Rocky Ford enterprise., 1911-02-17
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth Telling.

Lee Allen was found dead in his
room in Telluride.
Recent fire in Ludlow did damage
estimated at $4,000.
Pueblo is after the next state con-
vention of the Y. NJ. c. A.
Fire originating in hotel in Grand
Junction did $4,000 damage.
The Oldest bible in the world is in
Possession Of a Greeley citizen.
Plans are on foot to issue $4,000 book.
lets advertising Boulder county.
The farmers of Eaton have taken a
firm stand for Sc per ton for beets.
The first death in the town of Glade
About eighty farmers attended the
Logan County Poultry Show at Ster-
ling.
A mining company composed OF six
girls will operate the Lucky Gus mine
at Cripple Creek.
The Haines apple orchard of 1870
acres. near Grand Junction, has been
sold for 100000.
The Denver Athletic Club boxing
and wrestling tournament is a fast and
entertaining affair.
The Supreme Court of the state gave
Its final decision which makes North
Longmont dry territory.
The Grand Masonic lodge of Colora.
do officiated in laying the corner stone
Of the new Denver postoffice.
The Greeley women have organized
an automobile club with a charter
membership of thirty.
In order that the range may be KEEP.
from scabies, cattle in the Eaton vi
cinity are being dipped.
John P. White. the new president OF
the United Mine Workers Of America,
will visit Colorado in April.
Two troops OF cavalry from Wyo-
ming to Nogales, Ariz., passed through
Denver recently.
DR.. T. J. Estill. prominent ply
sician and pioneer Of Colorado
Springs. is dead.
Fourteen thousand two hundred ar
rests were made by the Denver police
department In 1910.
The Farmers Institute at Long
mont has closed and great good re-
suited from the meeting.
The two-year-old child Of J. PIerson
of Greeley swallowed a ten.penny nail.
but has suffered no bad effect.
Work has been begun on stone
building on University hill in Boulder
for home for Chicago working girls.
Articles of incorporation of the Lar.
inner County Fish and Game Associa-
tion have been filed with the secra-
tary of state.
An ordinance has been passed at
Greeley raising the salaries Of the
City Council. city engineer and street
commissioner.
Fulton Alexander. a negro known in
Denver police circles as Steamboat"
is in Jail in Castle Rock charged witt:
horse stealing.
The body OF George Hislin. well
known in Colorado City. was found
near Lake George horribly mutilated
by wild animals.
The Texas Oil Company has pur-
chased land in Denver and will at once
erect a large storage tank and make
other improvements.
Frank Young Of Greeley has been
offered a commission in the army OF
the insurrectionists OF Mexico at n
salary OF 1000 per month.
Officers are on the trail of thieves
who have been looting chicken yards
in the Platteville country, and selling
the birds in Denver markets.
Oscar Moore, aged eighteen, an en-
ploye of the Colorado Fuel & Iron
Company at Morley. was run over by
coal cars and instantly killed.
Three hundred members and guests
OF the New York society of Colorado
attended the fourth annual ball and re-
union at the Albany hotel in Denver.
A consumers league may be organ
lied in Greeley to encourage the buy.
ing OF Greeley-made goods. Business
men are in favor Of the project.
Frank Kosik, an Austrian aged twen-
ty-seven. was accidentlly shot and
killed near Leadville by Nathan Pad
| dock, who was shooting at a coyote
and did not see Kosik.
Jack Johnson. negro. champion pugi-
list OF the heavyweight class, stoppel
over in Pueblo two hours on his way
to San Francisco. Johnson arrived un-
heralded and without notice.
At the farmers institute at Fruita It
was decided by unanimous vote Of the
200 ranchers in attendance from all
over the lower part Of the Grand val.
ley to make it permanent and W. F.
weckel was made president.
Carmen Laten and George I. Burgen,
promoters of the Paradox Valley rail.