Rocky Ford enterprise. (Rocky Ford, Colo.) 1887-1950, 1912-03-08
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.


der suffered $500 loss by fire.
James Corners, resident of
Georgetown for thirty years, is dead.
The total value of assessable prop
erty in Colorado is 1.267. 10000.
At Windsor the temperature recent
Eastern and southern Colorado are
suffering from the effects of the biz
card.
Col. A. w. Jones, resident of
Greeley for twenty-eight years. is
dead.
On the ranch of Joe Kunzman, near
Kersey. there is six-legged yearling
lamb.
Arbor day Erie will plant tree for
every man, woman and child in the
town.
A railroad will be built from Meek
err ten miles south to tap the coal
fields.
Forty-two miles of the Old Santa Fe
trail from Denver will be a twenty
foot pike.
Jerome l.. Terry, an employe of the
D. & X. G. at Salida, shot and killed
his wife.
At the Wilson park saw mill, 20
miles from Meeker. snow eight feet
deep is reported.
A Congregational church has been
organized at Spring Creek. six miles
west of Montrose.
The National Sugar Manufacturing
Company has advanced the price of
beets from $3.50 to Sc per ton.
Many people who attended a church
supper in Greeley were taken violent
ly i'll with symptoms of poisoning.
Lieutenant General Sir Robert Ba-
den-Powell, X. C. b.. C. V. o., founder
of the Boy Scouts. is in Denver.
Grand Junction is preparing to hold
a Chautauqua similar to those held at
Boulder and other Colorado cities.
Chas. H. Lasche, of Valverde
sneezed and broke a blood vessel in
his side and is now in q serious con-
dition.
Robert Stevens. aged lightweight.
who had lived in the vicinity of Long
mont since 1870, died in that city re-
Gently.
Seven thousand two hundred eighty
sheep, all raised in the San Luis val
ley, were shipped from Pueblo re-
Gently.
At the close of the winter term of
the State Teachers college in Greeley
twentv.three young women received
diplomas.
The government will pay salaries to
the Boy Scouts of Colorado who will
enter the forestry service during the
summer.
The Milliken Commercial Club has
been organized and will conduct an
active campaign in the interest of a
canning factory.
A second stampede of deer and elk
from the preserves in Wyoming has
Peak is overrun.
Col. A. w. Jones, one of the best
known men in that section, and a resi-
dent of Greeley for over a quarter of
a century, is dead.
The Fort Collins Chapter, d. A. R.,
is making elaborate plans for enter
tanning the state convention there
March 2lst and 22nd.
Adjutant General Chase has re-
quested the State Land Board to
loan S150,00O for the erection of
an armory at Denver.
The Greeley Hydro-Electric Compa-
ny will ask that city for franchise
to furnish a current for heat, light and
power purposes.
Tom Ryan of Colorado Springs won
two out of three falls from Frank Du-
cray OF Grand Junction, in a wrestling
match in the former city.
Trinidad merchants and shippers
have taken steps to reduce the rates
charged by railroads and express COM
panies hauling out of that city.
Ira Z. Brown, a prominent mining
man of Telluride, was killed when he
fell fifty-five feet in an upraise in the
Nellie mine, four miles from that city.
Glenwood Springs is trying to Sc
cure the annual midsummer meeting
of the Colorado Stockmen's Associa-
ton, which will be held some time in
July.
The Republican state convention
will be held in Colorado Springs
March 9th. at which time delegates
will be named for the national con-
vention.
E. C. Stevens. the star witness in
the E. ]. Estes trial at Greeley, who
confessed to perjury. was sentenc ed
to from two to three years in the pen-
itentiary.
The Colorado Grain Dealers Asso-