Rocky Ford enterprise., 1910-11-04
LITTLE coLoRApo ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
State Worth T.IIinQ.


insurgency" has broken out in the
Greeley band and new musical as-
gregation is threatened.
Colorado City is about to inaugurate
proceedings against any. tagless dog
which is delinquent in his taxes.
Charles A. Chase has been appointed
postmaster at Hebron. Jackson coun-
ty. Colorado, vice A. J. Monroe. re-
signed.
Fearing an epidemic of scarlet fever
and typhoid, of which it has several
cases, Evans has closed the public
schools indefinitely.
]. NJ. Machney, driver. was struck
by a switch engine and the wheels of
a wagon passed over him at Windsor.
A mule kicked him and he is injured
internally.
Colorado postmasters appointed:
Masters, Weld county, Mary Callihan.
vice J. w. Day. resigned: Resolis. e.
bert county. Sarah J.. Allen, vice, w.
H. Wells, removed.
II rattlesnakes are as numerous at
Platteville next season as this. com.
pany will be formed to undertake
snake killing for profit and sell the
skins for belts. etc.
Contractors and a force of SO men
have begun the first work on the state
highway between Grand Junction and
Delta. The road will have maximum
grade of four per cent.
Not only Is the saccharing content
OF the 1910 sugar beet in Colorado
higher by one per cent than that of
last years product. but the yield by
the acre in tons is higher.
William NJ. Stricken has been aD-
pointed rural carrier on route No. 3
at Montrose; Grant Kitchen was ap-
pointed postmaster at Masonville. LaI-
liner county. vice P. F. Thompson. re-
signed.
Fred Lowry, head chemist Of the
Windsor Sugar factory. is in a critical
condition from burns on his feet and
he was covered from his knees down
with boiling hot syrup.
T. H. Kibby. a pioneer ranchman OF
Johnstown, has the banner beet crop
Of that locality. His 100 acres is
yielding twenty-four tons per acre and
the beets are testing eighteen per
cent sugar. selling for Sc per ton.
Trinidad's fight for freight rates
from Chicago and St. Louis rs low as
the rates from those points to Denver
and intermediate points. made by the
interstate commerce commission. Is
over and the Trinidad shippers have
won.
The county commissioners have ap-
pointed II. W. Cooper. manager OF the
Morgan County Herald. as representa-
tive OF the county to the United States
Land and Irrigation exposition. which
opens In the Coliseum In Chicago No
vember 10.
At Fort Lupton following an opera
tion In which the entire under portion
Of his right jaw was removed and two
thirds OF the lef; one cut out in an
effort to cure an unusual disease
known rs big jaw" p. n. Ramsdell.
aged As. q pioneer butcher. died Fri.
day of the malady.
One Of the best beet crops reported
in Greeley this season is that Of The
odore Kibby, a farmer living near
Johnstown. who has 100 acres which
are yielding an average Of "a tons per
acre. His income from beets at 100
tons per day nets him 5000 everv
twelve hours, as they are testing SC a
ton in sugar.
C. ]. Hartman, manager OF the
Greeley and Denver railroad com.
pany, and J. F. Farmer have invented
an automatic switch. which Is being
installed on the company's tracks.
Another new device invented by local
men is an automatic lubricator. which
is designed to eliminate the sreasing
OF curves by hand.
Land which he secured from Uncle
Sam for $500 five years ago Is val.
ued by James f. Graham at $4,000.
He has Just made final proofs on his
800 acres, eight miles northeast of
Greeley. Graham secured that lanI
by paying 25 cents an acre down and
81 an acre every year. He estimates
his crop profits at $4,000 n year.
Miss S. W. woodford, grand
opera singer Of New York City and a
grand niece OF Dom Paul and Gen.
Dewitt OF Boer war fame. has pur-
chased land and built a bungalow at
Briggsdale. east OF Greeley. Her
mother, Mrs. 8. Dewitt Smith. has a
large ranch at Briggsdale. which she
chose after looking over the entire
West, because the Briggsdale country
reminded her OF Africa.
The Mount Pisgah reservoir Of the
Garden Park Land & Irrigation Com.
pany Is completed. after nearly two
years of continuous work. II Is loeat-
ed on what was formerly the old