Rocky Ford enterprise., 1911-08-18
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
State Worth While.


September has been set aside as
Pickle Day at Platteville.
The Arkansas river is clearer than
It has been in fifteen years.
The Weld County Fair will be held
September Is to %, inclusive.
The Cheyenne Indians defeated the
Greeley Spuds by score of l to 6.
Much mining activity is reported
from Gunnison and Chaffee county.
Mrs Nancy Melvin, a resident of
Kersey for twenty-five years. is dead.
After October l rural mail route
will be established out of the Pierce
postoffice.
The Mason Oil Company of Mancos
have made arrangements to complete
their new oil well.
Salida is to have a $4,000 brick
garage. 1t will be fitted up with ev-
cry modern convenience.
Secretary of the Interior Fisher
Foothills Park project.
Pat Ryan is in the Victor jail
charged with breaking into a saloon
and taking SIS in cash.
]. w. Miller. a carpenter. was bad
ly injured while working on the Colo
rado Midland. near Salida.
The 5-year-old daughter of Mrs.
Minnie Baker fell from a moving cab
in Pueblo and was killed.
Denver now has eight national
banks, the newest being the Federal
National Bank of Denver.
The Denver e Rio Grande freight
house in Canon City was damaged by
fire to the extent of $4,000.
Work will be resumed on the Gun
nison tunnel project in Montrose coun-
ty and pushed to completions
1t is rumored there will be an extra
session of the Eighteenth General AS
sembly before the year ends.
The contract for the construction of
the Olathe water system has been
awarded. Contract price is s59,2o0.
From the sale of s125,OOO in bonds
for the completion of the Silver Lake
dam, Boulder, will be ahead sS12.5O.
Fourteen horses were cremated
Mathis livery stables at Pueblo.
The best yield OF wheat so far in
the Longmont vicinity is reported as
being fifty-three bushels to the acre.
The Idaho Spring Mining, Tunnel
and Transportation Company has been
Incorporated with a capital of $50 900.
While chopping wood near ouray.
John Smell had the misfortune to cut
one of his hands in fearful manner.
New York capitalists have for $3.50.
900 bought the Colorado Railway.
Light and Power Company at Trlni
dad.
AS a result of the recent storm and
high water one death and heavy prop
erty damaged is reported from Engle-
wood.
c. Rugh shipped the first carload of
cabbage from Greeley this season to
Texas, the growers receiving rs cents
hundred
In saloon broil in Globevi!ie. Joe
Micklowvitch. a Servian. stabbed
four men. one of whom died. and made
mis- escape.
An expert accountant has just fin
ished an examination of the books of
Morgan county and reports the affairs
in good shape.
The twelfth annual convention OF
the w. C. T. U. chapters in Morgan,
Washington and Yuma counties was
recently held at Brush.
During the ten months between July
/. 1910. and April /. 1911. Colnrado's
population was increased by the ar
rival of i.l32 immigrants.
John Mauk, convicted of bootleg
ging. was sentenced at Grand juno
tion to thirty days in the county jail
and also given a fine of 5000.
The Gunnison Valley Baptist Asso-
citation. composed of ministers and lay
men from the Western slope. towns
have completed a three days session
at Montrose.
Starkyille. one of the oldest aui
largest Colorado Fuel & Iron Compa
NY camps in Las Animas county, was
the scene of a disastrous fire, All
damage of $4,000 was done.
The new Colorado labor law, which
provides that no child under sixteen
years of age shall be permitted to
work in any kind OF employment de.
clared TO be dangerous to life or limb.
is being enforced.
W " Walker, constable of Trini
dad. was attacked by tive men, in thu
edge Of that town, shot. robbed and
left for dead. He was found after ly-
ing in the rain several hours. taken
to a hospital and Is in a serious condi-
tion.
Pleading guilty to the charge OF
swindling Richard hrug. a Kansas
man, cut of 1895 on a fake horse race,
pI. Perry and Alhart Miller hare