Rocky Ford enterprise., 1908-11-06
STATE NEWS ITEMS

The students of the University of
Colorado have organized a brass band.
Miss Adele Fowle, Denver stenos-
| raphcr, was sixth in the International
| and third in the amateur typewriting
contest held recently in New York.
At the present rate of progress in
building the new Denver public library
it will be finished ana ready for use
early next spring.
S. J. Peterson of Dunlap, Iowa, will
build the Parva ditch and reservoir.
north of Windsor, to irrigate several
hundred acres.
The community of Mennonites, four
miles west of La Junta dedicated their
new sanitarium Sunday. There were
about 500 people at the services, which
lasted through the entire day.
Paul Frazier, who cached whisky in
an alley and an irrigation ditch and
sold it, was fined $500 in the police
court at Greeley. and on the same day
charges werc preferred against him in
the county court and he was fined 800
and costs there.
One hundred and ten tons of dried
brewery grain was shipped from Trim
idad few days since for London, Eng
land. By way of Galveston. The grain
was purchased by King Edward VII.
through Sir Charles Willoughby and
will be used in the private stables Of
his majesty.
r. X. Potter has filed plans with the
county clerk of Pueblo county for an
extensive irrigating system in the
northwestern part of the county, in
the Turkey Creek region. The pro-
jccted reservoir will have a capacity of
425.O0O,O00 cubic feet. Preliminary
work has already been commenced.
1t now appears that the statement.
fist made in the Denver Republican
and copied in many of the papers of
the state, that the late Col. Fred w.
Gross, who recently committed suicide
in Denver, had been divorced from his
wife was a mistake. The unfortunate
error has been the cause of much grief
to Mrs. Gross.
According to reports reaching d. E.
Farr. state game and fish commission
er, the flight of ducks this year is the
greatest ever known. Wild geese are
also said to be uncommonly numerous.
Denver hunters, some five hundred OF
them. are going out to the lakes in the
vicinity every day and bringing in i'm
mense numbers of ducks.
Ground was broken at Greeley Mon.
day for Catholic church building to
cost $4,000. 1t will be one OF the
finest in northern Colorado and will
be of gray brick and stone. The tow
cr will be 1I5 feet high. The church
was established four years ago as a reg
ular parish under Father Casey, and
has 900 members.
The removal of Dean W. l.. Carlyle
and Professor W. II. Olin from the
State Agricultural college was made
against the "rgent protest OF Governor
Buchtel. who wrote n circular letter.
expressing his opinions very strongly
in answer to the appeals OF prominent
citizens and organizations. but stating
that he was powcrless to prevent the
action of the state board
John Whitemoreis livery barn, con-
Quoted by Dode Wykert at Severance
in Weld county. burned October Goth.
entailing n loss of $4,000 with insur.
ance OF only $500. All animals were
taken from the barn and corral ex-
cept a colt, which was burned. Men.
women and children tIrncd out and
fought the flame s. thus saving the lum-
Der yard of George SchiIlig of Greeley.
At the Colorado School of Mines
the Walsh bureau of original research.
established last summer. is making a
collection of rare mineral ores and CON
Centrates for Thomas F. Walsh II will
be in compact and convenient form,
so that 1t can easily be carried for ex-
hibition purposes from place to place.
thus forming a valuable advertisement
for the mineral resources OF the state.
To furnish electric power to indus
trial cCnters and towns within n ra-
dius of twenty to forty miles on all
sides of Trinidad. Colorado. and prac-
ically Danish stationery steam engines
from the district, is the object of the
Southern Colorado Power & Railway
Company. Following out enlargement
plans the money has been raised to in
stall generators to furnish 4 total of
10000 horsepower.
The body of John Lynch was found
lying beside the state road five miles
west of Tin Cup, Taylor Park district,
few days since, by Mail Carrier Haw-
kins. who took 1t into Tin Cup. It Is
reported that Lynch fell or was thrown
from his buggy and his neck broken.
He came to the district in 1879 and
had been prominently identified with
the development of the mineral re-
sources of Taylor Park. two large min
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