Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-08-30
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

Weld county farmers are busy har-
vesting 1900 acres of flax.
Denver is to have festival in Oc-
tober to rival any that has gone be-
fore.
The problem of how to dispose of
the city garbage is agitating Colorado
Springs.
Theodore Roosevelt will speak to
the citizens of Rocky Ford Septem-
ber 18th.
Ten citizens of Weld county have
met a violent death within the last
ten days.
Rev. Robert Pegrum of Bridgeport,
Conn.,, formerly pastor of the Chris
tian Church at Windsor, is dead.
The Union Pacific railroad is pre-
pairing an exhibit of Weld county GER
eals to be sent to the Iowa State
Fair.
Daniel Naffzigger. aged sixty-five.
resident of Ault, died at Eaton from
old age and a complication of dis
eases.
E. A. Vaughn. forty-three, a pioneer
business man of Goldfield. was found
dead at his place of business by his
nephew.
To keep her husband from being a
bigamist Mrs. Leonora Henry quietly
sued for and obtained divorce at
Colorado Springs.
Mrs. T. B. Stanton. a visitor from
Tacoma, WASH. dropped dead in the
Denver Union depot following an at
tack of heart failure.
Said to have forged a check on the
Albany hotel in Denver. l.. X. Kings
bury of Pueblo has been arrested on
a similar charge in Milwaukee.
While several of his fellow ranch
hands slept on either side Of him. w.
II. Rice. forty-five, employed near
Brighton. died from heart trouble.
Two well known Denver lawyers
Judge Stuart Douglas Walling Of the
State Court of Appeals, and Judge
Sterling B. ToLey-passed away sud
denly.
President j. H. Baker of the State
University landed huge twenty-six-
inch twelve-pound trout at Stapp's
lake. near Boulder. after a fight of
twenty-five minutes.
Because they had been twice di-
vorced. the Rev. S. b. Warner. pas
tor of the First Methodist Church of
Grand Junction. refused to remarry
Mr.. and Mrs. w. G. Smith.
After living three score years with
out a serious accident, Charles SAT-
ford. pioneer shoemaker. OF Fort
Lupton. severed an artery in his left
hand and nearly bled to death.
John Selvidge. forty. of Mansfield.
Mo-, was run down and killed by a
switch engine in the Missouri Pacific
yards at Pueblo. Selvidge left wild
ow and several children at Mansfield.
w. w. Gayton. seventy-five years
old, a pioneer resident of Golden, fell
from the roof of two-story dwelling
house and received injuries which on
account of his advanced age may
prove fatal.
Judge Riddle of the Denver District
Court has decided that the initiative
and referendum law was not properly
submitted to the people in 1910 and
is, therefore, void. and must again go
before the people.
The Colorado Springs Chamber of
Commerce made bid by wire for one
of the five institutions which the 10y
al Order of Moose, at its convention
in Kansas City, voted to establish at
cost of s5.OOO.000.
William Jones. thirty-eight, a miner
at the Golden Cycle. was killed as
the result of being struck by rock
which stunned him. He fell from the
/, 1,60O-foot level into the water at tho
bottom of the shaft.
Colorado will this winter feeo ESQ.,
900 more sheep than ever in her his
Bitterman, who has been making an
active study of the subject and who
is largely interested in the sheep mar
ket.
An important question that the vot-
ers will be called to decide upon this
fall is whether the state of Colorado
shall issue s4,00o,O00 in bonds for the
construction of tunnel through
James Peak for public or semi-public
uses.
The bite of mosquito caused
Frederick Campbell. farmer at Ea-
ton, to fracture his right leg. He was
on top of a high hay stacker repairing
a pulley. A mosquito bit him on the
back of the neck. Intuitively he
brushed it away and in doing so he
lost his hold and fell forty feet to the
ground.
workmen digging a trench at the
new high school at Greeley found
silver watch buried three feet under
ground. It was wound and licked off
time. The timepiece was lost by