Rocky Ford enterprise., 1911-10-27
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
State Worth While.

Fort Lupton claims record ship
ment of produce this year, S65 cars
having gone to market.
Fire destroyed a dugout containing
farming implements of Walter Bridges
near Severance. Loss $1,000.
Horace H. Enrich of Golden, grad
uate of the School of Mines, class OF
1908, has been murdered in Russia.
Snow has been general in the state.
Six inches fell in Cripple Creek with
the thermometer twelve above zero.
The cornerstone of the new Park
Street Presbyterian church in Pueblo
was laid recently with appropriate
ceremony.
Deputy Sheriffs Slater, Hutchins,
and Kennedy, charged with creating
a disturbance Biscuit day at Erie
were heavily fined.
After twenty years residence in
Boulder county, Mrs. Theresa Benel-
tone, aged ninety, and her husband.
John, left for Italy.
Fred Edwards, aged twenty-eight,
was terribly mangled in fly-wheel at
.he Golden Cycle mine at Cripple
Creek and died as result.
Mrs. ]. ]. Bonham, one of the best
known women of Jefferson county,
died at her home near Golden. after a
long illness. She was fifty-five.
More than $50 pretty young women
students of the State Teachers Col
lege, are taking regular course in Bi-
BILE study at nine different churches
in Greeley.
William Trathen, miner in Gilpin
county nearly thirty years. died in
Central City, aged fifty-three. He had
a leg broken in the Topeka mine nearly
two months ago.
More than 100 pupils will be sus-
pended from the high schools in Den
ver This action is expected to elm
mate fraternities from the public edu-
cational institutions of the city.
NJ. B. Page. a prominent fruit grow
er of Fruita and at one time represen-
tative from Mesa county in the Legis-
lature, was thrown by runaway
horse and his recovery is doubtful.
More than 100000 children enjoyed
the seven supervised Fairgrounds of
Denver during the summer, according
to the report the Playground Com
mission has filed with Mayor Speer.
Rather than face the charge of
stealing s13E from his parents at Tur-
tie Creek. Pa. Charles Rosemary. sew
enteen. pleaded guilty to breaking
car seal at Carr and stealing grapes
and canned goods.
The State Bank of Stratton closed
several months ago by the state bank
commissioner has been given permis-
sion to open its doors. This is the
only bank that has been closed in the
state for over two years.
After twenty-four hours of snow the
streets of Trinidad were covered with
about four inches. Throughout the
county snow has been general. North
lake, the source of rrin.dad's water
supply. had fifteen inches.
The Royal Gorge Fruit Growers AS
sociation of Canon City closed con-
tract with one of the largest produce
firms in the United States. by which
it will ship to New York thirty car
loads of Fremont county apples.
A prospector out in the hills re-
ceived a shock when he saw full
sized glizzly bear calmly making its
way through the brush, within two
miles of Cripple Creek. The prospec-
t, st no time getting into Cripple
Creek
The finding of pocketbook con-
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junk dealer in a hen house by farm
er's wife, near Greeley. it is believed,
will explain the disappearance of hun
dreds OF chickens from farm yards
this fall.
The Rocky Mountain Conference of
Liberal Christian Churches was held
in Greeley. Addresses were made by
Rev. John Mitchell of Fort Collins and
Greeley, Rev. David Utter and Rev.
Henry Pinkham of Denver. The
Rocky Mountain Associate Alliance
also met
The record of the depot station
agent at Idaho Springs show that 81
round-trip tickets from that city to
Floyd Hill station we've sold last
week to men employed at days pay,
or who have donated from one to
three days wo-k on the new Floyd
Hill automobile road.
The logging road of McPhee and
McGinnity's mill at Pagosa Springs
was completely undermined by the
floods. The embankment was so thor
oughly washed out that it is believed
it will be impossible to repair the
damage and the road may never be re-
built.
The big apple show and carnival. to
be held early in November, will be one
of the most elaborate entertainments
ever given in Denver, rivaling in splen-