Rocky Ford enterprise., 1911-01-06
LlTrLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
State Worth Telling.

State Worth Telling.
Work of grading ON the Grand
River, checker railroad is now In prog
.ress.
Attorney General Barnett advocates
q four-year term for state officials.
with recall feature.
The first successful attempt at
business directory for Alamosa has
been made by F. A. Mckinney.
While skating on Calkins' lake at
Longmont, Carl Wilhelm broke
through the ice and was drowned.
Nick Wearne. miner of Nevada
vile, fell forty feet down the shaft OF
the California mine on Quartz hill.
The cowboys of southeastern Colo
rado gave grand ball In La Sale,
December 2sth, followed by supper.
Makis Kakis. aged 90. was fatally
crushed rbetwene the cage and the
sump at the Puritan mine at Freder-
lex.
Assistant Superintendent Russell Of
the Rio Grande died In Pueblo from In
juries received in wreck near Wal
senburg.
The Arkansas valley section Of the
National Reform Congress held two
day session in Lamar. all valley towns
being represented.
After remaining In Jail two weeks in
Pueblo. Walter Perry, wanted In Salt
Lake for a diamond robbery, has been
taken there by Sheriff Mcmillan.
With a common pin; lodged cross
ways in his throat. Carl Voris. aged
five. son OF Fred voris of Greeley. had
narrow escape from choking to
death.
The recommendation from the army
engineer board to Congress for ST.
100000 for completion of the Gunnison
tunnel project has cavsed rejoicing
at Montrose.
An oil refinery, using an absolutely
new process and having capacity o.
5000 gallons day, will be erected in
the Boulder oil field In 80 days at a
cost of s25.Ooo.
q. w. Custer, aged forty. In whose
pocket card Of membership In Grip
pie Creek Lodge. B.P.O.E.. was found.
committed suicide In Seattle by leap
Ing into the bay.
The directors OF the Grand Valley
Meeker and Salt Lake Railway Com
pany met in Denver recently and Is
sued 100000 in gold bonds to build
and equip the road. .
The University Of Denver football
team is planning trip East the latter
part OF next October. They will play
Marquette and some other team. eth
er going or on the return. ,
Z. ]. Smith. cashier in the Rocky
Ford State Bank. who was sentenced
10 the penitentiary for receiving de-
posits In an insolvent bank. has been
denied pardon by the state board OF
pardons.
Congress will be asked. through the
medium OF the Dry Farming Congress.
for an appropriation Of 100000 for
use In a systematic campaign OF agri-
cultural education in the state OF
Colorado.
A determined war upon tobacco
dealers who sell their wares to chill
dren was begun In Denver in the Ju-
veniie Court, when three indi-iduals
were fined for non-observance Of the
laws In such cases.
A marriage celebration Of great In
terest to the German-Russian popula-
tion Of Montrose and vicinity ended
sfter a three-day feast and dancing.
participated In by about fifty members
Of these nationalities.
Airs. Rosa Rubenstein, who last
August shot and killed her husband,
William Rubenstein in Denver. and
later was pronounced insane and sent
to the state asylum at Pueblo. COM
mitted suicide.
The Midway coal mine. one of the
largest producers in southern Colo
rado, and the largest producer in Las
Animas county. has been sold by the
Chicosa Fuel Company to the Colo
rado Fuel and Iron Company.
State Game Commissioner T. J. Hol-
land has dispatched several game
wardens to eastern Colorado. where
II is reported hunters are shooting
antelope. Four animals are said to
have been killed at Aroya.
Headquarters Of the national 1rriga.
tion Congress, recently held at Pueblo.
have been removed to Chicago. pre-
paratory to conducting campaign
for the nineteenth irrigation congress.
to be held in Chicago in 1911.
A large section of territory hereto
fore without telephone connection
,,,tth tba outeide world has been con-