Rocky Ford enterprise., 1896-01-02
coLoRADo CONDENSED.

The Leadvllle Ice Palace VIII 'peA
on New Years day.
The opening of the Wagner opera
,,,son At Denver on the 30th was
great success.
The annual meeting Of the Stale
Teachers association was heiu III be"
yer last week.
A terrific wind storm visited Denver
Monday morning. The velocity atlaiheu
was sixty miles an hour
Barney McGivin. II Cripple Sreen
miner. has died as the result of injuries
received in Il fight few days ago
The Rev. Thomas Uzzell, assisted D!
other good people OF Denver sn'. ,ha :"
dinner to 1000 poor chiiureh y" INV
2Tth.
On Christmas day 400 poor boys u.
Denver were supplied with new sui,s
of clothes at the expense OIL S'''o'
Gungenheim.
Miss Blanche Cox. staff captain OF tiii
Salvation army, who has been stauoneu
at Denver during the past year' h"e
been transferred to Baltimore.
Walter Damrosch and his company el
200 musicians arrived In Denver Oh NV
18th, where they We're to give SEASON
of Wagnerian opera.
An aged miner named Barber was
killed in tunnel near bouluer Wv
days since, supposedly by the explosion
of n percussion cap that he bit too hard.
On January 1, the fourth class pos,
offices at Lamar. Prowers county, anu
Las Animas, Bent county, became pres'-
Dental. The salaries of the postmas'ess
will be S1,100 per annum.
David Il. Cresswell, a. convict, was
pardoned on Christmas day. This was
following the custom of the pardon
board. The recipient was In Tor man
slaughter and had three years YET l"
serve.
Mr.. Eckels. the comptroller of the cur
rency, is preparing 10 declare a twenty
per cent. dividend in favor or tpe
creditors of the Union National bark D:
Denver. The formal announcement VIII
be made within the next two or three
weeks.
DIR. Gresswell went out TO the Alfaita
Land and Cattle company's ranch al
Fowler Saturday and innoculated sew
eral hundred cattle with anthrax vac
cine to prevent black-les. 1t IS the In
tention of Manager Lockhart TO have the
entire herd of several thousand treated.
Fifty thousand dollars has been turn.
ed over to a representative OF one oi
Denyer's national banks by George
Crawford, representing a syndicate o.
New York capitalists. and placed to the
credit of A. S. Blake of Saw Pit gulch.
In exchange for this sum the New York
er becomes the owner of the Belle
Champion mine, located in Saw Fit
gulch.
Amos W. Harmon came TO his death
near Aspen In n peculiar manner rev
days ago. While descending "Slaugh-
terhouse hlll'' his sled. heavily loaded
with oats, pushed rapidly onto the
horses; the animals then took fright
and when they had reached the bridge
at the foot of the hill the sled turned
over. Harmon was buried by the sacks
OF oats and upon the oats rested the
box which had contained them, to-
sether with the rear runners of the
conveyance. Harmon was suifocated.
A snowsllde occurred west of the AL
| pine tunnel on the South Pak, FRI
| day afternoon. which would have serl
| ously Interfered with traffic on that
| shed which enclosed the track ut that
| point. The shed was demolished and 4
| good deal OF snow was left on the track
| but It was quickly removed. ana trains
are running again as usual. With q
| further expenditure OF about $4,000 Ii
! the construction of snow-sheds, Superln'
tendeut Duuaway thinks he will be able
10 keep the line TO Gunnlson open the
year round.
KID Holiday, cattle rustler, was
arrested and taken 10 Greeley few
days ago. II Is charged against llol-
ldny that he has not only carried on
with others a wholesale system Of steal
Ing. taking small herd on single
range. but that last fall, while on n
drunken froliC, hc shot down some
twenty head OF fat mllCh cows all
through hatred of their owners. who
We're members Of the Colorado Cattle
Growers association. The dead bodies
of the animals were discovered by
some cowboys and the calves of the
dead cows were traced to Holidays
corral II few miles from the scene.
The board Of trade OF Durango. ha.
adopted statement setting forth that
Chef lgnaclo and his Utes have received
no ratlOns from the government for
months. They elected not 30 take alloI.
mcnts Of the land IN scveral;y. and have
been living OH the west end of the rcser.
walton. on land set apart for them. II
Keep them from starving. members OF
the Durango board of trade have sent
them provisions from time to time, and
the white settlers near them have fed
them from their scanty stock. These
Indians are now in n Starving condition,
and Chef IgnnclO says he will starve 10
death before he will 20 10 the old agency
for rations. and we believe that he will
do so, as lie never breaks his word.
The attorney general has delivered
an opinion TO the state auditor cover
Ing the validity of the state warrants
issued In payment for advertising the
constitutional amendments under the
last administration. The effect of the
opinion is TO cut the account from
$4,000 TO less than 5000. The at
torney general discovers that many of
the papers We're not publishing the ad.
vcrtiscmcnt nt the latest date set by
the statutes for their first insertion.
This and other reasons. the dehnitlon
of n daily newspaper and like points.
combine In the opinion Of the attorney
general TO establish sufficient reason
for throwing out obnul 1000 or S2S,-
600 Of the claims presented by the
publishers. The advertisements should
all have begun under the law not later
than August q, 1894.
Judge Allen ut Denver handed down
n decision in the suit of sheriff Burch-
iupll against the county commissioners