Rocky Ford enterprise. (Rocky Ford, Colo.) 1887-1950, 1911-07-21
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over tho
State Worth While.

| opened at Fort Morgan.
Morgan county has had one of the
best rains of the season.
The old electric light plant at Buena
Vista has been destroyed by fire.
The Colorado Springs carnival takes
place July 81 to August 5, inclusive.
The contract for the new county
jail at Greeley has been let for $4,000
The Fort Collins branch OF the I'm
ion Pacific will begin business on July
18th.
A postal savings bank of the first
class will be established at Pueblo
soon.
Erie is preparing to make splendid
exhibit at the Weld county fair in Sep
TENDER.
Horses are beginning to arrive for
the racing matinee at Grand Junction
July eth.
Steps have been taken to petition
he county judge to incorporate the
own of Clifton.
Work on the Hanemeyer ditch be-
wees Rifle and De Beque will be start
I'd at once.
A man named Gus Beidler was found
lead in his rom at the Victoria hotel
n Telluride.
The third quarterly conference OF
he Colorado Commercial Executives
was held in Fowler.
The boys in Logan county between
The ages of six and twenty-one exceed
he girls by fifty-seven.
Robert Heller. aged fifty, and one
Of the best known citizens in Bent
county, died at Las Animas.
Representative Martin says he will
not return to Washington during the
present session of Congress.
The trial of Bob Harris for killing
Chief of Police Craig of Rocky Ford,
has been set for August Z.
About $50 crates of red raspberries
and 400 crates of cherries are being
shipped daily from Loveland.
Governor Shafroth has issued a call
Tor a public lands convention to meet
in Denver September 1880. 1911.
Alb Murdoch. half-breed. charged
with horse stealing. while resisting
arrest. was shot and killed near Yer
nal.
Antoine Johnson. a miner. was fata.
ly suffocated by mine gas in the Hia-
watha shaft on Beacon hill. Cripple
Creek
Ace Lopez. miner. aged about 80,
who was accidentally shot by Joha
Prelovitch in drunken riot at Mon
arch. died.
Nine hundred and sixty persons
have filed on 25O,24O acres in the
cterling land district since January
of this year.
While coming to Pueblo from Okla
homa in a touring automobile. Mrs.
Henry Williams was presented with a
1O-pound boy.
George Ely. a mute. aged twenty
three, giving his home as Madisonville.
Ind. committed suicide in Lamar by
inhaling chloroform.
George King and John Fields. con
yicted of the murder of Ranchman
Peter Jackson. near Ramah. have been
taken to the penitentiary.
Lloyd L. Evans of Denver and Ed D.
Borden of Boulder have been APP
pointed assistant examiners in the pat
ent office at a salary of $500 each.
W H. Barger, pioneer ranchman OF
eastern FL Paso county. was shot and
killed by his brother-in-law, Thomas L.
Almond, on his ranch near Kendrick.
For the purpose of developing the
large deposits of marble and onyx in
Saguache county. which are said to
equal those being developed on the
Western Slope. company has been
organized.
That the extent of the beet suga
industry in the Arkansas valley can
be better realized. il is estimated that
at least s15O.0O0 was distributed this
year for thinning labor alone between
Pueblo and the Kansas state line.
The bank law passed by the Eight
zenith General Assembly of the state
of Colorado last spring will be re-
ferred to vote of the people If the
Colorado State Bankers Association
and the State Bank section of that in
stitution have their way.
Four of the buffaloes shipped to
Trinidad by Buffalo Jones. died at the
Colorado & Southern stockyards while
being held pending a controversy be-
| tween Jones and the railroad officials
over the rate he was to pay for ship
ping the animals.
Seventy-iive citizens of Palisade,
armed with rifles and masked, sur.
rounded the restaurants owned by j.
NJ. and Charles Ferguson, at Palisade,
and at the point OF guns forced two
boys to deliver a message to the Fer.
guson brothers, ordering them to close
up their business. take their families
and leave town within ten days, neves