Rocky Ford enterprise., 1911-09-15
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
state Worth While.

The safe of James Abo, at Morrlsoh'
was robbed of 5000.
A postal savings bank has been
opened In Denver.
Ten thousand people attended Love
lands Harvest Festival.
At Victor Tom Jones shot and IA
tally wounded James O'Neill.
Ten people were injured in the
Union Pacific wreck near Kersey.
The La Junta public schools opened
with fifty teachers and 1900 pupils.
Yuma county farmers have been
made glad by an inch fall of rain.
The United Brethren will build
$4,000 church in Colorado Springs.
A postal savings bank will be es-
tablished at Lamar September 18th.
Colorado Springs will inaugurate
system of decorative street lighting.
A new industry, the Castle Rock
Brick & Tile Co.. will be launched
soon.
A sanitarium for the treatment of
rheumatic diseases is to be opened in
Boulder.
The thirty-fifth session OF the Uni
versity of Colorado has opened at
Boulder.
James Wilson and F. Dupree are in
Jail in Colorado City charged with
forgery.
The total appropriation made by the
Eighteenth General Assembly is $4.-
576,945.O5.
The new county of Crowley is low
doing business with Ordway as the
county seat.
Lyman Alonzo White, pioneer and
old Indian fighter, died at his home
at Longmont.
Ebert Johnson of Pueblo won the
motor cycle race from Pueblo to Fow-
Ter and return.
The cornerstone of the Fort Collins
federal building was laid by the Ma
sonic grand lodge.
A shelter home for women and chill
dren is to be established by the Den
yer Womans Club.
The prize stalk of corn for Boulder
county bears eleven large ears and
was eTOWu ny ". l.. lsiuCh
The Salida high school has made ar
engagements for splendid lecture
course of five numbers.
F. A. Taylor. formerly of Denver.
has been appointed director of agri-
culture In the Philippines.
Preparations are well under way for
the Weld county fair. to be held at
Greeley September is to %.
A coroner's jury at Wiley found Will
lie Rowe. 10. guilty of killing his play
mate, Vernie Hildabidei. Is.
At the Alamosa opera house. Mike
Malone of Denver and frankie White
of Chicago fought fifteen rounds to a
draw.
r. W. Hadkinson. fifty-five years
old was struck by Rock Island train
at Colorado Springs and fatally in
jured.
w. S. Zell has disappeared from Colo
RADIO Springs. il is alleged, with sew
eral hundred dollars of other peoples
money.
Twyman Kisinger, of the Little
Beaver, near Meeker. threshed $50
acres of fall wheat, averaging forty
bushels to the acre.
The Western Sugar and Land Com
pany of Grand Junction will make i'm
proyements on their plant at that
place. costing $4,000.
Rev. William S. Neenan OF the
Denver cathedral. has been appoint
ed resident rector OF St Peters
church of Rocky Ford.
Jacob, five-year-old son of John
Hoff of Greeley. is in hospital with
fractured skull. as the result of
colt stepping on his head.
VIM. Anderson, a miner, living at
Stumptown, near Leadville. was gored
to death by bull, which, it is claimed.
he mistreated over year ago.
The old wire tapping swindle. for
the first time in severa! years, has
been discovered in operation in Den
yer and several parties arrested
An aged woman, identified as Mrs.
Helen F. Dixon, at one time promi-
nent figure in Colorado politics, was
found dead at her home in Denver.
Plats have been filed for the entire
ditch system of the Uncompahgre val
ley project, showing the size and car
rying capacity of each ditch and canal
and estimating the cost. when com
pleted, at 100000.
A resolution was adopted by the
Fremont County Commissioners ask
ing the State Highway Commission
for $4,000 of the appropriation made
by the last Legislature for the con-
struction of public roads.
The activity of the La Plata min
ing district has become so pronounced
that scarcely a week passes without