Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-08-09
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.


August 1st.
Rocky Ford's new system of street
lighting has been finished.
Mrs. Jean Hooper Page. writer and
poet. died recently at her home in Dem
yer.
cinity of Hardin have been destroyed
by hail.
Hail did severe damage in some in
stances destroying crops, around Hugo
recently.
Miss Ethel Butler. twenty-n;ne,
teacher of Pierce. committed suicide
by shooting.
The Northern Colorado Power
Company has established headquar-
ters in Boulder.
Colorado Springs has been damaged
thousands of dollars by the overflow
ing of Fountain creek.
Arrangements are being made for
the celebration of Rocky Ford's silver
anniversary. September 3rd.
A heavy wind and rain storm swept
the Virgins country. causing great
damage to crops and roads.
Over two miles of track near Well
ington on the Colorado G. Southern
was washed out by cloudburst.
Fred Tiller, miner working at the
Aduddell mine in Russell district, was
severely injured by a cave-in at that
property.
1t is now believed that five people.
one woman and four men, lost their
lives in the recent Rock Island wreck
at Pueblo.
The First National bank of Lafay-
cite, Colorado, has been made a U. S.
depository for postal savings banks in
that district.
A representative of Morris & Co. is
in Denver looking over the situation
with a view to establishing pack
ing plant there.
Christian Maniatis, a Greek restau-
rant keeper in Denver. has received
black hand letter ordering him to quit
business and leave the city.
Thirty-two persons were killed in
Colorado mines during the first four
months of 1912. according to the Bu-
reau of Mines in Washington.
With their town taxes at 80 mills.
he people of Platteville at a mass
meeting refused to assume any addi-
.ional burden in the way of bonded in
iebtedness.
Van Fields, nineteen. of Pueblo. is
mentally unbalanced by trip to the
summit of Pixies peak Sunday. when
he experienced high altitude for the
first time.
The flow of water from the Roose-
velt tunnel at Cripple Creek has in
creased to 10000 gallons per minute or
more, as against 5000 gallons two
weeks ago.
Benny Chavez, the Trinidad Mexi-
can prize fighter, has been matched
for a twenty-round bout with Monte
Attel of San Francisco. at Santa Fe.
Labor Day.
Maldartz Gomez of Fort Collins was
arrested for beating his sixteen-year-
old wife with knotted "blacksnake"
until blood dripped from her shoul-
ders and back.
All records for gain in acreage, quail
ity and enthusiasm in the Arkansas
valley have been broken during the
past month by the strides the beet
crops have made.
F. ]. Bawden, treasurer of San
Juan county, and Socialist. has re-
fused to collect the military poll tax
In that county. His political views
r. f-
Believing they were administering
EPSON salts. the parents of Frank
Brock, age eighteen, of Denver, gave
him large quantity of cyanide of
potassium, which caused his death.
The first pest district formed under
the new pest law for fighting grass
hoppers. prairie dogs. weeds and 9TH
er pests, is now being operated to
good advantage in the Atwood section.
Falling from the roof of three
story building upon which he was
working in Pueblo. John Abrams had
the good fortune to alight upon a
clothes line and then upon dog.
thereby saving his life.
Andrew Mckay. the third man to To-
cate a claim in Cripple Creek twenty
years ago and at one time one of the
richest mining men in Colorado, was
arrested in Grand Junction recently
upon a charge of drunkenness.
The Senate public lands committee
has decided to let the Taylor bill
which passed the House, to grant the
use of forest reserve lands on Pixies
peak slopes to Colorado Springs and
Manitou for municipal water supply
purposes, go over until December.
Socialists of Boulder county ap-
peared before the County Commits
sioners with a request that the coun-