Rocky Ford enterprise., 1894-05-10
THURSDAY. MAY 10. 1894.

THURSDAY. MAY 10, 1894.
Ford farmers for industry. Tho way in
which they are putting in crops of mel
ons, oorn, eto., just now betokens profit
able year ''if things go our way"
The article on potato culture will be
q valuable one for our readers just at
this time. The writer does not wish his
name used. but he had as much success
in that line ss any ranchman in Otero
county.
B. o. Dye informs us that while q
plants were injured by the last frost, yet
there will be plenty for all who wish
them. A large number Of farmers and
gardeners are proposing to grow toma-
toes this year, and with favorable season
the canning factory will have to double
its capacity. Which We all vote for.
The school election in Rocky Ford
was q very quiet one. There was but
one ticket in the field and almost 100
votes were polled. DR.. e. W. Kearby
was reelected president and W. G. Steele
treasurer. The new board is the same
as during the last year and the members
are 30 we'll pleased with the success Of
the schools that no changes will be made
in the corps Of teachers.
The business Of the country is suffer-
ing greatly on account Of the uncertainty
of the tariff conditions in the future. II
congress would make haste and pass the
tariff bill, business men would then
know what to depend on, and the affairs
of the country would be adjusted to
correspond. II is q matter Of great dis
appointment that congress is 30 dilatory
in finishing up the bill and passing it so
as to give the country rest.
If you live in town, You should be-
ieve in it. II you don't believe your own
town is little better in most respects
than any of it's neighboIs, you should
move out. Like other places it has ad-
vantages that others have not, and your
modeety should not prevent you from
making that fact known whenever the op-
portunity presents itself. We have stolen
the above from an exchange, and take it
as text for saying that the people of the
town OF Rocky Ford and tributary
country are Just the kind that believe
in their home advantages and resources.
It will be difficult to find more public
spirited people than those which inhabit
this immediate region. They take pride
in their town and country, and the fame
thereof goes through all the land.
One of the features of the reunion 70
Confederate Veterans association at Bir-
mingham. Alabama, says the Toledo
Blade, was report from the historical
committee recommending general plan
for getting reliable data for an Impartial
history of the war;" and urging that the
Legislatures Of the Southern states be Pc
titioned to have adopted in the state
schools "such histories as shall be indors-
ed by the association" There are plenty
Of absolutely impartial school histories Of
the United States now on the market.
What that report really means is his
tory that shall laud the South to the skies.
CLAIM that secession was right, and make
the reader wonder, if the Confederacy
was 30 uniformly successful in battle,
how Appomattox ever occurred.
Rocky Ford is not paradise for
lawyers, A law suit of any kind is such
rarity that the people attend it with the
same curiosity with which the natives Of
a remote country district go to the depot
to see the trains pass. (By way of paren-
thesis we will remark that we have heard
of one neighborhood back east where the
people 30 highly esteemed the privilege
Of seeing steam cars go by that, when
they were unable to be at the depot, they
sent an EXCUSE to the conductor.) But
to get to that itgious item: 8. @. Wood,
familiarly known as "Guy," was arrested
by allowing water from the ditch to get
beyond all reasonable bounds and injure
his neighbors as well as the public road.
The case was tried before jury in Judge
Robins court and Mr.. Wood acquitted.
"A great deal has been said, says the
Trinidad News, about the propriety OF
putting q check to the excessive immiRra-
ton which has been flooding the country
for several years past. Congress has
been urged to pass more stringent laws
to prevent the influx of undesirable for
eigners; and there has been also great
demand for much more strict enforce
ment Of the laws already upon the stat
ute books. The present stagnation in
business, and the decreased demand for
labor in the United States has practically
solved the problem, and the increase Of
our population caused by the rush from
other lands has virtually ceased. It is
true that some persons are landing upon
our shores every week, but statistics show
that quite as many are leaving for their
there is this spring little or no addition
to our population from that source.
The Cripple Creek squad Of Coxey's
army, $50 in number, which has been en-
camped in Pueblo for several days, left
there quite suddenly Tuesday evening.
They stole Rio Grande switch engine
and six NJ. p. coal cars and left on the
Missouri Pacific at full speed. To stop
them Supt. Derby ordered ON engine and
some cars ditched near Olney. The
Coxeyites built around the wreck during
the night and went on east. Efforts win
be made to stop the train further east by
making further wrecks on the track and
also drawing all water from the tanks.
After building around several other
wrecks the army met with an obstruction
near Chivington which was too much for
them. and which caused the derailing Of
several of their own stolen cars. They
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