Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-01-12
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

Western Newspaper Union News Service
The Windsor creamery will be in
operation in thirty days.
Albert B. Miservey. a pioneer or
Colorado Springs. is dead.
The new high school building at
Grand Junction is now being used.
John Miller. recently convicted Of
leased.
Max Byers, 81, has been sent to .he
reformatory from Canon City for
forgery.
The old l.. Spring farm near Wind
sor. consisting of so acres. has been
sold for $4,000.
Twenty miners of the Alpha coal
mines at Fort Lupton went out on a
strike recently.
At Williamsburg 125 men employed
at the Ocean Wave mine have gone
out on strike.
A total of 1924 civil cases and s21
criminal cases were filed in Colorado
Springs last year.
A modern sanitarium for tubercu-
losis will be established in the near
future at Greeley.
James Gruis of Sterling is reported
dying as the result of a terrific en-
counter with skunks.
George tombstone. pioneer and
veteran of the civil war. died at La
Sale. aged II years.
John r. Hogan, employed at the
Smuggler-Union mine at Telluride,
died suddenly recently.
Reports from Hugo state that while
stock is suffering from the cold; the
loss will not be great.
Eight thousand farmers attended
the Weld County Farmers Institute
held at Greeley recently.
Chief of Police Hutchinson of Grand
Junction has ordered that all slot ma
chimes and gambling be stopped.
Clark Holcomb. who shot and killed
w. G. Pate at Cripple Creek recently,
will be tried on a charge of murder.
The value of all farming property
in Boulder county is $16,47S.541. This
is a considerable increase over last
year.
Chas. F. Painter of Telluride has
been appointed county commissioner
of San Miguel county to fill an unex-
pired term.
Cattle are reported to be dying by
the hundreds in southern and eastern
Colorado as a result of the severe cold
and snow.
The Colorado Chautauqua Associa-
ton is making elaborate plans for the
fifteenth annual session to be held
in Boulder in 1912.
In Colorado Springs in 1911 there
were 456 marriage licenses issued and
in the same period 1862 suits for d.
vorce wer1 filled.
Special preparations are being made
for the annual Farmers Institute
which is to be held at Loveland
January 23 to 26.
The State Board OF Health and the
State Board of Medical Examiners
have organized for the purpose of
fighting medical Quacks.
Chicken fanciers from all parts of
the country attended the Poultry
Show at Pueblo. Over six hundred
fancy chickens were entered.
The Palisade Land Holders Protec-
tive Association has agreed to accept
the offer of the government for The
right-of-way of the high line canal.
Dan Martinez. non-union miner at
the Parkdale mine, near Lafayette,
was mortally wounded in an acci-
dental shooting and died in Denver.
David Webster. a farmer, aged "a,
of Fort Collins, was arrested on a
charge of kidnapping Miss Eva Long,
aged Is. whom he married recently.
Charles Mulford Robinson of New
York, eminent civic beauty expert, will
come to Colorado Springs early next
spring to outline a general plan for
public Improvements
The body of an unidentified man
was taken to Trinidad by Sheriff Pot
ter of Otero county. The body was
man was killed by Santa Fe train.
]. p. Sweeney. justice of the peace
at Grand Junction, has announced that
he will marry free the first leap year
bride; that is, the first bride of the
year who will admit that she pro-
posed.
The United Hydro Electric Company
has brought into service the new and
splendidly constructed power line
down Clera Creek valley from the gen.