Rocky Ford enterprise., 1898-05-05
COLORADO BRIEFS.

nit County Journal.
Rocky Ford Will have Melon Day
| at the Omaha Exposition.
Six Colorado Springs sharpshooters
will go out with Roosevelt.
An artillery company is being or
ganized ut Colorado Springs.
The Gulf road has leased the large
! repair shops of the Union Pacific ut
| Denver.
| The state labor convention adopted a
! resolution calling for n revision Of the
state constitution.
As n result of the heavy storm on
the 1st. 2nd and 3rd the farmers In
! the vicinity of Greeley are greatly re-
joiced.
A strong effort is to be made in Den
| YER to introduce the ward local option
{, plan to shut saloons out of certain
districts.
The name of Yankee Hill Is to be
changed to Della. a beautiful town.
site has been plated in the center of
the camp.
The Woman's Relief Corps of Central
City held trades carnival mt the Ar
mory recently. The proceeds will be
Day.
Charles Deacon of Chicago has
been appointed superintendent of
the Childs-Drexel home in Colorado
Springs, and takes charge on the LIST
of June.
Paul L. Hirsch and Louis Enricht.
who were on trial Mt Canon City,
charged with obtaining money under
false pretenses, have been dis
charged.
Two weeks ago the new rail mill mt
the Bessemer steel works made Its
/ first run. The mill is now running per-
manently. Its capacity is 800 tons ev-
cry twelve hours.
Prices of provisions in Denver nre
| rapidly rising. Although the war has
Just started the local dealers have al
ready begun to feel the effects. The
trusts In the East are taking advant-
age OF the war. and as result are
sending prices up at great rate.
Over 200 men are finishing the grade
| of the Colorado & Northwestern rail-
road to Ward. The company has be-
| gun to clear the depot site, from which
| several houses and barns Will have to
be moved, and which will have to be
walled up. The track layers are al-
most into Ward.
The Alanitou and Pike Peak Cog
road ran the first train of the season
| to the summit of the peak Sunday.
May 1st. The roadbed has been put in
excellent shape ard the rolling stock
| thoroughly overhaulcd and improved.
Manager Sells is preparing for
/ larger seasons business than ever be-
| fore In the history Of the road.
Governor Adams has appointed
| Charles l.. Hyde of company @. First
regiment. Longmont, to be chaplain OF
the First regiment, Colorado volun-
teers. Mr.. Hyde was formerly pastor
of the First Congregational Church mt
Longmont. but resigned TO enlist rs a
| private. The salary will be $1,000 n
| year and Mr.. Hyde will be
sworn into the regular volunteer army.
A conference of state assessors was
held Mt Denver on the 2nd and 3rd. 1t
was evident that all the assessors
would like to comply with the law,
but each is afraid the other will not.
Nearly every man who talked declared
that the assessment of his county was
J higher than any other county in the
state and while willing to have assess
ments increased anywhere else he was
determined to stick to his present scale
of assessment. Resolutions We're adopt
ed to obey the law and to try to secure
the passage of n better one next year.
The Oratoricnl Association of the
State University has received word
that through an error In the reckoning
Mt the Interstate OratOrical contest last
year Mr.. Chauncey Bell, the univer-
sity representative, was given second
place instead of first. The fault lay
with the committee that reckoned the
judges markings Mt the time of the
contest. Mr.. John Downen of the uni
yersity, who will represent the state
this year, will demand of the conven-
, tion at Beloit, Wisconsin. that proper
| recognition be made on the records of
| Mr.. Bells success.
Bishop n. G. Matz of the Roman
Catholic diocese of Denver has issued
a circular letter to the clergy and laity
of Denver. in which he sets aside Sun
day. May Sth, as the date when the Of
ferings of each church shall be donat-
ed to the national fund for n monu-
ment to the martyrs of the Maine. In
addition to offerings masses will also
be celebrated for the repose of their
souls. The day will be known as
"AIane Memorial Day." and has been
suggested by n national committee Of
which Ex-Governor Levi p. Morton of
New York is chairman.
All Trinidad is stirred up over the re-
cent action of the school board in no.
tifying Superintendent T.. G. Stevens,
who has had charge of the public
4, schools of that city during the past
eight years, that after the expiration
of the present term his services would
be no longer required. The matter cul-
minated in n meeting of representa-
tive men of the city, which the mem.
bers of the board We're invited to at
tend. Each of the five of the board
responded. Superintendent Stevens
was also called in. A resolution was