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Tie Great Flood in Pueblo.

Pueblo was visited by terrible food
Wednesday May 30th, the worst in its
history. The awful flood swept over al
most the entire portion Of the city on the
river bottom like torrent, being from
two to five feet deep on the graded streets
while on vacant lots it was twice that
depth.
The danger alarm was sounded at
o'clock in the evening and the report was
circulated that cloud-burst In the
mountains had occurred sand the water
was rushing like an avalanche down the
river. People knew the danger and were
on the alert, which accounts for tine
small loss OF life, only four men having
been drowned. However, there were many
narrow escapes, and had it not beeu t0r
the timely assistance OF hundreds OF Will
ing men who risked their safety in the
rescue, the fatalities would undoubtedly
have been many.
The heaviest losses are in the heart OF
tho city where damage to merchandise
will at least reach the enormous sum OF
S150,OOO while the loss to buildings, to
real estate and city property, together
with the wreck OF hundreds OF homes
will reach the same amount, making the
total 100000.
There are instances where small frame
business buildings were lifted Off their
foundations and swept block away,
while fagstone sidewalks were carried
into the middle of the street.
South Union avenue was the heaviest
sufferer this time, while III the old flood
ed district in the vicinity Of the Central
block, water was four feet deep the fol-
lowing day at 10 o'clock and men were
rowing in boat.
Many merchants are seriously crippled,
and great many families are rendered
homeless, everything they had being
washed away or ruined by the muddy
water. Contributions are now being re-
ceived for them at the city hall in cloth
ing, bedding and money. Mayor Straight
has requested all to lend a helping hand.
The washout has alarmed many mer-
chants who fear q REPETITION of the flood
and are debating the question again OF
moving on the mesa, while others on the
north side take exception to this move
and to checkmate it are discussing the
widening of the river.
STILL ANOTHER FLOOD,
On Tuesday night Pueblo was visited
by another flood. The hard rain and
flooded mountain streams brought the
water almost to the depth Of that of last
week. The alarm of bells and whistles
succeeded in bringing residents of the
lower places of the city to places OF safe
ty, but no trains could leave or enter the
yards until the waters subsided Wednes-
day night. The ENTERPRISE is little
late on account OF not getting print pap.
er from Denver on time.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1894-06-07
Colorado Orchards.

Much of the future wealth OF Colorado
will be derived from the orchard and the
vineyard. The state is destined to be a
rival of all fruit growing countries, not
excepting California. Fruit culture has
already become permanent industry
and its possibilities are great beyond
even the realization OF people at home.
The period Of experiment has passed.
More than twenty years ago apples and
the small varieties of stone fruits were
grown in small orchards on the eastern
side of the mountains in northern Colora-
do, the trees bearing sufficiently to test
knowledge of the wide extent Of country
and the numerous localities susceptible
to it has been development of the past
ten years. Within this period small Or
chards and vineyards in many parts Of the
state have grown into the magnitude OF
largo fruit farms. Many of these ore
bearing rich harvests, and it is now only
a question of sufficient time for the
younger orchards i'll the more favored
sections to mature, when Colorado will
be rival in the markets of the west by
the abundance and excellent quality OF
her fruits. Fremont county on the up
per Arkansas is famous by reason OF its
age and prestige for the variety and ex-
cellence OF its fruits. In tho remainder
of the Arkansas valley, embracing Pueb-
orchards have scarcely grown out OF the
nursery, having just passed the first years
Of their bearing, but prove every possibil-
ity Of fruit culture, possessing every adap-
ton of soil, climate, water and lay of
land. The few years OF experiment
prove the eminent success of tho orchard
and vineyard.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1894-06-07
Council Proceedings.

At an adjourned meeting of the
town council held May Goth the
following business was transacted:
w. s. Swink & Co.'S bill for
merchandise, 5000, was allowed;
also w. s. Swink $40 for work,
and E. w. Kearby 81 for blank
book.
Mr.. Smith reported having ord
cred 100 feet Of hose and other
supplies for the hose company.
Ct. w. Swink stated that his
tenants had agreed to keep waste
water from running into the town
lateral.
The street commissioner was
instructed to take any necessary
action in regard to keeping waste
water from the west side of town.
Marshall Scott reported some
range cattle at large in town, and
that he was not succeeding we'll in
collecting water rent from lots
and acreage.
The ordinance committee was
instructed to draft an ordinance
prohibiting the sale of liquors
and repeating the license ordin-
ance. Ayes: Washburn, Ham
mond and Elser. Nays; Hall and
Smith, Maxwell absent.
June 4th.
G.. M. Hall reported having ar
ranged with g. NJ. Robins for
making plat of pipe line for $40;
report accepted.
G.. M. Hall rendered his resig-
nation as mayor pro tenn and j. j.
Elser was elected to fill vacancy.
An ordinance repeating the Ii
cense ordinance and prohibiting
the sale of liqnor was passed to a
second reading by the following
vote: Ayes : Elser, Washburn,
Hall, hammond; Nays-Smith and
Maxwell.
Mr.. Robins request for filling
up portions of Pine street was re-
ferred to proper committee, as al
SO was the building Of the side
walk on Walnut Ave, which has
not been constructed as ordered.
Water commissioner reported
good success in collections.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1894-06-07

Chairman Green managed to get RATED
from the north bank of the Arkansas in
time to attend church Sunday evening.
Senator Swink was beyond the Nepes--
Ia bridge when the break occurred but
managed to get home Saturday evening.
The Nepesta wagon bridge is uninjur-
ed but one OF the earth approaches has
been washed out.
All travel between Rocky Ford and
Ordway must now be done via the Cat
I'm bridge.
The flood cut around the headgate OF
the Otero canal, and waste gate is re-
ported gone.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1894-06-07
Conductor Wood Dead.

CUSTODY, henry DenIOru, Was tne person
who shot him. 1t is well that the pris-
he would have been lynched. The dead
conductor will be buried under tho aus
pices of the Order of Railway Conduct
ors, of which he was member. He
leaves q sorrowing wife and two children,
who have the sympathy OF all.
Mrs. Helen M. Gouger, one Of the
strongest orators of the Prohibition party,
will be in Rocky Ford, July 9th.
From Wednesday until Monday is q
a long time to do without daily papers
when on the line of a great railway sys-
tenn, but such was the experience Of
Rocky Ford during the flood.
The Woonsocket Reporter is respon-
sible for the statement that the real
American workingman is still minding
his own business and awaiting election
day. He isn't tramping, shouting, hoot-
ing or throwing stones.
Sample copies of the ENTEnPR1sE
are to be had every week IN wrappers
ready for mailing, price 8 cents. Send
them to your friends east and west to
make amends for those letters you prom
ised to write but did not.
The Republican central committee
will meet in La Junta next Saturday to
decide on the question Of the kind Of
primaries and fix the basis of representa-
ton to the various conventions. Chair
man Green wants to see every member
present.
Tho poem sent us by two young men
is declined for two reasons: l. Our space
is needed for current news, leaving no
room for selections from the hymnal,
however good. 2. No responsible name
accompanies the letter. When will
people leaon that anonymous contribu-
tions meet with no favor in a newspaper
ofice. Names are not wanted for publi-
cation, unless the writer SO desires, but
must accompany all articles as an evi-
dence Of the good faith of the writer's.
The dance to have been given by the
F. Y. Hauck Hose Co. last Wednesday
evening was postponed on account OF the
rain to Friday evening. Some thirty
couple then gathered in Odd Fellows
Hall and enjoyed themselves nicely. some
not wearying Of the amusement until the
eastern horizon became rosy with the
approach of day. Music was furnished
by the Rocky Ford orchestra and band,
which were accompanied by the piano
played by Mrs. Willis. Springer's place
furnished refreshments.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1894-06-07
Volume Eight, No. One

With this issue of the ROCKY Fond
ENTERPRISE it begins its eighth year,
and short review of its history will be in
order. The paper was started June End,
1887, by Harry V. Alexander. In the
first issue we find an article stating that
at the sale OF lots by the Rocky Ford
Town Co., April 18th, OF that year that
$4,000 worth OF lots were sold in one
day.
The first number has long descrip-
tive and boom article, with the following
headlines in the largest display typo
which the office afforded:
pOCNV E0pn rOTO
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1894-06-07
The Silver Republican Club.

There will be a meeting of the Silver
Republican Club of Rocky Ford, at the
old school house on Swink Avenue, on
Wednesday June 18th, 1894, for the pur-
poee of completing the organization of
the club.
All the ladies who are interested in
the advancement Of the Republican par
ty in this county are cordially invited to
attend and join the club if they desire.
G.. II. WNcHE1L, President.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1894-06-07

On Friday last Ford Steward and
Chet. Waterman returned from Hills
boro, N. NJ, tho placer claim ownei by
Anderson & Steward there having been
sold, as well as tho Comet mining
machinery which they We're operating.
They report the placer claims there not
very rich.
Plenty of moisture, followed by warm
wca'hcr. and now everything is growing
--iacluding the weeds.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1894-06-07
Notice for Publication.

Land Office at Pueblo, Colo, May. 12, 1891.
Notice is hereby gwen that James W. Beatty
has fled notice OF his intention to mako Anal
proof before the clerk county court In and
for otero county. Colo. Mt his office in La
.,uita, Colo, on Wednesday, tho 11th day OF
No Ma. for tho 81 SEA, 81: Swa OF
see -. Twp % S. Rg rs w.
He nanieswitnesses
.inn,cs Stanton, Thomas j Barnard. Arthur
stanton and Willinm Miller. nll Of Catlin,toio-
ol-aJ Ray MOSD MILLER, Register.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1894-06-07
June.

Month of roses, warm and tender,
Month of sunshine, balmy, clear.
Dawns of glory, moons of splendor.
HALL Queen month of all the year.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1894-06-07
THE WORLDS FAIR

"haS s~-@S- ss<~
Hccormick No. 4 Sesel Flower
in the only regular exposition
field trials, in a heavy growth
Of timothy and clover. said, in
their official report: 1.-THE
efficiency Of the machine is
thus, under fair conditions,
nearly 20 per cent. Ordinary
figures for ordinary mowers
are at least twenty pounds
higher in total draft, with an
efficiency of not above 60 per
cent, which latter figure good
machines should be expected to
exceed" The Mccormick is the
lightest draft, and most effec-
tive grass cutter yet produced.
Highest Medal awarded.l
The mirror., 1894-06-14

Report of standing committee on dis
charged prisoners, Committee: Mr.. w.
NJ. F. Round, New York City, n. Y;
Mr.. John S. Lytle, Philadelphia, Pa;
Rev. Louis f. Zinkham, Baltimore,
Md. Evening Session, 7:3O o'clock-A
paper on "The Inequity of Sentences
for Crime" based on the United States
census reports, by Rev. H. Wines,
Springfield, Ill. An address on 'The
Minnesota Reformatory System by
Rev. H. H. Hart, secretary of the board
of corrections and charities, St. Paul,
Minn
The mirror., 1894-06-14

and merciless.. 1t may not seem SO to
those who have received the gol-
den vintage of life, who have not been
under the worlds ban and displeasure;
but bitter experience is more able to
testify of these things than we are.
Speaking to criminal who had served
sentence in one of our state prisons.
l asked him how he did.
IL was guilty. l bore the penalty Of
my crime; but" he said, "men avoid
me. If sinned, l suffered. But men
are not satisfied to restore me to their
confidence"
"a jail birdv' The title is the mans
doom all too often. He may have
given years of repentance for the mad
impulse of moment, but an outcast
once an Outcast forever in his life.
1t is difficult to make prison punish
ment reformatory, but if difficult, it is
not impossible. And charity has no
better, no more needed work than to
give a man returning to society from
lolOu cell, every ChanCo.
Many criminals are made so because
we partly demand they shall be Grim
inals, says the New York Ledger. We
say: You are dog, pariah, in whom
L have no respect. Actions say this.
And when man has no reputation
left to live and act for, he is apt to
slide down. We deprive him of a
handspring of his morality. .
1t is we'll to be wise in treating the
man who is down, but oh, don't be
over prudent. There is charity which
hesitates to relieve until the oppOrtun-
ity is lost.
II stand here for the third time to
be sentenced because no man has given
me chance since first fell
So said an apparently hardened Grim,
inal to the judge of a state supreme
court.
That man and every other like him,
must have chance. Give it to him,
to use if he will do so, to abuse if still
but have it he must, ere
our duty to God and man is complete.
And when nearing the goal of life's
journey, we look back upon the way
our feet have trodden, our greatest
satisfaction will hover around the
place and time where and when we
helped the man who was down.
The mirror., 1894-06-14

"The happiest man in the whole
world" says an exchange, "is the poor
devil who earns just enough money to
pay his debts. Such man is possessed
of the happiness that causes him to
whistle and sing as he goes about his
work, and when he meets you on the
street pleasant smile speaking louder
than words will convince you of his
The mirror., 1894-06-14

road to heaven, some real estate owners
are so stingy they would not permit it
to start from their land.-Logan Ma
ton.
1t is very easy to push men down
and degrade them, but when they once
lose their self-respect it is almost a
hopeless task to reform them.-Chat-
field Democrat.
A man can be man, full-fedged
man, in principle, in honor, in truth, in
character, as well as reputation, and he
can live purely in the sight of God and
man, and if he says he can't he's not a
mamie is liar.-ROsa Pearle's Paper.
AS there's none so weak that we may
venture to injure them with impunity,
so there are none so low that they may
not at some time be able to repay in
obligation. Therefore, what benevo-
lence would dictate, prudence would
confirm -Reformatory Record.
The sooner man finds that he has
not the capacity to learn even one thing
thoroughly, the more-general and reli-
able information he will begin to accu-
mulate concerning the world in general.
Milwaukee Journal.
The North DakO artesian we'll which
is spouting water, gas, oil, gold quartz,
coal, scrap iron, cove oysters, and sum-
mer underwear ought to build up the
adjacent town if anything will.-Min-
neapOlis Tribune.
The less man thinks or knows
about his own virtues the more we like
him and the better we love him. We
should not fret or fume over our own
exalted virtue for it is contradiction
of the will of nature.-St. Peter Herald.
Edison predicts that welding will
soon be done by electricity, and that
the modern Vulcan's occupation will
be gone. Perhaps he may design a
plan by which hearts may be welded so
that the courts cannot so easily sever
them.-Le Mars Uowa) Globe.
The United States circuit court for
Kentucky has decided that the "Jim
Crow" coach law of that state is uncon-
The mirror., 1894-06-14

Among the notable features of the
San Francisco Argonaut for June 18th.
1894 are "In Sight of Death" by George
Moore; "The Cycling Craze," a letter
from New York; "London's New Fad,''
letter on stamp collecting and collect
ors in England; and review of "My
Paris Notebook" a new book of remi-
nlscences of life in the French capital,
by the author of can Englishman in
PariS.''
The mirror., 1894-06-14

Warden Wolfer has received the pro
gram of the National Prison Associa
tion meeting which will be held in St
Paul June Is to 20. inclusive. The con.
gress will open on Saturday, June I6
with an evening session. The entire
program is as follows, viz:
Saturday, June 16.
Evening Session, go o'clock
congress called to order by the chair
man of the local committee, Hon. A.
c. Hickman, and opened with prayer.
Address on behalf OF the State of
Minnesota by Gov. Knute Nelson. An
address of welcome on behalf of the
City of st. Paul by the mayor. Re-
sponse and annual address by the presi-
dent Of the association, Gen. r. Brink
erhoff.
Sunday, June II.
Morning SessiOn-Annual sermon
before the congress in the House of
Hope Presbyterian church by the Rev.
John Paul Egbert, D. D., pastor of the
church, at 1O:3O a. m. Evening session
An address at 7;3O o'clock in the
Peoples church by Rev. Graham Taylor.
d. d., of Chicago; subject, "a Plea for
Dealing With the Whole Man in
Prison.
Monday, June 18.
Morning session Meeting of the
Warden's association; annual address
of the president, Capt Joseph Nichol-
son, Detroit, Mich; address by Warden
w. +. Hale, San Quentin, CAL; address
by Supt Joseph F. Scott, Concord,
Mass. Afternoon Session, 2:3O o'clock
Meeting of the chaplain's association;
annual address by the president, Rev.
George Hickox, D. d., jackson, Mich:
address, "Review of the Last Year."
address, "The Coming Chaplain"
Evening Session, 7:3O o'clock-An ad-
dress on Crime and Social Reform"
by Prof. Richard I. Ely, of the Uniyer
slty OF Wisconsin,, Madison, Wis.
Tuesday, June 10.
Morning Session--Report of standing
committee on preventative and reform
atory work. Committee: DIR. Walter
Llndley, Whittier, CAL; Supt. J. A.
Quay, Morganza, Pa; Hon. L. L. Bar
bour, Detroit, Mich. Paper by DR..
Walter Lindley, "Synchronize Arrests
and Reformation" Address on 'State
Trade Schools" by Mr.. w. p. Lupton,
OF Pittsburg, Pa. Report of standing
committee on criminal law reform.
Committee: Eugene Smith, ESQ.,, New
York City, n. Y; Prof. Francis Way
land, New Haven, Conn.,; Hon. John
w. Willis, st. Paul, Minn. Afternoon
Session, 2:3O o'clock-Report of stand
ing committee on prison discipline.
Committee: Hon. Henry Wolfer, Still
water, Minn.; General Superintendent
j. f. Scott, Concord Junction, Mass:
Col. j. b. Patten, Jeffersonville. Ind.
Evening Session, 7:3O o'clock-A paper
on "The End of Punishment" by Presi-
dent j. G. Schurman, Cornell Uniyer-
sity, Ithica, n. Y.
Wednesday, June 20.
Morning Session-Report of standing
committe on police force in cities
Committee: Mr.. P. Crowley, San Fran
cisco, Cal; Major r. w. McClaughry,
Pontiac, ILL.,; Mr.. Albert Garvin, st.
Paul, MINI. Discussion opened by
Col. Charles E. FELTON,, Chicago, III.
Report of the standing committee on
the work of the prison physician.
Committee: DIR. H. d. Wey, Elmira,
N. Y; DIR. George E. Titcomb, Concord,
Mass; DR.. w. T. Aikens, Toronto, Can
ada. Afternoon Session, 2:3O o'clock
The mirror., 1894-06-14

Minnesota may now look for big
increase in her prison population.
Eighty-two graduates of the Law
School Of the State University were
admitted to the bar of the state su-
preme court Friday; and "Bill" Erwin
is going to move to New York.
The mirror., 1894-06-14

More land is owned by the railroad
companies (2l,OOO,OOO acres than would
make six states as large as Iowa. Since
1861 no less than 1S1,OOO,OOO acres have
been given to railroad companies, of
which the Illinois Central got a subsidy
of 100000 acres.
The mirror., 1894-06-14

A young man on trial in Chicago for
fraudulent use of the mails, is said to
have closed his bogus appeal with the
Scriptural quotation: "God loveth a
cheerful giver." If the indictments
hold good, the judge will cheerfully see
that he is given an adequate sentence
to hard labor.
The mirror., 1894-06-14

The following, quoted from the Fort
Dodge, Iowa, Messenger, is worthy of
the careful perusal and thoughtful con-
slderation of every boy and young man
In the land: can observer can see on
our streets to-day the boys growing up
to be the ne'er do wells of the future.
The showing on the street corners
promises that the race of tramps will
not die out. 1t Saddens the heart of
one old enough to know the stern real
ltles OF life to see indolent, careless
boyhood. The boy is surely father to
the man. The character of the man
begins to shape even at twelve years of
age. The habits that make his life a
success or failure are forming then.
AS the twig is bent the tree is inclined.
The worthless boy ofto-day will. thirty
years hence, think the government all
wrong, and be ready to fall into any
KIND OF movement that promises a
change because he will not lose any
thing by any kind of change. The
wide awake, ambitious boy who is
thinking about what he will do when
ne becomes man, and is planning for it,
and nursing determination to be some
body, is the solid citizen of the future.
tie will never need any help beyond
fair show with others. You never will
lind him, at the age of thirty, stout and
hearty, lounging on a raft floating
down the Des Moines river, eating the
food which hard working farmers do
nate, on his way in an "army" to Wash
lngton to ask the government to do
something for him. You can pick out
around you the recruits for that kind
OF an army, but he is not one of them"
The mirror., 1894-06-14

sincerity. The rich man, with a mort
gage on every other house in town and
with bank account, may be happy,
but his happiness is not of the heart:
neither does it manifest itself as does
the true happiness that the countenance
of an honest working man."
The mirror., 1894-06-14

> In New England it costs twenty-five
hundred dollars to keep man in prison
for five years, and three thousand to
keep patient in the infrmary, while
it takes twenty-five hundred to keep
five children in WOrkhOuse.
The mirror., 1894-06-14

An exchange tells of man who pur-
chased revolver for his wife and in
sisted that she practice ON target, so
that she could defend the home in case
of his absence. After the bullet had
been dug out of his leg and the COW
buried, he said he guessed she'd better
shoot with an axe.
The mirror., 1894-06-14

A western judge recently charged a
jury in libel case in the following Ian
guage: "Whenever a newspaper finds
a case of fragrant wrong doing and evil
it is its duty and privilege to expose it
and give it the widest circulation
The mirror., 1894-06-14

Greene Graves is the name of a new
doctor who has located in Kansas and
advertises that he has just graduated
from medical college.-Ex.
The mirror., 1894-06-14

In Japan every important paper has
a ''prisOn editor" who draws his full
salary only while in durance vile. If
the same scheme was adopted in this
country, we wouldn't kick.
The mirror., 1894-06-14

Josh Billings very truthfully said:
"a reputation once broken may possi-
bly, be repaired, but the world will al
ways keep their eyes on the spot where
the crack was"
The mirror., 1894-06-14
NOT ALLOWED TO REFORM.

IT horse falls on the street, men
raise him up. If a man stumbles on
hfe's pathway, men are too apt to
spurn him and let him die Those
who have done wrong and repented
often complain that the world is cold
The mirror., 1894-06-14

Sum statesmen air born CRATE; sum
hav grateness thrust upon them and
sum buy lt.-Jedge Waxem.
The mirror., 1894-06-14

Prendergrast the murderer of Mayor
Carter Harrison, Of Chicago, is doomed
to die-of old age.
The mirror., 1894-06-14

Italy has the greatest proportion of
criminals. They number $40 to the
million of population.
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PRISON CONGRESS.

The National Prison Association Will
Hold Its Annual Convention at St.
Paul, June 16 to 20. Inclusive-WiIl
Visit Our Prison In Body.