Rocky Ford enterprise., 1897-07-29
MISSION. REV HOWARD Il. ANTES
PEItINTENDENTS. POSTOFFICE ADDRESS.
COLORADO BRIEFS,

The Broadmoor Casino at Colorado Springs
burned on the 18Th. Loss $30,OO0.
The Athletic Club Of Aspen has moved III
to new and handsome quarters.
4 number Of miners are leaving Cripple
Creek for the Clondyk" gold fields.
The Hccla mine No. / at Louisville burned
n few days ago. causing loss of $4,000.
Denver hotel keepers are being prosecuted
for having game and fish In their possession.
Nictor's volunteer hrcmcn have resigned.
as they think they have not been treated
right.
a strong organization of all the reform
and religious bodies In Denver has been
formed. .#t.
Arrangements ar" being made for u hnr-
vest home festival NJ coIIbrnn to begin Sep.
TENDER ..
Colorado coal Is I" h" shipped I" South
Dakota over the Gulf and Elkhorn Valley
railroads.
The promoters Of the railroad from Eoul.
der to Ward say the line will lie completed
before Christmas.
The gamblers who have been driven out
Of Denver and other places have established
themselves on the line II Jefferson county,
opposite Denver.
The ranchcrs In the vicinity Of Aspen are
complaining OF the heavy frost Of several
nights ago. They say all the potato stalks
are cut clear To the ground, and that the
prospect for good yield ls gone. The more
hardy vegetables escaped with but slight III.
Jury.
II is understood that company OF cX.
pcricnccd miners Is being organized at AS
pen to 20 to the Clondykc region In search
of gold. Several Of the prominent mining
men OF the city Hrr back Of the movement
and 1t Is expected II start viii l. made about
the first OF next month.
The receiver OF the Crystal River Hallway
Company has pciirIOned the federal court
to he allowed to Issue receivers certificates
to the extent Of SlI,nJp to pay for tue com.
plctIon Of the road. oTinan and Crook are
opposed to further expenditures, but the
principal owners Of the road are willing.
The four electric companies Of rucbl" have
consolidated. \ capitalization Of Si.25Dbp
goes into the deal. They are the rucbl"
Gas and Electric Light Company, the I'u-
cbio Light. Heat and Power Company, the
Citizens Electric and Power Company, and
the Pueblo Electric Street Railway Com
pany.
Police Judge Donovan Ut Victor gave II
decision In the ease against city Attorney
l.. e. Miles. who was recently charged with
unlawful cuhIbitatipn, In which he charar.
tcrizcd the efforts made to convict the city
attorney Of the alleged charge as conspir.
acy. md dismissed the ease against him
without COSTS. There was crowded court
room.
Register Paddock Of the land board recent.
~ sold u 3.nLncrc timber reserve situated in
ArchuictR county. to the New Mexico Lnri-
her Company. for consideration OF S,:'.
The land board Is paying especial attention
to the drprcdatIons Of timber thieves AMI
has already obtained over 5000 from dif
fsrcDt mntrnudprS. In payment for lumber
they have stolen.
Says the Rocky Mountain News: The plan
for opening Westminster as u great nation
al university. which has been quietly pro
crossing for some time, has at last assumed
u definite form. The Rev. !. Christy Smith.
Of PcckskIlI. New York, u man OF great abll.
ity and wide influence. has consented to be.
come president Of the new university at II
salary Of $1,000 year, and Is already
pushing the eastern branches OF the work.
Dr. Smith is backed financially by many or
the best known names Of the East. ,hAun.
ccy NJ. Dcpcw, his brothcr-in.law. q. j.
Pauidng. n retired millionaire. and rrofcs-
sor Patton, president of Princeton College.
are to become members Of the board ot Ill
rcctors, and ARE ready to assist In every pos
siblc way. 4 million and lnlf dollars has
already been raised toward the expense "r
opening the new university. and when the
two million mark Il reached work VIII be.
gin. The original plan Of opening West
minister during the present year has bccn
abandoned owing to the mpossibility Of get
ting the many improvements completed III
time. Elegant durmltori"s, professors
homes ctr. will he built, and all the int
provcmcnts conducted on magnificent scale
AMI the new university VIII open WIN nor
less than 1000 students.