Rocky Ford enterprise., 1911-04-21
LIrTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
State Worth Telling.


The Trinidad postoffice will hereaft-
er. be closed. on Sunday.
The ministers of Grand Junction
have organized baseball nine.
Richard Sleeves. pioneer and prom
inent miner Of Boulder, is dead.
Farmers throughout the state are ju,
bilant Of the prospects of prolific
year.
At Montezuma William Smith shot
and instantly killed ]. E. C"Private')
Black.
The government has selected the
site for the Federal building in Du-
range.
The public school building at Glen.
wood Springs was recently damaged
by fire. .
VIM. Bird Johnson, a resident OF
Colorado since 1862, died in Denver
recently.
Jerry Campbell was killed in the
Happy Year mine at Cripple Creek by
a cavein. So
Robert Archibald Of Trinidad, a C.
F. & l. superintendent at Sopris. died
in Pueblo.
| Recently night riders raided ditch
camp near Delta and drove away
Japanese laborers.
| Fruit men of Fremont county say
their fruit crops have not been dam.
| aged by the cold.
| Lee Holmes Hilton. a banker. son
| of James l.. Hilton. Of Denver. was
Il I~tN cNrNN NN-uTr a
Ga.
More than $4,000 will be given in
purses for races at the state fair.
which will he beld in Pueblo next Sep.
tember.
The tri-weekly service of the star
route between Highmore and De
Beque will be permanently resumed
| May 1st. r....
The saloon and residence Of Joe
Mantilli. at Starkville. also public
dance hall. burned with loss OF
$1,000. .....
The State Board Of Pardons has
ordered the release from the peniten-
tiary OF John W. Reeve and Frank E.
Kiser.
Stopped by two masked highway
men in Pueblo. A. T. Thomas. presi.
dent of the Pueblo Feather Company.
was robbed of $50.
No damage has been done to fruit
around La Junta by the cold weather
OF the last few days. Buds are not
far enough developed. -.r
Canon City will become q postal
savings depository on May 1st. max.
ing IL the second Colorado point To
have that distinction.
I The record OF sale OF three min
ing claims in what is known as the
Carter mining district. near Mason.
vile. for $4,000. has been filed.
| Never in the history OF the horticul-
tural industry Of the Canon City dis
trict have the prospects for a big fruit
crop been SO encouraging as at pres.
ent. .
The Town Council has passed an or
dinance extending the fire limits of
Manitou SO as to eliminate many St
the tent shacks that increase tire
risks.
| Forest Rutherford, a former Pueblo
! man, was wounded ut Douglas, Ariz..
by a stray bullet fired during a bat.
tie across the line in Mexico. re-
Gently.
The negroes of Colorado Springs
have started to raise funds for $780,.
900 national tuberculosis sanitarium
for their race to be erected on 400
acre tract near Calhan.
Something over 100000 baby trout
are now being taken care OF at the
hatchery of the Boulder Fish and
Game Club and will soon be ready for
distribution in the streams Of the
county.
A boarding house baseball league is
to be formed at Greeley. Representa-.
tives from various houses have agreed
to play a series of nine games for a
cup. The house winning for two sue.
cessive reasons is to keep the trophy.
As soon as Mrs. Marcia McClurg.
daughter Of the late David H. Moffat.
arrives in Denver from New York.
where she arrived recently from Paris.
she, with Mrs. Frances Moffat and
Fred G. Moffat, will qualify as one OF
the executors Of the Moffat will.
Mayor Speer is in receipt of let.
ter from Andrew Carnegie offering to
supply four travelling library buildings
for Denver. provided Denver guar
antees certain revenue to maintain
the libraries. -.. .....
A baby show. a dressed doll show
and a moving picture show will be
the special features Of the flower show
at Stratton park August %, "a and
IS by the El Paso County Horticul'
tural Society at Colorado Springs.
By defeating the walsenburg team
at walsenburg recently. the Eaton