Rocky Ford enterprise., 1908-10-09
COLORADO ITEMS


OF 116.
Senator Albert J. Beveridge of ILL
nois Is expected to speak in Denver
October 18th.
Deputy Sheriff Peterson captured a
large porcupine on one of the principal
streets of Greeley a few mornings
since.
The Master Builders Association of
Denver has endorsed the proposed erec-
tion of a fourteen story skyscraper.
They hold that it would benefit the
city.
Petitions from nine city precincts
have been filed with the county clerk,
asking for a special election on local
option in Pueblo at the election Novem-
Der Sd.
Denver is investing money In new
buildings at the rate of over a million
dollars month. The building per-
mits for September call for an expen.
diture of $l.OO6.625.
The gross earnings of the Denver
City Tramway system for the year
ending August 81. 1908, are reported at
$3.O61 ,902.64. an increase over the pre-
vious year of 1921. .653.90.
The International Women's Chris
tian Temperance Union will hold its
annual convention at Denver October
23d to 30th. Several hundred delegates
are expected to be in attendance.
John Susick. aged nineteen. was in
stantly killed in the mine of the Colo
rado Fuel & Iron Company at Ber-
wind Tuesday morning by being caught
In a cave-in OF rock and dirt.
Gov. J. Frank HanIy of Indiana will
be in Colorado October Sth. 9th and
10th and will deliver addresses under
the auspices o fthe Anti-Saloon league.
He will speak In Denver October 10TH
Seventy-fve thousand trout fry from
the state hatchery at Glenwood Springs
have been received by Sam w. Wider.
deputy game warden at Cripple Creek.
and placed In Four Mile and Oil creeks
The Eastern Colorado Poultry Asso-
citation has been formed ut Fort Nor
gan. Sterling. Akron. Yuma and Wray
will be invited to Join the association.
which plans poultry show in Decem-
Der.
The engineers OF the Denver City
Tramway Company are preparing
plans for extending its present car line
system to Valverde. Overland park and
Fort Logan, districts. These lines were
provided for in franchise voted by the
taxpayers Of the city In 1906.
On the opening day of the Eistedd-
fod at Salt Lake City the ladies' quar-
tette OF Denver. composed of Mrs. F.
J. Houseiey. Mrs. II. s. Cooper and
Misses pcIu. De.ii" end Ivy siat'eso",
won first place. and Charles Brown or
Denver took second prize In the violin
competition.
George Sauer, recently convicted In
the county court at Fort Collins OF run
ming a bootlegging establishment, was
sentenced to term OF six years In the
county jail. This will be his second
term in prison for similar offense, in
addition to which he has paid many
hundreds Of dollars In fines.
According to the annual report OF
the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company.
now In the hands OF the printers, the
corporation has earned n net surplus
OF approximately $3OO, 1000. after hav.
ing paid all fixed charges. The an
nual stockholders meeting Will be
beld in Denver October 10.
Cooperation in road building is ex-
emplified at Eaton In the opening. grad
ing and grnvclIng Of regular county
road through the Bruce Eaton land,
east OF town. The road saves nearly
a half mile to farmers. The land was
decided to the county by Bruce Eaton.
the Great Western Sugar Company do
mated the fencing. and the county road
overseer and farmers furnished men
and teams to build the road.
Professor Bennett OF the Colorado
Agricultural College proposes to make
an exhibit at the Farmers institute at
Greeley next winter Of potatoes grown
In Maine. Minnesota. Wisconsin and
other states and also those grown In
foreign countries. The exhibits will be
of marketable potatoes only and will
be Of great value to the Greeley farm
er In showing them with what quail
ties they must compete In growing po-
tatoes most successfully.
Fire of unknown origin Friday night
destroyed two boarding houses at Gray
Creek, one OF the largest camps of the
Victor Fuel Company, eight miles
southeast of Trinidad. and for a time
threatened the entire camp. One Of
the boarding houses was completed
about n year ago at a cost OF $4,000.
being modern in every day. equipped
with steam heat and electric light
The mine was closed down and every
resident OF the camp fought the flames.
there being no fighting apparatus