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Rocky Ford enterprise., 1898-01-20
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.
Synops,s of Proceedings Of Their Late
| So Meeting,

;SynnpSls Oh 1rOceeOinRs OF Xnelr Lato
( 80 Meeting.
; w. N. Randall was installed in Of
flee, Q. O. Washburn retiring. The new
board was organized by the election OF
Nett Daimler as chairman.
o. g. Hess was appointed county at-
torney at salary OF $50 per month.
The county clerk was allowed $1,000 o
year for deputy hire. County Clerk
Winchell appointed @. NJ. Robins, OF
Rocky Ford to fill tho position. APP
proved.
The county treasurer was allowed $500
per year for deputy hire.
The salary Of the under.sheriR was
fixed at 81 200 per ycar. and the appoint
ment of @. d. Steward by Sheriff Barr
was approved. The salary Of the iailor,
David B. Ryder, was f1xed at $50 per
month. Sheriff Barr's appointment Of
Ex-Shsriff A. A. Frost, NJ. A. Lee and
3. W. Sickafoose as deputy sheriffs was
also approved, with the understanding
that they serve without compensation.
The sheriff will be allowed fifty cents per
day for the board OF prisoners at the
county Jail.
Tho salary Of the assessor was fixed at
e5 per day for each day that he is actual
ly employed.
Tho compensation of road overseers
was fixed at e2.25 per day, with team
$3.50 per day; extra man $l.6O per day,
with team $3 per day.
District Attorney g. NJ. Saunders ap-
pointment OF Fred A. Sabin as deputy
Tor Otero county WINS approved. Mr.. Sa-
bins salary was fixed nt 81 QUO per year.
T. J. Barnard failed to qualify ns jus
tice OF the peace Of Fowler precinct and
B. @. Derham was appoi nted to fill the
vacancy.
Owing to transposition Of names in
tho official ballot, II. G. Green was eleot-
ed constable Of Olney precinct and w. g.
Hanen Justice OF the peace, when it
should have been vice versa. The gen.
tlemen failed to qualify and the matter
was rectified by the board, 81. Il. Green
being appointed Justice OF the peace and
w. q. Hanen constable.
w. W. Reed was appointed county
physician in the vicinity OF Fowler at a
salary of 50 per month.
Bids for the county printing, station
cry, blanks and blank books were re-
ceived from a number of offices.
The Outwest Printing and Stationery
Co. were awarded the contract for blank
books, record books and lithograph
work; r. G. Dalton, pens, penholders.
pencils, erasers, ink wells, ETC.; Parks &
Mason tho lctterheads and envelopes for
all county officials.
The bids Of O. A. Cowles for the bur.
ial OF the pauper dead was accepted.
Mrs. S. H. Fertig was appointed super.
intendent Of the county poor farm, and
G. w. Phillips county physician for the
vicinity OF La Junta.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1898-01-20

I'm past years Otero county has sent
> number Of beets to the agricultural de-
partment for analysis. They have al.
ways shown high percentage Of sugar
making properties. That the Rocky
Ford country ia most admirably adapted
to the growing OF the very best Of sugar
beets has been further evidenced by
samples OF beets recently sent to Wash.
ingtan By L d. Hale. The report Of
analysis Just received shows 17.8 per cent
Of sugar in the beets and 1871 per cent Of
sugsy in the juice. While we can raise
snRar beets to perfection we also grow
many other crops to perfection, and the
other crops pay much better than sugar
beets, hence IL will probably be several
years before our farmers get the sugar
beet fever to any great extent.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1898-01-20
-Fairmout has organized . mex
growers association.

-Fairmout has organised . melon
growers association.
1t 10 now reported that two nec
have confessed 70 the murder Of W. j
Barndollar at Pueblo in March, 1895
One il in Jail at Ossawotomic, Ks.
Another business change: NJ. l.
Meyer hns purchased tho interest OF biz
brother Max in the Golden Rule and il
now sole proprietor. Mr.. Max Meyer ID
now IN Chicago, where he may remain
The younger brother, Sam Meyer, will
probably come from Chicago and cleri
for the Golden Rule.
Tho Recker opera house Il thil
week occupied BY the Edna Paige com.
edy company. which 10 giving good
show to well filed houses. The Edison
vitascope 10 among the attractions.
-Phenicie 4 Green are shipping more
fat hogs to Denver.
Just enough show Monday night to
whiten the ground.
An advertisement OF the Crews BegRs
Department store, Pueblo, will be found
in another column. Il comeo 10 the En-.
terprise without solicitation. We have
always advanced the Theory that people
should do their trading at homo % far
as possible. But il our readers find that
our excellent homo stores cannot supply
what they want they will find no better
place to send orders than to Crews
Beggs.
-Postmaster Salyer II dissinguishine
the closing days Of his administration BY
improving the postoffice. Tho eutire
building 10 now devoted 10 public uss,
the lobby being made double its former
size and will be handsomely papered.
The stage Of Rockers opera house
will next week be enlarged 10 20x4O feet.
This Improvement will give Rocky Ford
do, outside Of Pueblo.
Rev. Geo. Studebaker, af the Breth.
rem or Dunkard church, has purchased q
block Of lots in Pueblo and will make
this bis home after q few months. A
church will be organized here and Rocky
Ford made the headquarters for Mr..
Studebaker's missionary work In Colora-
do: It is not his plan to bring to the
valley any large colony but will strongly
recommend this country to his church
brethren in the east. His making q
purchase here after careful investigation
and good words he will say for the Rocky
Ford country during his eastern minis
trations will naturally soon be the cause
Of q large immigration Of this industrious
and most worthy class Of people.
An excellent picture Of our newly
appointed postmaster will be found on
first page. We supposed we had such
arrangements as would secure it's publ.
cation last week but the mails failed us.
Mr.. Young is spending portion Of his
time In the office now 80 as to be fully
ready for duty when his commission ar
rives. Mr.. Salyer will probably turn
over the Office about Feb. l.
"A national meeting Of medical men
in Denver recently was addressed BY
Gov. Adams. Among other good things
the governor said: "Many OF our Colo
RADIO doctors heal patients by the use OF
climate. Indeed, It is a maxim with
many Of Colorado's doctors that the
best thing TO do in to lot the climate do
the work and themselves clam tho cure.
Tie best why is TO say little. prevent lees
end let the climate have her blessed way."
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1898-01-20
Brief Sketch Of the Activities Of the
Office Of Great Daily.


Office Of Great Daily.
A trip through the Rocky Mountain
News establishment is most interesting
and instructive. When in Denver BAT
urday night Lost, Mr.. Thomas, OF the etli,
torial staff, chsperoned us through the
various departments and Offices. In the
editorial rooms couple dozen editors
and reporters were intent at work In the
preparation Of copy telling what the
world did ON that day.
The telegraph room had direct oonnec-
ton with New York and San Francisco,
as we'll a. all important parts Of the
in closer touch with the News repre-
eentatives on the Atlantic and Pacific
coasts than with the business office down
stairs.
Artist Smith, 6teels's worthy successor,
was at work sketching the large cartoon
which appeared in Sunday mornings
News-the Tammany tiger: wearing .
plume labelled "Greater New York"
ready to spring into the presidential
chair (which forCibly indicates one OF the
probable perils OF our government)
Thence We visited the engraving room,
where the sketches, cartoons and por-
ttAlS ut0 thPtoiy u1auo Auto 9nkfoNAn8s
by the xinc etching process. The neces.
electric lights Of great intsnity and high
power. Pictures are an all-important
feature In the daily papers OF to-day, and
the News has provided every facility for
rapid execution OF high grade Of
illustrations.
In another quiet room eat busy man
with all Colorado talking in his left ear
Il. q, all that portion Of the state en-
joying the benefits Of long distance
telephone. The telephone takes the place
OF the telegraph fos news-gathering
whenever available.
Down stairs nine OF those wonderful
linotype machines were clicking the COPY
into bran new, almost red-hot type at q
rate which doubtless gives Ben Franklin
q nervous chill, provided his spirit i %
environed that he can take in the Gghts
Of the closing years Of the nineteenth
century. The linotype is operated Ike q
typewriter and has skill in distributing
the matrices which approaches human
intelligence.
In the sterotyping room the contents
OF . big cauldron Of flowing type metal
is poured into paper matrices and the
type and pictures Of each page OF the
News taken to the pressroom In the
shape Of q 'semi.cylinder Of solid metal,
which form is one Of the vital conditions
Of rapid printing.
In the pressroom the pressman and a.
sistant were Watching the dizzy operation
Of Q huge, complicated mas Of wheels.
cogs and cylinders whiSh was taking in
at one end . roll Of paper q large a. .
hogshead and throwing o6 papers at the
other end at the rate Of almost 400 q
minute, all printed. pasted and folded.
Immense are the resources Of skill,
machinery, brains and money necessary
to the production Of great daily In this
GOOD year OF 1893
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1898-01-20

-Delegntes from the valley counties
met at In Junta yesterday and temporar.
lily organised the Arkansas Valley As
sociation OF Colorado, B. F. Rockafel.
low, OF Fremont was chosen chairman
and w. b. Ebbert secretary. The OBJ
1ect is TO secure o creditable display Of
the valleys products at the Omaha expo.
sition. Further particulars will be
given next week.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1898-01-20

in his speech IN the senate on Mon
day Senator Wolcott gave full history
OF the doings Of the bimetallio commits
sion in Europe. England was steadily
opposed to any consideration OF interna.
tional action favorable to silver. France
was quite friendly, Tariff legislation
unfriendly to European commercial ir-
terests was found to be IN obstacle.
Secretary Gage is severely roasted. but
President Mckinley praised us being
true to the cause OF international bimet-
allism. How Senator Wolcott can have
any hope for silyer in view OF the tremen-
aous obstacles he finds in the way we
can not understand. He says: nThe
cause of bimetallism is not dead in Eu-
rope; it is living, vital aud growing
force" He further says: "The United
States should make concessions in the
ratio, bringing il somewhere in the
nsighborhood OF 20 to l, more nearly ap-
proximating the ratios recognized by
Russia, Austria and India." The speech
will NOT please the gold buss aud is a
disappointment to the silver men. The
full text OF the speech must be read by
all who would keep in touch with the
silver question.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1898-01-20
The Denver Weekly Times-Sun
One of the best weekly journals in the west, will be
Sent Free to Every Enterprise Subscriber

This most liberal offer will cost the Enter
prise considerable sum, but we are confident
that the combination will be appreciated to an
extent to make the expenditure paying one
The only condition imposed is payment for
the Enterprise one year in advance. Every
new subscriber paying $l.5O will get both the
Enterprise and Times-Sun for one year. Every
present subscriber who makes such payment as
will pay him one year in advance will receive
both papers one year.
Call and get sample copy and take ad-
vantage of this offer which will keep you posted
on all affairs, both at home and abroad.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1898-01-20
CHURCH NEWS.

Christian Endsavor topic for next
Sunday: Practical application Of the
Beatitudes, Matt. 6l:1.12
The union meetings st the opera
house did not continue all last week q
planned but were moved to the II. E..
church. Rev. g. e. Burton has besu
holding services every evening with Z
Tho next regular meeting Of the W.
O. T. q. will be held at the Presbyterian
church Saturday, Jan. "a The Mothers
Meeting will be conducted by Mrs. Todd
and the Evangelistic by Mrs. Mitchell :.
The members and friends arc urged 70
be present Come praying that much
good may be done for mothers and for
the salvation Of souls.
ANNA sI.AxH, Seo.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1898-01-20

montbs SI oi be;pa o nSid tw yesr % in odvaucs % ea
for the Enterprise, by making the pay.
ment which will put you year ahead
You get the weekly Times-Sun for year
for present.
g. H. Taylor is the first man to i'm.
port the ncetylere gas into Rocky Ford
He Inns it for his stereopticon and made
Hagen block Friday evening. 1t is q
powerful light and il it proves to be oil
that is claimed for it we may expect Q
revolution in illumination.
Tho public schools are moving
smoothly and quite satisfactorily under
the management Of Prof. Rhoades. AL
more teachers are badly needed.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1898-01-20
Our New County Officials.

Following is complete list OF the new
county Offices:
County Clerk-G. n. Winchell; dep.
uty, G. NJ. Robins.
Treasurer-C. G. Beerbohm; deputy
Rufus Philips.
Sheriff-deorge Barr; deputy, Chns.
D. Steward.
Assessor-H. W. Adsmond.
Superintendent OF Schools-Mrs. Mary
j. Anderson.
Deputy District Attorney-Fred A
Sabin.
County Attorney-O. G.. Hess.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1898-01-20
Two for the
Price Of One!

The Rocky Ford Enterprise is not now
large enough to publish all the Local and Gen
eral news which every family ought to have at
hand weekly. We attend to the home news in
good shape and have arranged a plan whereby
all our old readers and many new ones can
have the news of the nation and the world with
out extra cost. It is this:
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1898-01-20

..-Whenever The date On the address
slip OF yonr Enterprise shows one year
in adrIn.o you will lie placed on the
mailing list .; the Denver Iimcs.Sun for
i year reward fer ADVANCE payment.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1898-01-20
Out Of
Business
in ROCKY FORD.

We wish to extend our sincere thanks to the
people of Rocky Ford and community for their
liberal patronage during our business career
which has been very pleasing indeed. Our bus.
mess after February 20 will be opposite the
First National Bank, La Junta, on the corner
But, in the mean time we sell off our entire
stock of goods at FLAT FACTORY COST TO
JUS. This means saving of almost double
what goods are selling for today.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1898-08-01

draw the boys and keep them away
from the saloons, but it will be of no
avail as long as the legalized saloons
exist. Into them the boys will go, de-
spite the tears and prayers of parents
and the efforts of Christian people.
How do we know? By having watched
the drift of things in that direction
forty years. In all these years regu-
lar stream of boys has been going out
of churches, and out of Sunday schools
into the saloons, down to the drunk
ards graves, and that same stream is
going on still, bigger and stronger than
ever. Yes, Christian people, if you
would save your boys and reach the
masses, first reach and close the sa-
loons.-Religious Telescope.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1898-08-01
An Apt Illustration.

You can no more keep the boys and
young men out of the licensed or legal
lied saloon than you can keep flies out
of an open molasses barrel on the
street in August Close the barrel and
roll it into the cellar, and then the flies
will keep out of it. So close the saloons,
and keep them closed, or a certain
number of your boys and young men
are as surely doomed each year to be
lured by them into a drunkard's grave
and drunkard's hell as are flies GER
tain to be lured to their death by the
open molasses barrel. Sunday schools
and young peoples societies, and
Young Mems Christian Associations
and churches may do all they can to
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1898-08-01
GOPHERlSMS.

No party will shift it's position to the
right so long as good men support it
in the wrong.-N. r. Frost.
If people want high taxes, bad mu-
nicipal government, and all it implies
they can have all they want of it by
voting for the saloon.-Ex-Mayo D. H.
Evans, Tracy.
As a business it has become disrepu-
table because of it's corrupting infiu-
ences in political affairs of the people,
of its persistent violation of existing
laws and of its tendency to propagate
vice and demoralize the people.-Rev
J. M. Cleary, Minneapolis, President
National Catholic Total Abstinence
Union
1t isn't 'tthe saloon power" but
church weakness. If the churches
would get down on their knees and pray
in faith for the removal of this curse,
and then go to work 70 remove it, the
saloon power would be mere straw
in a cyclone. Doolittle.
1 would like to ask every Christian a
question:. Is it Gods will to have such
an institution as the saloon legalized?
If not, you will either have to vote
with the party that opposes it, or quit
saying, "Thy will be done on earth as
it is in heaven. "-Nels Erickson.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1898-08-01
Law Should be Enforced.

Ex-United States Senator w. A. Peff-
er is the nominee of the Prohibition
party for governor of Kansas In his
letter of acceptance he says:
ct is an error to say that the tenn
perance sentiment of Kansas has
changed. 1t has only been hampered
and crippled by the faithlessness of Of
ficers. Party politicians want the sup
port of the liquor interest and they bar
gain for it and pay for it as if it were
SO much merchandise.
"My candidacy stands for law and
order throughout the state, and particu-
larly for the faithful execution of the
laws relating to the liquor traffic.
The liquor question must be treated
with ungloved hands. The only way
to get rid of the dramshop is to de-
stroy it, as Dewey did the Spanish fleet
in Manila. Our liquor laws were enact
ed expressly for that purpose; they can
be enforced just as we'll as the laws
against larceny, house-breaking and
other crimes and this work will be
done when we again secure the election
of governor who is in earnest about
it."
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1898-08-01

land sapping and undermining charac-
ter, breaking up the peace of families,
ofttimes choosing for it's victims not the
men and women originally the worst,
but persons of strong social suscepti-
bility, and open in special respects to
temptation. This great plague and
curse, gentlemen, let us all remember,
is a national curse, calamity and scan
dal
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1898-08-01
Cervera at Santiago.

With the command to advance came
the order: "Open the stores of wine
and brandy" Officers and men drank
freely therefrom. The Spanish officers
drew their pistols and threatened in
slant death to the first man who
linched or hesitated in his work In
the stoke hole, 120 degrees of heat, half
drunken officers stood near 1alf-drunk-
en- stokers, and the first man who gave
way to fatigue and heat and the effect
of the cognac was shot in his tracks.
On the gun-decks the sun beamed down
on men whose stomachs were filled
with the fiery liquid and made them
half mad They tore their clothing
from off their backs, cursing and
shrieking because of the strain and
liquor Thus nerved with liquor, the
Spaniards prepared for the desperate
struggle. The Americans went from
their prayers to battle.-New York
World.
Let us all carry with us, deeply
stamped upon our hearts and minds, a
sense of shame for the great plague of
drunkenness which goes through the
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1898-08-01

There is no inherent right in citi-
zen to sell intoxicating liquors by re-
tail; it is not privilege of a citizen of
the state, or of a citizen of the United
States. AS it is business attended
with danger to the community, it may,
as already said, be entirely prohibited,
or be permitted under suchconditions as
will limit to the utmost it's evils"
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1898-08-01

This billion-dollar drink bill repre-
sents a home market for the products
of the factory and farm, 5000, 100000
in excess of the value of all merchan-
disc exported in 1895, and is in itself
an economic question sufficient in size
to command the attention of statesmen
and politicians, if so many of them
were not industriously occupied hunt
ing much smaller game.-Voice.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1898-08-01
Prohibition Constitutional.

Prof. John Green, PHI. D., of Hamil-
ton college, says: cit is conceded that
the statute law can never be made as
broad and high as the ideals of moral
ity; but as regards dram selling, there
is the fullest moral and constitutional
warrant for it's complete abolition. Hear
the Supreme Court of the United States:
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1898-08-01
A Law-Defying Executive.

Eustis! Eustis! Isn't he the man
who, as mayor of Minneapolis was in
such harmonious accord with the
Liquor Dealers Association, and who
was with it agreed as to the improve
ment of the death traps manipulated by
the members of that association?
If his policy" as mayor of the city
was ''the whole thing" regardless of
laws and ordinances, why may it not be
the same as governor of the state?-C.
E. Carlisle.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1898-08-01
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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-06-23
MILITARY COMMANDER OF THE
CHINA.
Colonel Irving Hale is West Pointer
Who Made the Highest Record Ev-
er Made There.

The Coloradoans are especially proud
of their colonel, Irving Hale, who
graduated in 1856 at West Point with
the highest record ever attained by a
cadet at that institution. He was
made first lieutenant in the engin-
eers and was stationed at Willett's
Point, \. u, where he conducted a
number of notable electrical expert
ments. He went back to West Point
as an instructor, and afterwards re-
signed to become manager of the Cen
eral Electric Company, place which
he quilted to go back into the service
Major Moses of the Second battalion
was adjutant general of Colorado,
and Captain Grove of Company |,
was assistant adiutant general. Col
onel Stewart, formerly inspector gen
eral of Colorado troops, is now cap
tain of Company A. One private from
Colorado resigned a $4O0 -er month
position as mining superintendent
Colonel Hale is not only t. com
mand of the Colorado regimen. but
General Greene has made him milit "
commander of the China, correspond
ing to past commander.
At the reorganization of the Ma
tional Guard of Colorado two years
ago Colonel Hale re-entered military
life and became colonel of the First
Regiment Last fall. on the death of
Brigadier General f. !. Brooks. he
was made Brigadier General. Lieu
tenant Colonel Charles H. Anderson
of Denver became colonel of the First
regiment. The Second Colorado reg
iment was in command of Colonel Fl.
b. Mccoy of Pueblo. When the call
came for troops, the two regiments
were consolidated at Camp Adams. so
as to give all the boys chance to go
to the front. Colonel Hale was made
colonel of the consolidated regiment.
Colonel Mccoy, Lieutenant Colonel C
M. Moses who had been adjutant gem
eral of the state was made the senior
major, and Colonel G.. III. Anderson the
junior major.
Lieutenant A. Med. Brooks. son of
the late Brigadier General Brooks, is
adjutant of the regiment.