Rocky Ford enterprise., 1907-07-12
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

Senator Guggenheim sent u check
Of $500 10 the Greeley library fund as
a starter.
A team ran away with DIR. Sol G.
Kahn at Leadyille. injuring him se-
yerely.
It's a hard matter for one who lives
in Colorado TO md a place away from
home where he can enjoy his vacation.
Now that the glorious Fourth" has
leeE rounded up and hos.tied for an.
ether year. all Colorado is back to bust.
Hess.
Gold has been discovered in Delta
orchard. but the fruit yield Is SO rich
the owner doesn't need the new dis
covery.
Ben d. Lindsay has finally been set
aside as county Judge in Denver. and
will now have his own little juvenile
Pet court all by himself.
After an illness of many months.
Mrs. Il. P..Mawxey. wife OF Justice OF
the Peace Mawxey. at Boulder. II dead.
She was over 20 years old.
The married men OF Greeley went out
on the diamond and proved to the bach
clor team that they stiil know how TO
handle the bat.
| SoioiuuO CIup VI touIthth tHth scu
shows a marked increase over former
seasons. despite the late rains and
slow trains from the East.
A new town. which has not yet been
named. is being started six miles east
of Colorado Springs. II will be sup
ported by sugar beet culture.
Margaret Yont. the four.yearold
child OF Bert Yont. living near Grand
Junction. was nearly burned to death
one day recently while playing with n
gasoline lamp. which exploded.
Timothy Babb. aged six,y.onc. com
mnnder Of J. ". Anderson Post. G. \
r., n, Cripple Creek. has answered 10
comrade OF this post to die In ono
year.
| A prominent social family" living
near Pintievilic. gathered up their
ready cash and wrapping the cloaks Of
night about them. departed for fields
more green. a large circle Of cred.
itora mourn their departure. II was
80 Eudden.
| When his body was found II was In
n position showing that he had tried
to fight the blaze. but had been over.
come by smoke and fallen Just inside
the door. Hickey had supported him.
self tho last few years by doing work
for nei.hbors. As he had no known
relatives. tho body was buried at tho
expense Of the county.
A committee of forty. appointed by
the Greeley Commercial Club to solicit
funds for the building OF the Empson
canning factory. IN meeting with much
success. and after one days work r..
ports $4,000 subscribed. The acreage
committee II also busy soiicitnting J..
400 acres to be planted for the factory.
for which 500 have been pledged.
Charles whntlcs. recently manager
OF the Northern Colorado Power Com
pany electric light ofilce ut Greeley.
was found guilty In the District Court
OF grand larceny. Whntles and Ar.
thur Robertson. foreman OF the line
gang. were charged with larceny Of
ton Of copper wire. valued Mt 5000,
from the company. Robertson con.
fesscd and implicated whntlcs.
Charging that his father.in.law,
George Chandler Of Num-. will not
give him sufficient possession Of his
two young children. although he has
been repeatedly begged TO do so. J.
Brown Of Longmont. aged %. has TAX.
en- legal steps TO secure the children.
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months old. respectively. and their
mother died last November. The ia.
ther says his fatherin-!aw has eight
children Of his own.
Forty thousand acres In the Arkan.
sas valley east of Pueblo and this side
| Of the Kansas line, are covered with
fiourishing crops of sugar beets. These
figures are given out by competent Pu.
| eblo authorities and show IN increase
| OF about forty per cent. over last year.
Indications are that the average will
be at least twenty tons an acre and
that there will be enough beets to
keep all the sugar factories in the val.
ley busy until next April.
Footsore and weary after miles OF
Elobe.trotting across the deserts of
Utah, an aged Greek whose name Is un.
known, fell exhausted In front OF the
home. OF George Anderson in Grand
Junction. Policeman Paterson removed
him to Jail. A physician found that the
Greek was dernnged as the result OF
his experience. He speaks only
broken English. but from his discon.
nected story 1t was believed that he
had walked several hundred miles with
scarcely any food.
A special from Durango says:
United States Deputy Marshals Clark
and Frank arrived from Denver and
placed C. E. Herr. George w. Franklin,
w. N. Bagby. Joseph Coppenger, Il. L.
Sloan and William Morrison under ar.
rest under indictments returned by the
recent federal grand jury in session in
Denver, charged with conspiracy in al.
legged timber and coal land frauds. All
appeared before United States Commits
/ sioner pingrey and furnished bond All
are prominent residents of the county.
They claim they will be able to prove
their innocence.
A meeting of farmers and business
men was held at Greeley to further
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