Rocky Ford enterprise., 1899-06-29

Of u new electric road TO the Chau-
tauQuA grounds.
NJ. 3. Askew, postmaster Mt Russell
0ule4, Colorado. and a member OF tho
gKueoey firm OF Wagner Il Askew, COM
aitted suicide by shooting himself.
Th6 trial of the men charged with be-
~ principals In the notorious opera
hGUDo riot In Colorado Springs in Sep
t5er last began in the district court
CA = 21st and they We're acquitted.
prnado visited Akron, Colorado,
21st, and wrecked the dwellings,
and sheds on Dole 4 Gillette's
nnch six miles northeast OF Ak
& Charles ii. Abbott, who was
at the ranch. was killed by
IA hg while milking.
r. Josiah Dunn OF Arvada has left
Becretary Shutc Of the horticult-
d board In the state house. twelve
u<IuWberrics which filed quart cup.
U&Dy Of them were over four inches in
U0mfercnce. They are OF the Je-
E01da variety. The secretary will at
&mpt to preserve them so that they
K ~ be displayed ut the coming State
1Sir.
The second annual Strawberry Day
for Glenwood was one of the happiest
events In the history Of the place. The
weather was perfect and the attend
ance at least 1000 ahead of the most
sanguine expectations. -Four thousand
people ute Strawberries, cream and cake
10 repletion. Threc-fourths of thlS
number spent an hour or more III The
mammoth pool.
Caterpillars are destroying nll the
foliage on the Pccos Valley forest re-
Borve, especially OH the puaking aspen
efoe1. Shovelfuls of the catcrpillars
NJ picked up every morning by the
1InGers and burned. but the plague Is
wDasing. and makes 1t very Disagree
for visitors. who find themselves
heir horses literally covered with
aterpillars after few miles OF
The police report that there Is uiore
potty stealing going on In the hlils
Nround Cripple Creek and even In the
<Sty itself than ever before in the his
}.(bry OF the present administration, says
the Stnr. The deprcdations consist.
Z In the hills, Of n general breaking INTO
/. cabins, during the absence of the OWL
!. .ers, the invasion Of snbterranean
places Of storage and the theft of pow
der, steel and miners implements.
John Haines. Oldest son Of NJ. s.
Haines, was killed in the Mitchell
mine at Lafayette, Colorado, on the
21st, while pulling top coal. large
amount of coal and rock falling and
burying him completely. The miners
uncovered his head and found him to
be alive and able to talk. but more
coal and rock fell and a large force
Of men was put at work to rescue him,
which took about an hour, when he
was found to be dead.
Denver Lodge No. 4G of the Brother
hood of Railroad Trainmcn has with
drawn from the State Federation of
Labor. The lodge has more than 400
members, and is one of two lodges in
the state to be affiliated with the Fed
Grafton. The other is in Pueblo and
has membership of more than 200. AS
a result of recent meeting the officers
Of the Federation have been served
with notice Of withdrawal by the Off
GERS of the lodge. Included in the no.
tice is request for card Of honor
able withdrawal and nm expression
that IL necessary the members were
prepared to vote n contribution to the
smeltermen's strike. No specific rea-
son is given for the withdrawal but 1t
Is stated that the radical expressions
Of the federation concerning the Idaho
mine troubles is responsible for the
withdrawal.
From the reports of the statistician
of the department of agriculture, Sec
ton Director Brandeburg of this city
has made some interesting figures as
between Colorado's production and
that of other Western states. The total
value of corn, oats, wheat. barley, rye
and potatoes raised in Colorado last
year was $17,45O,O 900, while the same
products aggregated Il value of little
less than S2S,0OO,00O in the combined
states Of Montana. Wyoming, New
Mexico, Arizona, Nevada and Idaho.
This makes the products Of Colorado
equal to about twothirds of all the
others. The Colorado wheat crop was
one-third of the total of all the other
states mentioned, the oats and barley
one-half, the hay two-thirds, and the
potatoes one and n half times rs much.
Among the states of the union, Colo
RADIO was twenty-ninth in the list In
the yield of corn per acre. third In
wheat, eighteenth in oats seventh in
barley, first in rye, twelfth in potatoes,
and fourth In hay. Her yield per acre
was as follows: Corn. 21.3 bushels;
wheat, 10; oats. go: barley, 26; rye,
16.7; potntoes, 90; and hay, LIS tons.
The chase after the men who held up
and dynnmted n Union Pacific mail
train at Wilcox bridge June has been
abandoned. They were followed across
Laramie plains, the Casper mountains,
through the Holc-in-thc-Wall country,
across the main range of the Big Horn
mountains and into the Big Horn ba-
sin, where the trail was lost. Twice
during the pursuit the officers were
ambushed, Sheriff Hazen being killed
In one fight. Friends Of the outlaws
aided them to escape by furnishing
them fresh horses and keeping lhem
posted rs to the movements Of the off
GERS. The trail was lost in the Owl
Creek mountains, and it is believed the
bandits reached the Wind River noun
tains, where there is an immense re-
gIon almost uneXplorcd, and affordinG
countless hiding places. Realizing the