Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-02-16
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

tion is making a fight for 5000 mem
bers.
The Mesa county farmers have or
ganized a permanent Farmers Insti-
tute.
George Heron, one of the most prom
inent miners in the Telluride district,
is dead.
Mesa county farmers held a three
days farmers institute at Grand
Junction.
Mrs. Sarah Thomas. aged seventy
nine, a pioneer of Rio Blanco county,
is dead.
Johnstown has inaugurated "Dai-
ry Day" which will hereafter be an an
nual event.
John Eaton and C. Smith of Estes
Park have been arrested for killing
deer out of season.
The Elks' club rooms in Canon City,
costing $4,000. have been completed
and are now in use.
The price of eggs in Denver has
taken a drop. selling at 90 to &c cents
per dozen wholesale.
Two lion cubs have been captured
alive by w. F. Porter at Ridgway and
third one was killed.
Hugh 7. O'Reilly, financial secre-
tary of the Denver lodge of Knights
of Columbus, died recently.
Mrs. Minnie Ward Patterson has
the distinction of being the first wom-
an minister in Colorado Springs.
E. L. Brown has been elected vice
president of the Denver & Rio Grande
railroad, with headquarters in Denver.
The new $4,000 gateway to the City
park in Denver will be completed in
time for the opening of the park, May
80.
The $4,000 stock in the store of
the Bell Mercantile Company OF
Yampa was practically destroyed by
fire.
Colorado may reproduce her noun
tain streams and fish hatcheries in
miniature at the Kansas City Land
Show.
Arthur Burnham, who was connected
with the murder of six people in Colo
RADIO Springs. some time ago. died re-
Gently.
The new creamery at Windsor has
been incorporated with capital of
$4,000. The plant has been put into
operation.
The cornerstone of the new $4,000
trade school of the National Jewish
Hospital for Consumptives in Denver
has been laid.
Sixty representatives from counties
in central Colorado met in Colorado
Springs and organized the Lincoln
Memorial Association.
Acreage for cucumbers for a pickle
company is being contracted for at
Greeley. Farmers are to receive $22
per ton for cucumbers.
Another suit for reduction in
freight rates between the Gulf and
Denver has been filed with the Inter
state Commerce Commission.
The Denver Chamber of Commerce
has arranged to maintain an informa-
ton bureau in the Union depot for
the benefit of tourists.
Judge Shackelford of Grand June
ton has issued an order calling spe-
cial grand jury to investigate the sale
of liquor in Mesa county.
At a meeting of all the commercial
bodies of the state in Colorado
Springs recently, campaign was out
lined to attract tourists to Colorado.
Boulder has asked for 1860 acres
adjoining its present city park, and
if Congress- grants the petition this
will be the largest city park in the
United States.
Felix Martinez, the wealthy ranch
er of Trinidad. who had been missing
for some time, was found dead fifteen
miles from Aguilar and 1t is supposed
he was murdered.
Colorado Products Week" in Den
yer is planned to be one of the great
est advertisements for home indus.
try ever made. The date has not yet
been decided upon.
The country around Hahn's peak is
rapidly becoming overrun with thou
sands of deer and elk, which have
been driven from their haunts in
Wyoming by the recent cold.
The states brief and argument in
the case brought to test the right OF
the treasurer to collect a state tax OF
S25 from each druggist has been filed
by Assistant Attorney General Chas
O'ConnOr.
A deal which will mean much to ir
rigation and farming in LarimeI
county was closed when the North
Poudre Irrigation Company consoli
dated with the Mountain Supply and
Storage Company.
The santa Fe Company has agreed
TO pay the expenses of keeping two
parks at the station at Rocky Ford ii
that city will furnish the water. fhe