The Springfield herald., 1912-09-06
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
State Worth While.

| singer aSSoCldtlon aSeutS Will De uetu
in Denver October 3rd.
A large crowd was present at the
Bent county fair at Las Animas on
Thursday-Santa Fe trail day.
Mayors from a score of Western
slope towns met at Grand Junction
and discussed plans for civic better
| ment
Estimates by sheep feeders place
the number of sheep which will be fed
this year in the Fort Collins district
at 100000.
Mystery surrounds the suicide of
Mrs. Harry Myers of Ault, whose body
was found at her home by Thomas Ell
lott, a neighbor.
A man giving the name of T. w.
Macklin induced Boulder merchants to
cash worthless drafts drawn on Den
yer business men.
Idaho Springs has become a Mecca,
to which scores of sufferers from hay
fever from Denver and other parts of
the state are flocking.
While sweeping the fourth floor Or
the county court house at Denver,
William Evans. a negro janitor, found
a pocketbook containing 500.
So badly are some Of the cantaloupes
rusted that Rocky Ford buyers have
turned them down and refuse to han
die them at any price.
Over 300 delegates and visitors at
tended the sessions Of the Colorado
NJ. E. conference at Canon City. Bish
op O'Connell of Denver presided.
Eighty-four high school students
from various accredited high schools
OF the state have accepted scholar
ships at the Agricultural college at
Fort Collins.
George Berg, aged eleven, son Of F.
A. Berg. was accidentally shot through
the right thigh by his brother. Albert,
with revolver.
William c. Baskin, who for four
years had been chief clerk of Justice E.
R. Morris court, died at st. Joseph's
hospital in Denver, after an operation
for appendicitis.
E. C. Smith of st. Louis was per-
haps fatally injured and George Boeck
tomobile wreck two miles north OF
Colorado Springs.
While hunting on the Apishapa at
Trinidad, Guerini Martini, one of a
party of seven, was shot and mortally
wounded by the accidental discharge
of his shotgun.
Except for special delivery letters,
will hn OF cd
days hereafter. either through the gen
eral delivery window or to lock boxes
at Denver.
John Desguorgorchoff. age thirty
two, employed at the Industrial mine
at Superior, died at Boulder as a re-
suit of injuries received in an eXplo-
sion In the mine.
j. H. Sherley, Jr., confessed to the
Cheyenne police that he and Albert
Yoder, the former Denver fireman,
murdered and robbed John Zabransky,
the Brighton miser.
If incubation against typhoid being
conducted by the Pueblo health depart
ment continues at the present rate, 1t
is believed that the disease can be en-
tirely stamped out in Pueblo.
C. l.. Holloway. negro railroad
man. was attacked by two women
while at work at Pueblo. and so badly
stabbed that it was necessary to take
thirty stitches in his wounds.
]. F. Fields, living west Of Long
mont, reported to the police that a
mare and colt had been stolen from his
pasture, making a total of four horses
stolen in that section in a week.
A record barleycrop was raised this
year on the Charles Golden farm,
northeast of Longmont, operated by
Ray Morrison. On sixteen acres the
average yield was eighty-four bushels
to the acre.
The canning of tomatoes is now in
progress at the Rocky Ford factory,
and force of some thirty women be-
sides a number of men are at work
and tomatoes are coming in in good
quantities and are of excellent quality.
Harry L. Frueauff, formerly OF Den
yer and for the last three years gen
eral manager of the Pueblo Gas and
Fuel Company has been transferred to
Sedalia, Mo-, as manager there of the
street railway, blS, eleClTlC llSuL ftuu
heating plants.
Trustees of the Stratton estate have
announced the election Of II. Willard
Cowan, for fifteen years superintend-
ent of the state home for dependent
children, as superintendent Of the
Stratton home for the worthy poor at
Denver.
Arapahoe county is out of debt, its
revenues and those of the officers
charged with the administration of its
affairs have been larger for the last
year than ever before and on every
hand the county appears to be on the
top wave of prosperity.
With the day set for his wedding
less than two weeks away, w. S. Bag
nell, an automobile man from ST.
Louis, died at Colorado Springs, as re-
suit of injuries sustained in an auto
mobile accident which occurred two
miles north of Colorado Springs while
he and G. H. Boeck were returning
from a trip to Denver.
Mrs. Guy Jouett, into whose veins
surgeons transfused nearly two quarts
of her husbands blood at the Park
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