Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-10-25
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over tho
State Worth While.


cab on Curtis street, in Denver.
William Shivers, a 'twelve-year-old
colored boy of Denver fell twenty-five
feet and suffered sprained ankle.
The board of managers OF the Colo
RADIO Woman's college in Denver voted
unanimously to build $4,000 addi-
tion.
The value of ,colorado's dairy prod
ucts of all kinds is estimated at $685.
100000 year for population of SOO,'
900 people.
Stepping directly in front of an out
bound Seventeenth avenue car, Mrs.
w. p. Gilbert of Denver was run down
and slightly injured.
A fitting close for Denver's week of
joy was the football game at Broad
way park between the Wyoming Cow
boys and the Miners.
Plans have been completed for new
buildings to cost $4,000 to supplant
the present Cragmor sanitarium, north
east of Colorado Springs.
Struck and run over by Denver &
Rio Grande freight train near Garcia
Plaza, Toribio Mascarenas, gardener,
sustained injuries which resulted in
his death.
Harry Engle and p. l.. Hubersberger
had narrow escape from death While
working on the new Goff theater build
ing at Pueblo, when they fell with the
elevator.
The Pueblo Hotel Company. owner
of the Congress hotel. one OF the two
largest hotels in Pueblo. was served
with notice of bankruptcy proceedings
filed against it in the Federal Court.
A municipal farm for the city of Pu-
eblo is plan that has been suggested
by Municipal Judge r. A. Crossman
and which has met with considerable
favor from the city commissioners.
Injuries sustained when he fell from
the top of boxcar on moving Union
Pacific train at AIilliken. caused the
death af Marshal NJ. Hobart. brake
man, at St. Luke's hospital in Denver.
While her husband sat in another
room, calmly reading newspaper, Mrs.
Rose Casey, thirty-four, OF Pueblo
drank the contents of small bottle OF
carbolic acid and died few moments
later.
Mrs. John c. Frees, sixty-two. died
from the effects of burns received dur
ing a fire at her home at Montrose
three weeks ago. She was pioneer
and her husband was the first merch-
cnt there.
Knocked to the pavement by an au
tomobile driven by A. Franklin. end
caught by her clothing in the machin-
cry as the car passed over her body
Mrs. James Corrigan OF Pueblo was
badly injured.
Hubert Tremayne. fifteen. of Canon
City attacked a burglar at the family
home on Four Mile creek. knocked
him down with a shovel and secured
S25 in money and some jewels that
fell from the mans pockets.
With all the fervor of their primi-
tive religion thirty dusky redskins
the visiting Taos Indians from the
New Mexico reservation-danced on
the lawn of the select Wolcott school
for young women in Denver.
Work on the 100000 irrigation en-
terprise of the Sam Farmer Escalanu
Irrigation Company. which will render
$4,000 acres of desert land in Delta
and Montrose counties fit for orchard
ing. will be commenced at once.
The bill recently passed by Congress
and signed by President Taft, placing
all fourth-class postmasters under
civil service regulations. has practical
ly assured $50 women and men post
masters in Colorado life time positions.
The strange disease which has de-
stroyed thousands of horses in Kan
sas. Nebraska and Missouri. has not
caused Serious losses in Colorado. ac-
cording to report of DR.. w. w. Yard,
state veterinarian, who returned
from Prowers county. where the dis
ease recently appeared.
Maids of honor at the festival
Queen Ruths ladies-in-waiting-h
the time of their lives in Denver every
minute of the carnival. They came
from many parts of the state, each the
pick of her county's daughters, and
they made as fine court of honor as
ever graced any queen of history or
myth.
Charles S. Price of Denver. an en-
gineer in the employ of the Colorado
& Southern railway, has just received
word which he declares establishes his
identity to the famous siOO,0O0,0OO
Price estate of Baltimore. over which
litigation has been pending for half a
century. The estate consists of about
300 acres of land in the heart of the
city.
Fifteen months in the federal pris-
on at Leavenworth, Kansas. fine of
s100 each and the assessment of all
court costs involved was the sentence
pronounced in Denver by United
L.