Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-09-27
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

Western Newspaper Union News Service
! Four thousand pies drew record
crowd to Longmont's Pie Day celebra'
z, tion.
Ex-President Roosevelt addressed
auditorium.
The Rocky Mountain Hotel Mems
Association will hold it's annual meet
ing in Denver November IA to 16.
Harry Davis, the La Sale. ILL.,, aero
bat, whose back was broken in twen-
ty-foot fall at Montrose. died at Grand
Junction.
Pueblo county captured the sweep
stakes, defeating other counties of the
the State fair.
About 300 delegates attended the an
nual convention of the Order of the
Eastern Star, grand chapter Of Colo
rado. at Pueblo.
Gerald Tetan, age five, son of H.
Tetan of La Sale, may lost his life as
result of an effort to prevent his
pet dog from being injured.
His desire to win praise from an ex-
acting audience at Delta resulted in
fatal injuries to Harry Davis. trapeze
performer with Sanger's circus.
e. E. (Fudge) Sommers of Denver
had his pockets picked at the Roose-
Welt meeting in the Auditorium. He
lost all his railroad passes and $50 in
| cash.
c. E. Moore. a barber, was held up
in the cemetery at Fort Collins. The
fright he received has sent Moore to
bed and he is under a physicians
care.
Pueblo day at the Colorado State
fair attracted one of the largest
crowds that ever assembled inside the
enclosure The estimated attendance
was 10000.
City Marshal C. L. Williams of
Longmont raided bootlegging joint
in North Longmont and placed John
Helms under arrest and confiscated a
quantity of liquor.
The twenty-ninth annual session of
the Woman's Foreign Missionary Soci-
ETY. of the Methodist Church will be
held in Denver October 16. 1t is ex-
pected that 1000 women will attend.
1t is expected that 500 passenger
men from all parts of America will be
in Denver October 3 to attend the for
tieth annual convention of the Amer
lean Association of Passenger Agents.
Thomas NJ. Hunter, exalted ruler of
Denver lodge, No. II. b. p. o. Elks,
has been appointed as me mber OF
the national committee for the preser-
vation of the elk in the United States.
Thre hundred dollars is the price
asked for n little finger in a suit filed
in the District Court at Denver for
David Johnson. fourteen years old,
against the Savage Candy Company.
The Boulder Fish and Game Club
received $4,000 native trout from the
state fish hatchery. They were placed
in North and Middle Boulder creeks
and in the other streams in the Eldora
district.
Mayor Arnold of Denver has taken
official cognizance of the coming Fes-
tival of Mountain and Plain. and pro-
claimed a holiday for all the people
of Denver Friday. October IS, the last
day of the celebration.
A dry farming fair. at which spe-
cial effort will be made to get large
attendance of wet" farmers with ex
hibits for purposes of comparison, will
be held next month at Petrolite, thir-
teen miles from Meeker
From an investment of $500 the flax
committee of the Denver Chamber of
Commerce, appointed last spring. in
duced the planting of 10000 acres in
this grain, and has announced that the
crop will be worth 100000.
Craig Hartford. Windsor cowboy
employed by the Wyoming Cattle
Company. is not expected to live as a
result of being pinned under a dead
horse in the bed of a cahon for two
hours before he was rescued.
The State Land Board has cancelled
orders for the sale and lease on 100000
acres of state land on account of de-
linquent payments. and purchasers and
holders of the leases will be immedi-
ately notified that if they wish to re
tain the land they must bring their
payments to date.
Twenty thousand horses, represent
ing a value of 100000, have died in
Kansas of spinal meningitis during
the last two months. This statement
is made on the authority of DR.. w. w.
Yard. state veterinarian of Colorado,
who has just concluded tour of in
spection of Kansas.
One of the worst acts of hazing in
the history of the State university
took place at Boulder when the mem.
bers of the sophomore and freshmen
classes engaged in a free-for-all fight.
Samuel Harrison, son of Postmaster
Harrison of Denver, was seriously in
iured by a kick in the groin.