Rocky Ford enterprise., 1911-03-10
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
state Worth Telling.

mayor OF Windsor.
A strike of the painters in Colorado
Springs is probable.
Work on the state road up Ute Pass,
Manitou is progressing.
Antonio Presto. a pioneer Of Colo
RADIO, is dead at Trinidad. @
Mrs. P. Tague of Red Cliff has been
appointed county Judge of Eagle coun-
ty.
A baseball team is being organized
in Grand Junction to play the Boston
Red Sox.
A petition to dissolve the municipal
corporation of North Longmont has
been filed.
A movement has been started to
build a school of psychic research at
Crystola.
Leonora Acosta, 8 years old. died at
Trinidad of hydrophobia. She was
bitten by dog.
Fire destroyed the plant of the Colo
RADIO City Ice & Coal Company. with
a loss of $4,000.
Dan Patch, the famous PAGER, will
give exhibition heats during the next
state fair at Pueblo.
The Boulder postoffice will here
after be closed on Sunday by order Of
| the postmaster general.
Mrs. Mary J. Highly. aged 70. and
one of the pioneers Of the Greeley dis
trict. died Of pneumonia.
1t is probable that Weld county will
get its photographic survey from the
| government next summer.
The Senate has confirmed the nomi-
nation of Dewey c. Barley as United
States marshal for Colorado.
More than $50 members were added
to the Y. NJ. C. A. by the nine-day
campaign at Colorado Springs.
Awards fixed by the appraisers upon
property involved in Denver's Civic
Center project total $2.523. 463.10.
The students Of the Grand Junction
high school have set March 18th as
the date for the first cross-country
run.
The Gunnison County Stock Grow
ers' Association will give its annual
ball and banquet in Gunnison March
31th.
| AS a result of pairing a corn with
razor, A. T. weidlund OF Greeley. lest
his left leg below the knee by ampu-
tation.
The farmers of Spring Creek mesa.
two miles west OF Montrose. are being
supplied with electricity from the city
plant.
| The biggest snowslide In that Sec
ton for some time has occurred eight
miles north Of Silverton, blocking the
railroad.
Gross earnings OF the Denver City
Tramway Company for its fiscal year
ending December 80. 1910. were So
595.157.
W. l.. Sutton OF Parkdale. section
foreman for the Rio Grande. was seri-
ously injured by a landslide in the
Royal Gorge.
A. Hughes. a farmer residing near
Boone. has been awarded damages OF
SIS against the Twin Lakes Land and
Water Company.
A Santa Fe freight engine blew up
at Earl station near La Junta, injur-
ing George F. Brown, conductor. so
seriously that he died.
An attempt will be made by ten
boosters for the Y. M. C. a. to raise
$1,000 to be used in organizing an as
sociation at Montrose.
The City Council OF Montrose has de-
cided to submit to voters at the com.
ing municipal election the question OF
establishing a commission form Of
government.
Much work is being done near Mead
in the way OF reservoir building along
draws where water will be impounded
for irrigation OF fertile lands adjacent
to the settlement.
The Senate committee on public
buildings reported favorably. Senator
Guggenheim's bill appropriating $751;
900 for purchasing a site for public
building at Glenwood Springs.
The official report Of the Colorado
State Board Of Barber Examiners for
the two years ending November 80.
1910. states that there are 1863 bar.
bers doing business in the state.
Beet growers in the Loveland dis.
trict have signed contracts for 1000
acres for the coming season. Only
5000 acres was grown last year. The
total acreage desired this year is TO-.
900 to 1000.
Every man his own lawyer" proved
costly to DR.. ". C. Lucas. who pleaded
guilty to the illegal sale Of liquor in
District Court in Colorado Springs
and was fined s25 and costs. totaling
1872.
The Colorado & Southern railroad Is
two months ahead Of time on the con
struction of the new double-track line