Rocky Ford enterprise. (Rocky Ford, Colo.) 1887-1950, 1911-06-09
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth Telling.

bull at Pueblo. is dead.
The Delta National Bank has moved
into its new $4,000 home.
Mrs. Hatty Grew of Austin COM
mitted suicide by taking carbolic acid.
The Union Pacific will commence
running trains into Fort Collins July
LIST.
A movement has been started to
erect a Masonic club house in Den
yer.
Fire destroyed the refreshments
stands at the Zoo park at Colorado
Springs.
Denver is to have a festival of the
Mountains and Plains the last week
in September.
The Colorado branch OF the Ameri-
can Poultry Association will meet in
Denver in August.
Postal service on the Aguilar-Linn
route has been increased from six to
twelve times a week.
Odd Fellows of northern Colorado
have organized the Northern Colorado
Odd Fellows Association.
Joseph Parino. a miner. was Instant
ly killed in the mine at Oak Creek,
by falling under a moving car.
Mrs. W. ]. Leaning OF Evans will
lose the sight of one eye as the re-
suit of an explosion Of gasoline.
The Uncompahgre Valley Water
Users Association has invited Secre-
tary Fisher to visit the valley in July.
Roy Sellers of Cripple Creek. who
recently fell thirty-five feet in the
Blue Flag mine, died from injuries re-
ceiyed.
A movement IL on foot to invite
President Taft to speak at Steam
boat Springs on his Western tour in
Septe
Preliminary steps have been taken
for recognizing and financing the
Glenwood Hot Springs Company by
eastern capital.
Chas. Campbell OF Cripple Creek.
charged with murder committed. in
1908. was found guilty OF involuntary
manslaughter.
According to the records at the
Colorado College, Colorado Springs
the past May was the hottest in
thirty-fcur years.
In District Court in Trinidad, three
horse thieves. Joe Mackley, Fred
Chaves and Juan Sanchez. were found
guilty by a jury.
Mrs. c. W. Cole, living near Rog-
gen. Weld county, took a dose OF
strycbnine by mistake. from the ef-
fects OF which she died.
Ed Mason. held at Steamboat
Springs on the charge Of horse steal.
ing at Hahn's Peak. escaped by set
ting fire to the county Jail.
The commissioners Of Ell Paso
county have increased their subscrip-
ton to the International Dry Farming
Congress from $500 to $4,000.
Because the management refused
them half holiday. twenty women
clerks in the Kress 10-cent store at
Trinidad have gone on a strike.
Capt. II. D. Humphrey. United
States army. retired. professor Of mill
tary science and tactics at the Agri-
cultural college at Fort Collins. is
dead
Garfield and Mesa counties are plan
ming to use convict labor in extending
the automobile highway between
Grand Junction and Durango on to
Glenwood Spring.
Senator Guggenheim has requested
the Postoffice Department to extend
star route service from Longmont to
Estes Park. via Lyons. from June 18th
to September 18th.
The Colorado Good Roads Associa.
ton is preparing to inaugurate a
statewide movement OF publicity and
education. Headquarters will be op-
ened in Denver soon.
A compromise has been agreed upon
between the government and the d.
rectors of the Palisade and Mesa
county irrigation district on the right
of way for the high line canal.
Every glass and aspoon in the soda
fountains will have to be thoroughly
sterilized before it is used. II the State
Board Of Health institutes one Of the
reforms which 1t is now considering.
Hugh ". Smith was awarded $4,000
damages against the city of Pueblo
in District Court for injuries received
several months ago by fall from his
bicycle at the Union avenue bridge.
Governor Shafroth has signed House
bill No. III. which creates perma
nent tax commission. The bill calls
for a tax commission OF three, each
of whom is to draw a salary of $500
annually.
S. F. Harrington. butter dealer in
Denver. was fined $1,000 and costs by
Judge Lewis in the Federal Court fol-
making adulterated butter. Harring
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