Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-04-18
COLORADO CONDENSED.


on the Sth.
A stock company is to build cream
cry at Salida.
The Pixies Peak Cog Road is again
running it's trains.
Florence suffered from q bad fire on
the 18Th. Loss 5000.
The Loyal Legion of Colorado held
meeting at Pueblo on the 9th.
An epidemic Of scarlet fever and
measles is threatening Greeley.
Twenty-one new doctors were grad
uated from the Gross Medical college
at Denver this week.
Laurence Hurley, who Is charged
with having killed Detective Moore at
Denver, has been arrested at PocatellO,
Idaho.
william Upton has been appointed
postmaster at Cucharas, HuerfanO
county. Colorado, vice R. M. Linn, re-
signed.
The town and county Of Las AMI
mas is experiencing an epidemic OF
scarlet fever. The schools and churches
are closed until the disease is under
control.
Joseph q. Soils, q fifteen-year-old
Denver boy, fatally stabbed Thomas
Deveney, another boy, who, with
number Of companions, was tormenting
Soils.
Belt Line railroad between Cripple
Creek and Altman, and touching the
important mine camps in the vicinity,
is to be built. The route Of the pro-
posed road Is already surveyed, and 1t
Is said the grading will be begun In a
short time.
Billy Connors, alias ]. W. Turner, the
ruI,O Sscx ocvSr In hn
by masked and armed bandits on the
Silver Club gambling house at Glen
wood Springs early on the morning OF
March 20, has been captured In Denver.
Governor McIntire signed the follow
ing appropriation bills on the 9th:
$45, 600 for the state reformatory, $.,-
SS2 90 and $2,5OO for the state board Of
health, $2S, 600 for the national guard.
$40 900 for the state university, $780,
900 for the Mute and Blind institute,
$13 900 for the insane asylum.
william OFT, miner forty-fivv years
of age, committed suicide at Louisville,
last Friday by jumping down an
abandoned air shaft seventy-five feet
deep. His body was found SATURDAY;
OFT was broOding from the fact that
he shot Peter Dorighi a month ago,
and would have a trial on Monday
next.
President Aston Ellis, of the State
Agricultural college, is being urged by
the board Of education of Hamilton,
Ohio, to return to his old position Of
superintendent of public schools In
that city. As an fnducement to have
him return they have added few hum
dred dollars to the salary originally
paid him. DR.. Ellis declines the offer.
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt appears to
| be opposed to the nude In art, for she
has ordered sweeping changes In the
character Of the interior decoration of
her $4,000, 600 villa at Newport. The
decorations showed many undraped flg-
ures, copies of masterpieces Of famous
artists. Notwithstanding their artistic
merit, Mrs. Vanderbilt objected to
| them and she Is now having the nude
covered with drapery.
A big raid on gambling was made m
Denver Wednesday night. The raid
was the beginning of well considered
plan by the police authorities to close.
beyond any doubt, all gambling houses
and opium joints. The police say that
this Is not spasmodic effort, but will
be persisted in until large number Of
undesirable citizens are forced to do
something for an honest livelihood Or
leave the city. The present board de.
in the city.
A ranchman in moderate circum-
stances, financially, by the name Of
Berwick, took up a ranch on the Grand
river, near the line between Eagle and
Routt counties, and when he had Sc
cured 200 head Of sheep, the cattlemen
in the above named counties arose in
mass and about fifty delegates met at
Mccoy to take action against the en-
croachments of this industry. The plan
prepared by the cattlemen is to buy
the sheep, and as soon as they are At
for market ship them. This agree
ment doubtless will be put in effect.
Other sheep men are contemplating an
advance into that region.
A distressing accident occurred IN
the Giles mine, some distance from
Ward, few days ago. 1t seems that
Harry Luebben. superintendent Of the
mine. and another, had been working
drill in a tunnel on this mine, and
while the other man was gone Luebben
started from the tunnel to go in an
other direction, and in leaving the tun-
mel he crossed the shaft and by acci-
dent fell a distance of ninety feet.
There he caught on a CAD which had
been driven into the side Of the shaft.
This gad caught him In the neighbor-
fearfully. In this condition Luebben
hung quite a while. When discovered
he was -insensible. He was very badly
bruised, but no bones are broken. It Is
hoped that he will recover.
Receiver Trumbull Of the Gulf road Is
preparing to complete the gap In his
road between Trinidad and Pueblo.
Specifications are being sent out to
contractors for grading the road be-
tween Acme Junction, at the Trinidad
end of the line, and Walsenburg, a
distance of nineteen miles, and from
Forbes junction to Trinidad, which Is
a seventy-one mile span. The receiver
will let the grading out on contract
and build the rest of the line himself,
laying ties, stringing steel and driving
spikes. Sixty-five pound steel will be
laid, all Of which will come from the
Pueblo steel works. General Superin-
tendent Dunaway will have charge Of
the construction. 1t Is estimated that
about ninety days will be consumed N
building to Walsenburg, and on reach
ing that point the receiver will report
to the court.
The preliminary hearing Of the men
alleged to have taken part in the hold.
up Of the Florence and Cripple Creek