Rocky Ford enterprise., 1910-06-24
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

story brick hotel at Brandon.
Arthur r. Bliesner has been appoint
ed postmaster at Verde. Pueblo county.
Rocky Ford Elks expect to take
steps soon toward providing lodge
home.
The town opening at Brandon last
week is reported to have been great
success.
A local branch of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor is being formed a.
Sterling.
A fine flow of water has been struck
in the test artesian well being sunk in
Grand Junction.
Former residents of Illinois living at
and near Fort Collins will hold a pic
mic August 25th.
Trinidad Episcopalians will endeav-
or to raise $4,000 to build a new
church edifice.
A ministerial association has been
organized among the gentlemen OF the
cloth in La Veta.
Horse. motorcycle and foot races
will be items OF the program for the
celebration at Stonington.
President Slocum of Colorado Col
lege accompanied by Mrs. Slocum has
departed for trip to Europe.
John Dieckman has been engaged to
carry the mail between Westcliffe and
Rosita for the next four years.
DR.. L. E. Hastings OF Golden. a pio-
neer and veteran OF the Civil War.
died at the age of seventy-four.
Columbine lake. Grand county. will
be improved by a Denver club for
headquarters for sportsmen while
hunting in that vicinity.
Six cowboys from Nebraska are on
their way to North Park to roundup
range In that section.
The Denver. Laramie & Northwest
ern road has placed an order with an
eastern factory for 1874 freight cars.
which will cost $l13.6G1.
Report has 1t that Longmont will
have union depot. which will be
used by the Colorado & Southern. Bur
lington and Great Western.
A business house at Eagle has OF.
fered prizes aggrigating SIT for the
trout fanatics who can land a seven.
FOUNDER. or q six-pounder. or five.
FOUNDER.
All the stock In the new canning
factory at Fountain has been sub
scribed. and when the buildings are
erected they will contemplate capa'
city Of 100000 per year.
The big Baptist meeting of this year
will be held at Cascade canon from
July 22d to August LIST. More than n
thousand delegates are expected to at.
tend.
Fort Collins papers say that II is
now only a question Of a short time
| until work will be begun on the scenic
highway from Fort Collins to Estes
Park.
Frank NJ. Brown and his five-year-
| old son have brought suit against the
Denver City Tramway Company for
| $4,000 for the little boys loss OF a leg
when a street car struck him last Feb
ruory.
Evarts Tracy. architect OF the new
Denver postoffice. says that. after hav,
ing visited the famous marble quarries
OF Italy. Colorado marble quarries have
no superior in the world for capacity,
quantity anu Qudlity.
Austin Downey of Fort Collins, a
graduate of the Agricultural College
and lately an engineer of the reclama
tion service. was drowned at Cody,
Wyoming. when a steam launch on the
big Shoshone reservoir capsIzed Thurs.
day night.
Ino Chavara. a Mexican. was found
noor tho tra nway frock in Aryada Fri.
day with his throat cut, having been
there all night. He was nearly dead
from loss OF blood. but was taken to a
hospital in Denver. He refused to give
the name of his assailants.
The contract for the new white mar
BILE postoffice in Denver calls for the
work to be done In twenty-five months
and the contractors will use every ei.
fort to complete 1t In that time. The
marble company will begin delivering
the huge white slabs In September.
On the property of the Santa Ger
trudis Mine. Ltd. at Ouray. will be
erected . new and thoroughly modern
mill. capable of treating 100000 tons
Of ore q year. The property was pur-
chased some months ago by the Camp
Bird company. and 1t is estimated that
its ore reserves approximate aroun1
81. 5.OOO. 900 or 3G.O00.00O.
When a strange man entered the
homestead cabin OF Miss Pearl Rowe.
near Pierce. Thursday night. took what
valuables he could find and made ad.
vances toward the girl herself she
reached for her rifle and let him have
one that put him in the hospital at
Greeley. His wound is serious. His
name is given as Joe Slater. and he is
said to be from Idaho.
DR.. Lamb. state veterinarian, went
to Grand Junction to investigate the
cause of the poisoning OF 200 head OF