Rocky Ford enterprise., 1899-07-06

crops IN the san Luis valley are Suf-
fering from drought.
Mrs. Edna Higgins of La Vcta. the
well-known temperance worker OF
Colorado, died on the 27th.
The President has appointed Louis
a. knnckstcdt of Colorado TO bc agent
of the Southern Ute Indians.
The Buckeye mill. located near Mag
nolia. Boulder county, was destroyed
by fire last week. The loss is estimated
ht S5O,O00.
Clarence +. IohnstOnc OF Cheyenne
mas been appointed nm assistant in the
irrigation department of the Aericul-
turnl Bureau at II salary of $500 year
ly.
The pipe organ presented TO the First
Presbyterian church of Boulder by An
drew Carnegie. the iron king. has ar
rived The organ Is the only instrument
of Its kind In the city.
Rural free delivery postal service has
| been established mt Morrison, Jcffer-
son county. with one carrier. George
| e. strickland. To take effect July 9TH.
Inc service will cover an area OF
eight miles and serve 100 persons.
|
road Is employing Navajo Indians as
section men OIL it's road near Gallup.
/ About 100 men have been employed.
and thus far the experiment has been
pronounced n success by the rai,road.
which will probably engage several
hundred more of them.
| Officers of the Western Slope Hunt
ing Association are arranging elabo-
| "a ,It
hunt. to he held ut DeBeQuc, and they
have called upon General Passenger
| Agent Bailey of the Colorado Midlnnh
to announce that the hunt will he held
October 21tli this year, instead of in
December. ms in 1898.
| Jesse NJ. Smith Of Layton. Utah.
president of the Utah Wool Growers
Association. and Senator Arthur
Brown Of Salt Lake City are on their
way TO Washington. where they cX-
pect to protest 10 the Interior Depart
n'ent against the recent order of the
government forbidding the pasturinc
Of sheep on the forest reserve of the
Cintali reservation.
Thomas Tobin, one of the most efIl-
cient guards ever employed at tile
| Colorado penitentinry, was fatally
wounded Mt 1915 o'clock Wednesday
| morning, in Il most unfortunate ell
counter with two officers from Flor
nncc. all parties being in search Of
| who was captured by still another par
ty and Is now safe in his old cell.
Something peculiar In the monthly
report of the Board of Health. which
will be issued In n few days. Is the
| fuct that for June the number of
deaths of women about cQualcd those
lof men. This Is very unusual, as Il
glance through the records of the
Health Department will show. In
May eiGhty-four males and ffty-one
females composed the deaths. and in
April the ratio was III to siXty-siN.
The workings of the Vulcan mine at
| Newcastle are becoming SO hot that
work is almost impossible. The i'm
mcnse fans are running at full speed
to drive out the great volumes of gas
| thrown off. The fire In the vein is
liable to break out Mt any moment.
The management is rushing the work
men in an attempt to get out all the
coal possible. but the danger Is very
great and n shutdown must come
| soon.
| The Salvation Army colony near
Granada has been the center of attrac.
ton for several days, owing to the
presence there of Commander Booth.
Tucker. The commander found mat
ters at the colony in n very satisfactory
condition. The people are doing well
and making the experiment a success.
Fifty more families will be sent to the
colony this summer. The commander
l .ts.tN q
tant date.
| 1t now seems possible that the Strick-
Ter tunnel. to supply water for Colorado
Springs. may be completed by the
time snow flies. 1t is announced that
the work on the west end. which was
abandoned last fall. will be commenced
Iagain. 1t is thought that the water
now in the tunnel can be pumped out
in about ten days. The present short.
age of city water Is considered by many
ms proof that the tunnel should he
finished without delay because of
financial misunderstanding or any
other cause.
| Train No. 1 on the Midland Terminal
(which left Colorado Springs at T:2O
Monday morning. was brought to n
complete standstill by catcrpillars. 1t
| WnS on II steep grade II rev miles from
| Cripple Creek. The train was moving
slowly. the engine putting great clouds
If black smoke out upon the mountain
lir. when suddenly the wheels began
to revolve with great rapidity. The
/ train stopped, and the engineer and
fireman discovered that immense cater
pillars covered the rails completely for
distance of about 100 yards.
t. G r,rov T. NJ RjochIay and WIN
an exploration trip to the Chaco coun-
try, in the Navajo desert. They were
about hundred miles south Of Aztec.
in the San Juan valley. In two weeks
they unearthcd about 200 pieces OF
quaint pottery. besides many other Gu
rios. beads and turquoises. A white
mans skull was discovered. The party
will resume its explorations in the near