Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-05-23
COLORADO CONDENSED.

into Wyoming to Craze.
A special train from Denver to Grip
pie Greek over the Midland made the
run In three hours and thirty minutes
The Board of Capitol Managers have
decided upon plan for beautifying the
Capitol grounds 1t has $4,000 to ex-
pend.
Denver detectives have arrested
James Charles Corbett and George AL
len, who had counterfeit silver dollars
and a counterfeihng plant in their pos
session.
Twenty-seven members Of the Ar
kansas Publishers Association, which
held its convention at Mammoth
Springs on the 10th, have been visiting
the State.
The railroads have already granted
the rates to the Pacific coast demanded
by George ]. Kindel Of Denver for
which he contended before the Inter
state Commerce Commission.
Charles G. Stoltz, at Telluride, acci-
dentally ran over a four-year old child
Of Mrs. Drummond Sunday afternoon
with light road wagon. The wheels
crushed its head and it may die.
T. w. Robinson, superintendent Of
the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company's
steel works, has announced an advance
in wages of 10 per cent. June 1 in all
departments. One thousand men are
affected.
The third annual tournament of the
Colorado State Fish and Game Protect
i've association, to continue three days,
began at Pueblo on the 18th. The tour
nament is held on the grounds Of the
Pueblo Gun club at Lake Minnequa.
The Supreme Court has rendered an
important decision, holding that the
election of district judges in Arapahoe
County was legal, and refusing to sus-
tain the contention of Judges Bentley,
Rising, Burns and others, that they
were entitled to hold over.
The special school election held at
GunnisOn resulted in the election of
Mrs. Virginia Grasmuck by forty ma
jority out of 500 votes cast. Mrs. Allen
was the defeated candidate. This cleo
ton was made necessary by the fact
that a tie resulted in the contest be-
tween these two ladies' in the contest
two weeks ago. 1t was the most eX-
citing election ever held in Gunnison.
The coroner's jury in the case of the
death Of B. Il. RhOads, who was killed
at the Poorman tunnel on Saturday
morning, surprised the people of Boul-
der in the matter Of the verdict re-
turned. 1t was found that Rhoads was
hit by bullet from the Winchester Of
Charles Truitt and not from the revol-
YER of Ritchey as Ritchey himself sup
posed. Ritchey was found to be acces-
sorry.
At Churches ranch, sixteen miles out
of Denver, on the Boulder line of the
Gulf system, bad freight wreck Oc-
Cured about 7:30 o'clock Thursday
morning, and for nearly five hours all
traffic was blocked at the point Of the
accident. The wrecked train was an
extra coal freighter that plies back
and forth between Denver and Louis
vile. Fifteen cars were piled up in
the ditch.
Within the past week farmers living
near the Thompson River, Longmont
and Loveland, and in the neighbOrhOod
Of Lucerne, North Greeley have dug
up myriads Of grasshopper eggs, all
showing life, proving that the severe
cold, wet weather of March and April
did no harm to them. Now it is feared
that when summer is ushered in the
pests will hatch out and begin their
work Of ruin.
Articles of Incorporation have been
filed by the Rio Grande Branch Line
Railroad Company, which proposes tc
build line Of road from Trinidad tC
Huerfano, and is capitalized for $3.50,
600. The directory contains leading
Rio Grande officials. The incorpora
tion Of this company is taken to indi
cate that there will be no further joint
trackage agreements between the Gull
and Rio Grande roads.
The state board of examiners have Sc.
lected August 81, % and % as the time
for holding the next state examination
for teachers. The examination has here.
tofore been held in June, but this year
it was decided to give the applicants an
opportunity of attending the summer
schools before taking the examination.
The meeting will be held in Denver,
Teachers who have been examined with.
in two years and failed in certain
branches will be given credit for
branches in which they passed II they
appear before the board next August.
John Thomas, who was Employed In
Dave Pardee's Godfrey bottom ranch
near Greeley, met terrible death Sat
urday night. He was at Evans on bus
mess and was on his way home In his
cart when his horse became frightened
ana ran away. InOmaS 1ell IrOm MS
cart but his legs became tangled in the
reins and he was dragged mile and a
half before the horse was stopped
Nearly all of Thomas clothes were
stripped from his body, while the flesh
was torn from his head, face and body
When found life was extinct.
The state auditor has served notice
ON all concerned that hereafter he will
not allow mileage to such as travel up.
on railway passes. He takes this stand
under a recent decision rendered by
the supreme court, and 1t will apply to
all individuals in the states employ.
The result of this will be that railroads
will get pay for transportation, and Of
ficials who have been riding on passes
and charging mileage will get less of a
dividend than formerly. 1t will not
pay any of them to use their passes In
the face of such an order as this, and
even after paying their fares they will
make a handsome thing out of it. A
railway ticket will cost about five cents
a mile, and the state pays ten cents n
mile for transportation.
At an early hour Tuesday morning
fire destroyed the building on Main St.
Leadville. between Fourth and Fifth
occupied by Manson & Co.'S bill
lard and pool rooms. The alarm was
sounded at $3.50 o'clock and the fire de-
nartment reSnOnded DrOmDtly but as