The Colorado statesman., 1912-09-28
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over tho
State Worth While.

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Boulder county is soon to have an
other big cannery, to be built at Nj
Wot.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ira T. McAllister of
Boulder celebrated their forty-third
wedding anniversary.
murderous assault was made at
Durango upon Juan Josea by Jesse
Mccoy, white cook.
The forty-fourth annual meeting of
the Colorado Congregational confer
ence was held in Denver.
The first session of the forty-second
annual convention of the Colorado
State Medical Society was held in Pu-
eblo.
Col. Geo. T. Shackelford, aged sew
enty-five, pioneer resident of Den
yer, veteran of the Civil War, died of
cancer at his home.
Fire of unknown origin, but be-
lieved to have been incendiary, de-
stroyed property in Haxtun worth
from $4,000 to $4,000.
Murray Graham, the seven-year-old
son of Lawrence Graham of Del
Norte, was kicked in the head by a
race horse and may die.
The first school house in Eaton,
used of recent years as store build
ing by A. F. Eaton, was torn down
and will be replaced by modern brick
structure.
After offering "lift" to two wander
ing strangers, Herbert Clark was at
tackled by the men at Brighton and SO
badly injureHthat little hope is held
out for his recovery.
Two burly and heavily armed foot
pads held up three persons at different
times at an early hour at Pueblo with
in a rev blocks of the Union depot,
obtaining about 800 in money besides
two valuable watches.
Because he had been reprimanded by
his mother for a minor fault, Samuel
Jacobs, a schoolboy, sixteen, son Of Mrs.
Eva Jacobs, swallowed strychnine tab
let's at his home, in Denver, and died
in the county hospital.
After he had shot and killed Juan
Montoya, a coal miner, at the Del
aqua coal camp at Trinidad Jose Lo-
pez fled up the cafion and was only
captured after he had emptied his re-
volver in a pistol duel with Marshal
Vandebur.
Mrs. Ellen McNichols and her daugh-
ter, Miss Elsie McNichols, formerly
residents of Denver, are heirs to a
small estate and cannot be found by
the executor. Mayor Arnold has been
asked to find them. The estator died
in the East.
When the mercury dropped to % de-
grees above zero on the 22nd, the
record of twenty-four years in the To-
cal weather office went to pieces
Never in the history of the depart
ment in Pueblo has such drop oc-
Cured in September.
Father Thomas NJ. Conway, pastor
| Of st. Joseph's church at Grand
Junction, has announced that erection
of a $4,000 Catholic school will start
next spring and high school for
| Catholic students will be erected a
year from next spring.
Reports from the government cabin
at Mill Creek near Loveland, say that
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| ty inches on the range in the last ten
days. This, with the snow that has not
melted during the summer, will give
an abundance of water for irrigation
next year.
Reservoir and ditch owners of the
Poudre valley are all wearing broad
/ smile for Division Engineer Cogswell,
in a telegram to Water Commissioner
John NJ. Armstrong of Fort Collins,
has rescinded his order denying the
use of water for filling reservoirs the
second time in the same season.
The third mysterious death in the
family of Miss Candace Wheeler, who
was drowned in Bowles lake, June 2S,
occurred in Denver when James Coop
| er Wheeler, the father of the young
woman, died suddenly at a rooming
house, 1853 fremont place, after he
had been i'll less than ten hours.
Holding that the initiative and refer
endum amendment, proposed by the
extra session of the General Assem-
bly, in 1910, was submitted to the peo
pie in accordance with provisions of
the state constitution, the Supreme
Court revel sed the decision of District
Judge Riddle, invalidating the measure
Three Weld county towns celebrated
over the bountiful crops in this dis
trict by holding a harvest festival.
They are Milliken, Pierce and Briggs
| dale. The feature of the celebrations
at Pierce and Briggsdale were the ex-
hibits of dry land crops, which are
the heaviest in the history of the
county.
With visions only of hard work,
which the future seemed to have in
store for her and with the daily grind