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Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-05-16

Last night the valley was blessed
with fine rain and the welcome mois-
ture continues to fall to-day.
No wonder the growing OF alfalfa
seed is popular. Last season G. W.
Parker OF Olney marketed s40O worth
from 10 acres. The seed was sown in
June, 1893. Quick and profitable re-
turns, that.
County court is in session, Judge Al
word on the bench. The work may be
completed this week. OF the 30 eases l6
are criminal. mostly petty misdemeanors.
up for trial this term.
The late session OF the district court
cost the county about $4,000 for the II
days session. In the proceedings Of the
commissioners. elsewhere in this issue,
will be found some of the details of this
great expense. Is it not susceptible Of
reduction?
The county commissioners at their
late session receeded from the position
taken in regard to the appointment OF
Thos Hoffmire to be deputy district at
torney. All previous action in the mat
ter was rescinded and tho appointment
confirmed. The terms OF the compro-
mise have not been made public. Com
missioner Washburn was not present.
Tho Woodmen of La Junta are plan.
ming an attractive excursion to Manitou,
june 9th. The fare for the round trip
Will be e3 and the attendance will be
large. While the excursion is under the
auspices of the La Junta Woodmen, the
neighbors of Rocky Ford, Las Animas,
Lamar and OrdwaY will be invited into
full participation.
"A kindly Providence has again fav-
ored the Arkansas Valley. While large
areas of the west have been visited by
been spared. The damage done by the
low temperature of Friday night was SO
slight as not to be worth mention, and
the fruit prospect continues to be the
brightest ever enjoyed by Otero County
horticulturists.
MIR. Bracken OF Wallace county, KS,
arrived few days since for the purpose
OF locating in or near Rocky Ford, but
was unable to find house to live in.
He seriously contemplated returning to
the Sunflower State. This should not
be thus. Our monied men should GER
tainly be able to supply houses for all
desirable immigrants who wish to locate
in this portion of the valley.
During this and next month the
Santa Fe will offer an unusual number
OF excursion rates. On June 9th Pres
byterians can attend convention at
Denver at 1-3 fare. June 18th knight
Templars can VISIT the capital at / is
fare to attend the Grand Commandery,
Methodists can go to the annual confer
ence at Denver juno 9th for 1-5 fare.
To obtain the reduced rate for the re-
turn trip certificates of attendance at the
above,meetipgs will have to be obtained.
Those who attend the June races of the
Overland park, Denver, have more liber-
al terms accorded them. Ono fare pays
for the round trip from the 9Th to the
18th, tickets to be on sale June 7th. 9th
and 11th, good for return on the 10th.
lie does not love to watch the grass
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-05-16

Did you say that those Misses
and ladies' slippers at Maxwell
Bros. were too high when you can
have them at your own price?
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-05-16

"A suite of furnished rooms for
light house keeping, on ground
floor, for rent, Box I6, Rocky Ford
P.O. --
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-05-16

HE took his winter fiannels off.
IL His fond wife's warnings soofip';
He got a cold, and then cough,
And afterwards CONN.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-05-16

La Junta is resurrecting the court
house question. A petition was last
week circulated in the county seat asking
the commissioners to build a court
house at a cost Of from 80, 900 to $4,000.
The present plea is that several cases of
sickness were recently caused by "the lily
arranged structure, in which court was
held. As we have previously stated the
present is not the right time to talk of
expenditures for county buildings. This
is new country and our citizens are not
not yet from under the debts made
necessary by the rapid developement
which has been done in the last eight
years. There yet exists much indebted
ness incurred for the building Of new
bitches and the opening of new farms.
The taxes are now sufficiently large with
out adding to them for building a court
house. Furthurmore, the $4,000 or 20,
600 suggested would probably only be
the entering wedge for very much lara-
er expenditure. To aid in making a
plausible plea for the new building
exaggerated estimates are made of the
expense Of renting the present buildings.
Better pay rent few years until the
taxpayers of the county are in better
shape to bear the additional burden. In
addition to the objection above given, the
scheme is impracticable from the fact
that the commissioners cannot lawfully
contract debt for the purpose of build
ing a court house. A special levy would
have to be made for that purpose or
bonds would have to be issued by vote of
the people. There seems to BIO only one
equitable solution of the situation: Let
the citizens of La Junta do as Rocky
Ford proposed to do-put up the money
to build court house without expense
to the taxpayers.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-05-16
The Nichols School.

About the LIST inst an effort was start
ed by the teacher and pupils of the
Nichols school to establish a library in
the school. During the first week dona-
tions to the amount of over S14 were
secured. At the election on the 9Th inst
the sum ST SO was voted to the library
fund. At the election II. s. Holly was
elected Pres. for 8 years, and K. L.
Mumford Treas. for one year. The
question Of free text books was carried
by majority OF nine.
The people Of Rocky Ford have gen.
erously assisted in the library effort.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-05-16

Some Of our citizens think that our
public schools, while among the best in
the state. have been run at too great q
cost. Director W. c. Steele did little
investigating last Monday to ascertain
the comparative cost of the Rocky Ford
and La Junta schools. He finds the
salaries paid teachers at La JuDta TO be
as follows: Superintendent, s13333 per
month for term of nine months; Asst.
Supt. 800; the remaining teachers are
paid $50, $40 and s65 per month respec-
lively. The Rocky Ford salaries are as
follows: Principal s1.O5 per month, the
teachers s75, s65, $50 and $50, respective
ly. The special levy voted this year for
school purposes was nine mills, while in
many portions of the state the levy has
been to the full limit OF the law, Is mills.
All of which makes very good showing
for Rocky Ford.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-05-16

The Denver News is famous for it's
splendid cartoons illustrating the polit-
ical situation. One Of the best appeared
few days since. It represented the
Democratic party as tiger and the Re-
publican party as an elephant. They
were on the ocean beach and rolling in
on them were high waves bearing the
legends "Free Silver, and aBimettalism." !"
The elephant says to the tiger: "What
are the wild waves saying" The Tiger
replies: "Scoot, Brother, Scoot." A
more striking presentation of the politi-
cal outlook would be hard to produce.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-05-16

We are always complaining that
taxes are high. The SUM paid for any
one item OF government expense seems
not to be great, but when :the whole is
added together the amount is one which
causes much grumbling. Let us see
how the money goes: We will assume
that the average well-to-do Rocky Ford
man pays $40 tax. This $40 is distrib-
uted as follows: The county tax is much
the larger sum, S17.2O. OF this sl.26
goes to school purposes. The expenses
OF the town government takes S1O.13.
Interest on the water bonds costs our
$40 tax payer s2.54. To the state gov
ernment he contributes $2.O3. The
special school levy takes s455, to
which, to get the total cost of the schools,
should be added the 81 % collected under
the head of county tax. This shows
that the $40 taxpayer pays 1851 per
year for the support Of the schools. The
district is carrying bonded indebted
ness OF $4,000 incurred to build the
school house. Last year there was
levy sufficiently large to pay the interest
on the whole bonded debt and pay of
one Of the $1,000 bonds. To this pur-
pose 1885 of the $40 is appropriated.
With this table of proportions before
him every taxpayer can figure ont for
himself just what he pays for each item
Of the expense of living in civilized
community,
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-05-16
THURSDAY MAY 16, 1895.

During the the past week the site OF
the artesian we'll has been the center Of
interest in Rocky Ford. The
work OF putting the massive derrick in
shape has been noted with pleasure, and
now it looms up 70 feet toward the sky.
The derrick is large and strong in all its
proportions and the machinery accompa-
nying it of the most powerful make. A
trial of the engine and machinery was
made yesterday and the real work Of
drilling will begin today.
Here is an indication of the Arkansas
valleys fruit prospects: Jos. Graham
sends us by the hand OF James Stanton
a small branch cut from one of his Wild
goose plum trees. The branch is only
eight inches long but it contains 100 per-
fectly formed plums. MIR. Graham esti-
mates that he has one months work
ahead to prop up the limbs Of his fruit
trees so that they will not break down
with the weight of fruit now in sight.
Other fruit growers have similar reports
regarding the fruit outlook.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-05-16

lie does not love to watch the grass
IL AS it begins to grow.
1t only brings him thoughts, alas,
OF what he'll have to NOW.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-05-16

Horace Knight says that he sold that
gang plow to Andy Nichols and that it
was of Canton make,
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-05-16

0EE swallow makes no summer time,
" Look out for frost ye bards who sing;
Remember, mid your bubling rhyme,
One poem docs not make q spring.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-05-16
CHURCH NEWS.

Rev. Sapp received four new mem.
bers Sunday evening.
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had. as they supposed, hidden the treas
ures carefully, yet the bright eyes of King
Sun had spied out the jars among the
trees. and as he and King Frost could
never agree as to what was the best way
OF benefting the world, he was very glad
of a good opportunity Of playing a joke
upon his rather sharp fiVal. King Sun
laughed softly to himself when the dell
cate Jars began TO melt and break. At
length every jar and vase was cracked
or broken, and the precious stones they
contained were melting too, and running
I'm little streams over the trees and bushes
of the forest.
was happening, for they were down on the
grass and the wonderful shower of treas
ure was a long time In reaching them;
but at last they plainly heard the tinklng
of many drops failing like rain through
the forest and sliding from leaf TO leaf I'M
til they reached the little bushes by their
side. when TO their establishment they
discovered that the rain drops were melt
ed rubies, which hardened on the leaves
aud turned them to crimson and gold In
moment. Then, looking around more
closely, they saw that much OF the treas
ure was already melted for the oaks and
naples were arrayed In gorgeous dresses
Of gold and crimson and emerald II was
very beautiful but the disobedient fairies
were too frightened TO notice the beauty
OF the trees. They were afraid that King
Frost would come and punish them So
they hid themselves among the bushes
and waited silently for something to hap
pen.
Their fears were well founded for their
long absence had alarmed the king, and
he mounted North Wind and went out in
search OF his tardy courers or course he
mad not gone far when he noticed the
brightness or the leaves, and he quickly
guessed the cause, when he saw the broken
jars, from which the treasure was still
dropping. At first King Frost was very
angry, and the fairies trembled and
crouched lower in their hiding places, and
! do not know what might have happened
TO them If just then a party of boys and
girls had not entered the wood When the
children saw the trees all aglow with bril-
liant colors they clapped their hands and
shouted for Joy, and Immediately began to
pick great lunches to take home '"The
leaves are as lovely as the flowersp' cried
they in their delight
Their pleasure banished the anger from
King Frost's heart and the frown from
his brow, and he. too. began to admire
the painted trees. He said 70 himself. my
treasures are not wasted II they make lit
tie children happy. My idle fairies and my
fiery enemy have taught me new way of
doing good" When the fairies heard this
they were greatly relieved, and came forth
from their hiding places, confessed their
fault and asked their masters forgiveness.
Ever since that time 1t has been King
Frosts great delight to paint the leaves
with the glowing colors we see In the au-
tumn, and, If they are not covered with
gold and precious stones, ! cannot mag
Inc what makes them so bright, can you?
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NICARAGUA's CANAL.
The Commission Report Their Trim
Very Insfrueffve

Key West. Fla, July l5.-Permission
being refused the Southern Associated
Press correspondent to visit the Montgom-
cry he hired a quarantine boat and sent a
list Of questions to the commissioners. to
which he received this evening the fol-
lowing reply:
In reply to your note Of the 18th. deliver
ed on board the Montgomery. enclosing a
Ist or questions to be answered by the
Nlcaraguan canal commission. I am in
sIructed 10 reply as follows: The names
OF the commissioners are Lieut.. Col. VII
nam Ludlow, United States army. chair
man, civil Engineer NJ. T. Endicott. Uni
TED states navy. and Mr.. Alfred Noble.
clNl engineer of Chicago. Others of the
party present are DR.. Edward r. SIN.
united states navy; Messrs. B. A. Wood.
L. l. Parke and R. Stoddard. Messrs. F.
r. Davis and H. r. Stamford remained in
Nicaragua TO complete some unfinished
work and will shortly follow. Ii would not
be proper 10 furnish any information with
regard to the canal as the report of the
commission, to be made to the
President on or before Nov. l
cannot be anticipated. The COM
mission has had most interesting and
Instructive trip. landing at Greytown on
May Is and making a thorough explora
ton of the route of the proposed Mica
raguan canal, much of it on foot through
the forests of the eastern division Re-
turning to Greytown on May IS the party
left in the steamer Montgomery and on
May "A touched at Port Limon and made
trip 10 San Jose and returned. 1ne par
ty had an admirable opportunity of OBJ
serving railway construction through a
very difficult country. Thence the party
went to Colon, arriving there July 1,
and made a careful examination of the
Panama canal from Colon to Panama and
back.
The commission is now on its way home
The entire trip has been unattended with
any mischance or Illness of any kind
and the commission has every reason to
be satisfied with the result of its labors
1t was especially invited to the capitals
Of both Nicaragua and Costa Rica, ard
was received with great courtesy and hos
pitality. The commission returns 10 New
York for the purpose of preparing its ce-
port. stopping en- route at Washington ia
advise the authorities officially of it's re-
turn. r. Stoddard
Secretary
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present was in Mt condition to hold a
hsh;ed match near anything that contain
eu powder, and several persons who tried
IL were severely burned Later In the
night Bowie produced a 32-calibre revoIv-
er from his pocket and began to ceIe-
brate by firing 1t off. A crowd gathered
about him. and as Bowie stood on the
porch OF his friends house firing of his
pistol, several produced razors, but no
one had any gun except Bowie.
Something wrong with the trigger OF his
revolver engaged Bowle's attention, as
he stood at one end of the long porch. He
did not notice that his wife had come TO
the window at the other end and was call
ing to him. Suddenly his pistol went of
with a terrific bang. and with a Shrek Of
pain Bowie dropped the weapon, uttering
yell after yell and dancing about like a
mailman. Almost simultaneously a cry
came from the other end of the porch and
the bystanders saw Bowie's wife fall upon
the floor with blood gushing from her
mouth Or. Mudd Of Anacostia was hur-
riedly sent for
He found that Bowie had shot himself in
the left hand, which he had carelessIy held
In front of his pistol The bullet had pass
ed through two fingers. passed through his
wife's upper lip, knocked out eight teeth
and split her tongue exactly in half for
about a third OF It's length. To crown all,
the woman had swallowed the bullet The
injured parties were removed to their
home, and the womans tongues was
stitched together by DR.. Mudd Bowie is
able to be about, but his wife's condition
is said to be serious
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A SPEEDY SELLING Platter.
Blanche Kenney Goes Seven Fur
longs at Oakley I'm 1,27 I-2.

Blanche Kenney Goes Seven Fur
longs at Oakley I'm ~ IL.
Oakley, o., July 15.-The fourth race for
the handicap at seven furlongs was de-
clared off on account of scratches. sher-
locks defeat of Ben Holiday was the
feature of the days racing. The track is
getting very fast, selling platter, Blanche
Kenney, going seven furlongs in 1:271a to-
day. The attendance was large. A sum
mary follows:
First Race-Five furlongs. Sherlock l13.
Chorn, 3 to 2. won, with. Ben Holiday
second and Sid1el third. Time :02
Second Race-Seven furlongs. Lakota, IS.
Walker, 6 to /, won. with Manoa second
and LIE Benjo third. Time 1:2Ss.
Third Race-Five furlongs Tom Crom-
well, 105, Chorn, to l, won. with Charlie
Sullivan second and Japan third. Time
1:O2lk.
Fourth Race-Declarcd off.
Fifth Race-One and one-sixteenth miles
Peabody, 1O4, Walker, to l, won, with
Oakley second and Grammar third. Time
1:4S94.
Sixt Race-Seven furlongs. Blanche Ken
ney, 81 R. Isom. to /, won, with Layon
second and Susie B. third. Time 1:27la
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HIGH PRICES FOR FAST HORSES
AUGUST BELMONT PAYS $4,000 FOR
THE UNBEATEN HASTINGS.

He Also Scoops i'm keenan, at SIS 800.
Dave Gideon Takes HaElet at SI4,-
5OO-DuISe Bros. Scoop in the Best
Bargain at the Sale in RamaPO ut
$6,6OO-The Horses Sold Mt Auction
for the Dissolution of the Gideon
and Daily stable.
Sheepshead Bay, n. Y, July 15.-The dis
solution of the racing stable of 6ideon &
DAILY took place at sheepshead Bay to-
day. The prices realized were in many in
stances of the sensational order. The
cheapest horse in the sale was Ramapo,
the winner of the Suburban and Metro
politan handicaps of 1894. who was knocked
down to Duke Bros, for $1,000. His rae
ing career is not nearly ended and a big
future awaits him in the stud. During his
three years turf career he has won So, 100.
The Butterflies. the winner of the Futur-
ity. in 1894. brought $1,000. Her former
part owner paid this figure for her.
August Belmont. chairman of the state
racing commission and of the board of
stewards of the jockey club and owner of
the Blemton stables was the largest pur-
chaser outside of David Gideon. Mr. Bel
mont bought hastings, the unbeaten 2
year-old son of Spendthrift and Cinderella,
after a struggle with David Gideon. He
paid $4,000 for this great youngster He
also bought keenan,. He gave $3.50 for
this grand 3-year-old.
David Gideon bought Hazlet for S14,50O
Phillip J. Dwyer was the bidder up for this
colt. The senior member of the firm also
bought Requital, another successful
youngster.
David Gideon will continue racing in his
own name. His colors will be the famous
dark blue. j. Hyland will train for him
and H. Griffin will be his jockey. John
DAILY will retire from the turf.
The sale was well attended and the bid
ding spirited.
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HoKE SMITHS VIEWS ON SILVER.
He Once Favored Free Coinage But
Now Sees Its AbsurtIfty.

Washington, July 15.-Secretary IIoke
Smith to-day gave out the following
MY attention has just been called to the
publication of a letter written by me in
September, $780, to Hon. w. L. Peek, AMI
published at that time in the Atlanta
Journal The Journal was then openly OPP
posing the subtreasury scheme and my
personal opposition to it was well under
stood. The letter clearly excluded the
idea of committing me to all of the seven
propositions which it presented, although
IL was known that l did favor the free
coinage of silver. I was giving most or
my. attention to professional work at
that time and supposed without thorough
investigation that the free coinage of sill
yer would carry the value of the silver
bullion coined into dollar to par and also
keep silver and gold dollars upon a par
ity with equal purchasing power. Since
then | have given the subject much more
study and being thoroughly Satisfied tina.
the free and unlimited and independent
coinage of silver at the ra ito of IS TO
would result in silver monometallism,
have for several years openly opposed it,"
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QUEENS CoUNTY's TRACK.
The Aquaduct Track Opened Under
the Jockey Club Rules.

the Jockey Club Rules.
Aqueduct Race Track. n. Y, July 15.-
The Queens County Jockey Club opened
its meeting at this place to-day under the
jockey club rules, and if the attendance
this afternoon can be used as criterion,
the venture will be a success. The grounds
were well crowded when the post call sum-
moned the candidates for the first race
Last year the course was only three
quarters of a mile in circumference. Ad-
ditional ground was secured, however, to
make it a mile a round. The stretch is
now fully three furlongs in length and the
turns are very sharp. but as the fields will
not be heavy here the narrow track and
the sharp turns will not matter.
The results of the races to-day proved a
great set back for the faithful, not one
favorite winning. There is to be change
in the dates of both this track and Brigh-
ton Beach. Those in charge have agreed
to the plan and the jockey club has been
asked to sanction it. The arrangement is
that Brighton will reopen Monday and
continue until Aug. 10. Racing will be held
here from Aug. u to Aug p, inclusive.
The change is made to please the horse
owners, who object to moving their horses
back and forth every other week.
Summary follows:
First Race-SiX furlongs. Juniata, 1o1,
Sheedy to 5, won, with Escape second
and Tom Moore third. Time 1:171a.
Second Race-Five furlongs. Emotional,
95 Keefe, 5 to 2, and Lorrania, 1O9,
Doggett, 2 to l, ran a dead heat, with
Hernia third. Time 1:02A In the run
off. Emotional was backed at odds of
to ., and Lorrania at to 10. Emotional
won by a length. Time 1904.
Third Race-One mile and a furlong
Sir Francis IN 1uOp Will,
Charde second and Aurelian third. Time
1854.
Fourth Race-One mile Eagle Bird,
119. Wynn. 10 to !, won, with Deerslayer
second and Hermanita third. Time 1:43IA
Fifth Race-Six and a half furlongs.
Buck knight, 9S, Wynn, 6 TO /, won, with
Cockade second and Gold Dollar third
Time 1:23A.
Sixth Race-One and one-half miles,
over hurdles Winship, 13i, Brazil, to
2, won, with Lafayette second and AIaho
third. Time 2:5112
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THIRD TERM TWADDLE,
A silly RumOr That Lamont Has
Been Feeling the PubIic's Pulse,

Washington, July 15.-Secretary Lamont
is expected to return here tomorrow. He
has been on prolonged trip through the
northwest inspecting the military posts
The gossipping politicians have credited
him with a deep laid plan. They have ac-
cused him Of going forth like Caleb and
Joshua did Of old TO spy out the land in
the hope OF finding-not milk and honey
but a sentiment in favor Of a third term
for President, Cleveland. 1t is safe to
say that as soon as Secretary Lamont
gets within ear shot of this rumor he will
proceed TO deal It a deadly blow. 1t might
not be at all surprising IL he said some
thing as to the Presidents position on the
third term question.