Rocky Ford enterprise., 1909-01-08
COLORADO NEWS

The cornerstone of the new $4,000
city hall at Trinidad was laid on New
Years day.
duct :ts semi-annual examination for
emba;mers at the State house in Den
yer Friday. January Sth. at 100 p. m.
The State Land Board has granted
the Fort Lyons Canal Company right
of way through state lands and the
privilege of using 1880 acres for reser-
voir sites.
The cowboys of southeastern Colo
rado held their annual banquet and
dance at La Junta on the night
of December 3Oth. The town was full
of cattlemen.
syndicate of eastern capitalists
has taken 17.5OO.0OO of the new issue
Of Denver & Rio Grande railway bonds.
The proceeds were used to retire $751;
100000 short time notes.
The annual banquet OF the alumni Of
the State Normal school at Greeley
was held at the Brown Palace hotel
In Denver on the night of December
3Oth. about eighty being present.
ecutive committee of the Modern
Woodmen of America, it was decided
to admit free of charge to the recently
established sanitarium In Colorado
Springs all members afflicted with tu-
berculosis whose cases are durable.
Secretary Watrous of the Boulder
Commercial Association is in commun.
ication with several large pottery man
ufactures In the east and the coming
year gives promise OF the establish
ment of one or more pottery works in
or near the city.
The Rogers Canning Company Of
Rogers. Ark, has offered to establish
a canning factory at Fort Morgan. If
the farmers will plant 1000 acres Of
vegetables suitable for canning. the
city to donate a site of two or three
acres and give a bonus of $4,000.
Albert Cree of Manitou and J. W.
Mullins of Denver have purchased the
Spencer property on Canon avenue,
Manitou. for about $4,000. and It is
understood that Denver capitalists
are interested in a proposition to con-
struct a 100000 winter hotel on the
site.
The Union Pacific railway will put
on another motor car, the second to be
put on the run between Greeley and
Sterling. BY connection with north
md southbound trains at La Sale. this
will give two strictly local trains each
way every day between Denver and
Sterling.
Arrangements have been about COM
pleted by Secretary Watrous of the
Boulder Commercial Association. with
Springfield. ILL.,. parties to bring col
ony from that section to settle on
small farms and fruit tracts near Boul-
der and along the Interurban and I'm.
ion Pacific lines.
In common with Pueblo. Colorado
Springs reformers are planning to petit
tion the next state Legislature to es-
tablish a separate Juvenile Court. like
that ir Denver. At present the county
judge attends to the Juvenile Court. to-
gether with county and probate busi-
ness.
A grand celebration for the one hun
dredth anniversary of the birthday Of
Abraham Lincoln next February is be-
the auditorium. All patriotic and mill
tary societies in the city will take part.
led by the Grand Army of the Repub-
lie.
The theater at Manhattan Beach in
Denver was entirely destroyed by fire
on the night of December 26th. 1t was
the property of the Southern Invest
ment Company. who. 1t is stated will
build a new theater in Its place. The
old building cost $4,000 and was par
TALLY insured.
Major Augustus r. Stewart. a Con-
federate veteran of the Civil War and
a pioneer of Pueblo and Colorado, died
at his home In Pueblo on the both ult..
after an illness of many years. He
was seventy-two years OF age and had
resided in Colorado for forty-five years.
At the close of the war he settled in
Boulder and was treasurer Of Boulder
county for many years before moving
to Pueblo.
The postoffice authorities have
stopped the mails Of the Colorado
Sales Company at Grand Junction, the
postmaster general having issued
fraud order against the company.
which 1t is alleged advertised extern
sively to send twenty-five useful house
hold articles for 25 cents. Several
women are alleged to. have put up the
quarter, but never received anything
in return.
A meeting was held at Fort Morgan
December 29th TO organize the bar Of
the Thirteenth Judicial district. About
twenty-five attorneys of eastern Colo:
RADIO were present and after deciding
to organize. the following officers were
elected: L. c. Stephenson, president;
s. E. Naugie, vice president: Irving