Rocky Ford enterprise., 1911-03-17
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
State Worth Telling.

amounting to $4,000.
Boulder has an organization known
as the Better Boulder" club.
Morris R. Lancaster. a pioneer of
Yampa, recently died in Denver.
The Delta County Farmers Institute
held two days session recently.
Business men of Trinidad have
pledged their support to Y. NJ. c. A.
There are total deposits of $1O,157.-
236.9s in the six banks at Colorado
Springs.
The new city we'll at Milliken is now
425 feet deep and water is expected
any time.
John Gastrich, an Austrian miner.
was killed at the Delagua mine by
fall of rock.
Miss Martha Stevenson of Yampa,
has been arrested on charge of
cattle stealing.
The Rio Grande track walker near
Canon City recently found the skele-
ton of man.
The contract for the construction of
the $4,000 school building at Long
mont mas been awarded.
For the municipal election at Eaton
two tickets are in the field, the Citi.
zens and the Independent.
l.. J. Seville has been appointed
postmaster at Eden. Pueblo county.
vice F.. S. Barnard. resigned.
W. H. Green, a negro. formerly city
jailer, is the latest candidate for the
city council of Colorado Springs.
That work is to be resumed soon
on the Milton reservoir and canal at
Greeley. is the opinion OF many.
J. f. Brown, a Colorado & Southern
brakeman, met instant death at Tex
line by being thrown from car.
Representatives of the Union Pa
cific Colonization department are in
vestigating various tracts of land in
Weld county.
Gill was the winner by sixteen
points in the gun shoot held between
the Gill and Kersey clubs on the
Greeley grounds.
W. II. Wilder Is forming stock
company Of Grand junction capitalists
to drill for oil in the government tract
south of Fruita.
The Colorado Springs High school
baseball team has engaged Herbert
Hester. the former Illinois player. as
coach Cor six weeks.
Rev. Lewis Walker OF Demorest, y.
j.. has been chosen pastor of the Bap-
fist church on Montrose. and will as
sumo charge about April LIST.
Gov. Shafroth has announced the APP
pointment OF w. II. Mcdonald. com
mander of the G. a. r.. for the depart
ment OF Colorado and Wyoming.
over 100 delegates from over the
state attended the eighth annual con-
ference of the Daughters OF the Amer
lean Revolution held in Pueblo.
c. b. Wade. cashier OF the City Ma
tional bank of Temple. Texas. has
been made mayor OF Byron, Colo. by
decree of the Colorado Supreme
Court.
With twenty-five men at work the
new cement and steel bridge over the
Platte, between Evans and La Sale.
is going up in almost record breaking
time.
The Rev. ]. l.. Marsh, for three
years pastor of All Souls Unitarian
church, at Colorado Springs. has re-
signed and will retire from the min
istry.
The Farmers union held an enthusi-
astic meeting at Eaton and endorsed
the road bill presented in the Legis-
lature by F. C. Madgen. representa-
tive from that county.
Flax is a new crop to be grown in
Weld county by a number Of progress
siye farmers, who believe II can be
made a highly profitable crop for the
oil which 1t contains.
A proposition to irrigate / 200 acres
near Fort Lupton for garden truck
has been presented to the Commercial
Club by engineers OF the Northern
Colorado Power Company and is con.
sidered feasible.
Charles Neill, commissioner of labor
at Washington, has arrived in Den
yer to endeavor to avert a strike by
Denver & Rio Grande engineers. 700 OF
whom recently asked for an increase
Of wages.
Charles Collins. a cowboy near
Meeker. accidentally put a bullet
through his leg. The leg may be
saved. Collins took a shot at coyote
and in returning the gun to the holster
it exploded
w. Goodloe. agent for the Santa Fe
and W. Y. Black, representing that
company at La Junta, rendered the
treasurer of Otero county s16.003.39.
as first half of the taxes of that COM
pany, in the county.
An injunction was asked in District
Court at Lamar to restrain the COM