Rocky Ford enterprise., 1911-07-14
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

Mrs VIM. Smith. pioneer of Wind
sor. after a long illness, is dead
The Lamar baseball team defeated
Las Animas by score of 10 to 3.
The Poudre and Platte rivers are
rising and bitches are running full.
Loveland is to have new hotel and
one which will be credit to the city.
Lincoln county has one field of 800
acres in flax, the largest in the state.
The Greeley beet and potato crop
are said TO be past danger. fine rains
having fallen.
The Loveland chautauqua. in ses-
sion afternoon and evening for seven
days, has closed.
Fred Allen has killed seventy-sev-
en- rattlesnakes on his quarter sew
ton near Fooston.
II. A. Edie is the only rural mail car
rier in Colorado who delivered mail
in an automobile.
j. NJ. McCutcheon, a wealthy pion-
eer of La Sale has donated land to
that town for a park.
c. w. Jones, aged sixty. who was
fatally hurt by being thrown from his
wagon near Boulder. died.
A man believed to be Ellis Uselton,
of indianapolis. Ind. was killed by
Rio Grande train in Pueblo.
Harvesting of winter wheat is well
under way In the Arkansas valley, the
crop being earlier than usual.
The school board has selected near
ly all OF the teachers for the Lamar
schools for the ensuing year.
Ignacio Revoc. miner from Old
Mexico. was killed by fall of rock
in the C. F. & |. mine at Berwind.
Heavy rain throughout the Kiowa
section insures bumper crops in the
Divide country as well as the Kiowa
valley.
Martin Olson. aged 81. was acci-
dentally drowned in Oberon lake. one
and one-half miles northwest of Ar
vada.
A. T. Waterbury, aged 65. ranch
man of Sugar Loaf. Boulder county,
was thrown from his wagon and badly
hurt.
The Union Pacific has changed
names o. the station on the new line
to Fort Collins from Kidder to Boyd
Lake.
Canon City will be compelled to pay
$500 before it can secure two con-
demned brass cannon for park orna-
mentation.
William Throop. aged ~. was killed
oil Ixr 4
his team ran away and he was thrown
from his wagon.
Rev. +. f. Chandler of Florence,
has been given a unanimous call to
the pastorate OF the Presbyterian
church of Trinidad.
The Normal Institute for the Eighth
district. which is composed of Otero,
Bent. Prowers. Baca and Kiowa coun-
ties. closed on July 9th.
In a contest for commercial club
membership. for prize given by the
Denver Commercial Club. Platteville
won by a gain of 1.420 per cent.
Leandro Vigil. three years old. son
of ]. l.. Vigil of Tercio. thirty miles
west of Trinidad. is dead as a result
j. II. Goudy of Colorado Springs
was chosen department commander OF
the United Spanish War Veterans at
the closing session of the state con.
vention at Pueblo.
That the ID. l.. & n. W. railway will
be in Severance by December LIST is
assured and new rights of way con-
tracts are being prepared which will
expire that day.
Officers are taking every precaution
to protect the negro. Bob Harris, who
is in Jail in Pueblo charged with kill
ing Chief of Police John B. Craig at
Rocky Ford.
Guy L. Allen of Boulder is inventor
of a new sewer tile pipe making ma.
chine which it is said will receive
ready backing of both Boulder and
Denver capital.
Ten miles of track of the South
Park line of the Colorado & South
ern railroad are either washed out or
in bad shape in Platte canon, as the
result OF cloudburst.
Julian Gradell. for many years
justice of the peace at Louisville, was
accidentally shot and killed at Log
Cabin, little settlement about thirty
miles north of Fort Collins.
Caught with quantity of stamps,
three men were arrested at Otis, sus-
pected of being implicated in the post
office robbery at Greeley when s1O.-
900 in stamps was taken.
A $1,000 solid silver cup has been
offered by H. o. Havemeyer for the
best five acres of sugar beets in the
United States. 1t will be awarded at
the American Land and Irrigation Elk
position to be held in New York be-