Rocky Ford enterprise., 1907-03-29
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS


kinds Of metropolitan airs with q
street car system.
Mrs. Mary Dixon. aged seventy. has
Just died near Florence. She came TO
Colorado tbirty'tivs years ago.
.Leadviile safs,crackers pulled od
another robbing the other night. Over
$4,000 has been stolen there OF late.
Nimrods will be pleased to know
tho lakes In the neishborhood OF Gree
ley.
Tho curtains are again to roll up ON
vaudeville In the old California theater
in Florence. after being closed three
years.
Frank Roney, = Pueblo man. has
been arrested for kidnapping his own
child? Why didn't hs let the kid do
Its own mapping?
II there isn't music In tho air at
Fort Collins II will be no fault OF the
band boys. who have just received
their new uniforms.
John ". Carol. for number OF
years conductor on railroad ID can.
didAte for mayor OF Snllda. He ought
to know how to handle the tickets.
Winter tiptoed In so quietly. acted
SO nicely. and departed so slyly that no
one knew II was on the place. Colo
RADIO weather II nothing II not Eenteei.
All the carmen on the Colorado
Southern employed between Wnlsen'
burg and Tcxline. are TO receive .
raise Of 2 cents an hour after ApriI
LIST.
The Logan County Advocate and
tho Republican at Sterling have been
consolidated and will be conducted BY
d. c. Smith. former publisher OF the
Republican.
Julesburg narrowly escaped boing
burned up this week by nrc set from
sparks from nm engine. As II was.
several mead Of stock were crcmAtod
on adjacent ranches.
John Zimmerman. . mountaineer.
living sixty miles west Of Fort Cos'
Inns. trapped fcrocious mountain non
last TueAdny. and now has its sk11
tackled on his cabin door.
T.. Z. BurlIn.amc. one OF tho most
noted men in Colorado for the last
forty years, died at his rcsidcnce. 1853
York street, In Denver. ut O'Clock
Wednesday morning.
John Okcy, q sixtccn.ycarold boy,
has been held on the charge Of murder.
Ing Alexander Albin. u rnnchmnn near
Montrose. The deed grew out OF .
quarrel over limo fence.
C. Z. Mahoncy. acting prcaidcnt OF
the Western Federation Of Miners. has
sone to Goldhold. Nevada. whcrc he
vas called to settle the strike now In
proErcss there. He expects to be there
two weeks.
The hrrt automobile club In Wyo-
ming has been organized At Cheyenne.
This ought TO open tho eyes OF East.
ern tend.rfcct who think that Wyo'
ming In nothing but homo for buck.
ing broncos.
Sentence OF death has boon pro-
nounccd upon Santiago Tafoya. who
was convicted Of numbering Pedro
Grcigo near SopriS. SIX weeks ago. He
will be hanged In the state pcnitcntiary
during the week Of July 9Th.
A package containing 32.soo thnt
was taken from the depot platform at
Aspen n few days ago. has been re-
turned by mall. Tho name OF the con
sciencc.smlttcn one who returned II
was not given.
DIR. J. A. Holmes has invented .
process whereby the lowest grade OF
coal may be made useful. Tho coal
is saturated with a mixture. BY this
process millions Of tons OF Colorado
coal will be made valuable.
Announcements OF tho tenth annual
session OF the Colorado Chnutauqna
and summer school. to be held Mt
Boulder, have Just been made. Twelve
distinct schools are organized. thus
giving the students splendid opportun.
tiles.
Scout Oliver Virgins. the Denver
weather prognosticntor. gives II out
nat that these diGgin's air to hev
three-foot snow about April LIST. by
cracky." The old scout comes dcsper.
ately near telling tho truth about II.
too.
Three railroad men in Denver arc
giving up some Of their skin to save n
fellow.workman's life. He was scaldcd
in a wreck md new skin must be
grated onto his wounds. Here Is one
skin and grating game tho general
public will applaud.
The postoffice report from Colorado
Springs for the year ending March 81
will show receipts approximating
$ll1,95O. This Is an increase OF more
than $1,000 over the previous yenr.
the best year In the history OF the
office.
"The Scouts Revenge" blood and
thunder tragedy In three acts. has
been perpetrated upon an unsuspecting
public in various towns in the state
during the past week. Just what tho
public has done to have revenge taken |
out on 1t, the complainants sayeth |
not. |
Mike Pielli. living at the coke ovens |
three miles south OF Glenwood Springs. |
attempted to kill his wife the other |
day by shooting her three times with |
bird shot He is in Jail and the doctor
Is making a collection Of pellets for
evidence against him. The woman will
recover.
Twenty-.hree years ago Baby Will