Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-02-09
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over tho
State Worth While.

A business block in Lamar recently
sold for $4,000.
During January Denver enjoyed 202
actual hours of sunshine.
The Farmers Institute held three
days session in Boulder.
Jennie Ross has been made post
master at Cheyenne Wells.
Manitou is short OF money and will
probably borrow to run the town.
George F. Thomas, a pioneer. aged
seventy-five years. of Grand Junction.
is dead.
The postal receipts for the City of
Denver for the month of January were
$1O9.9OO.
The sale of cocaine in Colorado
Springs is being Investigated by the
| district attorney.
The new drop curtain recently hung
in the Burns theater in Colorado
Springs cost $4,000.
An election will be held in Gilcrest
March to vote on the question of in
cooperating the town.
1t is reported that deer are being
killed in large numbers in the noun
tains west of Loveland.
Union Evangelistic services will be
held in Canon City during February
and part of March.
Ell Paso County Commissioners will
probably replace convict road labor
with needy farmers.
Fort Morgan high school defeated
Julesburg high in a basketball game
by score of 81 to Is.
]. Frank Anthony. employed in the
Oak Creek coal mines. was crushed to
death between two mine cars.
The Lovella ditch and reservoir.
near Hereford, have been sold to Chi
cago capitalists for $325,000.
Mystery surrounds the discovery of
two dynamite bombs in the basement
of house in Cripple Creek.
Business men of Pueblo have taken
up the fight against the suit recently
filed against the city's charter.
George Lucas. a boy of five years.
of Georgetown, has captured live
owl that weighs fourteen pounds.
DIR. A. L. Gresher has been arrest
practicing medicine without license.
Mrs. Harriet Van Deusen, aged
eighty, of Denver, has instituted
suit for divorce from her husband.
Twelve Steamboat Springs girls
have taken a solemn vow to take ad-
vantage of leap year and become en-
gagged.
Loyeland is to have municipal
light plant costing 100000 II the
present plans of the council are car
ried out.
The appointment of Harry E. Kelly
as United States attorney for the dis
trict of Colorado has been confirmed
by the Senate.
The Supreme Court has dismissed
S5,1O0,0O0 bond issue of the Greeley
Poudre irrigation district.
John Sprague, a farmer living forty
five miles northeast of Glenwood
Springs, was arrested and fined s25
for killing a mountain sheep.
A great stir has been caused by the
report that Idaho Springs will attempt
to wrest the county seat of Clear
Creek county from Georgetown.
The Modern Woodmen of America
will hold the next camp in Colorado
Springs without requiring the bonus
o. $4,000 it was intended to ask.
Ground has been broken at Keota
for the First Methodist Church and
the people of the town have offered
their services toward its erection.
The Santa Fe has started the con-
struction of freight and packing
house at Canon City for the use of the
ton.
John Benson, Swede miner at
Mary Murphy mine. thirty miles south
west of Buena Vista, died as a result
of inhaling fumes of burning dyna-
mite.
Alfred Williams, proprietor of a
| hotel at Frederick, has been arrested
on charge of seriously injuring his
wife by striking her with a monkey
| wrench.
A large consignment of black bass,
which were placed in Bear creek at
Craig two years ago, are now said to
be in good condition, some weighing
about a pound each.
Farmers in the Johnstown vicinity
who are interested in the dairy busi-
ness will form an organization hav-
ing for its purpose the establishing of
better herds of milk COWS.
The Denver Chamber of Commerce
will have printed several thousand
circulars on How to cultivate arid
lands,'' and they will be distributed
to the farmers of the state.
Perry H. Brewington, formerly of
Eaton, has been sentenced to the peni-