Rocky Ford enterprise., 1911-11-03
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
State Worth While.

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Mr.. and Mrs. j. T. Stephens cele-
brated their fiftieth wedding anniyers'
ary in Denver recently.
Complete returns show there were
200 deer killed in the Meeker vicinity
| during the recent open season..
The recently organized brass band
at Idaho Springs is practicing regu'
larly and is getting into excellent
form.
The fate of Frank Harold Henwood,
slayer of Sylvester Won Phul and
George E. Copeland, now rests with
the Supreme Court.
Thursday, November 2. will be Su-
gar Day at Longmont when all the
farmers and beet growers are to be
guests of the company.
The Grim Reaper has recently been
severe on the old settlers of the Long
mont vicinity. five having passed
away within a few days.
George Edwaldt, who attempted to
coast down the cog road of Pixies
peak on a toboggan sled, died of his
injuries in Colorado Springs.
| A relay TdCt VI luU hiiSo AhohA
Grand Junction to Montrose will be
held under the auspices of the Grand
Junction Y. NJ. c. A, December End.
The store of David B. Cox near Bell
vue, eight miles east of Fort Collins.
was entered by yeggmen, the safe
blown and $4OO in stamps and 5000 in
cash stolen.
| 20 tha of
Woodruff as president of the Ameri-
can Apple Exposition Association, q.
l.. Scholtz of Denver was elected to
fill the vacancy.
The State Bureau of Child and An
imal Protection has SO far in October
handled twenty-five cases of depend
ent children. Most of the cases were
where children were poverty-stricken.
C. V. Hudson, owner of the City
hotel at Victor and employed as a
miner at the Portland, was danger
ously injured when rock fell. driv-
ing candlestick. which was in his
hat, into his skull.
The Colorado State Baptist Asso-
citation, in Colorado Springs, went on
record in opposition to the acceptance
by Secretary of Agriculture James
Wilson of an honorary vice presidency
in the Brewers association.
Sixty men went on strike for high
ef wages on the Durango & Silver
ton branch of the Denver & Rio
Grande railroad. They claim they are
only receiving so day. while others
are paid SO and $3.50.
The Colorado Bar Association has,
with the consent and assistance of At
torney General Benjamin Griffith, be-
gun quo warranto proceeding in the
Supreme Court in Denver to test the
validity of the new Court of Appeals.
While w. r. McEwen, aged 50. of
Steamboat Springs, was taking
wagon load of coal down a steep hill,
the wagon, team and driver were
| plunged to the bottom of the hill, the
man and team being instantly killed.
District Judge Greeley w. Whitford
followed the precedents laid down by
District Judges Hubert l.. Shattuck
and Carlton NJ. Bliss and sustained the
ruling made by the school board over
two years ago prohibiting any pupil
in the public high schools of Denver
from being affiliated in any way with
fraternities or sororities.
Negotiations are being carried on
by Manage Herman Weinberger of
the associated students at the Uni
versity of Colorado to fix the date of
the annual triangular debate for the
! championship of the Middle West be-
tween Colorado institutions and the
state universities of Oklahoma and
Kansas. Colorado won the title last
| year.
Allen Fowler, exonerated by cor
oner's jury at Trinidad on a charge of
/ having stabbed to death ]. w. Bundy,
when he encountered Bundy and
/ Charles Samuels in company with his
! two young daughters near the rear of
a local roming house. has been ar
rested on the charge of murder on
complaint sworn out in the office of
the district attorney.
David Snider of Platteville and Den
yer filed suit in the District Court at
/ Greeley against Horace Haskins, ask
ing a total of $4,000 for mental and
physical injuries and to cover the loss
of u $500 diamond ring all of which
occurred when Snider and Haskins be-
came involved in an alteration that
! led to blows. Snider is one of the
wealthiest men in northern Colorado.
The boards of home and foreign
missions of the NJ. E. church will meet
in Denver November 10th to 23rd.
The meeting of these two missionary
boards is the great annual event of
the Methodist Episcopal church of the
United States. There will be in at