Rocky Ford enterprise., 1898-11-10
WESTERN NEWS.

Big forest fires have been raging In
LII Plata county.
| Delta county shipped $4,000 boxes of
peaches this year.
Three Mormon converts were bnp-
tlzed In the Platte ut Denver last sun
day.
General Palmer says the Antlers ho-
tel ut Colorado Springs will be rebuilt
at once.
The State Agricultural College ut
Fort Collins has nearly $50 pupils
this year.
The Colorado boys at Manila are re-
ported ns longing for potatoes and
reading matter.
In an encounter between nm Indian
aud II silver tip bear. near Kaininh,
Idaho, the Indian was torn TO pieces.
Telegrams from Price. Utah. deny
that any great number OF Utes have
left the!s reservation to hunt In Colo
RADIO.
There IL an Intense feeling existing
at Cheyenne against the cOlored SOL
,liers of the Twenty fourth infantry on
account OF the recent. shooting affair
In that city. ~ j. 40 ,s. ~
!. The good things prepared for the Col
orndo soldiers at Manila were shipped
from San Francisco on October 18th.
and will probably reach their destina-
tIon In time for Thanksgiving. d
Owing to n threatened crusade OF the
law and order league composed of wO-
men OF the city. the saloons of Flor
ence were nll closed by order Of the
city authorities. Gambling. which wns
suspended ON the LIST instant. is still
closed. with little prospects OF Its being
resumed.
Light Battery 4. Colorado volunteers,
has ceased to exist as u part OF the
United States army. having been mus
tered out at Sandy Hook. 1t Is expect
ed, TINT some OF the men will enlist In
thc regular army. ns they are anxious
To go to Cuba or Porto Rico to do gar
rison duty. but the majority of the
men Will return at once to Colorado.
4 market has been found for the
pr0tiuctVOf the Hallack canon graphite
mines, situated near Whentlnnd. Wyo-
ming. The mines are owned by Messrs.
Bellnmy and Burkharlt OF Laramie.
who have contracted with n Chicago
chemical firm to deliver irge guam
tity OF the graphite at prices which
will make II profitable to work the
mine.
BY the end OF this month 100 miles of
the Pecos Valley u Northeastern rail-
way and the telegraph line will be
completed and In operation. and the
grading will he finished to point some
six miles miles west of the line be-
tween Texas and New Mexico. This
will leave only 1O6 miles of the DOG
from Roswell to Amarillo to be built
and deducting twenty-six miles which
are being built mt this end. leaves
eighty miles only to be- built yet on the
Amarillo end OF the line.
The rush OF work on the New Mex
leo divisions of the Santa Fe and on
the whole OF the Santa Fe Pacific is
said to he unexampled. and officials are
ut Il loss to entirely explain Its cause.
Every bit OF rolling stock mt Albuquer-
que. Las Vegas and Ration Is on the
move and double the present amount
could be used to advantage. The vol
ume of freight and passenger business
Is greater than ever before nt this sea-
son and IL larger number OF men en-
ployed In the different departments
tlinn at any time in the road's history.
Special Agent of the Interior Depart
ment George B. Abbott has returned
from Fort Steele. where he was plncett
In possession OF 1900 railroad cross
ties. seized by United Stntes Marshal
+. \. Hadsell. The ties are the prod
uct of the tie camps Of Mr.. J. G. Teller
of Denver, and were seized by virtue
of II replevin suit brought against Mr..
Teller by the United States. II IL al
legged by the officers of the United
States that the ties In question We're
cut unlawfully from government land.
the depredatlons exceeding 100000 ties.
The value Of the ties seized amounts
to $2O.OOO.
by the first of next June DIR. d. l..
RAIDER, financial ngnet of the Denver
University. expects to have the pay
ment Of the entire debt on the univer-
sity arranged for. The debt on
the university Is S14O.OO0. There are
five mortgages to be met. The largest
Is for S5O,OOO and Is already past due.
but 1t is thought now that 1t will be
paid OF December LIST. The method
adopted for raising the raising the debt
on the university has been to place on
sale the lots In University Park owned
by the university. In the past SIX
weeks S4S,OOO worth have been sold.
the first of the four annual payments
being paid down. with q per cent. in-
tcrcst on deferred payment.
Almost the entire business portion of
the town of Pitkin was wiped out by a
fire on the Ith. The total loss will
rench nearly ST5.OOO. with only n small
amount of insurance. Forty buildings
of all kinds are in ruins. The origin
of Tie fire is n mystery. and many ad-
vance the incendinry theory. The ab-
sence of wind probably saved more
extensive spread of the flames. The
fir Stn n oil al In ,,f
ness block, near the barber shop of +.
W.. Sargent. The town was quickly
aroused. but the flames spread so rap
idly unl the lnat hecamn 90 iutnnsn