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Rocky Ford enterprise., 1893-10-19

On Monday, Oct. 9th. the court Of
appeals handed down an opinion affirm
ing the finding OF the district court Of
Pueblo county in regard to the date Of
priorities decreed to the Colorado Land
& Water Co. and the Rocky Ford High
limo Canal Co. The appeal was taken
from the lower court by the Colorado
Land & Water Co., who sought for a re-
versal OF tho decree which placed them
behind the High Lime Co. in priority, but
the decision Of Judge Elwen was sus-
tanned. The case was ably presented by
eminent attorneys, the plaintiffs being
represented by Patterson & Hartsell, of
Denver; the well known firm of Cast
& Dubbs, Of Pueblo. appearing for the
High Line Co.
Every candidate should plan to be
at Rocky Ford on Friday, Oct. 9th, and
attend the candidates public speaking
and ball. It will be fine chance to get
acquainted. The programme will open
at o'clock, with two hours of speaking,
divided between the candidates of all
parties. After the talking will come
dancing, followed by supper at the
West hotel.
The silver question and the suffrage
question are vitally connected. A vote
for equal suffrage is vote for free silver.
The man who goes to the polls on the
7th Of next November, and votes to ex-
clude the ballots of half the citizens of
Colorado from the ballot box on account
of sex, is traitor to the white metal and
to the best interests of the state.
Election judges who have the copies
of the election laws should turn them
over to their successors, as failure to do
80 causes much trouble, leaving some
election boards without copies Of the law.
Those holding keys to ballot boxes
should also see that their SUCCESSORS get
them at once.
The County commissioners will not
make the tax levy until after the tax sale,
which commences tomorrow. The levy
will doubtless be made at the November
session.
Fowler is bidding Tor the presence OF
all the candidates at that palce on Fri
day, Nov. 8, that being the occasion
of candidates ball. The program in
cludes supper.
The populists held good meeting
at Angora Tuesday evening, addresses
being made by all the nominees, and also
by Hon. j. II. Crowley.
j. j. Guthrie has furnished list of
those contributing to the fund for build
ing the Catholic church, which will be
published next week. Proceedings Of
town council also go over.
"A very fine trotter belonging to A.
r. Black, OF Canon City, died on the fair
grounds few days since. Cause, excee-
siye fatness,
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1893-10-19
Is Your Name Rcsistered2 4

Boards OF registration were in session
in Rocky Ford on Tuesday. Messrs.
Anderson, Gracey and Robins held ses-
sion at the West hotel, and Messrs Ell
lingwood, Daring and Hendricks at the
old school house. Both will meet again
on Tuesday, Oct. 81, when additional
names may be added to the lists. The
final meeting will be on Monday, Nov. 6.
But at this meeting registration Can only
be effected by the atlidavits of the voter
and two witnesses. Voters are required
to have resided in the state six months,
in the county ninety days and in the pre-
Gin ct ten days.
Do not fail to see that your name is
registered,
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1893-10-19

THE editor wishes to make the
acquaintance of everybody-men,
women and children-in town and
all surrounding country within the
jurisdiction of the ENTERPRISE.
We wish to secure the good will
and enlist the cooperation of all
in aiding us in gathering the news
which should crowd our columns
from week to week. By informa-
ton of current happenings and of
the progress made in all lines of
farming operations, you can con-
tribute to the success of a paper
of which you will be proud and
which you will take pleasure in
sending to eastern friends as rep
resenting the best county in
Southern Colorado. We desire to
keep the advantages and resources
of the Rocky Ford region promi-
nently before the world, that capi-
tai and the best classes Of immi-
grafton may be attracted to our
midst. We hope to make each is
sue of the ENTERPRISE u complete
weekly history of our local busi-
ness activity, industrial progress
and social intelli gence. If our
readers will take some pains to see
that we have knowledge of all hap
penings worthy of note, and report
the results Of any special line of
successful farming, we shall be
helped in making the kind
Of a paper which shall reflect
credit upon the splendid agricul-
tural section whose interests we
are here to advance.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1893-10-19
ORDWAY.

Special Correspondence OF the ENTERPRISE.
Farmers are busy threshing and
marketing grain.
w. II. Adair, of Rocky Ford,
spent Saturday last in our town.
The Ordway Milling & Elevator
Co. are now receiving grain for
storage.
D. g. Roberts made flying trip
to Colorado Springs seeking sale
for his broom corn.
Miss Ida Moore returned to her
home in Denver Saturday morn
ing, after spending pleasant
week among old friends.
The ice cream and oyster social
given by the Ladies' Aid society
last Friday evening at the church.,
proved a grand success socially
and financially.
W. F. Roberts, Rev. @. A. Ed
wards and Mr.. and Mrs. Jordan
started for the center of attraction
Monday night to be absent ten
days or two weeks.
Rev. F. A. Lawson, of the Catlin
and Fowler circuit, will fill the
pulpit at Ordway Sunday, Oct. %,
in the absence of Rev. @. A. Ed
wards.
Louis Kells, special agent of the
Mutral Life insurance Co., recent
ly spent few days in our town.
Our young men are striving
hard to secure schools in district
No. II on account of the lovely at
fractions there.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1893-10-19
Card Of Thanks.

We, the undersigned, return our
most sincere thanks to our many
friends of Rocky Ford and vicin-
ity who contributed 80 abundantly
to our necessities by the donation
party. That the Lord will abund-
antly bless them is the prayer of
their sincere friends and well
wishers.
MILTON AND NANCY REYNOLDS.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1893-10-19
FREE SILVER TICKET,

THE patient is convalescent. The
country is on the road to recovery.
Men whose lines of thought en-
able them to diagnose the symp-
toms of the present financial leth-
argy see clear Indications of a
marked change for the better.
This feeling is shared by large
proportion of business men, both
great and small, and this confident
feeling is of a character which goes
largely toward the comsumation
OF It's prophetic hopeful utterances.
The f,.ct that this conceded i'm
provement has been progressing
with the Sherman law yet unre-
pealed, and unrepealable, shows
that that measure has been cruelty
slandered in the assumption that
it was the cause of the present
distress. The improvement has
been making progress concurrent
with constantly diminishing hope
for the repeal of the Sherman bill,
and why should not the old-time
business prosperity be restored ?
There is as much money in the
country as a year ago. The land
is full of crops. All that is need
ed to make business go as in for
mer times is the restoration of
confidence. If the country could
now have assurances that tariff
Legislation will not be wildly
tinkered with, the resumption Of
business to its normal condition
would surely, perhaps slowly, but
steadily be accomplished.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1893-10-19
Market value of 20 bu. @ 4s cts. IS

LUSB Ipf HCF8. zsoO
These figures clearly prove that wheat
raising, beyond the farmers personal
needs, should be abandoned until prices
advance. Let that plan be tried and our
farmers turn their time and labor to
branches Of agriculture which bring some
returns.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1893-10-19
Trades for Boys.

An 11-year old Pueblo boy sends us
the following: Three tame Rabbits to
trade for small Pig, any kind two
rabbits for pair Of fan-tail Pigeons:
one for a pair common Pigeons.
Enquire at Enterprise office.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1893-10-19
ss.os Loss on Each Acre of Wheat

Hon. J. H. Crowley recently received
request from the agricultural department
at Washington for detailed statement
of the cost of raising wheat in the Arksn-
sas valley Mr.. Crowley's reply was as
follows, based on actual prices paid and
estimatinp % hushala nar acra:
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1893-06-16
Box d Review.

Dick Moore says he has a good Method
of keeping house now.
Mr.. Campbell says he CAN fish if it is
too wet to raise onions.
We understand that the war is owe,
and all is quiet at Fort Wilson.
Jas. Kingdom says farming is all right
but he don't like to herd cattle.
We were benefited by a slight shower
last evening and hope for more soon.
Jas. Oakley and M. E. Piper are each
putting in about 20 acres of sod broom
corn.
Several droves of fat cattle we're driven
through here last week enroute for Nc
Cook.
Some of our farmers are planting corr
where their fall wheat was a short time
since.
Don't forget the social to given by the
ladies' Aid Society at Mrs. Piper's on
Wednesday evening, June aIst.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1893-06-16
A Joint Celebration.

On Wednesday evening a meeting of
the citizens of Box Elder was called to
make arrangements to cooperate with
McCook in getting up a grand celebra-
ton to be held at Box Elder, July 4th.
We have an understanding with some Of
the prominent men of McCook that they
are to furnish the band and pay for it.
Box Elder will do her best in looking
after the rest of the celebration. At the
meeting before mentioned Messrs. Camp
bell and Bolles were appointed as a COM
mittee to confer with the citizens of Nc
Cook and solicit their hearty co-opera-
ton. Messrs. r. E. Moore, Charles Mas
tiers and R. S. Campbell were appointed
committee on amusements. Messrs.A f.
Reeves, Dick Brewer and M. +. Piper,
committee on program. Messrs. I. A.
Pinkerton, J. A. Piper and Ira Anderson,
committee on general arrangements.
Wednesday, June 18th, the committee
on general arrangements received bids
for the exclusive right to lunch stand,
exclusive right to a confectionery stand
and exclusive right to the dancing floor.
The following officers were elected:
M. E. Piper, president Of the day; Chas.
Masters and Ira Miller, marshals Of the
day. Look for our program mex week.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1893-06-16
DEVOURING FLAMES.
They Eat up the Well Known
Eaton Ranch.

That spendid property we'll known for
many years as the Eaton ranch is now
but a recollection. Heaps Of ashes and
scrap piles of twisted iron only remain
to show where once stood perhaps the
largest and finest farm house, barns,
granaries, ETC., in Red Willow county.
Herman M. Meyer, the owner of the
ranch, states that the horse barn was
discovered on fire by the men when they
got up in the morning about five O'Clock,
and in an incredibly short time every
building on the place was reduced to
ashes. Little or nothing was saved from
any of the buildings except the house,
from which a large portion Of the con
tents were removed, although some of
these was afterwards destroyed.
In addition to the destruction of the
fine new dwelling house, two immense
barns, a granary, wagon house, wind
mills, etc. Mr.. Meyer lost all his large
outfit of farming implements, a span Of
horses and a lot of pigs, making the
total amount o property destroyed some
where in the neighborhood of $4,000,
upon which there is an insurance Of
$500.
Mr.. Meyer is in the dark as to the
origin of the fire. He states, however,
that the dogs about the place kept up a
continual barking during the night, and
thinks it not improbable that some
tramps might have occupied the barn
during the night, and their pipes might
have caused the disaster.
Nh. Meyer has not decided just what
he will do, but the probabilities are that
he will soon the erection of a
dwelling house, and perhaps other needed
buildings, on the place. He has much
sympathy expressed for him in his sud
den and severe misfortune and heavy loss.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1893-06-16
The Pythians Decorate.

Last Sunday was memorial day for the
noble order of Knights of Pythias, and
the occasion was beautifully and impress.
sively observed by the Willow Grove
lodge of u city assisted by brethren
from Arapahoe, Cambridge and indiana.
lain all about thirty Knights being
present from abroad.
The visiting members were met at the
depot by the local lodge headed by their
superb band in full uniform, and from
there marched to the Lutheran church
where the services were in part conducted.
Rev. McKenna of Arapahoe failed to
appear as expected, but his place on the
program was well filed by Sir Knight
Moore, whose words on "Pythianism"
were we'll timed and eloquent.
From the church the Knights marched
to Longview cemetery to the soft and
solemn music of the band. Here the
graves of the departed brothers John B.
McCabe, Swan Nelson and Samuel Fisk
were 1avishly and handsomely decorated
with flowers secured for the occasion in
abundance from Denver and through
local courtesy.
This ended the ceremonies, which
were decidedly creditable to the order,
especially in view of the intense heat of
the day. The band is to be especially
commended for their appearance and ex-
ce11ent music rendered.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1893-06-16
Sir Knights

The members of St. John commandery
held a meeting on Tuesday evening at
which Sir Knights B. B. Davis and L. G.
Wolf Of our city and F. W. Eskey Of In
diano1a were raised to the rank of Knights
of the Red Cross.
After the completion Of the lodge work
the Knights repaired to the Commercial
hotel where they INDUCED in a banquet
of Etter & Miller's finest vintage.
There were present in addition to the
members here Sir Knights Billiard of
Palisade, Bishop, Barnes and Eskey Of
Indianola, Taylor of Cambridge. And
the concensus of opinion is that the boys
had a time galore.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1893-06-16

A new ruling of the postofice depart
ment requires that unca11ed for letters
be held hereafter thirty days instead Of
ten, unless the envelope contains a card
giving the number of days the sender
wishes it held, together with his name
and post Office; in which case the letter
will be returned as requested. The gov
eminent will stop printing the cards on
the envelopes, when the present contracts
expire and those wishing to avoid delay
and disappointment in this particular
should order their envelopes from their
home printing Office.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1893-06-16
North Divide Nubbins.


Some land changing hands right along.
M. Steltzer is working for Fred Carter.
Will Rider is doing considerable break
ing.
Seems we are having more than our
share of wind.
Nearly every expects to have a
good crop of corn.
Walter Kicking has made final proof
on his tree claim.
Fred Baton was circulating among
relatives early in the week.
We notice "Jim Robinson" has plenty
to do in the blacksmith line.
Herr M. Moehler is daubing paint right
and left nowadays, good idea too.
Alex. Hanlein has been on the sick
list this week having a sort of fever.
Fred Carter has found it necessary to
replant a great deal of his early listed
corn.
Mr.. King, and family are occupying
their new home with which they are we'll
pleased.
Tom Scofeld has plowed up several
patches of wheat and planted the same
to corn.
Another good shower on Wednesday
night tickled the average native i'm
mense1y.
Fishing parties on the Willow are hav-
ing lots of sport these times and so are
the fish.
A great many trees surrounding the
pleasant home of Mr.. Brady have been
winter killed.
Mr.. O'Connor from near Patterson,
New Jersey arrived here last week on a
visit to relatives.
MI. Sherman has remodeled his house
adding a story and otherwise making
things look home like.
The good people are more or less occu-
pied ~cultivating their corn, for some rea-
son the weeds seem to be scarce.
We are hearing all kinds of rat stories
Just now, fact is there seem to be any
amount of these rodents all over.
Morley E. Piper of Box Elder wanders
over this way now and then and is usually
accompanied by the same fair guide.
James Thompson expects to leave in a
few days for Denver and the west where
he hopes to find something to keep him
busy.
Parties are breaking out nearly all the
remaining ground on the old Wilcox
place, but as yet nothing is being planted
thereon.
Mr.. Cashen is going 70 try raising
broom corn for a change having a num-
Der of acres on both new and old ground.
One in his position who has so large a
force of his own ought to succeed.
On Tuesday evening last about forty of
lhe young people were gathered at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. W. x. Johnson.
An abundance of the most delicious ice
cream was served during the evening and
altogether a jolly good time was had.
CONNIE.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1893-06-16
Whittier are We Drifting?

The publisher has received the follow
ing brief but pointed epistle from his es-
teemed friend and late lamented county
commissioner Stephen Bolles:
Box ELDER, NEB., June 9Th, 1898.
F. NJ. K1MMELL: AS my time is out
on TRIBUNE, stop it. Yours,
STEPHEN BOLLES.
Which goes to prove that even the
dearest friends must part, and that life is
scarcely worth living. And that Stephen
will be put to the inconvenience Of Dor
rowing THE TRIBUNE in future from his
indulgent neighbors.
THE TRIBUNE has gone into sack
cloth and ashes for 80 days or longer.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1893-06-16
Communicated.

EDITOR TRIBUNE:-The article in your
last weeks paper as to the possibility OF
losing the proposed opera house has evi.
IDENTIFY awakened our citizens so that
quite an amount of stock has been sub
scribed this week. The condition of af.
fairs is just this: stock enough is taken
to insure the business block and hall fol-
A. o. u. W. We prefer, however, put.
ting up the opera house at a cost of $I2,-
900 if the citizens will take the stock.
This is the easiest and only plan to
adopt now and those wishing to help the
enterprise please call on w. H. Davis for
stock.
ONE OF THE DIRECTORS.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1893-06-16

1t may seem a little odd to some that
Mayor Brewer should veto ordinance No.
43 "prohibitory of any kind ofgaming at
which any game of chance shall be play
ed for money or property or other valu-
able thing of any kind, form or character,
and providing a penalty for violation Of
the same, within the city of McCook,'
but it is not surprising to those posted
in this community, not at all.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1893-06-16

The adoption of Councilman Yarger's
motion doing away with the notorious
and corrupt "s1ush fund" would indicate
that Mayor Brewer is not running the
councilmanic body just as he would like.
But MI. Yarger is eminently correct.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1893-06-16

The Benkelman Bee quotes Register
Lindsay in the following sensible lam
guage: GA legitimate newspaper mar
can hardly afford to publish a final proof
notice for less than five dollars and the
editor who schemes to secure proof no.
tees by offering to publish them at a
much less rate will not be liable to re-
ceive many favors from the McCook
land Omcev
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1893-06-16

The I. o. o. F. district drill held in
this city, last Friday evening, was a nota-
BILE occasion in Odd Fellow circles.
Grand Master A. H. Wier of Lincoln was
present, besides representatives from all
the neighboring lodges of the valley. A
banquet wa a feature of the suspicious
occasion which will long be remembered
by all who participated in the gathering.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1893-06-16

The plight in which the telegraph an
LOUNGES Colonel Thomas E. McCracken
has fallen in Washington is a matter OF
profoundest regret to his many friends
in this city and county, who are 10th to
accept the painful truthfulness of the
seemingly correct story.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1893-06-16

We are advised that there are some
persons in the country tributary to our
city who are fearful of coming to town
to trade on account of diphtheria. Par
ticularly has this scare, for which there
is no foundation, become prevalent north
west of the city. We are happy to state
that there are no cases of diphtheria in
the city at this time.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1893-06-16

The publisher is in receipt of an invi-
tation to the marriage of Mr.. Edward
Beecher Bowen and Miss PAMELA Dana
Whiting at Ellsworth, Maine, June 10Th.
Mr.. Bowen will be remembered as a for
mer partner with E. L. Laycock in the
Boston shoe store.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1893-06-16

Miss Tillotson did not appear at the
Lutheran church, Saturday evening as an
nounced, on account of the smallness of
the attendance. She will return, how
ever, and will give an Evolutionary en-
tertainment in about three weeks, when
it is hoped that the audience will be suf6-
GENTLY large to warrant the performance.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1893-06-16

J. H. Dwyer desires us to correct a
statement made in last weeks issue
touching his unpleasantness with Mayor
Brewer. He states that the mayor did
not request his resignation; but that on
the contrary he offered to do SO if his
services were not satisfactory to the
mayor.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1893-06-16

Persons wishing to consult with J. H.
Fowler concerning the summer school
will find him at Green's book store any
time Oh Saturday. If you cannot see
him, send your children on Monday and
make arrangements afterward.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1893-06-16

Mrs. A. H. Burdick has an oak bed
room suit, (cheral), centre table and bed
lounge she will sell cheap for cash. Call
at Mr.. Howe Smiths, No. 2o8 Monmouth
street
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1893-06-16

Arthur Stevens ofBartley has a broken
leg received on Wednesday of last week.
His pony stepped into a hole in the dark
ness and fell.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1893-06-16

There will be regular services in the
Methodist church on Sunday morning
by the pastor. In the evening there will
be Children's Day services by the Sun
day school. Public cordially invited to
both exercises.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1893-06-16

Call and inspect Kalstedt's immense
stock of new goods. The finest selection
ever exhibited in the city. Don't wait
until the line is broken.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1893-06-16

The cattle market has declined greatly
of late, and the bank accoun of some
of our local shippers has suffered consid-
erably in consequence.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1893-06-16

ga druggist at McCook runs his pict-
ure in his advertisement, and there is no
installing that it is he" is the surprised
observation of the Lincoln Journal.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1893-06-16

The Homeopathic physicians of Ne.
braska held their annual convention
in Lincoln on the 18TH, 18th and 18TH Of
this month.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1893-06-16

The death of County Clerk Roper's too
little boys at Indianola, last week, is the
supremely sad chapter in Red Willow
county's history. 1t is simply unspeak-
ably pathetic and overwhelmingly
SOrrowfu1
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1893-06-16

The prospects of a fruit crop in this vi
cinity is anything but lattering and
housewives are not likely to count their
glasses of jelly by the dozen, put up
from home grown fruit.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1893-06-16

Ordinance 43 gives the city attorney a
salary of $3.50 per annual. Ordinance "a
levies a total of 20 mills for general and
incidental city purposes.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1893-06-16

Miss Mary Fee, teacher of piano and
organ. For terms call upon her at c. l..
DeGroffs, corner Monroe and Dearborn
streets.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1893-06-16

BARLEY is preparing to observe the day
we celebrate, and confidently expects to
make the gay old bird reach sublime
heights.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1893-06-16

Thomas A. Dolan, who was formerly
in the feed business here, is now running
a grocery store in Akron, Colorado.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1893-06-16

At the Harris Hardware you can get a
Sewing Machine a good n from $40 to
$45 with the %company's guarantee for
five years.