Rocky Ford enterprise., 1897-05-13
COLORADO BRIEFS.

Ten thousand tront have been placed In
| Middle and North boulder creeks.
| Forty-eight carloads Of lambs We're shipped
| out OF northern Colorado last week.
| 1t Is stated that the EiJou canal system In
Weld and Morgan counties Is to he COM
pieted.
| The Illinois Steel Company has Increased
| Its or,lvr for man ganese ore from LeadSihe
| to $50 tons per day.
A man named Kimbai and four sons nave
been arrested In the Poudre canon Tor re-
| moving claim stakes.
| Denver doctors operated on n young man
for Appendicitis and found that he did not
have It, He Will die.
Two teams OF Denver Turner's went to the
| quatrenniai bundcsfest mt st. Louis ana cap
tured several big prizes.
| Charles II. Nelson was killed In the Gold
| King mine at Ward by u roller that fcl'
down the shaft. striking him upon the heau'
| Georgetown expects 10000 visitors at her
| Fourth OF July celebration. feature OF
| which will be the tournament of ire COM
| pnnies.
| Negotiations arc now pending between
| Louisville and Lafayette whereby the latter
town will have pipe connection Win inc
water system Of the former.
State Senator II. C. Boisingcr. who has
been under treatment Mt the State Insane
Asylum for some months. has been pro-
nornced cured aud has returned home TO
Central City.
George ". Wilson. n Denver contractor.
| hns been nned for working his men more
| thnn eight hours Gu city Job. He VIII ap-
neal to the Supreme Court and test the val
| idity of the law.
| The State Veterinary Sanitary Board has
| tad 4 Arrhuptu and JDhn A.
| Slnyton sheep Inspectors for Archuleta ana
| Weld counties. respectively. George NJ.
Black was appointed Inspector for Arapahoe
| county.
Large shipments of apples are being made
| from Denver to the Pacific coast. The eS-
pertinent IL the first large attempt OF the
| kind by one firm In Colorado. and has proven
an unalloycd success. The shippers get
| about 50 per barrel.
The Bon Ton mine In Russell gnich, Gilpin
county, Is to be worked by the Rev. }. IL.
Weber. of Preston. Ohio. who will devote
the net output to the relief of the poor. The
mine was formally dedicated to this purpose
by religious services.
The State Board of Managers of the Colo
rndo Chii,iren's Home Society held Its an
nunl meeting Mt Denver ON the sth. Shct
| Justice IIayt was reelected president. Dur
Ing the past year the society found homes
for lOi homeless children.
The school census Of Colorado Springs for
this season has been completed and the re-
mort shows that there has been slight gain
in the number of children OF school age over
last year Tho census shows that this year
the number is 4.iO9. and In 1S.W 1t was
i,lIG.
Gustayc Caristedt. the thirteen -yenr-old
son of John Car,stcdt. OF Argo. was dragged
10 death Thursday evening by the family
horse. The cause of the accident was the
boy having imprudently tied the tethcr
rope around his waist while the animal was
grazing; 1t became frightened and then ran
away.
Constable Samuel Goad. of Edgewater,
who Is also deputy sheriff of Jefferson
county. Is under arrest charged with the
willfu. and deliberate murder of Alexander
Douil. Jr.. who was killed ut 10 O'Clock Sun
day night In front of the Lake View House.
Berkeley. This is suburb of Denver. The
murder was a cold-bloodcd crime.
A meeting of the State Board OF Hortlcnl-
ture was held ut Denver last week for the
purpose of discussing suitable remedies Tor
fruit tree pests. These remedies VIII be
printed and distributed among the farmers
of the State. when the best ones are Sc
lected from a large number that are now
being considered by the board. Professor z.
+. Giliett. of Fort Collins. and Lutte Wilcox.
editor of the Field and Farm, were present
ut the meeting.
There seems to be no doubt about nm early
resumptIon of work at the Basslck gold
mine ut Querida. Custer county. Mr.
BassIck fears no further litigation, and the
owner Is himself on the ground superintend-
Ing the preliminary work to starting up the
big mine The old shaft. which Is flooded
with water, will be abandoned, and an en-
tireIy new shaft sunk. through which the
mine will he drained and worked In the fu-
turc After the Bassick mine shall be put
In operation 1t will be an easier proposition
to build the Florence Southern railroad to
| Silver Clin.
The State Board of Arbitration has been
| completed by the appointment of ]. w.
| Barnes. of Golden. The first case to he
| Submitted to the board Is the strike In the
| Baldwin coal mines. The coal company has
| made several offers to the men to resume
work. but these were refused. ostensibly
| upon the ground that the men objected to
| the proposed schedule to be paid with the
use of electrical mining machines. In view
of the fact that the strike continues and the
| men are not allowed to return to work even
| after the company has offered to pay them
| full wages until the matter IL settled by the
board of arbitration, leads the officers of
| the company to believe that the machines
| are not the real cause of the trouble.
Before farmers Institute in Prowers
|
| State Agricultural College said that good
| results would be obtained II winter and
| spring wheat is narrowed after the first ir-
| rigation. any time before the crop is eight
inches high He recommended the use of
| nm ordinary round-toothed harrow, with nd
| justlble teeth. The object is to store the
| water and prevent damage by winds. Irri-
| gate less and cultivate more should be the
motto OF Colorado farmers In answer to
| question the professor said that at certain
| times excessive irrigation would cause rust
| In wheat and oats. Smut, however. Is
| caused by germ In the grain and will de-
| velop regardless of the method of irrlgating.
| very simple and safe way to prevent smut
| is to soak the seed for fifteen minutes in
water heated to temperature of 135 de-
| grees. 1t Is not necessary to use any chem
| icals in the bath The hot water kills the
smut germs effectunlly. and as the treatment
| Is very simple 1t should he adopted by all
as n precautionary measure. Corn can be
| given the same treatment for smut though
| the results are not so certain.
In the Supreme Court on the 7th the
| petition OF the La Junta and Lamar Canal
| Company and the New In Junta and Lamar
| Canal Company for writ of injunction to
| Issue. restraining the Great Plains Water