Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-08-02
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

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Western Newspaper Union News Service.
The rainfall thus far this year in
Colorado has been 3.31 inches above
normal.
Recent rains in Ell Paso county have
caused loss to roads amounting to
$4,000.
Wheat in the vicinity of Briggsdale
is yielding from fifteen to forty BUSH
els per acre.
DR.. L. C.. Stadler of Ouray has been
arrested on charge of selling cocaine
to young men.
Two Denver men have been arrested
charged with carelessly firing the for
est at Estes Park.
Farmers in the vicinity of Windsor
will employ girls in the hay fields this
season, according to reports.
j. p. Robinson, pioneer cattle rails
er and farmer of Fountain valley. died
at his home near Wigwam recently.
Saloons in Marshall, mining camp
in Boulder county, have been closed
for the first time in thirty-five years.
Ethel Myrtle. infant daughter OF
Thomas Parrot, coal miner of Superior,
was smothered to death in bed re-
Gently.
William Morgan, one of the best
known residents of the Snake River
valley, died at his home in Craig re-
Gently.
c II. Irwin, former president of the
La Plata County bank at Durango has
been arrested on charge of embezzle-
ment.
Meeker's Catholic church has beeh
completed. The edifice is one of the
most substantial and beautiful on the
Western slope.
Farmers in the dry land districts.
nea Keota. have cut and stacked hun
dreds Of tons of Russian thistles to be
used as fodder.
President C. P. Allen of the state
highway commission is in the Meeker
country in the interest of public road
improvement.
The two-year-old daughter OF Ig-
mace C. Palpnek, an Austrian coal
miner, was drowned in an iiligaiing
ditch at Canon City.
Loveland is sending carload OF
raspberries to Denver and Colorado
Springs every other day. for which the
growers receive So per crate.
Philip Wehrwin, who was waylaid
on the road between, Silverton and
Blackstone and terribly beaten. July 6.
died at his home in Silverton.
Anderson H. Young. aged sixty-nine.
a veteran of the Civil War and Colo.
RADIO pioneer. died of complication of
diseases recently at Boulder.
The De Beque Town Council is look
ing for man who is willing to dis
charge the duties OF mayor of the vii
lage for the salary of $40 a month.
There has been heavy loss of cat
tie in the Alder country. Nearly
hundred head have died thus far this
year. A poison weed is causing the
trouble.
Thomas Carter of Cripple Creek.
missing for three weeks. was found
dead on Beacon hill. within fifty feet
of where men have been at work dur
ing his absence.
Earle Allen. nineteen. was probably
fatally hurt, and orlin Hendershott.
eighteen, received serious injuries at
their motorcycles.
Following a quarrel over pool
game. Frank Florris was disembow-
eled at Delta by Carlos Acuma, beet
worker. who attacked Florris at his
home with knife.
The jefferson County Fair Associa-
tion has decided TO hold the fair Sep
tember to I. Two thousand dollars
in premiums will be offered, with
many special prizes.
The Rocky Mountain Climbers Club
is arranging for trips to include the
ascent of several of the highest noun
tain peaks. The first trip will start
from Boulder Aug. 16.
That Colorado's agricultural output
this year is destined to surpass all pre-
vious records, both in yield and money
value. is indicated by the July num-
Der of the government Crop Reporter
just issued.
John d. Rockefeller has donated
$4,000 for the Y. NJ. C A. conference
camp at Estes Park. A. H. Hyde of
Kansas City has also donated $4,000
and c. p. Dodge of Colorado Springs
has given $1,000.
District Judge Cavender OF Grand
Junction upheld the report of Referee
Sternberg in the adjudication of wa
ter rights in the Grand valley, declar
ing valid priorities filed by districts
before 1908.
Denver citizens, who suffered fl
nancial losses by the recent flood of
Cherry creek in that city. will prob
ably sue the city for damages caused
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