Rocky Ford enterprise., 1911-12-15
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small happenings Occurring Over tho
State Worth While.

tdi savings depository.
William Stabelweiser pleaded guilty
to having burglarized two stores at
Olathe.
Edward Murphy was fatally injured
in rock slide in the Blue Bird mine
at Victor.
The town of Fort Lupton, forty
years old, recently acquired its first
negro citizen.
A company has applied for fran
chise for an electric lighting and pow
er plant for Kersey.
The Swedish Baptist State Mis-
sionary Society recently held its an
nual meeting in Greeley.
Charles Kelley, aged eighteen, was
detected in the act of robbing the Oak
Creek postoffice and arrested.
Claude Smell, superintendent of the
San Juan and Dolores Telephone Com
pany, died at Durango of broken
back.
The Salda Commercial Club has pre-
scented a petition to the authorities at
| Washington asking for federal build
ing.
Frank Peduttia, coal miner, 40. was
| asphyxiated in the abandoned work
ing of the Royal coal mine near
Aguilar.
During 1911 the Grand valley has
shipped cattle, sugar beets, eggs
poultry, coal, ETC., to the amount OF
$4,000. 400.
At a mass meeting in Trinidad re-
Gently the opposition to the commits
sion form of government was almost
unanimous.
For the second time in three weeks
the safe in the Denver & Rio Grande
depot at Trinidad was wrecked by
yeggmen. They got rs cents.
Bob Harris, the negro who was to
have been hung on Dec. 0 for the muir
der of two Rocky Ford policemen. has
been granted stay of execution.
John p. Sullivan, grand exalted rul-
err of the Elks, is making a tour of
the West, during which he will visit
as many of the Colorado lodges as he
can.
| Prosecution of suit clubs in Den
yer will extend to solicitors, members
and all others in any way connected
with them if necessary to eradicate
| the clubs.
Policemen of Colorado Springs are
happy because the City Council has
passed the salary ordinance for next
year and there is general increase
in salaries.
DIR. r. T.. Chandler, pastor of the
First Presbyterian church of Trinidad,
underwent a delicate and dangerous
mastoid operation recently and is ex-
pected to recover.
Sir Gilbert Parker, the noted Eng.
lish author and statesman, is to visit
Colorado for the purpose of learning
something of woman's ability to man
age affairs of government.
Two members of the State Lunacy
Board are said to have misappropriat-
ed money belonging to the state by
paying ]. ". Finkbiner n salary to
which he is not legally entitled.
Bruno Grosser, former assistant sec
rotary of the National Jewish Hospital
for Consumptives, charged with for
gerry, larceny and embezzlement. died
at his home in Denver On the eve oil
his trial.
With twenty-five of the leading
cities of the six counties of the Ar
kansas valley represented, the Ar
kansas Valley Association of Com
mercial Clubs was recognized at La
Junta recently.
Work on the Colorado state museum
at Denver is well under way. The
structure will be under roof by the
middle of next summer. The marble
used is the same as used on the new
Denver postoffice.
An information against Angelo De
andre, night marshal at Superior,
charging him with the murder of j.
d. Searcy at Superior on the night of
Nov. 2s. has been prepared and placed
in the District Court.
It is stated that work will be re-
sumed on the Colorado-Kansas rail
road from the western section of the
city of Pueblo to the quarries of the
| Turkey Creek Stone and Gypsum Com
| pany, located about sixteen miles west
of Pueblo.
The Rev. Warren II. Wilson, d. d.,
! a Presbyterian church specialist, Zee
ognized as an authority on country
| church life, has written an article for
a Chicago church publication in which
he declares that at Brush, Colo, ne
found the most progressive country
community he has encountered in all
the United states.
For a town of 1900 people 10 be
without a rural mail service during
| the 30 years OF its life is an unusual
situation. Meeker is the town. but
will get it's first rural route soon.
Heretofore the ranchmcn, with the ex-
ception of those living along the