La Junta tribune., 1908-09-26
UP AND DOWN THE VALLEY.

fair at Pueblo last week.
Ordway has shipped over forty car.
loads of pink meat cantaloupes this
season, besides 200 crates daily by
express.
The Hartman Enterprise has in
creased from four-page to an eight
page paper. Hartman is going some
for town only six months old.
The prairie chicken season is OH
in Kansas, and closes October 10th.
Game is reported to be plentiful.
Over 200 pupils are enrolled in the
Manzanola schools.
The string of relay horses from
Fowler, owned by Messrs. Robinson.
England and Gillespie, carried off
first money in the cowboy relay race
at the state fair In Pueblo.
Granada is getting aristocratic.
They are agitating the question of
organizing tennis club in that burg.
The Times says it would be fine
thing--for those who have nothing
else to do.
Chas. Hinton. agriculturist for the
Holly Sugar Company, says that their
beets average as good as last year.
except on few hillsides near Hol-
!y. where he says they will average
about 70 per cent. of last year
Granada Times.
Mr.. Ross is mighty well pleased
1t IfnIc lie oil
falfa seed will bring him over $50
per acre, and he has two hay crops.
and one crop of straw besides. This
from land that was not irrigated, too.
Coolidge Leader.
Work was begun last Monday on
the proposed bitches of the Timpas
Creek Reservoir and Canal Com
pany's project, to irrigate 10000
acres near Timpas creek, in the
southern part of the county. Four
hundred mon will be employed.
The Kansas Colorado Power and
Railroad Company completed its sur
vey from Garden City to the Colo
RADIO line last week. The survey
passes along the main street of Cool
idge and follows close to the Santa
Fe right of way to the state line
Coolidge Leader.
The city council of Las Animas
has donated the city library to the
high school library, the high school
authorities agreeing to catalogue the
entire list, issue them to the citizens
of the community and upon payment
of the usual membership fee. have
the same privileges to the consoli-
dated libraries as heretofore.
pioneer of southern Colorado, died at
his Ordway ranch early last Saturday
morning as the result Of gunshot
wound. said to have been accident
ally inflicted last Saturday while
he was returning from a hunting ex-
pedition. The accident. which re-
suited in the death of Shultz. was
caused by him striking his wooden
leg against the stock of his rifle
while he was sitting on curb talk
ing to a friend.
The new alfalfa mil at this place
made its trial run Thursday. The
machinery worked perfectly and al
most a ION of hay was ground into
meal. They commenced grinding
again today and will continue to run
providing hay is received rapidly
enough only one shift will be
made for a week or. two, when
night shift will be put on. When
tho mil is run to full capacity. sew
eral cars a day will be loaded with
meal packed IN sacks the same as
bran and shipped to the eastern mar
kots--Wiley journal.
The body of an unknown Mexican
was found last Monday afternoon in
lumber yard of the o. l.. Davis
Lumber Company at Trinidad by an
employe The body was lying be-
tween two piles of lumber, and as
there are no marks of violence. it Is
believed the man died from exposure.
Nothing is known of him except that
he came here from La Junta about
ten days ago, complained to the au-
thorities that he was sick and was
given food for a few days. The last
seen of him alive was late Sunday
night. He was probably twenty-five
years o,o.