Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-10-10
COLORADO CONDENSED.

The Democrats. Populists and inde-
pendent Republicans of Ell Paso county
have placed fusion ticket in the field.
Christopher Ewald. worthless Den
yer man, fatally shot Mrs. Stegeman
and then committed suicide. Ihe rea-
| son Is not apparent.
The Leonard & Montgomery building,
162S-42 Lawrence street, Denver, was
damaged by fire last Sunday night to
the extent Of $4,000.
The Pitkin Guards. Company A, Of
Lake City. will attend the Festival IN
Denver. A large number Of. people
| from this county expect to attend.
Charles Kohlmeir, Fort Collins citi-
zen. had a desperate encounter with foot
pads on Friday night, but came out
first and put the highwaymen to flight
The sixteenth annual state conven-
ton of the Colorado w. G. II. U. opened
at Canon City on the list. Over 100 del
egates from all parts of the state were
| present.
! The jury summoned by the coroner to
investigate the killing Of John w.
Hughes at COnejos brought In YER
dict exonerating Reekers as far as pos
sible from blame by finding that the
| shooting was not felonious
| A cowboy from Freeze Out canon,
near Granada, reports that there Is a
camp of horse and cattle thieves in the
! Butte Creek country. 1t is supposed to
be a part of the Bill Doolin outfit and
preparations are bing made to run them
| out.
| Arthur James Gordon, agent for the
| Continental Oil company at Cripple
Creek, who left his home and family
rather suddenly, and also left short
| age of $1,000 in his accounts, has been
arrested in st. Louis. 1t Is said that
his wife will settle the deficiency.
| Thirty. seven girls have been removed
from the House of the Good Shepherd
and taken to the Home for 1ncorrigl-
BILE Girls, where they will remain until
the terms for which they were commit
ted expire. The new state home was
formally opened on Monday evening,
and Tuesday Governor Mc1ntire FORM
ally accepted it as q state institution.
Hiram Fisk was acquitted Of murder
| by jury In Judge Rucker's court at
Hahn's Peak. Fisk killed man
named Williams, who called at the Fisk
ranch house near Hayden. in Routt
county, during the absence of the hus-
band, and grossly insulted Mrs. Fisk.
The wife informed her husband on his
return. Some time later Williams ap-
preached the Fisk house on the public
highway, whereupOn Fisk seized his
/ Winchester and killed Williams. The
| jury did not consider that homicide un-
der such circumstances was murder.
Judge johnson of the District court of
| Arapahoe county has rendered an i'm
portant decision regarding the duty OF
the Denver city council regarding the
readjustment Of water rates. He has
issued a peremptory writ Of mandamus
ton demanding of the water company
that 1t fix the rates as provided by Its
contract. No Legislation is required in
the matter such as requiring the sigma
ture of the mayor, and the council has
no authority to fix the schedule at this
| time other than making the demand as
stated.
| Denver has been chosen as the loca
! ton of the next annual meeting Of the
Methodist Episcopal Missionary board,
i which will be held next November. Con
siderable interest attaches to the discus
sions of this important body. 1t had
been the practice to hold the sessions in
| New York, but recently this has been
changed, and the policy now Is to hold
| the meeting of each alternate year in
some other city than New York or an
Eastern center. Bishop Warren was in
| strumental in securing the convention,
the sessions of which will most likely be
held In the large audience room Of T,rin-
ity church.
After much delay and a good deal of
negotiating, State Treasurer Mulnix has
sccceeded in disposing of the $175,OO0
deficiency state bonds, and as quickly
as they can be printed and signed the
money on them will be put into the
state treasury and disbursements begin.
The bonds brought n premium, the
treasurer obtaining $1.O1 for them with
the accrued interest from September I.
| The accrued interest will amount to
about $500 per month, and there will be
= about two months interest return to the
| treasury. The bonds are payable in
"lawful money of the United States"
either at the Colorado state capitol or
| New York city.
Judge Harris, at Colorado Springs,
| on representations made by the HUI
name society, Justice Walker and 9TH
els. decided to release from the county
! Jail the two Mexicans there confined
upon the charge of bull fighting. These
| two men are Antonio Sentrea and Car.
los Garcia. 1t will be remembered they
were fined something over 500 and
costs each recently for being concerned
| in the Gillet affair. They were unable
| to pay and so went to the county jail.
1t appears that they had been deceived,
and so the judge released them on the
proyiso that they would not participate
| in any more bull fights in the state and
| leave the state Immediately. They
promised this. and We're then released.
A west-bound Rio Grande passenger
| train had narrow escape from being
badly wrecked one mile below Red Cliff
| at what Is known as the Ground Hog
mine dump. At 7:40, as the train was
going through Eagle river canon and
lust as the engine and mail car had
| passed the dump, loose rock began NOV
ing and came down seventy-hve feet
under the baggage car. throwing the
front trucks off the track. The train
was going twenty-five miles an hour
: and after the baggage trucks were
thrown Off the whole train ran about
100 yards before coming to stand still.
The track was badly torn up, ties were
broken and it was a miracle that the
train was not thrown over the embank-
ment into the Eagle river.
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