Rocky Ford enterprise., 1898-01-27
WESTERN NOTES.
There are 100 pupils in the Rldgeway


Commerce..
For the first time since woman suf-
frage became law, Pueblo county has
woman in charge of Its schools.
George A. Henderson of Sterling has
received an order from Hamburg, Ger
many, for carlond of alfalfa seed.
Assaults on women who are out on the
streets alone ut night continue at Den
yer, and the police are unable to cntch
the criminal.
A 5000 creamery Is to be built at
Wheatland, Wyoming. This colony Is
settled mostly by. Colorado people from
the Greeley district.
The Colorado State Beckeepers' As
ISOLATION met at Denver on the 18th to
attend to business matters and discuss
questions of interest to their industry.
Fifteen hundred bales of cotton
grown in Texas have been started over
the Gulf road for the North. They
will go to Japan by way of Portland,
Oregon.
The pet stock show at Denver last
week was successful affair. AS one
result of the show permanent Organ-
izatiOn was effected, with Fred Brown
ms president.
An investigation of the books OF the
clerk of the Supreme Court revealed
shortage of S2.3O5 In Clerk Miller's nc-
count. He has made the amount good.
Mr.. Miller said that the errors were
unavoidable and came through the
faulty system of bookkeeping.
One Of three miners, while crossing
the range from Leadville to the Hill
| Top mine. Park county, became cx-
Il nd LOT he IA n.
ions, who came on to the Hill Top mine
but did not report until next day. A
| searching party was sent out and found
| the man had frozen to death. The un-
fortunate man was supposed to be Dan
| Mullen.
The Boulder city council has voted
| 5000 toward constructing and mnln-
tanning hospital at the university
grounds. The appropriation is on con-
ditiOn that the county commissioners
and tho citizens raise nn additional
| $1,000. II also ordered the city clerk to
purchase twenty tons of four-inch wa
ter pipe and 500 pounds of lead for the
purpose OF extending the water mains.
A reported epidemic among the sheep
on feed near Fort Collins llns been de-
cided by DIR. Gresswell TO he only bili.
| nry arrangement ns n result OF feeding
too much heterogeneous food. The dis.
ease Is u natural result OF attempting
to fatten too rapidly. A preventive, to
he given while fattening. is as follows:
Bicarbonnte OF soda one part: nitrate
OF potash. one part; blcarbonate Of pot
nsli. one part. The dose Is one tea
| spoonful to each head In food three or
four times u week.
| On the 22d the annual spring ship.
ment OF fat lambs from Larlmer coun-
| ty to Chicago begins. John g. Rich
ards aud Bailey. Rison & Son will ship
i've carloads. which have been feeding
since the 18th OF September last. and
have attained an average weight OF
eighty pounds. From then on ship
ments vii he made every few days
until the entire output OF 10000 head
are disposed OF. The present price In
| Chicago for fat lambs Is 500 per
hundred pounds. about 80 cents high.
er than at this season last year.
State Engineer Mead of Wyoming
Inns received letter from Colonel w.
+. Cody, stating that he has secured
the cooperation OF several New York
capitalists In his Big Horn basin en-
| terprises. Early this year hundred
barrel flour mill will be erected nt
Cody City. The big canal, upon which
work hns been In progress several
years. will be completed and $4,000
acres OF land placed under cultivation.
| A snnitarium will be built at tho Big
Horn hot springs and other improve
ments Of public character be made
In the Big Horn region.
Pueblo Is considerably agitated just
| Mt present over the reported cures that
have been accomplished within the
past week by man named n. j.
| Larders. His method OF procedure Is
| very largely the same MS that employed
| by Scllntter when in Denver. Landers
Is n farmer. and came to Pueblo with
his family about month ago. Landers
| Is decidedly reticcnt. charges nothing
for his services. and very seriously oh.
| jccts to having his name appear In
print in connection with any OF the
cures he Is credited with. He does not
claim TO have divine power. and. In
fact. refuses TO say where his power
comes from.
Hallway mail service will be pro-
yided for towns In the northern part
OF the state. Orders TO this effect have
been received from Washington by
Chief Clerk Putncy Of the railway mail
service In this city. This Is the result
| OF requests that have been made dur.
tut UitSt t"t years ItSuentS VI
that section. Arrangements for the
service were Mt once made by Mr.. Put
ncy with General Superintendent Dun
away of the Gulf road. This will give
direct daily mail service to Sempcr.
Louisville. Nj Wot. Lafayette, Broom
field. Longnont. Lovclnnd and Bcr-
thoud. Many other towns will get their
mails earlier than nt present. The saw.
Ing OF the time to the Ward district
Will be twelve hours.
The flng saluta,ion, ns It is practiced
today In the public schools in the state
Is n violation OF the laws, according to
the decision which Miss Grace Espcy
Patton. superintendent OF public in
struction. rendered ycstcrdni. She
said. however. that tho ceremony
might he continued In the future In
conformity with the law by the elm
| lnation OF the Objectionable features.
| II is this salutation that caused 10
much trouble between the Seven Day
Adventists in Boulder and the school
board. The controversy between the
| two has broken out ngain in a I ew di.
! rection. and may finally get itself into
| the courts. Yesterday County Super
| tptopdnpf a L.. Harding Of Roulhpr