The Colorado statesman., 1912-10-19
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

Western Newspaper. Union News Service.
w. G. Wamplin of McComb, ILL.,,
became temporarily insane wnlle pass
Ing through the Royal Gorge near
Pueblo.
Over 1000 Odd Fellows and Rebek-
abs gathered in Canon City for the
forty-fifth annual convention of their
grand lodge.
Hearing of the attempted assassina-
tion of Colonel Roosevelt, Denver per-
sons of all parties hactened to pay
q tribute of respect to him.
About 1000 cars of apples remain to
be shipped from the Grand valley, and
there is many moro to be sent out of
the Delta and Montrose sections.
Boulder county farmers are in the
midst of the harvest and the yields
being made have never been sur
passed in this section of the state.
Rather than accept Mayor Arnolds
terms for its further occupancy, the
Union Pacific railroad will order it's
tracks on Blake street in Denver
torn up.
S. Sargent of Grand Junction, has
been appointed rural school visitor for
the State Agricultural college. He is
county superintendent of schools of
Mesa county.
The team match played between the
Denver Country Club and the Colorado
Golf Club, on the latter's links, was
won by the Colorado team by the close
score of II to 15.
To the strains of the coronation
march, Governor Shafroth and Miss
Ruth Boettcher, queen of the carnival,
led the grand march at the state ball
at the Auditorium in Denver.
The state guard rifle range at Col
den is to be made mobilization
point with capacity that will enable
the entraining of $4,000 troops, if nee
cessary, in time of war in record
time.
Henry Williams, 40, a negro hod-
carrier of Denver, tell five stories
down the elevator shaft of the new
Shubert theater building, lighting on
his head-and still lives to tell the
tale.
After a voting contest conducted by
newspapers of the district, Miss Anna
Stoddart Of Goldfield, aged nineteen,
was selected maid of honor to the
Queen of the Mountain and Plain Fes-
tival.
The transcontinental highway path
finder car arrived at Grand Junction.
Members of the party were enter
tanned at banquet by local autoists
and resumed their journey to Salt
Lake City.
While out hunting w. s. Decker Of
Fort Lupton captured a white mag
pie. When the bird realized it was
trapped, it said "Damn!" Decker
brought it home and intends to revise
his vocabulary.
James B. Pearce, secretary of state,
has certified to all of the sixty-two
county clerks in the state the constitu-
tional amendments just as they must
appear on the official ballot at the
November election.
L. A. Parsons, secretary and man
ager of the Los Angeles Stock Ex-
change, was in Denver for the purpose
of getting the cooperation of Denver
brokers in an effort for uniform brok-
erage legislation in all states of the
Union.
Newspaper cooperation, conventions,
good roads and the proposed 1-cent
postage for letters was the leading sub
jects discussed at the annual meeting
of the Colorado Association of Com
mercial Executives at the Denver
Chamber of Commerce.
For the first time since the estab-
lishment of beet sugar factories in
Weld county the beet dumps were
kept open on Sunday for the delivery
of beets. This was made necessary
by the serious delay in harvesting the
crop, caused by rainy weather.
Girls who joined the Westminster
Guild of the Presbyterian church at
Greeley, had to sign pledge to re-
main single, but the first gathering of
a social nature will be one to which
eligible young men will be invited.
"Mormonism" will be the first subject
the girls will study.
Colonel James A. Shinn, state game
and fish commissioner, received tele-
phone message from o. c. Skinner OF
Montrose, special game warden. say
ing that Ute Indians from the Uintah
basin country. Utah, were conducting
G wholesale slaughter of deer in Para
dox valley, in southwestern Colorado.
Sample sugar beets from the heavi-
est-producing acre ever planted are on
exhibition at the Denver Chamber of
Commerce. They were brought in by
]. B. Farnsworth from the farm of w.
D.. Nels N. near Fort Morgan, where
thirty-eight tons OF beets were taken
from a single measured acre, netting
the farmer over 5000.