The Colorado statesman., 1912-10-26
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

Western Newspaper Union News Service
Cardinal Farley, of New York, ded-
icated the new Catholic Cathedral in
Denver.
John Dugan. age fifteen, was acct
dentally killed while duck hunting
near Stoneham.
All of the Jewish charity organiza-
tions of Denver are to be united into
federation under one head.
William Hessler, five, died from in
juries received by being run over by
a loaded wagon at Longmont.
Robert L. Cochran, state dairy com
missioner, represented Colorado at
the national dairy show in Chicago.
w. H. Wentworth, fifty-eight, for
several weeks patient at the Denver
hospital died as result of sneezing
j. NJ. Armstrong, who died in Long
mont, left 4 considerable fortune as a
result of his operations as peanut
vender.
Champ Clark, speaker Of the ma
tional House of Representatives, was
in Denver and delivered an address at
the Auditorium.
While reading the last of thirteen
chapters of Scripture, William Ballan-
tine, "a, the Oldest man in Weld ,coun-
ty, died at Greeley.
Horace Havemeyer, the only son of
the late H. A. Havemeyer, worth mil
lions, was in Greeley and inspected
the beet sugar factory.
The assessed valuation OF property
in the city and county of Denver for
the current year shows an increase
over the 1911 assessment of $6S0,397.
AS a token of esteem, when Mrs.
Peter McCourt of Denver died, she
lert her maid. Miss Nora Mahoney,
bright and merry blue-eyed. red
checked Irish girl, $1,000.
After trying to drown himself in the
White river in the outskirts of Meek
er. Charles Ellis, pioneer, committed
suicide by hacking his throat with a
dull knife until the windpipe was sew
cred.
Herbert Rigby, of Meeker, who was
graduated from the Blanco County
High School this year, has been ap-
pointed to one of the three chemists
benches at the Sterling sugar fac
tory.
Two shots fired from ambush at the
son-in-law of Antoine di Alfonso, a
wealthy sheepman living fifteen miles
from Primero, started what the Trini-
dad Italian colony fears will be Sc
rios Of dark crimes
The Arvada Commercial Club has
held a good roads meeting at which
1855 was subscribed in three minutes
for grading and graveling Wadsworth
avenue from Arvada south to the state
boulevard.
Capital amounting to s50,000,oo0 for
Investment in Colorado and Wyoming
has been obtained by Werner 2. Reed,
financier and promoter of the Mid
West Oil Company of Casper, Wyo., in
the East and Europe, principally in
Paris.
How to make use OF their forage
crops In profitable milk production.
was the chief subject of lectures de-
livered to the dry land farmers of
demonstration train, on its five-day
trip.
A number of Greeks employed in
the beet fields around Longmont are
making preparations to start for their
native home after the harvest is over
and their contracts are completed, to
take up arms in defense of their coun-
try against the Turks.
Captain Alvin Schrontz of Longmont
was killed in football game between
Denver high school and the Long
mont team when his skull was frac-
tured; Captain Frank Burgess of Wy
oming university received serious in
juries to his back in the game with
Colorado college.
More cattle were received at the
Denver stockyards on the 21st than
ever before in any one day of Den
ver's livestock history. The official
reports show that 1928 cattle entered
the yards during the day. The pre-
vious record was 9,9S9 head, received
May 1s, 1910.
Bills for the establishment of mu-
nicipal farm where women of the
Market street district are to be cared
for and drunkards treated, and for the
establishment of municipal coal
yard to give homeless men employ
ment, now go to the mayor of Denver
for his approval.
More than a score of state health
departments and tuberculosis socie-
ties throughout the Rocky mountain
region devoted their energies Sunday,
which has been designated as con
servation of life day." to expounding
secrets of health and general attack
upon quack tuberculosis remedies.
Although he has been engaged as a