The Raymer enterprise., 1912-04-25
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over tho
State Worth While,


The President nominated Walter /.
Burke as postmaster at Sterling.
NJ. c. Mckenzie, a rancher Of Yuma
county. died at hospital in Denver.
The work Of putting in the new sys.
TEN OF street lighting in Rocky Ford
is under way.
Forty suspects arrested in conec.
ton with the Globe Express robbery
at Grand Junction have been released.
Plans are being made for the install.
iation of an automobile truck service
between Collbran and Grand Junction
John Hofmund, a pioneer of Love-
land was found dead in bed. He was
sixty-five and died from heart disease.
The Woodmen Of the World held a
largely attended smoker in Rocky
Ford recently. Several OF the state of.
ficers were present.
Subscriptions to date to the Com.
merce Investment Company for the re.
lief OF the destitute farmers of East.
ern Colorado total $S,261.50.
Fred Schaeffeldein, miner, was
killed in caye-in in the entry OF the
Henrietta mine on Battle mountain
near Red Cliff.
Work on the excavation and founda.
ton OF the new opera house at Idaho
Springs is progressing rapidly with q
big force Of men and teams.
The Senate public buildings commit.
tee reported favorably Senator Gug.
genheim's bill appropriating $4,000
for public building site at Monte Vista.
Fruit prospects in the Cahon City
district wer never better at this sea.
son of the year. Every indication
points to bumper crop of practically
all kinds Of fruit.
DR.. 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. H. 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.
E., L. Brown, vice president and
general manager of the Denver & Rio
Grande railroad, has been elected ia
the directorate Of that company, sue
ceeding Howard Gould, resigned.
With G,OOO acres pledged for beets
growing, an independent sugar fac.
tory probably will be established in
the Greeley district. The proposed fac,
tory will cost $1,OOO,0O0.
The opening of 10000 acres OF rich
farming land on the Fort Lewis mesa
near Durango, recently, caused nc
rush of homeseekers as the govern.
ment had not advertised the opening.
I DSCduoc Dit ISluocu " peTullL
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 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.
Solicitors for packing company
who have been canvassing the Ber.
thoud district for acreage for the grow.
ing OF peas have contracted for $50
acres, enough to insure the erection OF
hulling plant for that town.
That the National Guard of Colora-
do has been ordered to mobilize and
be In readiness to respond immediate.
ly to orders expected from the War
Department at Washington Is the sub.
stance Of reports current in Denver.
The City Council OF Colorado Springs
will Join with FL 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 1t 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 Loyeland got 1t. Cows fed in his
lots at the sugar factory sold at $G.35
per hundred, averaging l,15S pounds
each.
The federal authorities have Just
brought about the arrest OF NJ. L. and
l.. A. Hill-kBown as G.. l.. Ice & Co.
lin Salida, Colo. They are charged
with using the mails to sell marked
cards, loaded dice, "holdouts' and
"waxed palms," Z,
Denver Is to be the gathering place
during the next few weeks Of members
Of the Industrial Workers Of the
World who are bound for San Diego
to take hand In the war being
waged between the organization anu
the city authorities.
The big Wilcox canal, one Of the
largest irrigation projects on the West