The Springfield herald., 1912-08-16
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
State Worth While.

erdhu LADor Lay cel6pTatlou.
George Sherman, fifty-two. commit
ted suicide at his livery stable In Moi.
fat.
A large amount of small fruits and
vegetables is being shipped from
Canon City.
Golden is to have a new postoffice
II the government does not renew its
present lease.
The City Council of Greeley has de.
cided to have the streets OF that town
sprinkled with oil.
The highway between Meeker. Colo.
and Vernal. Utah. will be put in first
class condition.
1t takes 10000 gallons OF water a
day to sprinkle the streets of Grand
Junction.
The French beetle is causing beet
growers considerable trouble in the
Rocky Ford country.
The roads between Marble and
Crested Butte are still in bad shape
from snowslides and washouts.
Thrown from horse while riding to
ceived injuries from which he died.
Six Of the seven men who escaped
from the Uinta county Jail after over
powering Jailer Fife. are still at large.
For beans which are allowed to dry
on the vines the Fort Lupton.canning
factory will pay the farmers $105 per
acre.
Fifteen hundred Methodists OF the
state gathered at Stratton park. Colo
rado Springs. Aug. 6, for basket
picnic.
Kersey is going after the big silver
loving cup Offered for the best district
exhibit at the Weld Comfy fair in Sep
tember.
Harry Winslow. forty years old. a
farm hand. was drowned in Seeley's
lake near Greeley at the inlet Of No.
ditch.
One report says that during recent
hail storm In Weld county stones
twenty feet long. fourteen feet wide
and eight inches thick fell.
The Colorado Scientific Society will
go to Houghton, Mich, to attend the
meeting of the Lake Superior Mining
Institute, August %, 20 and 30.
Stanley Caywood. age nineteen. son
of Arthur Caywood of Nederland.
Boulder county, was drowned In
voir.
At Grand Junction Clyde Jackson,
formerly a Mesa county banker. was
sentenced to two years in prison for
the embzzlement of $4,000 from tho
Helper State bank.
Raymond Dunbar, five-year-old son
of James Dunbar Of Gunnison, accl-
dentally shot in the back by his
brother, William, aged seven, died in
the hospital at Salida.
AS a result of a peculiar accident.
which occurred when huge furniture
car in the center of a train "buckled"
in tho Royal Gorge. left the track and
plunged into the Arkansas river, three
men will probably die.
The damage done to the twin spire
of the Immaculate Conception cathed-
raj at Denver, which was struck by a
bolt of lightning during a rainstorm,
is estimated by Rev. Father Hugh l.
McMenamin, pastor, to be $4,000. =
Exhausted from lack of food and
exposure to zero weather in the for
ests of Buffalo Pass, the eight mem.
bers of the Steamboat Springs party
lost in the mountains for two days
were brought to that city by rescu'
ing party.
That milling company holding
rights to non-consumptive use of wa
ter cannot waive its appropriation for
the benefit of reservoir company is
the substance of decree entered In
the District Court by Judge Graham
at Fort Collins.
Mortified when she saw rattle
snake creeping toward her three
months old baby in the kitchen of her
home at Pierce, Mrs. ]. J. Stephenson
forgot her fear of reptiles and seized
the snake with her hands and threw
1t out the door.
The United States Forestry Service
has begun the work Of gathering and
extracting pine tree seed for the plant
ing OF new trees next year. The of
ficials hope to plant 5000 acres with
the seed, and most of this work will
be done in Colorado.
Colorado will be the battle-ground o.
one of the bitterest fights ever waged
in the West over the liquor question
when the prohibition amendment
abolishing the sale and manufacture
of Intoxicating liquors in the state
come up before the electors at the
polls this fall.
Denver responded nobly to the de
mands of scores of pretty society
girls and matrons who sold flower:
for the benefit of the Craig Colony
near Edgewater. 1t is estimated tina
more than $4,000 had been contribut
ed, an amount which insures the con
tinuance of the settlement of victim
of the white plague who have estab
lished themselves in tent village.
The west spire OF the Cathedral o
the Immaculate Conception, in Den
yer, was demolished for a distance o
twenty-five feet from the pinnacle. tw,
workmen were badly stunned, tn
lives of four others were endangered
by tons of masonry which fell al
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