Rocky Ford enterprise., 1894-08-16
NEWS SUM M AIRY.
The Great West.

Shipments of water melons from
Rocky Ford have commenced.
General A. ]. Warner was in Denver.
on the 9th and spoke on bimetallism.
heceiver Trumbull of the South Park
has appointed the officers or the Su'I
to direct the South Park.
The Armours have taken a CONTRACT
to supply Japan with all the canned
beef that they can turn out.
The McCord- -Bragdon Grocery com.
pany's stock ut Pueblo was destroyed
by fire on the 7th. Loss, $25O,OOO.
Burglars stole $3.50 worth Of goods
from the bunk house of the Moose
mine OH Raven hill, Cripple Creek.
Swltchmen at Kansas City have De-
gun to form n new organization In
place of the one recently disbanded.
Jim Stratton. the notorious robber OF
mail boxes, has been recaptured. he
escaped from Canon City last year.
The Democrats of Wyoming have re-
nominated Congressman Cofeen. W.
II. Holiday is named for governor.
II. ]. Fountaine, Il colored man mas
been arrested at Grand Junction,
charged with numbering his baby.
The message from President Cleve-
land to Governor Waite was carried
by the bicyclists in six days ana ten
hours.
Two of the Trinidad strikers were
fined 500 by Judge Hallett Tor nav
ing interfered with tho operation OK
trains.
The annual encampment Of the Ne
braska militia will be held Mt south
Omaha. to watch the packing mousse
strike.
Receiver Trumbull of the Gulf road
Is reported as saying that the DrahCn
up Boulder canon will not be rebuilt
at present.
Striking packing house employees ae
Omaha are becoming violent ana the
militia may be called upon to protect
new workmen.
There was head-end collision on
the Santa Fe road near Kansas CITY
on the 10th An engineer and express
messenger were killed.
1t is now reported that twenty-four
persons lost their lives In the wreck
near Lincoln on the 9th. Nearly all
the bodies were burned.
A soldier while on guard Mt the Mid
land bridge near New Castle was shoe
and wounded in the wrist by m un-
known man n few nights ago
A train OH the Rock Island road was
wrecked near Lincoln OH the 9th. the
cars were burned. Three trainmen
and several passengers perished.
Judge Campbell has fined Adjutant
General Tarsney $50 and costs for con-
tempt of court because lie refused 10
appear before the grand jury promptly.
The grand jury at Colorado Springs
made but one Indictment In the whole
Tarsney matter out Of all the wit
flesses examined, that OF Wilson. ana
this was obtained from the evidence
given by General Tarsney himself 1t
is believed that he presented confes-i
sion of Wilson's to the grand jury.
Denver markets: Cattle-Choice
steers. S3.OOd3.2O; cows, S2.1OG2.35;,
native feeders, S2.5On2.75. Hogs
Choice, S4.45M4.5O. Eggs-Ranch, 15c;
state, 11@12c. Butter-Best creamery,
1062Oc; sweet dairy, 120l13c. Hay
INLAND, S12M13; second bottom, $9; al
fa!fa, S5.5OGSGO0. Poultry-Hens,
dressed, S111c; spring chickens, $500
s per dozen; turkeys, Sa9c per pound.
The first train that has passed over
the Atchison, Topeka Il santa te De-
tween Florence and Pueblo In ten
weeks, owing to washouts, reached
Florence Sunday. bringing up a train
of coal cars for the Rockvale coal
mines. The same engine took back
with 1t twenty-five cars of coal mined
since the coal strike ended, and the
first that had been mined since April
23. The mine Is working about ZuO
men at present, but this force Will De
Increased soon to 45O men.