Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-07-05
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
State Worth While.


completely filled with water.
Deposits in the banks of Grand juno
tion amount to $1,500,000.
Charles Turner was shot and killed
by Frank Ensign near Telluride.
A new school building is to be con-
structed at Stewart Mesa, near Paonia.
The Summer Normal school at Gun
nison has been opened for the season.
Thirty-eight thousand dollars in life
insurance was paid in Grand Junction
during 1911.
The ninth annual convention of the
Colorado State Optical Society was
held in Pueblo.
Greeley dog owners contribute about
$3.50 year towards maintaining the
city government.
Forest rangers report the mountains
In many sections of the state still
piled high with snow.
An irrigation district covering ten
thousand acres is being organized in
the Grand valley, near Silt.
Carl Fitch, prominent German
American citizen of Golden, commit
ted suicide recently.
The summer school of the Universi-
ty of Colorado at Boulder has opened
for a six weeks term. .
Every thirty-third person of the $780,
900 that go to make up Denver's popu-
lation owns an automobile.
Morgan county will produce more
small grain this year than any pre-
vious year in its history.
Ground has been broken for $4,000
city hall at Sterling. The building is
to be completed by October 1.
The Union Pacific is figuring on fifty
special trains for Knights Templar to
the conclave in Denver next year.
An average of S10O a day has been
paid into the office of the clerk of the
Denver District Court, for alimony for
June.
Clinton Farrar, pioneer, who lived
at Fort Collins forty-three years, died
recently at Boulder, aged seventy
three.
A special election will be held with
in sixty days to decide whether or not
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The Greeley Chautauqua opened
June % for its fifth annual session
and is well attended. 1t will continue
ten days.
Education of the people in packing
apples will be taken up this year by
the Grand Junction Fruit Growers
Association.
Fifty-seven car loads of young
steers were recently unloaded at
Steamboat Springs for stockmen in
that vicinity.
Keota has a Coursing association.
The membership is large and there are
"A number of good dogs in the bunch
owned by the club.
The State Land Board has declined
to invest school money in irrigation
bonds or securities, until further leg.
slation on the subject is enacted.
The people of Petrolite have
changed the name of that town to Val.
ley View. 1t has ceased to be an oil
camp and its people are now all farm
ers.
C. II. Rhodes, his wife and daughter,
comprising the entire family. were
found guilty of disturbance in Justice
Court at Num-, and Rhodes was fined
s25 and costs.
District Judge Essex of Pueblo re-
Gently held that it is not lawful for one
corporation to vote stock in another
en- bloc. Two mining companies were
interested.
A state convention of Socialists will
be held in Denver July for selection
of two or more candidates for the elec.
tive offices to go on the referendum
ballot for nomination.
Mesa county has taken the lead in
preparing for a complete exhibit oi
fruits and other products to be ex.
hibited in Denver in June, 1913, dur.
ing the great Blondes funniest.
According to an official of the Vic
tor American Fuel Company, the care
lessness of John Thomas. fire boss
caused the Hastings mine explosion
when twelve men, including Thomas
we're killed.
William Hall. twenty years of age,
an employe of the Great Western
Sugar Company, was fatally burned at
Brush, Colo. while painting the inside
of a tank at the factory. 1t is thought
that he attempted to light cigarette
and the paint he was using caught
fire, literally roasting him to crisp.
Every railroad company running in
to Colorado may be compelled to adopt
more sanitary methods of handling ice
which is placed in the drinking water
coolers aboard the Pullman coaches