The Colorado statesman., 1912-08-31
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over tho
State Worth While.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

tered and cash and goods to the value
of $1,000 stolen.
The convention of the American Pas
senger association agents will be held
in Denver October 3rd.
A large crowd was present at the
Bent county fair at Las Animas on
Thursday-Santa Fe trail day.
The Arkansas valley, in the vicinity
of Pueblo, is in the very midst of the
richest harvest in it's entire history.
Mayors from a score of Western
slope towns met at Grand Junction
and discussed plans for civic better
ment.
Two horses, two sets of harness and
saddle were stolen from the barn on
the Emil Affolter ranch near Long
mont.
Mystery surrounds the suicide of
Mrs. Harry Myers of Ault. whose body
was found at her home by Thomas FL
lott, neighbor.
A man giving the name of T. W.
Macklin induced Boulder merchants to
cash worthless drafts drawn on Den.
yer business men.
1t is estimated that about $4,000 was
cleared by the fete at Elitch's Gardens
in Denver for the benefit of the Chill
dren's hospital.
While sweeping the fourth floor o.
the county court house at Denver,
William Evans, a negro janitor, found
pocketbook containing $100.
For the benefit of the fund for the
improvement of the town park, home
talent minstrel show is to be given at
Fort Lupton in the near future.
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 n.
A. Berg, was accidentally shot through
the right thigh by his brother, Albert,
aged fourteen. They were playing
with revolver.
E. C. Smith of st. Louis was per-
haps fatally injured and George Boeck
of st. Louis was badly hurt in an au-
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.
Frank Hitchcock, laborer, is con-
fined in the county jail at Denver on
the charge of bringing Mrs. Laura
Brown to the state from Minnesota for
immoral purposes.
If incubation against typhoid being
| conducted by the Pueblo health depart
ment continues at the present rate, it
| is believed that the disease can be en-
| tirely stamped out in Pueblo.
C. l.. Halloway, 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.
Twenty-Five loads of cabbage were
| standing in the street at Fort Lupton
recently waiting for cars. Dealers are
paying but 20 cents the hundred, as
against $1.50 at this time last year.
Before 10000 enthusiastic spectators
from all over Western Colorado
Charles f. Walsh, the daring Curtiss
aviator, successfully accomplished
three flights in biplane at Grand
Junction.
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.
DR.. Henry Strong Denison, who died
suddenly in Denver from the effects
| of poison, taken by mistake, was the
son of the late DR.. Charles Denison
and Ella Strong Denison, and was a
| grandson of General Henry Strong.
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, sas, electric light and
heating plants.
Trustees of the Stratton estate have
announced the election of H. 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
Jose Tapia, who has voluntarily
given himself up to deputy in the
northeastern part of Las Animas coun-
| tv confeSseS that he killed Manner