Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-04-05
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

begin in Colorado Springs within ten
days.
Dependency, due to i'll health.
caused Lee Skinner, aged As. to kill
himself at Rocky Ford.
Mrs. Catherine C. Forquer. pioneer,
died at Greeley, aged sixty. She came
to Colorado thirty years ago.
Work on the main line of the Mis-
souri, Pacific between Pueblo and Kan
sas City will begin at once.
May Day celebration will be given
May 4. on the university campus of
the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Mrs. E. p. Fink will build the new
ctate armory at Fort Lupton. to be
leased to Company 1 at cost of sS,
600.
A new electric light system for Gree
ley will be installed if the franchise
asked from the City Council April 16
is granted.
Two valuable elk belonging to the
Boulder city zoo at the Chautauqua
grounds escaped, jumping over the
high wire fence.
gun series of meetings with the OBJ.
Ject of promoting the dairy industry
of that district.
A. T. Stewart of Pueblo has been
chosen president of the State Insane
Asylum Board and DIR Louis Haugh of
Denver. secretary.
Ben Lundstrom. miner. was shot
in Telluride as a result of interceding
for a friend who quarreled with e. J.
Charest. a bartender.
J. w. Ewing received a record price
for fat lambs shipped from Greeley
this season when he topped the Chi
cago market at $S.25.
Elijah Salmon. one of the Meeker
valleys earliest and best known pio-
neers and a cattleman of prominence,
died in Denver recently
Transportation rates on lemons from
California points to destinations in
Colorado, Utah and Montana must not
exceed 81 per 100 pounds.
The growth of Oak Creek during the
tration for town election, which is 1868,
compared with 21O year ago.
Henry CODY, who came to Colorado
in 1859, and fought in the battle of
Sand Creek in 1864, died at his home
iu Colorado City, aged seventy-nine.
w. C. Winbourne of Fort Luptol.
will pioneer corn growing and plant 100
ceres of corn on his dry farm east of
that place. if he can rid it OF prairie
dogs.
The hope of a municipal election in
Lamar this spring was lost when the
Supreme Court granted the writ of su-
persedeas prayed for by the city ad.
ministration.
a commercial invasion of southern
Colorado and a portion of New Mexico
has been decided on by Pueblo jobbers
and manufacturers to start April 22
and last a week.
The work of raising $1,000 in Pueb-
10 to buy seed grain for the destitute
farmers of Kiowa county has been COM
pleted and the grain will be shipped
to the settlers at once.
The cattlemen's banquet, which was
set for Friday, April 5, at Gunnison,
has been postponed one week. The
committee believes that the roads will
then be in better condition.
One of the largest eagles in captivi-
ty was taken to Mayor Speer's office
in Denver y J. w. Davis. n Byers,
Colo, ranches. 1t is said to be per-
feet type of the American eagle.
The society "Sons of Colorado" has
presented to the cruiser Colorado"
Colorado state flag of silk. in honor of
her splendid achievement of becoming
Queen of the United States Navy"
Both batteries of the Colorado Ma
tionai Guard have been invited AMI
will attend the joint camp of instruc-
tion to be held under the direction OF
Unitea States army officers at Fort
Riley. Kan, June 10 to June "a.
The Fort Lewis Indian school. for
which the last Legislature appropriate.
ed 100000 for maintenance, may be
able to collect the entire appropriation
Immediately on account of its relation
with the United States government.
AS he leaned from his cab window
20 signal the crew of another train,
near Julesburg, Walter Hinkley. Un-
ion Pacific fireman, was struck on the
head by coal chute which his engine
was passing at that instant, and killed.
About 400 acres have been contract
ed for growing peas for canning in the
Greeley district. Nearly as much has
been secured at Johnstown for the
Longmont cannery Hulling plants will
be put up in Johnstown and Ault at
cost os $4,000 each.
The first sme,.er to be erected on
the Moffat railroad is now being con-
structed by the Mollie Groves Mining
& Milling Company on its properties