Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-03-22
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.


perfected in Grand Junction.
A $4,000 fireproof warehouse is to
be erected in Grand Junction.
Colorado druggists will hold their
annual convention in Denver in Aug
ust.
The first shipment of spring lambs
from Gill. 2.4OO head. were sent to
Chicago.
Greeley school districts $41.5OO bond
issue has been sold. The premium is
$1.713.95.
Gov. Shafroth has issued a procla-
nation designating Friday, April 10, as
Arbor Day.
The Colorado & Southern has dis
continued service between Buena Vista
and Hancock.
Water is now flowing into the Ster-
ling reservoir for the first time since
its completion.
John w. Springer of Denver has an
nounced himself as candidate for the
United States Senate.
George Sleborn, resident of Long
mont since 1887. is dead from Bright's
disease. He was sixty-six.
The Postoffice Department desig-
mated Cedaredge as a postal savings
depository, effective April IL.
Denver is to have a Day-and-Night
bank. The new institution is expect
ed to open for business about April 1
c. X. Berry of Laramie. Wyo., prob
ably will install a cooperative deliv-
cry system for merchants of Greeley.
John l.. Church. aged seventy-three,
one Of the best known men in Boul-
der county, Civil War veteran, is
dead.
Unless Former Judge Richard Den
his of Eaton gets stay Of execution.
he must serve a thirty-day sentence
in jail.
The Advertising Club of Denver in
tends to make a strong bid for the
national convention of the Associated
Advertising Clubs of America in 1915.
Stockholders of the bankrupt Union
Trading Company met in Pueblo and
planned to purchase the remaining as
the dollar.
Deciding to engage in farming in
the West. Mrs. Rose r. Herkett OF
Chicago bought the 320-acre Asa Ster-
ling farm, south of Kuner, paying
$4,000 for 1t.
The Santa Fe has cleared its tracks
through Kansas and traffic has been
resumed. About 300 passengers had
been stalled at La Junta and were fed
at local hotels.
Mrs. Nettie Belle Combs, fifty-three,
of Longmont. believed to be the larg-
est woman in Colorado, died at her
home in that city. Mrs. Combs
weighed 45O pounds.
Mike Carr, an old time miner, dropped
dead in a restaurant at Central City
from hemorrhage of the lungs. Carr
was sixty-iour and had lived in Cen
tral City forty years.
James Wilson, secretary of agricul
ture. will visit the Agricultural College
at Fort Collins soon. inspect the gov
ernment horse breeding station and
all departments of the school
A vigilance committee of men stu
dents at the State university at Boul-
a Jack the Peeper who has been
prowling around on University hill.
Bert Gross, an old time miner of
Cripple Creek, was perhaps fatally in
Jured when he was struck by slab
of rock weighing about 1000 pounds
on the 400-foot level of the FL Paso
mine.
Among recent large deals at Meeker
is the sale of the Martin Paulson
ranch to John Benpett of Victor for
$4,000, and the sale of the Lechmere
property to Lorin Clark of Rifle for
$4,000. O.,
Mrs. Sarah Bellville has filed suit
against PUsnlo for $500 damages for
a fall on a slippery sidewalk January
9th. She declares she broke an arm
and a leg and received many Other
injuries.
1t is reported in Meeker that the
Colorado-Pacific Development Com
pany, which quit work on its oil prop
critics at Rangely last winter. is about
to resume work on as large a scale
as before.
Caught in a snowslide that was pre-
cipitated by the concussion following
the discharge of his rifle, David Da-
Wis, aged thirty-two, former Denver
man, was carried 800 feet to his death
down a mountainside near the quar-
ries of the Colorado Yule Marble Com
pany, at Marble.
The largest damage suit for per-
sonal injuries ever filed in the Colo
trict Court when Miss Nellie B. En-
gle sued the Colorado Springs & inter
urban Railway Company to recover
$4,000 for injuries sustained Jan. 10.