Rocky Ford enterprise., 1911-08-25
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over th'
state Worth While.

John Howe, alderman and promi-
nent citizen of La Junta, is dead.
The big Republican banquet at
Montrose is to be held September 8.
The Colorado State Federation of
Labor will meet next year in Cripple
Creek.
Charles f rround. II years old. has
pleaded guilty at Boulder to highway
| robbery.
A thorough test of oil on the streets
of Greeley will be made in the near
future.
Work of remodeling and rebuild
ing the Bessemer school at Pueblo is
progressing.
AL Blevins. 12 years old, of Fort
Lupton, accidentally shot himself, dy'
ing instantly.
Landholders in the Greeley-Poudre
| irrigation district will push that pro-
ject to rapid completion.
The commissioners of Montezuma
county have let the contract for the
new County Court house.
The bankers of the Western slope
wood Springs October Z.
1t is reported the Missouri Pacific
will soon establish fast train be-
| tween Pueblo and Kansas City.
E. X. Stimson. at one time state en-
gineer of Colorado, and also state au-
ditor, died recently in Duke. Okla.
Mike Malone of Denver and frankie
f,t,s in fun
20-round bout at Alamosa Labor day.
NJ. C. Daniels has the record break
ing wheat crop of the Gill section this
year. His field averaged 81 bushels
per acre. ,>
The Beulah auto stage collided with
motorcyclist at Pueblo, injuring
him SO badly that his condition is
alarming.
Denver's postal savings bank will
be opened September 8. Notice to that
effect has been received by Postmas-
ter Sours.
State Bank Commissioner has or
dered the Statt Bank of, Stratton
closed and asked for the appointment
of a receiver.
The town of Edgewater has decided
not to build a water plant of its own
The proposition was defeated by a
vote of 81 to 80.
A decrease of 100000 in the total
assessed valuation of property in
Ouray county for the levying of state
taxes, is announced.
The Continental Oil Company will
erect buildings and tanks at Berthoud.
which place has been made a distribut-
ing point for the towns in that section.
Heavy rains near the headwaters of
| the streams of the state have made
fishing conditions during the last
week less favorable than for some
time.
Charging alienation of his wife's af-
fections, Frank Wieneke was given
judgment for $4,000 in District Court
against Andrew Pagesser at Cripple
Creek.
Arrangements have been made
whereby Pueblo will be advertised as
a manufacturing city by exhibits at
the various county fairs in the south
ern part of the state next fall.
The cloudburst between Colorado
\ Springs and Monument did about
$4,000 damage to bridges. railroad
tracks and private property. The
main damage was in Monument Val
| ley park.
A suit to recover about sI00 in sal
aries due workmen in Pueblo's parks
last fall has been instituted against
the park commissioners by Ben 3er
german! who bought the accounts OF
men.
To fall 80 feet from a scaffold. land.
ing on his head, with hod of bricks
he had been carrying falling on TOP
of him and escaping without serious
injury was the experience at Meeker
of Brown Courtney, hod-carrier.
As the result of suspension of by.
draulic mining by the Twin Lakes
Placer Company, Ltd, at Cache Peak,
near Granite, Colo, the water in the
Arkansas river has been purer than
ever at this season for twenty years.
As a result of fire which totally
destroyed the eastern business sec
tion of Haxtun. the twelve-year-old
| daughter of l.. l.. Kelsey was burned
to death and her father so badly
burned that he is not expected to live.
Following the visit of President
Bush of the Missouri Pacific and 9th
er officers of that system to Pueblo
comes the announcement that this
road is soon to inaugurate a seventeen
hour train between Kansas City and
Pueblo.
William McFadden. sixty-sever
years old, a wealthy cattle grower and
ranch owner living eight miles west
of Buena Vista, was found dead under
nearth his buggy. near the Denver &