Rocky Ford enterprise., 1911-08-11
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
State Worth While.


Eight referendum petitions have
been filed with the secretary of state.
The United States smelter in Canon
City will open up again in sixty days.
Two canneries. employing 200 peo-
| pie. are running full time at Fort Lup-
| ton.
Chicken thieves are operating on
| large scale in the vicinity of Platte
vile.
The cornerstone of the new M. L.
Church at Trinidad has been put in
place.
For engine repair only, the Union
Pacific is spending in Denver 100000
annually.
Sothrina West, age seventy-five
long a resident of Denver, died at
Briggsdale.
The state board is considering the
proposition of investing the school
funds in irrigation projects.
Rocky Ford cantaloupes are begin
ming to arrive in Denver and are sell
ing at 81 to $3.50 crate.
Oil in paying quantities has been
found in at least fifty wells il Range
ley district, in Routt county.
Railway passenger and freight re-
ceipts at Gunnison are $4,000 more
this year than In the previous year.
Information has been filed charging
thirty Trinidad saloon men with gam
| bling and violating the closing law.
S. S. Kingsbury, the new head mas
| ter of the State Preparatory School,
at Boulder, has arrived from Wichita,
Kan.
Mrs. Annie Eliza Landrum of Love.
land has been declared insane and
committed to the Work Sanitarium in
Pueblo.
Not for eighteen months has work
on irrigation enterprises in Colorado
| been pushed with so much activity as
| at present.
Several parties are under arrest in
Routt county charged with dynamit-
ing fish in Luna lake, near Steamboat
| Springs.
J. V. Blake owns garden spot near
| Canon City, and from one acre of
ground he marketed 14,000 pounds of
early beans.
Mrs. C. NJ. Conrow is dead from the
effects of shock received when
| lightning struck near Trinidad about
two weeks ago.
District Judge Burke. at Fort Nor
gan, sentenced George E. Reagen to
three to five years in the penitentiary
for stealing s25.
The Estes Park hotel was burned to
the ground Within an hour after the
burned. Loss $4,000.
The First State bank of Milliken has
| reorganized and will be known as the
Weld County National bank. Its cap
ital has been increased to s25.000.
To aid the men in jail for contempt
of court, sentenced by Judge Whitford
| of Denver, an auxiliary To the Lafay-
| ette miners union has been organized
by the ladies'.
The Colorado Metal Culvert Com
pany, which has been operating at La
Junta about a year. has moved to
Pueblo, where they can obtain better
shipping rates.
Fred Rowley, a Denver railroader,
and his alleged accomplice. Jack Tay-
lor, are in jail in Trinidad. as a re-
suit of daring daylight hold-up on
| Commercial street
James English, who has been in a
Trinidad hospital since May &c, suffer
ing from paralysis caused by bullet
wound received in saloon brawl at
Hastings, May IA, is dead.
The factory of the Great Western
Sugar Company at Fort Collins will be
operated in the fall, though until re-
Gently there has been some uncer-
tainty about the matter.
E. ]. Swords, first general agent of
the Burlington road in Denver, in 1882.
| died of apoplexy in New York, where
he has ben located as general east
ern agent for the Burlington since
| 1886.
Santa Fe racing circuit entries for
the Prowers county fair, August 2s25,
| closed in Lamar with forty-nine appli-
cations, the largest ever recorded. A
Mathewson aeroplane will be one of
the attractions.
While two boys named Carr and
Urine were playing with a revolver
which they did not know was loaded,
at Gunnison. it was discharged, the
bullet striking the Carr boy in the
mouth, inflicting painful wound.
For failure to answer truthfully
questions mailed to prospective jurors
by Jury Commissioner Alexander Mes
bit, of Denver, or for failure to obey
a Jury summons a fine of $50 will be