The Colorado statesman., 1912-09-07
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

at Greeley in October.
Denver has entertained 150, 900 tour
lists so far this season.
death by horse was buried at Gree
ley.
The outlook for the northwestern
Colorado cattlemen this year was new
er better.
1t is reported in some localities that
grasshoppers are doing slight damage
to alfalfa
Sixty-one criminal cases are ON the
docket for the September term of the
District Court at Trinidad.
An effort is now under way to Sc
cure the pledge of $50 cows for the
proposed creamery at Kersey.
Temple Marshall, a negro, will be
the first man tried in Ell Paso county
under the new white slave law.
Frank Speed, while chopping logs
near Tabernash, had both legs broken
above the knees by a falling tree.
Failing head-foremost down a scale
pit and alighting upon a concrete
floor, Mrs. Mary Barbrick of Pueblo,
was killed.
Arthur Reese, twenty-four, living at
Colby, sixteen miles west of Delta,
committed suicide by shooting himself
through the heart.
Figures announced show that be-
tween February 20 and June IA saw
ings banks in Colorado increased their
deposits $760,215.35.
William Weymore, sixty-one, was
found dead from heart failure on the
ranch of Edward Wolfley seven miles
east of Grand Junction.
A Meeker dispatch says the new
line-the Provo and Eastern Utah rail
way-which proposes to enter that sec
ton, is now an assured fact.
Watermelon was served as dessert at
the Pickle Day feast at Platteville, aft
er the dinner of barbecued meat, sand
wiches, coffee and other good things.
The new Union Pacific round house
which has been unused since it was
constructed at Fort Collins, is to be
put into service on September 18th.
Memorial services for the late Gen.
William Booth, founder cf the Saliva
ton Army, were held at Greeley the
Presbyterian church. Mayor Mayher
presiding.
Five men were injured. two prob
ably fatally, from three accidents oc-
curing within forty-five minutes and
within stretch of mile in length
near Petersburg.
Announcement has been made that
Miss Blanche Bates, popular actress,
and Denver's police commissioner,
George Creel, are to be married in
New York in December.
Irene Bloomfield, thirteen, broncho
buster and intrepid rider, almost lost
her life at Meeker when a pony she
was driving ran away, demolishing the
cart and injuring the child badly.
Except for the serious Injury sus-
tained by NJ. B. Tombln, secretary of
the Boulder County Metal Mining As
sociation, the monster two-day miners
and farmers picnic celebration ended
without accidents.
The assessed valuation of property
in the City and County of Denver as
recorded in the abstract filed with
State Auditor Leddy by Assessor
Pitcher, is s133,S35, 800 for the cur
rent year.
A spook, which carries a lantern
and persists in taking it's position
every midnight on the highest noun
tain peaks overlooking Josephine ba
sin, near Meeker, has terrorized the in
habitants Of that section.
Struck by a Santa Fe switch engine,
as she was picking up coal along the
Colorado & Southern railroad tracks at
Pueblo, Mrs. Mary Gallo, forty, was
ground beneath the wheels and will
probably die of her injuries.
The police of the animal and bird
kingdom held their sixth annual con-
vention in Denver. They call them
selves the National Association of
Game Wardens and Commissioners,
and every state in the Union with the
exception of five was represented.
Charles Ledingham, nine, received
1900 volts of electricity through his
arm at the top of high power pole
at Fort Collins, extricated himself and
descended to the ground in safety. The
flesh was burned off to the bone and
the boy suffered intense agony, but
will recover.
Colorado-grown corn so high that
Ringling's tall man would have to get
on a step-ladder to reach the roasting
ears was on exhibition at the old.
fashioned fair of the jefferson County
Fair Association, at Lakeside. And
there were pumpkins large enough to
supply Rooseveltian families on pie for
weeks.
Postmaster Harrison received no.
tice from the Postoffice Department
that after September /, parcels post