Rocky Ford enterprise., 1910-12-16
LITTLE coLoi;Apo ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth Telling.

a cave-in at Marble.
Mrs. Helen E. Plotter has bean ap-
pointed postmistress at Castle Rock.
Two full blooded Cherokee Indians
were divorced in County Court in Fort
Collins.
A franchise for lighting the town OF
Fort Lupton with electricity has been
granted.
A farmers union has been Or
ganized at Lucerne, with l. F. Read
president.
John Aikine. father o: ex-Mayor
Aikine of Gunnison, died suddenly,
aged SO.
The population of Grand Junction
is 1855, an increase of 4,252 over the
census returns of 1900.
Francisco Lea was killed by rock
fall in the mine of the Victor-Ameri-
can Fuel Company at Hastings.
A local branch of the Farmers Ed
Lcational and Cooperative Union has
been organized in Windsor.
A Boulder man has discovered
treatment for gold ores which, II sue
Cessful will do away with smelling.
Greeley will soon be provided with
an adequate fire alarm system, pur-
chased recently at cvost Of $1,000.
Denver packers have announced
that there have been no reductions Of
any Importance in the wholesale
prices on meats.
Another outbreak Of smallpox is
threatened in Boulder. and with seven
cases quarantined the danger of an
epidemic is imminent.
Grans Woods. aged IS. an employe
OF the Trinidad Tile works was
whirleG around a fly wheel at the
liant early and killed.
The annual institute and fruit fair
of the Fremont County Horticultural
first week in January.
The commissioners have appropri-
aied 10000 for expenses of jefferson
county during 1911. an increase OF but
$1,000 over last year.
A new salary ordinance was passed
by the city commissioners of Colo
RADIO Springs, increasing the pay of a
l-unDer oi City eihpioyes
There seems to be little doubt that
the next annual meeting of the pas
senger agents of the Burlington rail-
road will be held in Denver.
Fearing threats OF Black Hand
agents, Lucca Vito. Sicilian farmer
near Pueblo, has sold all his posses
sions and started for Italy.
Thomas Hayes. a teamster of Dem
yer. is near death In the county hos
pital as a result OF taking an overdose
OF carbolic acid for toothache.
A new feature Of Y. VI. C. A. work
tion by the admission of women to the
privileges of the gymnasium.
The Lamar school trustees sold
$4,000 of five per cent bonds at par.
plus 500 premium and expenses, to
the Citizens State bank of Lamar.
Fire completely destroyed a land
mark, the old Baptist Church build
ing in LoveIand. sold about ten years
ago and since used as a business
block.
The Cherrylyn horse railroad, pos
sibly the most unique railroad in the
world. running from Englewood to
Cherrylyn, a distance Of one mile. is
10 more.
Artificial bananas from sugar beet
pulp was the startling proposition
made by r. VI. Anderson to several
land owners in the lobby of the Cam
field hotel in Greeley.
s. b. Silberg was killed while work
ing on the grade of the Denver.
Laramie & Northwestern railroad.
above Virginia Dale. forty-five miles
from Fort Collins.
About fifty children are now max
ing their homes at the McClelland Or
rhanage in Pueblo. and more interest
than ever is being taken in the in
stitution by the public at large.
Builders are taking advantage of
the good weather and incidentally
the news of the coming of the rail-
road. with the result that a veritable
building boom is now on in Meeker.
Information has been received in
Shoshoni that the Chicago & North
western railway intends to soon begin
the construction Of two hundred and
fifteen miles of road west from there.
Weld county last night authorized
the purchase OF sixty.five feet of
ground Immediately west of the court
house from the Elks lodge for SIS. 900
and will erect a court house to cost
s15O.000.
Although 20 years old. Joseph L.
Allerd of Loveland proposes to take
another voyage on the sea Of matri-
mony and took out a license to wed
Mrs. Sarah Hooker. aged Sc, also Of
Loveland.
A rich silver property acquired re-