Rocky Ford enterprise., 1911-09-01
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
State Worth While.

Richard Richards, an old-time miner
of Idaho Springs. is dead.
Luther Stevens was killed by fall
ing from his horse at Loveland.
w. E. Meek. resident of Colorado
Springs for thirty-eight years, is dead.
The E. l.. Holland eighty-acre farm
near Greeley sold recently for 5000 an
acre.
James Wilson. secretary of agricul-
ture will be in Colorado early in Sep
tember.
Ed. Brinstead of Fort Collins was
given two years in the penitentiary for
stealing horses.
Henry McClumb. aged fourteen, was
accidentally and fatally shot at Pueblo
by playmate.
Louis Gorch. a steel worker, was IA
tally injured at Pueblo when he was
struck by car.
The ten-year-old son of Charles My
ers of Peckham lost his eye as a re-
suit of a bee sting.
The three-day harvest festival to be
held at Brush Sept. 6. I and promises
to be big event.
More than % cars of strawberries
have been shipped from Glenwood
Springs this season.
Peter Nyman. well-to-do farmer of
Avondale, was instantly killed when
his team ran away.
George E. Taylor. a pioneer drug
gist of Leadville, died after an illness
of only few hours.
Miss Catherine Blest is missing from
her home in Pueblo and is believed to
have committed suicide.
The annual conference of the Meth
odist church will open in Colorado
Springs Aug. so.
Herbert Carlson was killed in Tom
Boy mine at Telluride by being caught
in the shafting.
Myers Liant. fifteen years old. of La
Junta. was fatally injured by the ex-
plosion of powder.
In the Bohemian community. near
Ramah lightning killed three cows be-
longing to Mike Dzurochin.
Water will be distributed in part of
in time for the crop next year.
At the Davis Wolgamott place. near
Hayden, lightning struck the big gran
ary. smashing it to kindling wood.
The man who was recently buried in
pauper's grave at Englewood is now
thought to have been Mediez Rainey.
The Missouri Pacific is contemplat-
I'M
large scale to settle up eastern Colo
RADIO.
Miss Mona Shockley. living on a
homestead east of Grover. lost her
cabin and its contents. valued at 800.
by fire.
Plans have been perfected and work
is under way on transfer tracks from
the L. p. to the C. & S. line at Fort
Collins.
Milo Ivanisivoe. Russia. was
killed by falling under a moving
freight train in the Tobasco yards. six
teen miles north of Trinidad.
Edward Beeson. one of the three
oldest men in Weld county. pioneer
OF the seventies, and known far and
near as Uncle Ed." died in Evans.
John Wilhelmy, one of the seven
men killed in a mine disaster at Ely.
New, was educated in the Grand juno
ton public schools and lived there
fourteen years.
The Colorado Retail Merchants AS
sociation will cooperate with the Odd
Fellows in an attempt to secure the To-
cation of the new Odd Fellows home
in Fort Collins.
In an attempt to save her nine-year-
old son from the attack of vicious
bulldog. Mrs. Margaret Meyers of Dem
ser. was so severely bitten that she
will probably die.
Whether Kiowa is the county seat
of Elbert county and whether the
county will erect a new court house
are questions that will be settled in
District Court in Colorado Springs.
Lee Armstrong. alias Chas. O'Brien,
has confessed to the Staying of Clay
A. Meeker in Trinidad July 2S. Meek
er was shot as he and his wife en-
tered his tailor shop. and died a few
hours afterward.
Mrs. Lee borg, VINO mas Deen missing
from her home at Telluride for some
time, was found slain at the bottom
of 7OO-foot cliff. Every bone in her
body was broken. A gold watch and
$3.50 In money had been taken.
Complete tests have Just been made
at the School of Mines at Golden of
chemical and assay laboratory sup
plies manufactured from Golden prod
ucts at the Herold potteries with graft
flying results.
An order issued by Justice George
w. Musser of the Supreme Court will
lead to the release on bond of thirteen