Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-08-23
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

The Ouray Pioneer association Will
hold picnic September End.
During a friendly wrestling match at
Evans. William Hill received broken
leg.
More than 1000 gallons of oil will
be used on the downtown streets of
Greeley.
The state treasury has been en-
riched by the addition of $3,496.35 in
inheritance taxes.
A bandstand costing nearly 1000
has been erected on the courthouse
lawn in Boulder.
Three men were hurt when engine
No. of the Moffat road jumped the
track at Willow station.
Johnnie Carver, nine, fell under a
heavy ore car at Pueblo and had both
legs cut off at the knees.
Mrs. Ella Celeste Adams, we'll
known newspaper woman of the state,
died in Colorado Springs.
The mayor of Colorado City has or
dered the police to close all gambling
places and houses of i'll repute.
The Young Peoples Christian En-
deavor convention of the Colorado
Presbytery, was held in Canon City.
Colonel C. f. Meek. president of the
Colorado Yule Marble Company, died
ct Marble as a result of an accident.
William Brand, the bee man." OF
LaSalle. was driven nearly crazy when
bee stung him on the tip of his
tongue.
Work will be commenced on three
irrigation projects in Routt county in
the near future, involving over 100000
acres of land.
Seventy-nine residents of Ell Paso
county are seeking nominations for
county offices at the coming primaries.
September 10.
The good roads fund being raised
by the Chamber of Commerce Is still
growing rapidly. and is now nearing
the $4,000 mark.
Miss Ruth Shepherd of Eaton has
received word that she has been
awarded one of the Henry Strong
scholarships at Colorado College.
The International Supreme Council
of the Knights of Columbus. held in
Colorado Springs recently, attracted
enc thousand visitors to Colorado.
Charles Bowman, well known cat
tie man of Grand Junction. has
bought an automobile which he will
use in rounding up his cattle.
Cowgirls of Colorado and adjoining
states will contest for, the champion
ship of the world at the State fair. to
be held in Pueblo Sept. 16 to 81.
Mrs. Antoine Crosse OF Grand juno
tion. whose weight is only ninety
pounds, is the mother of a young
birth.
A fine Jersey COW. the property OF
Walker Grayson. rancher of Louis
vile, was found absolutely uninjured
1t the bottom of an abandoned mine
shaft. eighty feet deep.
Milliken has fine potato crop in
the heart of the city and the aldermen
expect to reap a rich harvest from the
five-acre tract which eventually to be-
come its municipal park.
While her husband, who is a rural
mail carrier, is away enjoying three
weeks fishing trip. Mrs. H. II. Edie
of La Sale is daily delivering mail
over his route that covers forty miles.
While on his way to the police sta
ton in Pueblo. to report the robbery
of his residence, Lee Culbertson, pro-
prietor of a lunch counter. was struck
over the head by footpad and robbed
OF $40 and a gold watch.
Lewis Williams, an employee of the
Boulder city water works department,
while returning from the reservoir.
was seriously II not fatally injured
when he collided with an automobile
as he rode his bicycle down a hill.
Fleeing before Robert Freeman of
Glenwood Springs. his employer. with
whom he had ben engaged in a fight.
Robert Roberts, negro ranch hand,
ran half a mile before he reached the
the Grand river, into which he went
headlong and was drowned.
Daniel and Lester Baker. two for
mer Boulder children, seven and four
years old, were seriously injured near
Estes Park village when an automo-
bile driven by Denver man crashed
into the rear of spring wagon driven
by H. A. Baker.
The government has filed three
suits for judgment amounting to $13.-
900, against the Colorado G. Southern
Railway Company, alleging the rail-
way has violated the statute, provid.
ing that no railway employe be al
lowed to work more thanssixteen con-
secutive hours.
Yields that break all records in
wheat in Johnstown vicinity were