Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-09-20
LITTLE COLORADO rrsms.
Small Happenings Occurring Over tho
State Worth While.
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Pear orchards make poor roads.
This is the report of the Grand juno
ton Motor Club.
About 500 delegates attended the
convention of Master Car and Locomo-
tive Painters in Denver.
The placing of a dozen peaches in
the wrong box near Delta resulted in
srs.
The voters of Jackson county will
pass On proposition to issue bonds to
build a court house at the November
election.
After forty-eight years a bullet has
been discovered in the chest of Joseph
Blonger of Denver, veteran of the
Civil War.
James Thomas fell from a swiftly
moving Rio Grande passenger train
north of Pueblo escaped without brok-
en- bones.
Melvin Blum, eighteen, son of ia
cob Blum and senior at Centennial
high school. died at Pueblo from spin
al meningitis.
tate of the late Thomas S. Hayden the
state of Colorado will receive the sum
of $s.S23.19.
The burial of Richard John Van Val
kenburg, pioneer and one of the old
est odd Fellows in the state, took
place in Denver.
NJ. Morris, stranger at Pueblo,
committed suicide in Jail few min
utes after he had been locked up on a
charge of forgery.
Heavy rains set back cantaloupe
picking in the Rocky Ford district and
have made the fruit soft and unfit to
ship for several days.
Governor Wilson, Democratic candi-
date for president, will speak in the
Auditorium in Denver. according to ad-
vices received by S. II. Thompson.
The body of baby girl. which ap
parently had been dead but short
time, was found in box floating in a
| creek at the west end of Colorado
City.
Newman Erb. controlling factor in
the Moffat road. has signed contract
| for 425 freight cars. most of them for
| coal traffic, to be delivered at an
early date.
Northern Colorado is enjoying one
of the most prosperous years in Its
history. Thousands of acres of wheat,
oats. barley and other grains are be-
ing threshed.
Prominent men of the bar in Colo
rado including two Supreme Court
| justices, were honorary pallbearers at
the funeral of District Attorney Jos
eph E. Ferguson at Colorado Springs.
Two days after celebrating her fifty
eighth wedding anniversary. Mrs. An
| geline kocey, wife of NJ. NJ. Locey,
died at Colorado Springs. She was
seventy-five and had lived there
twenty-one years.
The last detachment of cavalry
troops from Fort Russell. Wyoming.
to Douglas, Arizona, passed through
Denver. Four special trains. consist
ing of eighteen coaches. were required
to transport the 900 soldiers.
Mrs. Helen VI. Laybourn. bride of
three months, res ing at Longmont.
has instituted suit in the District
Court at Boulder against her mother.
in-law. asking for 100000 damages for
alienation of her husbands affections.
Friday, the thirteenth. proved hoo
doc at Loveland when rain interfered
with the program of fair attractions.
In spite of the inclement weather
thousands turned out and declared the
fair the best in the history of Larimer
county.
That Western Colorado is to be sep
arated into a new diocese OF the Cath
4 olic church, of which Grand Junction
will be headquarters. and that a new
bishop will be in charge, is the state
ment made by members of the church
at Grand Junction.
The Great Western Sugar Company
in suit filed in the United States
District Court by Assistant United
States Attorney Lacey. is accused oi
fraudulently acquiring title to trac,
of eighty acres in Laramie county
Colorado. valued at $4,000 and rich in
lime deposits.
The Colorado Springs police have
been notified OF the theft of chata
laine bag containing mCLey and jew
els to the value of $1,000 from the
lavstory of Pullman car on Denver
e Rio Grande train. The owner oi
the money. amounting to $500 and the
$, has not divulged her name ex
cept to the railroad officials.
Mrs. Julia Finley of Denver. ninety
nine years OF age and the oldest sur
viving relative of Milton jerome. who
died in Chicago in 1886. leaving an es
tate of more than s1,000.00O, is seek
ing in the District Court to have tbs
property divided, asserting that thC