Rocky Ford enterprise., 1908-03-27
COLORADO news

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A thriving commercial club has been
organized at Golden.
A company is being organized to
build = $4,000 hospital at Fort Nor.
gan.
Fraternities and sororlties will here
after be barred by the South Side
school board Of Pueblo.
Out Of forty.hve applicants to take
the Weld county teachers spring ex.
animation. only nve were mon.
Some Of the young men Of Greeley
are organising q golf club and will lay
out links on tho Country club grounds.
The automobile show at Denver will
be held April 9th. 7th and sth in tho
Mammoth skating rink on Clarkson
street.
The contract for the construction OF
the public building ut Colorado Springs
has been awarder to J. II. Wiesse OF
Omaha. at 9lS0.9t4.
New postofhces have been estab-
lished in Colorado as follows: Hart.
man, Prowers county. James +.
Moore, postmaster; Plains. Prowers
county, Jesse N. Sheets. postmaster.
The following Colorado rural routes
have been ordered established June
list; Austin, Delta county. route /.
population 800, families lGO: La Sale.
Weld county. route 2. population 800.
families 81. n
A contract for . sewer system for
Sterling was let on the 18th Inst. 10
C. q. Sheeley Of Denver for $4,000. It
In to be completed In six months and
will be nine and half miles long. GOV.
ering the entire town.
The Rio Grande has laid about two
miles OF It's double track between
Adobe and Canon City. Another month
will fnish the work. The object Is to
relieve the congestion OF trasic anu
avoid holding trains.
In the suit Of J. A. Eddy against Ben.
jamiu Kobey In the District Court at
Aspen for $4,000 damages for de-
famation Of character. the Jury re-
turned q verdict for $1,000. kobey
ffled n motion for new trial.
Buena Vista 10 to have new ihca,et
to cost $4,000. II will be constructed
OF concrete by Edward Kruger. now
with the Pyle thcatcr: will be- half
block long. facing on Railroad street.
and will be completed August LIST.
The new city hall nj Greeley. costing
S33, 900, IL just finished. II has two
stories with a basement In which 10
located the jail. The other iioors will
be occupied by ohiciais. In the rear
are quarters for the iirc department.
On the night Of March 18th Al Colo
rado Springs. Charles Roscnthai. an
election judge Mt the Republican pri'
maries. dropped dead Of heart disease
In Republican headquarters after dcii''
rring tho returns from his precinct
Sterling In going In for amusrmcn,s.
One skating rink Il In process Of CON
strucsion and another planned. An
electric thcatorium has been opened
and Giacomini brothers are erecting
an opera house nj cost Off $4,000.
A spiral frc escape vas tested at
In. new Central hish school In Pu.
cbio. A large number Of children from
other school were prcscnt and th,y
building vas cmpticd 30 quickly thai
there would be no danger VI any onu
being hurt In case Of nrc.
Denver capitalists are starting nSh
hatchcrics In Craig park. Jefferson
county. They will have three lakes AMI
build q finc driveway TO the park on a
ridge Of mountains between Brooksid-
aud Grouscmont. Their frst deposit
Of brook trout fry. Go.Vcc. has been
made.
The four high schools of Routt
county have recently completed an IN
tcrcsting spelling contest. Each
school was given list Of nifty words
by the county superintendent. and the
result was: CRAIG. 81 i<-iS per cent:
Hayden. 81 7.lo: Yampa. Sj,s: Steam
boat Springs. So 81.
Joseph Murphy. who siusscd and
robbed Sylvester Howell November
.sth. and was convicted In the District
Court at Fort Collins. has been sen
fenced TO i've 10 seven years In 'h.
pcuitcntiary. Tho robbery was shown
to have been coolly planned and
list.
The Model Land and Irrigation Com
pany has filcd at Trinidad n map Of
its reservoir to bc constructed four
miles north Of Hochnc. Las Animas
county. The reservoir will cost $500.
600. and cover two square miles OF
territory. II will irrigntc :0.tS0 acres
Of land. In the project are Interested
thirty Of tho leading business men OF
Trinidad.
While plowing his garden at Fort
Collins George W. Dilts found an old,
fashioned two-holc brass bullet mould
which had lain In the ground nobody
knows how long. One Of the hoicS-
contained lead bullet. II is probably
a relic Of old Indian times. or may have
been dropped BY an early day hunter.
II is almost half a century since
mouids were used for casting bullets.
At q meeting Of the Loveland Cham.
Der Of Commerce the date Of the annual
Loveland corn roast was changed from
September to August 18th. and the
dates OF the annual races and live stock
show were changed from September
Sfh afh and 9th In August 18th Goth