Rocky Ford enterprise., 1911-11-10
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

closed, has been reorganlzeu.
The Commission Government
League of Denver has been incorporat-
ed.
Wisconsin is to furnish Greeley
with the bulk of the potato seed for
next year.
The Rocky Mountain Hotel Mems
Association held their anual conven-
ton in Denver.
Nineteen hundred cars of apples
have been shipped from Grand juno
ton this season.
The library of the University of Den
yer has been turned over to the city
and will be opened to the public.
Parties returning from Chambers
lake at the headwaters of the Pouure
river report a heavy fall of snow.
Joseph Shoemaker. a ranchman,
eight miles from Delta realized s4,-
900 from the apple crop of six acres.
Lawrence and Morrell Halton,
brothers. of Cow, were arrested at
Morrison for killing deer out OF sea
son.
The Eaton football team has been
barred from playing in the Northern
Colorado Inter-scholastic League this
season.
Frank Reiman, a well known farmer
residing on Pine river, near Bayfield,,
committed suicide by swallowing car
bolic acid.
The apple crop of Boulder county
will net the farmers about 100000
and compares favorably with any in
the state.
Denver is to have one or both of the
national political conventions next
year, if the Denver Convention League
can land them.
By actual count Weld county mas
375 pumping plants operating for ir-
rigation of land that can be watered
in no other way.
The financial affairs OF Arapahoe
county are in such tangled state that
nothing but a settlement in court will
satisfy the taxpayers.
The annual report of the Colorado
Fuel and Iron Company, recently
made. shows decrease of nearly a
million dollars in earnings.
The will of Edward West, who died
suddenly in Trinidad, was filed in
County Court and the value of the es-
tate is placed at 100000.
Complaints that children of tender
age are being forced to work in the
beet fields are being received from
many portions of Weld county.
William Wills, employed in the
Aduddel mine. Russell Gulch, near
Central City, was electrocuted by con-
tact with an electric power switch in
the shaft house.
The Pioneer association of Fort
Collins, organized for the purpose of
preserving "Auntie Stones cabin"
been Incorporated.
The contract for the new rock
ribbed dam at Silver lake, near Boul-
der, has been awarded By the City
Council for s52,13G.20. 1t is possible
that some work may be done this fall.
Clifford and Eugene Van Zant. aged
seven and eight years, respectively,
sons of William 7. Van Zant. a clerk.
were terribly burned when they at
at their home in Denver.
Samuel II. Enrich, former city de
tectiye of Denver, serving a term of
from fourteen to sixteen years in the
Canon City penitentiary for the muir
der of William Malone, will regain his
liberty early next month.
Colorado is to have at least one
representatlve-and probably three
on the governors special train that is
to tour the East, about the time Con-
gress adjourns, for the purpose of ad-
vertising the West.
over 800 farmers of the Poudre Val
ley at a meeting in Fort Collins re-
Gently condemned what they called
discrimination in water rights and ap-
pointed committee to begin imme-
diate action to relieve the situation.
At the meeting of the archbishops
and bishops of the Catholic church in
Washington next April Cardinal Glib
bons will present the matter of build.
ing national sanitarium for consump-
tives in Denver, maintained by the
Catholics of the country.
Ihe directors OF the canon CITY \.
NJ. G. A. have decided to enter upon
an active campaign beginning the
third week of January next to raise
$4,000 by public subscription for the
erection of new building commen-
surate with the needs of Canon City
and its vicinity.
Arrangements for the apple show
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ly with the apple show, in Denver
Nov. 13 to IS inclusive. have practi-
cally reached perfection. The com.