The Colorado statesman., 1912-03-23
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

State Worth While.
Western Newspaper Union News Service
Mrs Lucy Jane Elizabeth Dawson
or Longmont has just celebrated her
ninety-fifth birthday.
Jacob Berger, aged seventy-eight
a resident of Boulder county for the
past twenty years, is dead.
The Meeker Rod and Gun Club, the
only society OF its kind on the West
ern slope, has been organized.
Strawberries are being cultivated in
the mountains near Steamboat Springs
5000 feet above the sea level.
A fire destroyed a two-story mer-
camille building on Main street in
Fort Lupton, entailing loss of $780,
900.
During fierce encounter in Pueblo,
in which both used knives, Frank
Shane and Jim Taylor were badly
slashed.
Isabelle Amado, aged thirty-two
mother of five children, committed
suicide on ranch at Hohney, near
Trinidad.
Tom Jones and Frank Meyers, min
ers, had an alteration in a saloon at
Victor. during which Meyers was
stabbed in the thigh.
The Town Board and all citizens of
Erie will cooperate in celebrating Ar
Dor Day. Each family will contribute
tree for each of its members.
The supreme council of the Pro-
gressive Moose of America has issued
"A dispensation for Denver Lodge No.
l. the first lodge to be organized.
The Fort Collins branch of the
Farmers Educational and Co-opera-
tive union voted to send $25 to aid
destitute farmers in eastern Colorado.
]. H. Hollis, well known among Col
orado commission men, was arrested
in Colorado Springs charged with en-
bezzlement by warrant sworn out at
La Junta.
William Hilliar, Sr., one of the best
known coal miners in the Oak Creek
district, was fatally crushed by falling
rock in the Juniper mine and lived but
short time.
People are looking for a warm fight
over the removal of the Routt county
seat and while Steamboat Springs is
the largest town in the county it will
have hard scrap.
Miss Ruby Kirksey, a laundry en-
ploye at Trinidad may lose her right
hand as the result of an accident,
when she was caught in mangle ma
chine. which she was operating.
Pedro Amado of Trinidad, under
cross-examination at the coronor's in
quest over the remains of his wife.
Isabelle, who he claimed had commit
ted suicide, confessed that he had
killed her.
Construction on the Laramie, Hahn's
Peak & Pacific Railroad will be re-
sumed April l. Tunnel boring was
continued all winter. 1t will be ex-
tended to Steamboat Springs, Craig,
Meeker and Rangely.
The Y. NJ. C. A. has mapped out
nine-hole golf course on the Mesa road
northwest of Colorado Springs, and
this sport has been added to the al
ready long list of healthful athletics at
that institution.
While working on telephone pole
at Lafayette, Walter c. Teude, aged
21, employed by the Northern Colorado
Power Company, was electrocuted by
coming in contact with a feed wire
carrying 1900 volts.
Accused of having circulated Con-
federate money over Boulder county,
7 an StarL, was arrasted in Boulder and
taken to Dacona to face trial for pass
ing the worthless currency on Peter
Petrapulos, with whom he had board
ed.
Robert Gottbehuet of Greeley may
lose his life as the result of an acci-
dent. He was shoveling snow from
the roof of the Masonic temple when
his foot slipped and he fell three
stories to the sidewalk, crushing his
skull and breaking his left arm.
Rachael Kuhnley of Paonia has filed
suit in District Court against the town
of Paonia for $4,000 damages for the
death of her husband, Danied Kuhn
ley, killed while working at the cleo
trio light plant by the breaking of a
rope.
Not in years has Weld county faced
SO bright a farming outlook as at pres
ent. With the entire area covered
with snow to a depth of two feet, fast
melting and soaking the ground far
down; with 10000 acres of fall wheat
practically made, with every reservoir
in the county assured of being filled
to it's utmost capacity, farmers and
business men are anticipating a pros
porous year.
Colorado ditch owners, who claim
priorities to the use of water from the
Arkansas river and the right to divert
the water for use in this state as