Rocky Ford enterprise. (Rocky Ford, Colo.) 1887-1950, 1907-10-11
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

EatOn III 10 HaNc ueW ciectIicd'
company.
Pueblo Is to have big cold stor-
age plant.
A Greeley cowboy roped coyote
and lead II into town.
The Gunnison tunnel Is within l0.-
900 feet Of completion.
Grand Junction peaches were sold
for $2.37Is q box In Boston.
Telluride. Ouray aud silverton-that
great mining triangle-are beating
best records.
Land In Paiisade. bought three years
ago for $40 MI acre. WAS sold. recent
iy. for $1,000 an acre.
Forty. Ave carloads OF fruit netted
Grand Junction growers $C0.i33.20.
This IL world record.
Grand Junction fruit growers say
| that Y good crop Of high class pears Is
better than u gold mine.
Claim 10 set up by indicted drug.
gisis at Fort Collins. that the grand
Jury was illegally serving.
Pueblo hopes TO add nailless horse.
shoe factory 10 its already long list
| OF manufacturing industries.
Robert z. Cunningham shot and
killed himself on the grave Of his wife
| 1T Leadvilia because OF dependency.
A mentally deranged Siav at TrinI-
| dad cleared u rooming' house Of its
inmates and smashed up the furniture.
| lie was nnally subdued.
o. Hall. who was In business at one
time NJ Idaho Springs and well known.
died st Stamford. Connecticut His
L Hatl L. "a
mine operator.
II. W. Moore near Brush. harvested
fifteen acres Of potatoes which went
ITO sacks to the acre. weighing 40
pounds 10 the sack. This II the record
for this vicinity.
A petition signed by Postmaster
waipols aud oniccIs Of the Pueblo
Business Mems Association was for.
~srded to Washington requesting that
railway mall service be established on
Santa re trains No. COL and CO: be-
tween Denver and La Junta.
| Peter Sprohesa. . rsnchcr. and for
| twenty-five years . resident OF Las
Animas county. died at his home near
Johns lake. east OF Trinidad. De
ceased vas seventy years old and a
native Of England. lie II survived by
bis widow and three sons.
Mrs. Augusta Cuihbertsoa Of Oak
land, California. sevonty'niuc years
old. died on board Beaver & Nip
Grandc train No. : while tho train
was paAsing Dc Bequc. Of hcmorrhas,
Of the brain. with her daughter. Mrs.
Kate c. Black. she was On her way
10 visit relatives In the cast The body
will be taken back 10 California By
Mrs. Black.
Robert II. Gore. city editor Of tho
chrouIcic.Nsws Of Trinidad. and Mis:
t.orcuA Esury Of owcasboro. keti1
lucky, were married In the chapel Of
the Catholic church by tho Rev.
Father Drummer. The bridegroom
went 10 Trinidad nve months ago from
| Kentucky. where he was engaged In
newspaper work. Tho bride arrived
from Kentucky later.
Old timers sIs predicting an UNI
usually early and hard winter OWING
to the fact that 80 many porcupincs
are seeking civilization. Not In many
years have 30 many Of thcsc little ami
mails made their appearance In Goldca
aud Il u no strange sishi to sec one
numbering along through the street.
Ono was 20 bold a. To venture Oh, on
Washington avenue In front Of the
business houses. where II was quickly
killed.
The Portland Gold Mining Com
psny. Il ts expected. will declare
four-cent dividend at tlsc regular quar-
teriy meeting TO DO held Saturday.
Tho amount will be si:o. 900. payab..
October 18th to stockholders OF record
October 9Th. of,ciais OF the COMPANY
are Icticent about diSuletuE THEFT
pisns. but from outside sources u was
Learned that they contemplate makinE
the dividend four cents. The disburse
meut Will be onc Of the largest VI this
year In mining circles.
VIII Z. f.rriii. curator. State His
toricai AID Natural History Society oil
Colorado. gave a lecture last week be
fore the Julcsburs high school on
Colorado Birds which he illustrated
with = large number OF bird skins
IRON the museum Of the society -
the state house. In addition to haV
Ing lcciurcd to about 1900 DenSSt
school children on historical and -
entinc subjects free Of charge. he
sometimes gives his services also to
the schools In other parts Of the state.
DR.. Amos Boutquin Of Denver. who
owns valuable grazing and agricuI.
tural land and water rights In Web.
sier park and Copper guich canon.
which he acquired from the Canon
Cattle Company, q few months ago.
has secured from the District Court an
Injunction against Antoine Adamic pre-
venting Adamic from developing .
water right from the undcrnow Of
Copper Suleh and conducting the
water across Bourquin's land 10
160.acre tract on which Adamic pro.
posed locating an Austrian settlement.
Bourquin alleged that the natural and
undernow water OF Copper gulch had
previously been dectced to the Canon