Rocky Ford enterprise., 1894-07-05
Town Council Proceedings.


call meeting of the council was held
Saturday to consider applications for sa-
loon licenses, Mayor pro tenn Elser in the
chair. Present: Hammond, Washbura,
Maxwell, Smith, Hall aud Elser.
r. V. Waterman's application for Ii
cense, his bond, and the treasurer's s con-
ditional receipt for $500 were read, also
j. X. Dyes application for saloon license.
Moved by Smith and seconded by
Maxwell that Waterman's bond be -ap-
proved. Ayes-Smith, Hall and Max
well Nays-Hammond, Washburn and
Elser. Mayor pro tenn having the casting
vote voted nay. Motion lost.
Hall appealed from the decision OF the
chair in announcing result of above.
Seconded by Smith. On appeal Wash
burn, Hammond and Elser voted to sus-
taina the chair, Smith, Hall, and
Maxwell voting against chairs decision.
Tie Vote. Mayor pro tenn having cast
ing vote, voted aye and decision sus-
tanned.
Monday. July 2nd.
A regular meeting, Mayor pro tenn
Elser presiding. All present except
Street and Water Commissioner Scot.
reported having collected $50 delinquent
water rent on . acre tracts, also S25 poll
tax. Has not collected dog tax.
The application of r. V. Waterman
for saloon license for six months was de-
feated by the following vote: Ayes
Smith. Hall and Maxwell. Nays-Elser,
Hammond and Washburn. j. Z. Dyes
application for saloon license was laid on
the table. Mr.. Hall presented the mat
ter OF the proposed visit of the National
Irrigation Congress to Rocky Ford ask
ing the council to consider the matter of
their entertainment
NOTES.
Mayor pro tenn Elser has received leg
al advice to the effect that as Mayor pro
tenn he has the casting vote in case of a
tie, as well as his own vote as trustee.
This explains his voting twice on the Ii
cense question.
r V. Waterman's position is that as
there is no ordinance forbidding the is
suing Of license he is entitled to have IL
cense Notwithstanding the refusal OF the
council to grant the same. He has be-
gun egal proceedings to compel Mayor
Elser to issue the license. Deputy dis
trict attorney Hoifmire is his attorney.
Jas. K. Dye has removed his saloon to
La Junta but r. V. Waterman proposes
to "buck against" the council and try to
| force the issuance of license.
If our citizens hear fire alarm to-
morrow evening they need not be fright
ened, as the Hose Co. have planned for
large bonfire on which to try the new
hose. Tie your horses.
No weeds will grow about big ad-
vertlsement planted in the ENTERPRISE,
neither will it require water to make it
thrive, but it will keep the man who
plants it busy waiting on customers.
Try it and see.
F. A Huntley's meteorological record
| for the month of June, kept at the Ark
ansas Valley Experiment Station, shows
as follows: Maximum temperature 101
degrees that being for one day only,
June Both. The maximum temperature
for the thirty days average about 80 de-
grees. The lowest temperature was 43
degrees. Tho rainfall was about three
quarters of an inch.
| Arthur Vincent, of Catlin, made us a
pleasant call on Monday. Mr.. Vincent's
fine garden suffered considerably from
grasshoppers, but himself and neigh
Dor are the only farmers who have been
damaged, SO far rs we can learn. Mr..
| Vincent has quite taste for flowers and
devotes much attention to their growth.
He has planned to build greenhouse
this fall and begin the cultivation of
flowers and plants for the market.
H. s. Holly is putting an inverted
syphon under Timpas creek for the pur-
pose Of conveying water from the Rocky
Ford canal to his ranch at Swink. Crhe
| creek under which Mr.. Holly is to convey
water is generally and wrongly called
Temp creek. The proper name is Tim
pas. 1t may be difficult to influence the
public to use the correct name, but the
ENTERPRISE feels under obligations to
try, in SO far as using the right orthog-
raphy in these columns is concerned.)
DR. D. n. Moore expresses the fol-
lowing opinion in recent issue OF the
Western Christian Advocate: "Govern-
ment will yet condemn the railroads at a
fair valuation, and run them for the ad-
vantage Of the people. No longer COM
PEELED to pay dividends upon watered
stock to the princeiy monopolists, fare
and freight tariffs could be reduced to
the minimum, and wages of real workers
advanced to living and satisfactory rates.
Government ownership of transportation
and telegraph anc telephone lines is no
longer secuted as absurd or branded as
incendiary doctrine. Day by day the
hour draws nearer"