The Colorado statesman., 1912-09-21
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over tho
State Worth While.

Western Newspaper Union News Service
w. w. Roam was chosen head of the
Elks at the reunion held at Idaho
Springs.
The thermometer fell to eighteen
degrees above zero at Leadville Sun
day morning.
The Elberta peach harvest is prac-
tically completed and the apple harvest
is on in the Grand valley.
Ornamental side lights are to be
placed in the down town section Of
Erie at once. There will be twenty
four posts.
The new st. Philomena's Catholic
church in Denver was dedicated by
Bishop N. C. Matz, before congrega-
ton of 600.
On his second trip S. Piper of Den
yer, new brakeman on the Santa Fe,
fell from freight train and was in
stantly-killed.
Philip Strubel of Denver has been
appointed by Governor Shafroth as the
three-year member of the board of ex-
aminers of BARRIERS.
A bandit wearing a piece of light
colored cloth over his face held up
and robbed six men in a saloon in Den
yer and obtained $35.
Denver, as far as all surface indica-
tions now point, will have the G. A.
r. encampment in 1913, according to
General George w. Cook.
Because Kersey does not propose to
lag behind others in the county, the
Commercial Club has made plans for
holding a Dairy Day" celebration.
The Board of Aldermen of Denver
passed an ordinance appropriating
$1,000 as the city's share of the ex-
pense of the Mountain and Plain Fes-
tival.
Five thousand visitors attended the
opening of the Colorado State fair at
Pueblo and heard the speech at the
fair grounds by William Jennings
Bryan.
Amos Brown, a student at the State
Agricultural college, reported to the
police at Fort Collins that he was
gold watch.
The fortieth annual convention of
the International Association of Fire
Engineers, better known as Fire
Chiefs. held four-day meeting in
Denver
Mrs. ]. E. Mulnix was seriously and
Mrs. George Devore slightly injured by
jumping from a runaway while return
ing to Montrose from the Ashenfeiter
fruit farm.
Charles Ora, arrested at Colorado
Springs on a charge of embezzling
$4,000 from Mrs. e. H. Andres of Pu-
eblo, was taken to Pueblo and is now
held in Jail in default of $500 bond.
Frank Eiser, the Denver barber who,
with his mining partner, John Matt
| son, was lost in blizzard in Argen-
| tine pass was within GOO feet of res
cuers when he gave up the fight for
life.
The Women's Club will open a
school of eugenics and practical nurs-
ing in conjunction with the confine-
ment bureau established by the Uni
versity of Colorado to care for poor
mothers at childbirth. free of charge.
| Almost dead as a result of five days
on the prairie without either food or
water, f. R. Avery, patient who es-
| capped from the Pueblo county poor
| farm, was found wandering on the
prairie about twelve miles south of
the farm.
| Floyd McKenney, the sixteen-year-
old son of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Nc
| Kenney, is in serious condition at
his home, as the result of being struck
in the abdomen by a baseball during
game between the Kersey and La
Sale teams at La Sale.
Mrs. Sarah H. Steck, eighty-seven,
one of the oldest pioneer settlers of
| Colorado, resident of Denver for
more than fifty years and widow of
Judge Amos Steck. died at her home,
300 East Bayaud avenue. She had
been in feeble health for more than
two years and her death was attribut-
ed to old age.
With her wrists and ankles tightly
bound and her head enveloped in a
large rug, Miss May Peiker, nineteen
years old, rolled herself from a couch,
out of the room and down flight of
stairs, in the home of Halstead l.. Rit-
ter, in Denver. and screamed that
robber had bound her and escaped af-
ter ransacking the house.
Thomas Ryan. sixty years old. a Ia
borer employed by the city water de-
partment at Colorado Springs, was IA
tally injured near the dam of reser-
voir No. 2, when he accidentally
dropped a stick OF dynamite into a
camp fire. His entire left side was
torn and several of his fingers blown
Off