Rocky Ford enterprise., 1894-03-01
Western News Notes.

Manuelito, chief Of all the Navajos,
died recently.
The Denver Bar Association gave a
very successful banquet on the 21st.
A saloon and small hotel at Copper
Rock were burned down on the 21st.
Natural gas has been struck in a
we'll at Garrison. 1t has strong flow.
The miners of New Castle have re-
turned to work at the company's
terms.
Very heavy SHOWS east of Leadville
have caused the railroads great deal
Of trouble.
The only tunnel on the Florence &
Cripple Creek railroad is finished. 1t
is 165 feet long.
Juan Rael, an Indian murderer, was
killed at La Cueva, New Mexico, while
resisting arrest.
The burglar who has been making
free with the goods and chattels of the
people Of Brighton has been captured.
Superintendent Harding of the King
coal mine at Como was injured few
days ago by fall of rock. He will
probably recover.
Ignatius Donnelly lectured at Den
yer few nights ago on his favorite
theme of the Baconian authorship of
the Shakespearian plays.
The Long Tom reservoir, near Noun
tain Home, Idaho, will be the largest
storage reservoir in the United States.
1t will be about thirty miles in circun-
ference.
Arkansas valley bee men will ex-
port bees by the car load this winter.
H. F. Hagan has sold car at Rocky
Ford and says the supply is increasing
year after year.
The Gulf road and the Rio Grande
have made contract by which the ex-
press business will be controlled by
one company, the Globe, the successor
Of the Rio Grande.
Navajo Indians in Western New
Mexico own ], 1,OOO,O 900 sheep, $50, 900
goats, 10000 cattle and about 100, 600
ponies. 1t is said that they marketed
l, 900, 900 pounds of wool last year.
A new railroad line between Casper
and Ogden will be commenced as soon
as the weather will permit. 1t is an
extension of the Chicago & Northwest
ern road, and work is to be commenced
at both ends Of the new line.
State Game Warden Callicote of
Colorado recently seized 800 pounds
of venison that had been shipped from
Fruita to Denver contrary to law. He
traded it for 1000 pounds of beef and
gave it away to poor people.
Governor Waite has sent to the Su-
preme Court the questions he has pre-
pared concerning the right of the
Board of Penitentiary Commissioners
to parole prisoners who have been
transferred from the state penitentiary
to the reformatory.
Casper. Wyoming, will be a busy
place during 1894. A new waterworks
and electric light system is to be built,
the new oil tanks will begin to dis
charge oil into railroad cars through a
pipe line and Caspar will be the out
fitting point for the South Pass gold
mining boom.
Archbishop j. B. Salpointe of the
Roman Catholic diocese Of New Mexi-
co, which includes Colorado, New
Mexico and Arizona, has resigned, and
his coadjutor, P. L. Chapelle, sue
ceeds him. Archbishop Salpointe re-
tires on account Of old age and in6rmi-
ty, and will hereafter reside at Tucson.
The Maxwell Land Grant Company,
which owns about LIZA, 600 acres of
land in New Mexico and Colorado. is
being sued by foreign stock and bond
holders to foreclose on the property
for the sum of 1915, 900. Interest on
the bonds is said to have been default
ed since 1886. This promises to be an
important and lengthy piece of litiga-
tion.
Mr.. Bland read the riot act to
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