Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-07-26
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.


The new Moose hall at Rocky Ford
has been dedicated.
Two canning factories are now In op.
Grafton at Loveland.
The West canal of the Uncompahgre
project is being completed.
w. B. Monson, Doyleville pioneer.
died at his home in Ohio City.
New alfalfa hay is selling on the
Uintah reservation for IS per ton.
Gunnison County Cattlemen's con-
vention at Gunnison was an absolute
success.
The assessed valuation of the city OF
Grand Junction will exceed $2,000,000
for 1912.
Boulder and immediate vicinity suf-
fered little damage from the recen.
cloudburst.
According to reports crops in tho
vicinity of Elizabeth were damaged
by the recent rains.
John w. vandeventer. former state
statistician and Colorado newspaper
man. is dying at Minxato. Kan.
San Luis Valley Drainage district
No. 1, at a recent election at Alamosa,
voted unanimously for a bond issue.
Mrs. Hanna NJ. Earnest, aged sixty
eight for forty years a resident of Col
Orado, fell dead in her home in Dem
yer.
Ellis, three-year-old son of Richard
Blackwood of La Sale, died from
burns received when he fell into tub
of boiling water.
Former Governor Alva Adams has
formally announced his candidacy for
United States senator as successor to
Senator Guggenheim.
The "Gipsy war" in Pueblo is daily
waxing warm. Several of the nomads
have been arrested charged with as
sault to kill.
The Golden Athletic Club has filed
with the secretary of state articles of
incorporation. The club has recently
built a 100000 building.
Assessment returns this year on dia-
monds and jewelry by tax payers o.
Mesa county total less than $1,000, ex-
cluding jewelry stores.
Ellis, the four-year-old son of Richie
Blackwood, is at his home at La Sale
in a critical condition as the result
of falling backward into a tub of boil
ing water.
Pueblo police believe they have
clue that may lead to the arrest Of
counterfeiters who are flooding the
country with bogus dollars. halves and
quarters.
An auto going almost sixty miles an
hour struck and instantly killed John
NJ. Lloyd. aged sixty, at Colorado
Springs. Lloyd was dragged 300 feet
and his skull fractured.
Henry Coons, forty-four, yardman.
was arraigned in Justice Court at
Pueblo charged with statutory of
fense. The complaining witness was
Mary Ossanko. an Austrian girl.
That the streams in Colorado ar,
the property of the people of Colorado
was the decision made recently in the
District Court of Grand county. in a
United States Intervention case.
Killed and then robbed is the opin-
ion of the coroner after investigating
the death of an unidentified man, aged
about fifty-five. whose decomposed
body was discovered five miles north.
west OF Lyons.
Amos Roster. a veteran of the Civil
War. died suddenly of heart disease at
Boulder. He was sixty-eight years of
age, served three years in the Civil
War. and had resided in Boulder twen-
ty-two years.
Contracts for 1900 freight cars. to
cost $1.100.000. have been awarded to
various car companies by Vice Presi-
dent Z. l.. Brown of the Denver & Rio
Grande railroad. The cars are to be
delivered within ninety days.
A cloudburst on Currant creek,
twenty miles west of Canon City,
washed out fifty feet of the pipe line
which supplies water to the city. The
city will probably not suffer a water
famine as repairs were started at once.
A search by deputy sheriffs in the
Mike O'Grady house. west of Evans,
resulted in the finding of big faro
table and specially made card tables.
In the opinion of officers, O'Grady has
been conducting wide-open gambling
house. O'Grady is under arrest and
says he will not assist the officers in
their work.
Governor Shafroth has appointed
twenty delegates to represent Colo
RADIO at the trans-Mississippi CONNER
cial Congress which will be in session
at Salt Lake City, August 81 to 80.
The delegates are: Omar Garwood,
Denver; Samuel n. Wheeler, Grand
Junction; Alva Adams, Pueblo; t. C.
Henry. Denver; Jared Brush. Greeley:
A. NJ. Gooding. Steamboat Springs;
Clyde Lawson, Denver; l.. C. Paddock
Boulder; w. A. Maxwell, Brighton; II.
8 Groves QenYer: A i Woodruff