Rocky Ford enterprise., 1907-06-14
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

asub Al Vctocs
Denver now boasts Of population
Of over 100000.
DR.. B. Beshoar OF Trinidad has taken
unto himself wife.
Normal diplomas were awarded to
ZOE graduates at Greeley.
Canon City is to have q country club
In order to put on city airs.
Colorado Springs turned out forty.
nine high school graduates.
Arvada Commercial Club IL still
after cent street car rate to Denver.
Every teacher employed In the
Boulder graded schools has been reap
pointed for next term.
Cripple Creek will ceiebate tho M.
tional holiday with . two-dny jollif-
cation July 4th and 9TH.
Work has been started on the new
Santa Fe hospital ut La Junta. The
building Ia TO cost 100000.
A shaft Is being sunk on the Rock
wall coal vein In the vicinity OF Flor.
ence by an Independent company.
Colorado has been trying
With all her might and main
To duplicate Ohio
With mud and slush and rain.
A horse( which ran away on one OF
tho main streets OF Grand Junction the
other day. was badly injured by run
ming into q bunch Of tree stumps.
The infant son OF Max G. Overhoit
OF Lovelaud swallowed q safety pin.
and the child was taken to Denver to
insure the safety Of the child's life.
J. W. Kelly. passenger agent for the
Aioffat road. and Miss Eselyn Brown.
society editor OF the Denver Post,
hitched up In double blesscdncss re-
Gently.
Mrs. Cynthia N. Marshall. wife OF
the money order clerk At the post
once In Colorado Springs. died at the
family residence. tl2 East Hucrfano
street.
A car containing bottled beer was
broken into at Eaton and 40 bottles
stolen. Today Sheriff fiorencc rccov-
cred all but thirty bottles. Tramps are
suspected.
Major Otis Remick. . pioneer Of Col.
orado Springs OF the West. died at
81. Francis hospital. He had been Ill
general decline.
Louis II. Kephard OF Holly shipped
!: GOO sheep, which brought the highest
|, paid for sheep. Shoru lambs brought y
cents. and the wool lambs 10 cents.
The ladies' Of Eaton now use fine
stationery with their moao.rams cm.
bosscd on II. when Il comes to know.
Ing how TO do the proper thing Eaton
Isn't 30 very far behind New York.
after all.
John Peabody, halfbrothcr OF cx.
Governor James II. Peabody. died at
the Place sanitnrium at Boulder. He
had been . resident there for three
years and part of that time ~as store
keeper.
The Pueblo City Council has side
tracked an ordnance which was re-
Gently introduced providing that deal.
crs In Colorado Fuel and Iron and
smcitcr scrip take out n license for
$500 annually.
Actin. upon the complaint Of numcr.
Gus citizens Of Grand Junction. the
City Council instructed the chief of
police and city attorney to arrest and
prosecute all druggists who are selling
liquor other than in original bottles or
packages.
Henry Stuart. coiorcd. who was ar.
rested at Trinidad. told the police that
he had recently killed Bon Harrison.
also coiorcd nt Ration and had burned
the body In the firc box Of n locomo.
tive. The police are investigating tho
| story. but believe Stuart In no, rcspon-
siblc.
Mrs. Zoa Gillespie. sixtccn.ycar.oid
bride Of John Gillespie. at Grand June
tiou, was committed by a jury In the
Juvenile Court. Mrs. Rosetta johnson
alleged that one Of her dresses had
been taken by the girl when she went
to Delta TO get married. TN Girl said
she merely meant TO borrow the gar
ment to be married In and then to re-
| turn IL.
Miss Flossic Moore. valcdictorian Of
| the 1907 class OF the Florence high
high school. graduates with n perfect
record. She stands highest In scolar.
ship and during the entire four years
course has never been absent or tardy.
| She is eighteen years old and is the
daughter Of former State Senator
Frank Moore. She was born and reared
in that section.
Two irrigation cases were settled at
Fort Collins In Judge GarriEues'
Court. In which Larimcr Coun.
lty No. 2 ditch Is given the
right to take water from the
Poudre river through what is known
ms the old city ditch. and the Arthur
ditch Is allowed TO change It's point Of
diversion of the river water. These
cases have been pending in the courts
here for sixteen years.
The merchants OF Colorado Springs
are beginning an advertising campaign
to work up trade among the farmers.
Excursions will be run to towns along
the line of railroads and other means
will be employed TO interest the rancn.
men living in the more isolated sec
tions. The repairing OF the roads. by
the county commissioners. will. II Is
i I.-..atal hs, m "a ri tn