Rocky Ford enterprise., 1896-07-23
COLORADO conD. sNsED.

Four Rio Grande oil cars were burn-
ed at Florence n few days ago
The State Pharmaceutical associa.
ton met in Denver on the 14th.
Forrest Rowen. 10 years old. was
drowned in lake near Boulder on the
18th. .t.g
The Denver Trades Assembly II pre-
pairing to send silver speakers to the
East.
Denver business man are veheniently
protesting against the assessment at
full value.
Business Is slowly but surely i'm prov
ing at Denver. ms will be seen by our
advertising columns.
The postoffice at Florence was rob
bed few nights ago Of $500 In NON
ey and $500 In stamps.
Road races are the order Of the day
af Denver with doctors. lawyers, prine
ers and nll other classes.
Albert Deigle. driver of a water wa-
ron. NHs Killed at Victor few days
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The commissione ers of Pitkin county
have Increased many Of the assessment
schedules 70 MS to reach the full value.
A young man named Frank Jacobs
was drowned in "a lake near Fort Col.
Iins n few days ago. He got entangled
in the weeds.
Aokik Kokoynro. the Japanese who
killed woman mt Denver some time
ago, has been convicted of murder IN
the second degree.
Loveland is greatly stirred up by the
attempts of Denver detectives to &C.
cure evidence aga inst druggist for
selling liquor Illegally. 20"
A Denver harness man, Fred Muel.
Ter, is employing from fifteen to twen-
ty men making harness for the Colo
RADIO trade. He Sc lis direct to the farm
crs.
Al Curry was fined 500 and costs at
Cripple Creek for criminal carelessness
in filling n lamp at the Abbott skilting
rink. His carele'ssness caused 500
The annual se ssion of the Ch'tutau-
qua assembly ops ened at Glen Park on
the 18th. The programme Ia good
one, and the att endance this year II
larger than ever before.
The fine new m Ill Of the Gold and sil-
yer Extraction company at St Elmo
burned to the ground Friday morning.
II WINS supposed to be set on fre Loss,
$50, 600; insured for $4,000 In nve or
six different companies.
The Mitchell & Patton Merchandise
Company Of Greeley has assigned to A.
I. Park. cashier Of the First National
hank. as mortgage in behalf Of that
institution, It being the heaviest cred
itor of the firm. This company has
been in business for about twelve
years.
Complaints are coming in daily to
the state fish and game warden re-
sarding the wanton slaughter of hsh
by dynamiters. The communications
are mailed in all portions of the state,
and nearly every principal stream
containing food fish has been visited
by these people, who are anything but
sportsmen.
One of tho largest importers OF eof-
fees in the West, the Nash-Smith Tea
and Coffee Co., have moved Into new
three-story and basement brick build
ing at Denver, devoted entirely to the
manufacturing and handling Of goods
in their line. This firm has been In
business for over thirty years and I'M
mort their coffees direct from the grow
ers.
An accident happened in the Tom
Bow mine Mt Telluride on the 10th.
While the day shift was going out OF
the mine Matt Lundquist and bis part
ner were walking through slope, and
while passing under nm upper charge
which had missed fire the charge e1-
ploded and Lundquist was severely In
iured on the head and arms and his
partner painfully injured. Unless blood
poisoning sets in both men Will re-
cover.
The loss of a large number Of hulses
from the vicinity of Denver during
the past few weeks leads to the sus'
picion that IN organized band of horse
thieves of the most expert character
is operating in Colorado and Wyoming.
Officers and detectives have been at
work on these cases for several weeks,
but have been unable to find trace Of
the missing animals. So far as the de-
tectiyes have been able to discover.
most of the thefts have been commit
ted in broad daylight, and the stolen
animals have disappeared absolutely,
leaving no trace of the direction taken
by the thieves.
The Bimetallic League of Great Brit
ain held Its annual meeting In London
on the 10Th. The annual report declares
that the cause of international bimet-
allism has made substantial progress
during the year, both in Great Britain
and abroad. 1t mentions the resolutions
adopted by the Chamber of Deputies
in France and the Chamber of Depu-
t1es In Belgium and the Prussian diet,
declaring for blmetallism, and contin'
nos. "In the United States all classes