While living in Cripple Creek, he dated a dance hall worker named Jennie LaRue.

[1] On April 25, 1896, an argument between them resulted in an oil lamp being thrown at a curtain, which started a fire that burned down most buildings on the street.

[2] Floto was hired to The Denver Post by Harry Heye Tammen as a columnist for sports journalism.

[4] He was a rival to Denver sports journalist Bat Masterson, after Floto duped him in a business deal.

[5] Floto fell ill in 1928,[6] and died of epilepsy on July 14, 1929, in Denver, Colorado, aged 66.