The Colorado statesman., 1912-08-24
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

Weld county farmers are busy har-
yesting 1900 acres of flax.
During a friendly wrestling match at
Evans, William Hill received a broken
leg.
Denver is to have festival in oc-
tober to rival any that has gone be-
fore.
Pea growers near Pierce are hus-
tling to care for the large crop grown
this year.
Rev. Samuel R. Wheeler and wife
Of Boulder celebrated their fiftieth
wedding anniversary.
Boulder county is absolutely free
from debt according to the report of
Auditor w. E. Dittman.
More than 1000 cases, of $4,000 cans,
of stringless beans are being put up
daily by Fort Lupton factories.
An exhibition bull fight was held at
La Junta to raise funds to equip the
recently erected Mexican church.
The Union Pacific railroad is pre-
pairing an exhibit of Weld county GER
eals to be sent to the Iowa. State
Fair.
Daniel Naffzigger, aged sixty-five,
resident of Ault, died at Eaton from
| old age and a complication of dis
eases.
E. A. Vaughn, forty-three, a pioneer
business man of Goldfield, was found
dead at his place of business by his
nephew.
Jesse Calderhead, eighteen of Colo
rado Springs, was accidentally shot
and killed while hunting on Cheyenne
mountain.
John j. Hitchings, ninety-two, pio-
neer printer and mining man of the
state, died at Boulder. He came to
Colorado in 1858.
Hugh T. Walby, aged fifty-six years,
resident of Pueblo county for thirty
five years, died at Pueblo. He crossed
the plains with an OK team.
Judge Manford Schoonover of Gar
nett, Kans., won the silver loving cup
given by the town of Manitou at the
All-States picnic in the mountain re-
sort.
Mrs. Emma Barry of Fort Collins
received a telegram informing her
that the body of her son, Robert, who
was drowned in San Acacio lake, near
Durango. has been found.
Following his twenty-round bout
with Rudy Unholz at Victor Labor
Day, Mike Malone will meet Young
Erlenborn in a ten-round bout before
| tha LNllrc Of Idaho GnrinpS
The Fish Association is in receipt
of $4,000 young fish with which to
help stock the Poudre river. The
State Fish Hatchery sent in 10000
rainbow and as many native frys.
Dependency caused by the fear
that he would become insane, led
Louis P. Miller, one of the most pop
ular and highly respected citizens of
Steamboat Springs, to take his life.
John Selvidge, forty, of Mansfield,
Mo-, was run down and killed by a
switch engine in the Missouri Pacific
yards at Pueblo. Selvidge left wild
ow and several children at Mansfield.
George W. Thompson, with the lat
est model of the Mathewson aeroplane,
the Denver-built machine. made
flight at the rate of seventy miles an
hour against a seventy-five-mile wind,
at Sable speedway.
Weld county officers who have been
searching for the postoffice robbers
now believe that the automobile ban
dts went east instead of to Denver.
Tracks of an auto were found in the
sand three miles east.
After spending most of the day in
conferences with Denver stockhold-
ers IN the Moffat road, Newman Erb
left Denver for the East convinced
that he will assume control of the
road within two months.
Among the many new bills being
prepared for introduction into the Leg.
islature next winter is law pro-
viding for the sterilization of all per-
against public morals.
Officers at Fort Lupton are search.
ing for a mysterious stranger in the
belief that he is the man who muir
dered the Brighton jeweler, John Ia.
bransky, and stole a quantity of dia-
monds from his house.
Four Greeley boys, Robert Candlin,
James Scott, John Insinger and Leslie
Tuck, have broken the record in
climb to Longs peak in Estes park,
making the round trip in eight min.
utes less than made heretofore.
Those of the volunteer firemen in
the early days of Colorado Springs,
who are still living, held a meeting
and organized the Volunteer Fire AS.
sociation. primarily to make good
showing in the civic-pioneer parade OF
the carnival.
Official notice has been. received
from the Postoffice Department to the