Rocky Ford enterprise., 1896-01-09
COLORADO CONDENSED.

Chafree's total assessed Valuation TOT
1895 Is 2,257, ,351.
Three train loads Of Denverites Went
tn Ieadyille on the 4th to help dedi-
cate the Ice palace.
A number of prominent Denver men
were robbed by pickpockets az r''e
Leadville Ice palace
Eight men were killed nt Victor sat.
urtlay by the caving In OF the smart
of the Anna Lee mine.
The twentieth annual poultry show
opened at Denver on the 0th. ihe
number of fine fowls is very large.
q. III. Thomson, secretary Of the Colo
RADIO Humane society, has been re-
moved, and L. X. Whitehead appoint
ed to the place.
DR.. Kerr b. Tupper. pastor OF the
First Baptist church, Denver, mas re-
signed to accept the pastorate OF DIE
church in Philadelphia.
Las Animas county has eight coal
camps which employ 5000 men ana
produce 6,OOO tons of coal per day.
There are also 716 coke ovens In op-
GRAFTON.
The assessed valuation of property
in Elbert county is S1,SG9,13O. Ihe
records of the land office show that
q, 900 acres of land We're homesteaded
during the past year.
The jury which has been investigat.
ing the death of the miners drowned
at Central City last August have found
verdict charging the Sleepy Hollow
and Americas Mining companies with
negligence.
Jack Miller was killed by a snow
slide In Navajo basin. Mount Wilson.
few days ago. 1t seems that Miller
and two companions We're going to
certain place In the basin. Miller being
fifty feet ahead OF the other two, when
the slide started, catching and taking
him down several hundred feet, kill
ing him instantly.
Huerfano county has 10000 acres of
coal lands. There are at present six
large coal camps In active operation
Walsen, Robinson, Pictou, Toltec, Cam
eron and Rouse. employing in the
neighborhood of twelve or fifteen hum
dred men. The daily output of the
five first named the year round Is 1000
tons. while at Rouse 1t is much larger.
The contested election for county
clerk and recorder OF Morgan county.
brought by Mr.. Tyler d. Heiskell. the
Democratic candidate, and present in
cumbent of that office. against Thomas
]. Landrum. the Populist candidate for
said office. closed at this place before
County Judge ]. II. Jones to-day,
after being on trial for four days, and
resulting for n judgment for the defend
ant, Landrum, declaring him elected by
two votes over the contestant, Helskell.
The results by the canvassing board
showed Landrum's election to have
been by seven plurality, which In trial
was cut to two votes. An appeal WIS
taken by the contestant to the su-
preme court.
B. S. Bartholf. the man In charge Of
ison from Price. Utah, attempted to re-
move the property from the corral at
Grand Junction. where 1t was guard
ed by the sheriff, for the purpose Of
loading it for shipment, but was
promptly stopped by the sheriff. En-
ployes of the Rio Grande Western say
that parties have been shipping ven
ison from Price to Denver for the past
three months, at one time consigning
a carload of 25,000 pounds, and that
on account of the game law having ex-
pired, the railroad refused this con-
signment, when the parties freighted
1t to Thompson Springs, where they
loaded 1t, but the railroad company be-
coming cognizant of the fact, com.
PEELED them to unload it again, when
they hauled 1t on to Grand Junction.
The game wardens of Colorado and
Utah will prosecute Bartholf.
Thomas Mouat had narrow escape
while working in the Morning Glory
shaft at Cripple Creek. He had loaded
three holes. fired the fuse and rang the
bell for the engineer to hoist himself
in the bucket, when he discovered that
the bell rope had been frozen to the
wall and would not work. By this
time 1t was too late to put out the
fuse and he attempted to escape up
the 1OO-foOt shaft by climbing the
cable. Before he had reached any
distance one of the shots went off, send
ing the rock all about him. At this he
dropped down into the bucket and laid
there until the two remaining shots had
fired. The engineer, hearing the shots,
decided to hoist the bucket. although
no signal had been given. Mouat was
found lying unconscious in the bucket
and half covered over with rock. His
clothes We're torn and his right ankle
broken and the drums of both his ears
had been burst by the concussion of
the exploding shots He will probably
~ wit In In. I,.n. .,,.ty,