Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-10-11
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over tho
State Worth While.

Last month was tne coolest Septem-
Der ever experienced in Denver.
A new postoffice building costing
100000 has just been completed in
Fort Collins.
With imposing ceremonies ground
was broken at Canon City for S40,-
900 Y. M. C. A. building.
The Colorado & Southern has dis
tributed $4,000 in dividends to the
holders of its preferred stock.
After being wet since its founding.
nearly three years ago. Milliken will
vote on local option at the November
election.
An interesting experiment is being
conducted by the Bank of Meeker and
a prospcctor who claims to be radi-
um expert.
Eugene Fl. Grubb. noted specialist,
is in Weld county investigating con-
ditions in regard to the shortage OF
the potato crop.
S. p. Wear has been appointed game
warden for the district comprising Rio
Blanco. Routt and Moffat counties.
vice Robert Norvell.
In q collision of two automobile
trucks at Pueblo. Fred Elgin. sixteen,
was thrown to the pavement and prob
ably fatally injured.
How would you like to be a $1,000
900 baby? That is what the small son
and heir who arrived at the Lawrence
Phipps home in Denver is worth.
Mrs. William ]. Cox, wife of the
manager of the famous Camp Bird
mine, near Ouray, died suddenly of
heart failure at Excelsior Springs, Mo.
Two fine bucks were shot on Mount
Falcon, within sight of Mount Morri-
son. The lucky hunters were ]. p.
Mosher and Walter Matthews, both of
Morrison.
With a display of agricultural and
horticultural products more varied
than heretofore, the MonteZuma Coun.
ty Fair at Cortez was an unqualified
success.
The Colorado Springs Duck Club
has been organized with n member
ship limited to twenty-five. to take
charge of hunting lodge in the Foun-
tain valley.
President John Hughes of the Agui-
lar Miners Union, who failed to incite
general strike in that district, was
arrested and will be arraigned on
charge of non-support.
The Burlington railroad will not ac.
cept tn eterms laid down by Mayor
Arnold Of Denver, under which 1t
might be given franchise to use Mar.
ket street for trackage purposes.
William II. Hupp. forty-four. post.
qster during the summer for the last
four years at Estes Park, was found
dead in his cabin at Boulder. Hupp
was on a deer hunting expedition.
Drawn back to Colorado by his de.
sire to see the girl he loved. Joe Am.
atos alias ]. Marino, was arrested at
Rockvalc on the charge of ksli.cg his
rival and the latter's brother.
Mrs. Adrianna Hungerford of psa
yer was unanimously reelected prest
dent of the Colorado Woman's Chris
tian Temperance Union at its twenty
third annual convention at Canon
City.
The new directors of the Telluride
Power Company have voted at a meet
ing here to dissolve the corporation,
which means that it will be sold to
the highest bidder for not less than
s5,250.000.
Reformed spelling. after having
been tried for two years in the State
Teachers college "Crucible," periodi
cal of the student body at Greeley, has
been eliminated and the old style
spelling will be used.
THE salvation of Colorado lies in
the increased and proper cultivation OF
the ugly but sweet sugar beet" de.
clared w. d. Hoover. president of the
San Luis Sugar Company. to the Den
yer Real Estate Exchange.
Theodore, age eight, son of George
NJ. Montgomery of Colorado Springs,
probably will lose the sight of his
right eye as a result of an explosion
OF tightly corked bottle of powder
with which the boy was playing.
After a separation of more than thir.
ty years John Brill. sixty years old, Of
Niwot, Colo, met his father. H. Brill.
eighty years old. of Jackson. Ohio. in
Denver after reading in the newspa-
pers of his fathers search for him.
Thousands of gallons of nitric, sui
phuric and muriatic acid in store
house OF the Western Chemical works,
set afire by the act of an incendiary,
resulted in one of the most dangerous
and spectacular fires ever seen in Den
yer, and caused damage to the com
pany's property estimated by John C.
Skinner at 100000.
Secretary of State Pearce in his ca
pacity of state labor commissioner,
has made arrangements with owners