The state herald., 1912-07-12
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

ed for 300 cars OF peaches.
Fire recently destroyed property in
Loveland to the amount of $4,000.
The Cross orchards, west Of Clifton,
will ship some forty cars of fruit this
year.
The new Methodist church at Rog-
ers. Mesa, Delta county, has been ded-
icated.
For the third time in three months
The Miles drug store in Pueblo has
been robbed.
The Grand Junction canning factory
has opened for the 1912 season. About
forty people are employed.
Farmers in the Maybell and Lay
valleys are sure of the greatest crop
in the history of the country.
Floyd w. Paige of Wigwam, is dead
as a result of having his left leg
caught and crushed in hay press.
A lighted match thrown into five
pound keg of powder caused the death
of Rudolph Petranschke in Denver.
Bonds for $3.50 were sold recently
by the Clifton school board for the con-
struction of new high school build
ing.
The state convention of the Colorado
Prohibition party. held a two-day. SEES
sion in Denver. One hundred members
were present.
Two barns at Rocky Ford burned
down recently, the result of careless
ness of boys who were smoking. The
loss will not exceed $500.
More than 500 commercial travellers
attended the convention in Trinidad,
Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and New
Mexico were represented.
The railroad from Golden to the
summit of Mt. Lookout, which has
been under construction for several
months, has been completed.
Mrs. Sarah Crabb will bring suit
for $1,000. the amount left by her
husband in his will for the army.
Joseph Shaw, age five of Meeker,
swallowed a 5-cent piece with which
he was playing and died at the Grand
Junction hospital few hours later.
II. F. Manley. aged "a. county clerk
and a resident of Hinsdale county
for more tLan 80 years. committed
suicide at Lake City by shooting.
The farmers of the Nederland dis.
trict, in Boulder county, are beginning
the hay harvest which promises to be
unusually heavy and OF excellent grade.
The State Land Board has voted to
refund about $1,000 TO some twenty
five settlers who had made first pay
ments on land in the San Luis valley.
The number of visiting automobiles
in the state this year greatly exceeds
that of any previous one. as is shown
by the records kept in different towns.
While riding his motorcycle. Father
Antonine the aged priest of the SoLtn
Boulder Catholic church. was gravely
injured In collision with horse and
buggy.
The State Home for Mental Dci,c.
tiyes has opened at Arvada under tn
direction OF A. r. Busey, superinten.
dent OF the State Insane Asylum at
Pueblo.
The state convention OF the prohl.
bition party was held In Denver July
and 4 at which Edward W. Mills OF
Paramount. w. Va. was the principal
speaker.
La Plata county central committee
will Issue the call for primaries to be
acid early In August. The call will be
Tor state. district and representative
offices.
Bonnie Chavez. the bantamweleht,
was given the deoiaion over Harry
Relde OF Aspen July 4. In the eighth
round OF the fastest fight ever seen In
Trinidad
Patrick Mccolgran. an Insane man.
who for the past three weeks has been
terrorizlng farmers wives In Crowley
county, has been placed In the asylum
at Pueblo.
The Yampa Valley Railroad compa.
ny. organized TO build branch OF the
Moffat road from Steamboat Springs
TO Craig, is preparing articles OF In.
corporation.
One OF the biggest celebrations OF
the Fourth ever held In the San Luis
valley was held In Alamosa. A street
carnival, horse racing. baseball games
and other events were featured.
Fruit prospects never were brighter
around Gunrlaon. Montrose and Pail.
sade than this year, according to Al.
bert Mcfarland. n fruit grower LIVING
about six miles from Montroac.
The earnings OF the Moffat road for
The fiscal year ended June 80 viii Ne
close to ti,20O.oO0. which In consid.
crably greater than the gross revenue
for any previous year.
Cherokee Bnl OF Grand Junction
aged lib years. who. according to the