Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-04-26
COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
State Worth While.

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The work of putting in the new sys
TEN of street lighting in Rocky Ford
is under way. wv
Plans are being made for the install
lation of an automobile truck service
between Collbran and Grand Junction
John Hofmund, pioneer of Love
land was found. dead in bed. He was
sixty-five and died from heart disease.
For the first time this season. wa
ter is running into the Latham reser-
yoir at La Sale, through the Union
ditch.
Having given $50 to the high scl'"ol
piano fund, the Evans improvement
Society will now buy fire alarm Tor
the city.
The Woodmen of the World held a
largely attended smoker in Rocky
Ford recently. Several of the state of
ficers were present.
Fred Schaeffeldein, a miner, was
killed in cave-in in the entry of the
Henrietta mine on Battle mountain
near Red Cliff.
The corpse of Joseph G. Hallowell,
war Veteran, aged about seventy Of
Boulder. was found west of the city
dump at Nederland.
Work on the excavation and founda-
tion Of the new opera house at Idaho
Springs is progressing rapidly with a
big force of men and teams.
Meekers' new Town Council has
named April 16 as cleanup" day and
instructed the city marshal to see that
all property owners do their duty.
The Paris-London Oil Company, one
of the largest concerns operating in
the Green River fields near Meeker,
will install shortly two large oil rigs.
The Colorado and Southern has de-
posted 10000 trout fry in small
lake at Bailey. which will be fed until
they grow large enough to turn into
the river.
The effort of the utilities corpora
tions of Colorado to have the commits
sion form of government declared un-
constitutional has reached the Su-
preme Court
Fruit prospects in the Canon City
district wer never better at this sea
son of the year. Every indication
points to bumper crop of practically
all kinds of fruit.
DIR. Oliver Ebert. one of the most
prominent physicians of Mesa county,
was found dead on his homestead
twenty-seven miles southeast of Grand
Junction by cowboys.
w. II. Edwards and Frank Rolf were
arrested and are being held in con-
nection with the murder of Jim War
ford. whose body was found recently
on Battle mountain. Cripple Creek.
L. l.. Brown, vice president ard
general manager of the Denver & Rio
Grande railroad. has been elected to
the directorate o; that company. sue.
ceeding Howard Gould. resigned.
The extremely dry spell of the past
two weeks in the Arkansas valley
which was interspersed with high
winds, has been ended by a splendid
fall of about four inches of snow.
The opening of 10000 acres of rich
farming land on the Fort Lewis mesa
near Durango, recently, caused no
rush of homeseekers as the govern.
Abraham La Gale, known also to
many as Hubert La Croix, an old-time
miner. was found dead in his cabin at
Central City. He was sixty-five and
came here ten years ago from Cripple
Greek.
Mayor Speer will ask the leading or
ganists of Colorado to help him select
an organ for the Auditorium in Den
yer. The $4,000 purchase money is
now available and all that remains is
to award the contract.
Because she refused to permit q
tramp TO rob the store of which she
was in sole charge. Mrs. John l.. Puck
EFT was probably fatally beaten with a
stove poker by a tramp at Nyburg.
fourteen miles east of Pueblo.
Former County Commissioner r. w.
De Vinny of Greeley, who recently
pleaded guilty to the charge of NAL
feasance in office. was fined 5000 and
costs, the maximum, by District Judge
Graham.
The City Council of Colorado Springs
viii Join with Ell Paso and Otero ccun-
ties and the school districts in the two
counties in their fight to compel the
Santa Fe railroad to pay the tax as
sessed against it by the State Board of
Equalization.
Loveland feeders have received the
highest price ever paid. 1t is said, for
cows-in the Denver market. Al Cox
of Loveland got it. Cows fed in his
lots at the sugar factory sold at $685.
per hundred. averaging 1.15s pounds
each.
The big Wilcox canal. one of the
largest irrigation projects on the West
ern slope. is to be formally opened