Rocky Ford enterprise. (Rocky Ford, Colo.) 1887-1950, 1911-06-23
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth Telling.

postal savings bank viii open in
Salida June 26th.
Delta will have a postal savings
bank after July 3rd.
Glenwood Springs strawberry fes.
tival was great success.
A postal savings bank will be
opened at Fort Morgan July IA.
Elks Of Canon City are soon to be
housed in their own club home.
The Gunnison baseball champions
were defeated by the Pitkin team, IL
to Z.
Mayor James s. Kyle OF Montrose
broke an arm while cranking his au-
tomobile.
Improvements to cost $4,000 will
be made by the d. & r. G. railway
at Colorado Springs.
The state convention OF Christian
Endeavor at Grand Junction was at.
tended by 200 delegates.
Most of the trust companies will
have to reorganize in order to comply
with the new banking law.
Two little children were swept to
death in the swift running waters Of
irrigating canals near Golden.
A sixty per cent crop of apples will
be harvested in Mesa county. accord
ing to County Horticultural Taylor.
The Colorado National Life Assur-
anc Company has consolidated with
the Columbian National Life OF Bos-
ton.
The strawberry crop around Long
mont is fair and between $50 and 200
crates OF berries are being shipped
daily.
Frank volpe. an Italian, was con-
victed of murder at Moffat and given
sentence Of from ten to twenty
years.
Taxpayers in western Pueblo coun-
ty will soon vote on the question of es.
tsblishing the Pueblo Irrigation dis
trict.
Henry Ripple. aged twenty, of Du-
range. has been arrested on the
charge of attempted assassination Of
Isaac Cox.
In a recent game of ball at Wray be-
tween the married and the single men.
the former were victorious by a score
of ~ to !.
la Sale and Evans will cooperate
for a monster Fourth of duly cele-
bration in the Dunn grove. one mile
east Of La Sale.
The oil wells at Akron has reached
a depth of 1.065 feet and the opera
tors are waiting for more cable to
continue the digging.
u,,o,t,. an,aYo,o fr,o, a,,n~nhtiac
Is the latest sport devised by certain
ingenious sportsmen from Colorado
Springs and Denver.
II is now thought the Gunnison riv-
er. which has been threatening to
leave its banks at Delta. has reached
the high water mark.
A five.mile motorcycle race for a
purse of $3.50 will be one Of the fea-
utrcs OF the Fourth Of July celebra-
tion at Grand Junction.
Residents OF Clifton have formed 4
park association and will purchase for
81 900 five.acre orchard tract which
will be made into park.
Plans for the establishment OF an
immense duck hatchery with the use
of the surface OF a large reservoir
near Greeley are under consideration.
Representative Taylor has intro.
duced a bill authorizing postmasters to
take subscriptions to the Congress
sianol Record at 81 per year. begin
ming December I.
A fine and costs amounting to $3.50
was imposed in the Federal Cour, In
Denver by Judge r. +. Lewis on Noah
5. Smernoff after the prisoner HAD
pleaded guilty to sending obscene let
ters through the mails.
Platteville will celebrate with n big
Fourth of July programme this year.
The new race track has been COM
pleted and there will he a ball game.
balloon ascension. fireworks and a
grand ball.
A picnic party which started from
Georgetown for Loveiand Pass met
with an accident which resulted 10
four people being seriously injured
when the team became frightened and
overturned the vehicle.
The Colorado & Southern railroad,
the Colorado Midland railroad and the
Denver & Rio Grande road have
agreed to furnish half rate transporta-
ton to all prospectors going out under
the public grubstake fund.
Senator Guggenheim has been mott.
fled by the commissioner of fisheries
that rainbow trout will be distributed
in Colorado as follows: Conejos river.
1900: Rio Grande river. 1900: South
Fork Rio Grande. 1000: Pinos creek,
500.
George Gion won fast wrestling
match from Clarence Ecklund at Fort
Morgan in alternate falls. Giou took