Rocky Ford enterprise., 1910-05-13
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Apex is asking for a hotel.

Apex is asking for a hotel. ,.
Beaver is after postoffice.
Delta had $4,000 fire Monday
morning.
A state bank has been organized at
Crawford.
Ranch hands are reported scarce
around Parker.
Work has begun on Buena vista's
new opera house.
The First National Bank OF Eaton
will double its capital.
A Greeley man las asked for gas
franchise at Fort Morgan.
Four hundred men are employed at
the marble quarries at Marble.
Winter wheat around Wiley is said
to be looking extremely fine.
Hudson will soon be reveling in the
The proposed railroad from Dillon
to Argentine is being surveyed.
Work on Fort Lupton's new water
works was commenced Tuesday.
The Garfield county grand Jury re-
turned nearly q hundred indictments.
German Luterans at Stratton have
called a meeting to organize a church.
Abner s. Boggs. pioneer and be-
loved citizen of Wray. died at the age
Of 72.
The school election in Wray re-
suited in a tie and another has been
called.
Fifteen thousand trees and shrubs
at n
last week.
The government oil survey Of the
western slope is to be started within
q few weeks.
A team. frightened by a passing
auto. started through $50 window of
a Penrose store.
The capacity Of the cement plant at
rels ber day.
The Colorado City Board OF Educa-
tion has raised the salaries Of all
teachers for the coming year.
Greeley's automobile census shows
the number Of honk hacks in the spud
metropolis to be 2s2.
The Manitou library board has been
advised that Mr.. Carnegie's contribu-
ton Of $4,000 is now available.
Material has arrived for the connec-
tion OF Pagosa Springs by telephone
with the outside world.
The contract has been let for the
new State Normal school at Gunnison
and work will begin at once.
The vote in Garfield county Monday
for q county high school was largely
in favor Of the proposition.
B. s. Lee. q student at Colorado COL
lege, Colorado Springs. killed \ fifty
pound porcupine near Manitou.
Five school teachers in Adams coun-
ty have been married during the pres
ent year-all OF the gentler variety.
At its first election since incorpora-
ton, the town Of Hartman elected
Frank H. Puntenney mayor last week.
The four-year-oId son OF Mrs. Bud
Lee OF Chrome was severely burned by
tumbiing backward into tub Of boil
ing water.
Storage reservoirs will be built In
the Sangre de Cristos, near Crestone.
this summer. to irrigate several thou
sand acres Of land.
The new automobile road to the top
OF the cliffs overlooking the Royal
Gorge at Canon City will be ready for
use by July 1st. Fifty convicts are
employed on the Job.
Lippincott & Harrison will seed
1000 acres to alfalfa on the Baca
grant, and will establish a hog ranch.
They have provided a large traction
plowing outfit to break the ground.
The Colorado Springs Park Commits
sion has issued a letter to the public.
urging the citizens to vote for the Is
suing OF bonds for the purchase Of
South Cheyenne canon for park pur-
poses. The amount involved is $217.-
900.
Mrs. Burtis. near Akron, experienced
q peculiar accident the other day. As
she was reaching up to prune a tree.
the knife she held dropped and struck
her wrist. severing an artery. She
was hurried to town and the wound
stitched together by q surgeon.
Sam Senter. an Italian OF western
Adams county. in a discussion with
George Jorgensen. road boss. about
culvert which had been removed.
chewed about a third OF Mr. Jorgen-
Gems ear off. for which he was arrest
ed for mayhem and held in $500 bond
for trial.
The Chaffee County Good Roads As
sociation was organized in Salida the
other night and auxiliary associations
are expected to be formed in other
towns Of the county. The dues for
auto owners will be 81 per month, and
for horsemen and ranchers 81 per
month. The association will at once
place a man at work removing rocks