Rocky Ford enterprise., 1907-03-08
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

Two people were killed in the rail.
road yards at Denver on the lst-
Ground Was broken at Greeley on
the goth for new Congregational
church 10 cost $4,000.
Mr. and Mrs. a. l. Barr of Long
mont were divorced on the goth after
thirty years Of married life.
The fifth annual dog show at Denver
lase week was the most successful
ever held by the association.
A new Masonic temple was dedi
Gated at Fruita on the 2Gth. One hun
dred and nifty visiting Masons as
sisted.
Mike Marchard is In the hospital ut
Telluride. probably fatally injured. by
a caye-in at the Smuggler-Union mine
on the 2Gth.
Louis Padilio was killed in headon
collision On the Santa Fe Mt Thatcher
on the 2sth. while riding q brake beam.
He had ST on his person.
Jerry Harmon. an old time restau.
rant man and an early settler of Las
Animas county. died on the 25th at
Trinidad. Of pneumonia. aged sixty
seven years.
Mrs. Alice Moore and Ggippon
Turner. a negro. have been placed In
Jail at Trinidad on the charge OF the
murder OF Manuel Charex. preferred
against them by the authorities OF
Starkville.
The contract has ben lie, for the new
nrmory nj Fort Collins. II will be COX
100 feet In sire and will cost $4,000.
The contract has also been let for the
new Y. n. c. A. building. to cost SS5.'
900.
The cornerstone of the new Chris.
tian church nj Canon City was laid OF,
the 2Sth. The building. which Will
cost about $4,000. will be OF Greclan
style Of architecture. and Is to be COM
ple,ed by August LIST.
The wa,senburg and Western Rail.
way Company was incorporated at De.'
yer on tho 9th: capital stock 500. 900:
+. W. Grimth. l.. +. Rowland. =. +,
Guy. George G. Barnard. r. J. jackson.
incorporators: Denver.
John DcBaker, who died Mt Boulder
on the goth. and who went to that city
In 1859. xas the hrst man to erect a
quartz mill ut Gold hill In Boulder
county. II proved failure. He was
also the first man to erect n Touring
mill In that county. In 1859.
The locomotive Of n Colorado Mid.
land passenger train on the night Of the
18th inst. struck and killed a large
buck deer near Woodland Park. Tho
train was stopped and the carcass OF
the deer carried to Colorado Springs In
the baggage car.
A county bridge four miles north Of
SaIida collapsed and N. c. Laws. a
ranehman. who was driving over the
bridge with a load. was precipitaied
in.s the Arknnyas river and seriously
injured. The bridge was condemned
by the county commissioners several
years ago. but had never been closed
to trnfic.
william Berry and Charles Green.
colorcd. aged ten and twelve years
respectively. arc In jail nj La Junta,
charged with the murder OF Freeman
Henry Austin. aged sig. by beating him
on the head with brick. during nm nj
| tcrcation which arose while the three
boys were going home from school. on
the 2Gth.
One thousand acres Of land lying be-
tween Greeley md Lovcland. above
the Greeley and Loveland ditch. will
be piowcd this spring and sowcd To
fall wheat next September. This land
belongs to DIR. J. r. Youtsey and
George A. Jackson OF London. and
will be cultivated by the dry.farmins
method. .
February proved n record breaker
In the building line Mt Denver. During
the month 233 permits were taken out,
the largest number on record. The
Increase ever those issued during the
same period last year was 80. while
the cost Of the buildings erected was
sl3.s30 more than the aggregate
amount expended In January. being
3t27.700.
The annual breakfast: and election
of officers Of the Denver Press Club
hns been arranged for Sunday morn.
ing. March 10. at the Albany hotel in
Denver. Among the important mat.
ters to he discussed arc the removal
Of the Headquarters OF the club to 4
more desirable location. the establish.
r.ent of n permanent building fund and
the securing OF an extensive library.
.'ke dates for the next livestock
show in Denver have been set. and II
has been decided to make II a national
show. throwing the competition open
to the world. with special classihca.
tim and premiums for the territory
covered by the last show. the short
gr,ss country. The executive commit.
tee of the Western Stock Show Asso.
ciation yesterday set the dates for thd
next show for the week of January
20th.25th, 1908.
w. Harold Stewart, twenty years
old. son Of W. II. Stewart, postmaster
and ranch owner, Ironton. Colorado.
killed himself at his lodgings in Den.
yer at about 3 O'Clock Thursday
morning. Fighting on an imaginary
assailant while IN his sleep, he turned
the muzzle of the weapon to his heaG
and fired. Circumstances that sur.
round the affair show that he was be.
ing tortured by wild visions of his
sleep. and this alone was responsible.
The February business in the United
States lana office at Pueblo is record
breaker, showing 227 homestead en-.