorial AS
sociation's convention in Steamboat
Springs July 9Th.
Mrs. A. Guiraud, pioneer woman
Of Colorado, died in Cripple Creek rc-
oh t0,-fh mi a trs
Colorado in 1859.
Two barns at Rocky Ford burned
down recently, the result of careless
ness of boys who were smoking. The
loss will not exceed 5000.
More than 800 commercial travellers
attended the convention in Trinidad.
Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and New
Mexico were represented.
Secretary of State Pearce will sub
NIT thirty-three bills filed with him for
initiation and popular vote at the gen.
eral election in November.
The railroad from Golden to the
summit Of Mt. Lookout, which has
been under construction for several
months. has been completed.
Mrs. Sarah Crabb will bring suit
against the Salvation army at Greeley
for $1,000, the amount left by her
husband in his will for the army.
Joseph Shaw, age five of Meeker.
swallowed 5-cent piece with which
he was playing and died at the Grand
Junction hospital few hours later.
H. F. Manley, aged "a. county clerk
and a resident Of Hinsdale county
for more than 80 years, committed
suicide at Lake City by shooting.
The farmers of the Nederland dis
trict, in Boulder county, are beginning
the hay harvest which promises to be
unusually heavy and Of excellent grade.
The State Land Board has voted to
refund about $4,000 to some twenty
| five settlers who had made first pay
ments on land in the San Luis valley.
The number Of visiting automobiles
in the state this year greatly exceeds
that Of any previous one, as is shown
by the records kept in different towns.
The State Home for Mental Defec-
tives has opened at Arvada under the
direction Of A. P. Busey, superinten-
dent of the State Insane Asylum at
Pueblo.
The state convention OF the Prohi-
bition party was held in Denver July
3 and at which Edward w. Mills of
Fairmount, w. Vs., was the principal
speaker.
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.
A pretty, well-dressed girl, aged
about sixteen, and believed to be Vita
Martinez, committed suicide by jump
ing into the Arkansas river a mile be-
low Salida.
Patrick McColgran, an insane man,
who for the past three weeks has been
terrorizing farmers wives in Crowley
county, has been placed in the asylum
at Pueblo.
The Yampa Valley Railroad Compa-
ny, organized to build branch of the
Moffat road from Steamboat Springs
to Craig, is preparing articles OF in
corporation.
One Of the biggest celebrations OF
the Fourth ever held in the San Luis
i va1lav was held in Alamosa street