Rocky Ford enterprise., 1910-12-23
LITTLE coLoRApo ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth Telling.

The Telluride brewery was damaged
$4,000 by recent fire.
Fred Pierce killed himself at his
home on Mill creek near Aspen.
Burglars entered the postoffice at
Pueblo recently and secured $50.
The construction work on the new
Jail at Brighton is progressing rapidly
A permanent organization Of Weld
county commercial clubs was effected
in Greeley.
Henry G. Rathbun, prominent
business man of Colorado Springs, died
of typhoid fever.
The cattle disease called black leg
has been found in the herd of z. A
Carter of Brighton.
Colorado Springs boasts of a citizen
possessing the shortest name in the
state. He is A. Elk.
1t is reported that the farmers of
Fort Lupton get $5O.O0O year from
the milk from about l 200 cows.
In the Steamboat Springs vicinity
more than 100 acres of strawberries
will be planted in the spring.
Workmen are now tearing down the
old stage house Just outside of Salida
that has been standing since 1865.
A 50O-barrel flour mill to cost $7O.-
900. is proposed for Milliken by local
business men and Kansas capitalists.
J. S. Johnson. a farmer, near Rocky
Ford, recently sold two wagon loads
OF cantaloupe seed. for which he re-
ceived $500. ...
Wanted in Salt Lake City on
charge of robbing a diamond broker os
100000 worth of gems. Walter Parish
is in Jail in Pueblo.
Not content with stealing a ton OF
coal from Orville Harsh Of Greeley
thieves carried off Harsh's dog.
placed to guard II.
The case against Mrs. Mike Flynn.
charged with the killing OF Gordon
Wilson, in Browns park at Steamboat
Springs, has been dismissed.
The report OF the State Board Of
Health for the quarter ending Septem-
Der shows that s.77S people died In
the state during that period.
Col. Miles w. Brand is no more anu
in his passing Ouray loses one Of the
most picturesque. respected and prom
inent Of its old time or pioneer resi-
dents.
The monthly dividend of the Gran
ite Gold Mining Company. Colorado
Springs. one cent a share. amounting
to slG.500. has been paid to stock
holders.
The Commercial Club and Associa-
ton OF Retail Merchants OF Greeley
are making arrangements to entertain
the retail merchants OF the state Jan.
Is. lG and II.
In the matter Of the bill of excep-
tions on the confirmation of the bonds
of the Greeley-Poudre irrigation dis
trlct. no decision has been rendered
by Judge Garrigues.
Governor Shafroth received n check
from Washington for s50,30G.l0 as Col
orado's proportion OF the amount OF
reserves in the state.
The Rocky Mountain Limited OF the
Rock Island line. running out OF Den
yer for Chicago and other Eastern
points will not be discontinued. as was
unofficially announced.
A Colorado product dinner will be
given to the visiting horse and cattle
men in January. when they meet mt
Denver. from all over the country. to
attend the January horse show.
A bill sure to be introduced at the
coming session of the Legislature will
be to change the method of assess-
ment and make It on the actual mar
ket value of the property.
1t will cost the city OF Greeley Just
an even SlOS.000 to keep house Gurin,
1911. according to the estimate OF the
experts and the council passed the an
nual appropriation bill calling for that
amount.
W. a. Groom of Boulder was elected
president of the Northern Colorado
Poultry Association at its meeting a:
the poultry show in Fort Collins. Bcul-
der was selected as the next place for
the show.
Cattle owners of the Williams coun-
try Fork. near Steamboat Springs. are
jubilant over the open fall and the
mildness of the season. It saves hay
and means n larger profit than usual
on stock.
Frank Van Amburgh. who robbed
the safe of the St. James hotel in
Georgetown Sept. &c Of $40. pleaded
guilty in District Court and was SEN
fenced to two to three years in the
penitentiary.
n pair of white rats purchased by
C. W. Beer of Greeley for pets fifteen
years ago, but which soon disaI,-
peared. returned recently with a large
family, overran Beers chicken yard
and killed his poultry.
At n meeting of the seventeen del