Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-11-08
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
State Worth While.


deep regret at the death of Vice Pres
ident Sherman.
Charged with burglary, Harry Gano
Is, was arrested at Gilcrest and held
to await the arrival of an officer from
Washington. Kan.
Horace w. Clark, former vice presi
dent and general manager of the Den
yer & Rio Grande railroad, died at
Frederick. Maryland.
Contracts for 1000 acres of beets
for the proposed independent sugar
factory at Greeley are being asked OF
farmers in the Ault district.
L. P. Shove, banker and mining
man of Colorado Springs. was elected
president of the Associated Charities
to succeed Irving w. Bonbright.
Jack Davis of Mum, went through
a bridge with a trastion engine, fall
ing fourteen feet. The machine top
pied over. but he escaped without a
scratch.
Two convicted murderers were TAX
en- from the Denver county Jail to the
state penitentiary at Canon City by
Deputy Sheriffs David O'Neill and Ed
ward Johnson.
Greed for beer caused the murder
of G. Regordes at Pueblo. according
to confession made by Dolores Vera.
The case mystified the police for sew
eral days.
Mrs. Nettie Lemon of Denver has ap-
realed to the police to find her son,
Philip Lemon, 81, who left Denver four
years ago. Max Lemon, the father.
died October II.
given in the damage suit of C. w.
Sparkling against Thomas Rowland of
Colorado Springs. for $500. for alleged
personal injuries.
Henry Hanson, who was rendered
unconscious at Colorado Springs by
fall from his horse. became slightly
conscious after 16S hours of coma.
Physicians expect him to recover.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. w. Mott celebrated
their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary
at Boulder, having as their guests for
the day thirty Boulderites. who form
erly resided at West Liberty, Iowa.
w. ]. Kelly, of Denver. assistant
general agent of the Wells-Fargo Ex-
press Company, died at st. Joseph's
hospital of a growth in the head
which baffled the attending physi-
clans.
Robert McCarty was arrested in
Fort Collins, after cashing a forged
check. He is supposed to be one of
a gang of clever thugs from Denver.
A man and woman associate were ar
rested later.
The $325.O00 appropriated by Con-
gress for the improvements of post
roads in this state will be concen-
trated on 1.c00 miles of road. as the
result of the decision of the state
commission.
Pursuant to resolutions adopted at
the silver jubilee banquet rendered
Bishop Matz in Denver. the Rev.
Father McMenamin. rector of the I'M
Conception cathedral. cabled
greetings to Pope Plus X
The National Jewish Hospital for
has renewed its con-
test against the estate of Alfred Null
Ter. its late secretary. in the endeavor
to recover s66.643.05. representing
funds alleged to have been embezzled
by him.
Michael A. Leddy, state auditor, has
asked Attorney General Griffith to in
vestigate the action of the commission
ers of Huerfano county in reducing the
of eight coal companies
and one bank a quarter of a million
dollars.
Henry Robitaille. who killed his
wife, Pearl C. Robitaille, on August Z.
and was tried and found guilty a month
ago, was sentenced by Judge James H.
Teller of Denver to life imprisonment,
after his motion for a new trial had
been denied.
Clyde p. Pitman, travelling sales
man, applied to the county court in
Denver for divorce from Hannah Pit
man because, he said, Mrs. Pitman in
sisted on sleeping with a razor under
her pillow. Pitman characterized his
wife as "a dangerous woman"
The excitement caused by the mar
riage of his daughter, a prominent
Pittsburg society girl. is believed to
have caused the death at st. Luke's
hospital in Denver of E. P. Botsford,
secretary of the Pittsburg Malleable
Iron company and a director and Of
ficer of the Colorado Yule Marble COM
pany.
A deal is being negotiated by Den
yer and Colorado Springs men, backed
by foreign capital, which. if carried
to a successful conclusion, will result
in adding 100000 tons a year to the
states output of coal and an invest
mani of 81 Qnl mon in a nau railraad