Rocky Ford enterprise., 1909-06-04
STATE NEWS ITEMS

has purchased thirty acres north Of
Greeley for permanent fair grounds.
A barrel full of roasting ears from
Florida were placed on the Denver
market May 25th and sold at rs cents
a dozen.
The Santa Fe will erect building at
La Junta for division headquarters and
a new freight depot costing $4,000 be-
fore the end of the year. a~...-.
In the District Court at Trinidad J.
M. Justus. on trial for the murder Of
Ed Butler, a saloon man, March 18th,
was acquitted by the Jury after one
hours deliberation.
Justice Ben Spencer of Pine Grove
pleaded guilty to fishing out Of season
before Justice Snyder at Golden and
was fined $25 and costs. He paid the
costs and the fine was remitted.
School District No. 3, of which the
city Of Fort Morgan is a part. shows
by the new school census report a
school population between the ages OF
six and twenty-one years of 1.427.
The Florence branch Of the Colo
RADIO Sportsmen's Club has received a
ten years lease from the Pueblo
Traction Company granting the exclu-
sive fishing privileges on Beaver
creek.
A banquet to Mrs. w. H. Taft. wife
of the President, is being planned by
prominent women of Denver and the
state. while she Is here with President
Taft during the Trans-Mississippi Com
mercial congress In August
Former Senator Teller will deliver
the commencement grafton to the SEN
ior classes Of the State University at
Boulder June 9th. His theme will be
''The Duties Of Citizenship In Repre-
sentative Government"
The trustees OF Westminster Univer.
sity ut Denver have elected the follow
Ing officers: J. d. Hustled. president;
X. F. Coyle. vice president: II. B. Hen
derson. secretary: Thomas Keely.
treasurer; John c. Murray. attorney.
Over $4,000 will be distributed In
prizes at the Weld County Fair. Sep
tember LIST to 3rd. The horsemen who
conduct annual circuit races are work
Ing with the fair officials. The best
OF the exhibits will be carried to the
State and Interstate Fair and to fairs
In the East to advertise Greeley
products.
The Denver Motor Club will give a
treat to the orphans OF Denver Satur-
day. June 9Th. Four hundred autos are
to visit the various orphans homes Of
the city and collect the little ones for
the purpose Of giving them an outing
such rs they never had before. Pea.
nuts and popcorn In great quantities
have been contracted for.
Irrigation nearly perfected is to
prove the redemption OF the immense
cattle feeding portions Of Routt coun.
ty and Its neighbor across the wyom-
Ing state line. Carbon county. by
proper drainage and conservation OF
the flood waters and SHOWS OF those
two rich counties. the lives Of thou
sands Of cattle will be saved in the fu-
ture. according to cattlemen who re-
Gently returned from a visit to Carbon
and Routt counties.
The largest acreage Of seed pota-
toes ever planted on one farm in Weld
county. Colorado. is on the ranch Of
James E. Graham and his SON. law,
W. Howard. seven miles east of Lu-
cerne. The seed came from Stove
Prairie. near Fort Collins and from
Maine. and the cost OF seed alone
was $4,000. With an average yield
Of 100 sacks an acre at the usual SELL
ing price Of 81 sack for seed pota.
toes. the growers will obtain $4,000
for their crop.
It Is stated that DR.. B. o. Ayles-
- H.
college, but whose services will end
at the close Of the college year. will
leave Fort Collins. He has had sew
eral lucrative offers. the principal
ones being from San Francisco, Chi
cago and New York City. but has not
accepted any. He will go east soon
after the school closes and has de-
cided that he will locate In some city
on one Of the coasts.
In connection with the construction
Of the new Canon City water works
system through the Royal Gorge. three
cable suspension bridges have just
been completed across the Arkansas
river in the canon. They have spans
ranging from eighty to ninety feet and
are from ten to thirty feet above the
current. They were built to aid in
maintenance of the pipe line and are
unique and interesting pieces of bridge
construction.
One of the most interesting illus.
trated lectures ever delivered in Dem
yer will be given under the auspices
Of the Denver chapter of the Colorado
Society. Sons Of the American Revolu-
ton. on the night Of June eth at the
Central Christian church by Mr.. II. r.
Jackson. an officer Of the U. S. Bat.
tleship Vermont, who was enabled dur
ing the world cruise of the American