Rocky Ford enterprise. (Rocky Ford, Colo.) 1887-1950, 1912-06-07
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

Small Happenings Occurring over tne
State Worth While.
| Western Newspaper Union News Service
The Rocky Ford Chautauqua starts
June 23rd.
The estate of Robert A. Austin will
pay $4,000 Inheritance tax to the
state.
The highway from Boulder to Estes
Park has been opened and is in per-
feet condition.
The Idaho Springs baseball team de-
feated the Gilpin Mines team of Cen
trail City. 6 to 8.
The movement of cattle from the
winter to the summer ranges has be-
gun near Meeker.
Strontia Springs has a newspaper.
the Platte Canon Fly. w. G. Thomp-
son is the publisher.
The acreage pledged for the pro-
posed La Sale independent sugar fac
tory has reached 5000.
The 1000 laborers at work in the
Weld county beet fields are in
sufficient to handle the crop.
1t took Canon City just ten innings
to win the second contest in the Rocky
Mountain League from Pueblo.
Directors Of the Larimer County
Fair Association have decided to erect
an art building on the fairgrounds.
June % to July 10 are the days when
the great Denver Chicago run will be
the main automobile event in the
West.
A mass meeting of citizens almost
unanimously voted down the proposed
commission form of government for
Trinidad.
The White and Big Beaver rivers
continue to rise, having already
reached a height unusual for this time
of the year.
Frank Ferraro and Frank Mario,
charged with the murder of Felix Mar
tinez on January eth, were acquitted
at Trinidad.
]. II. ]. Ramsey of Cripple Creek has
been arrested. charged with embez-
cling money from the Cripple Creek
National bank.
William Menagh, ranchman living
near Greeley. lost his house by fire
policy had expired.
A. b. Whitmore, a curio hunter, I'M
earthed the remains of a prehistoric
mammal in Garden park. twenty miles
from Cripple Greek.
Breckenridge, for the first time in
ct oh oil
without a parade-there were no veter-
ans left to march in it.
J. S. Westfall. rancher living near
Rocky Ford, was probably fatally IN
jured when a load of hay upon which
he was riding upset.
Jim Bailey and Jack Murphy. self
confessed horse thieves, escaped from
the pest house, Grand Junction, both
suffering with smallpox.
Former Senator A. 7. Stewart OF
Pueblo has been appointed to succeed
Felix O'Neill as warden of the state
reformatory at Buena Vista.
Thomas c. Bunyan, organizer Of the
Bank of Berthoud, now the First Ma
tional bank, and well known man
throughout the state. is dead.
The Postoffice Department has or
dered rural delivery service estab-
lished August /. from Boone, Pueblo
county, to supply one hundred and
eight families.
The Pueblo North Side School
Board. District No. 20. has just an-
nounced the purchase of site for a
new school building to be located on
the East Side.
Farmers OF Weld county are rejoic-
ing over ten hours of rain which fell
recently. 1t came at a time when 1t
was most needed by the newly-planted
beet crop.
Charged with the Misrepresentation
of SLIGO from the funds of the First
National Bank of Wellington, John s.
Cusack, former cashier of the bank,
has been arrested at Saratoga, Wyo
Moving pictures will be used by the
Colorado Congress of Mothers in a
campaign to educate the women of the
state in housewifely duties if the pres,
ent plans of the organization are car
ried out.
A steel bridge at Una, Garfield
county. which cost the state $4,000
and was completed last November
was washed out recently with the
flood in the North Fork of the Gunni
son river.
A heavy rain has fallen throughout
northwestern Colorado. following a
heavy windstorm. blowing down tele
phone poles. uprooting threes and un,
roofing the recently completed hotel
at Oak Creek.
Water in the Nederland reservoir oil
the Central Colorado Power Company
has reached the 100-foot mark for the
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