Rocky Ford enterprise., 1899-02-09
NEWS FROM THE
WESTERN REGION.

slide near SilvertOn on the 3rd.
The Rio Grande railroad IL boarding
ITO stOrm-bOund passengers ut hotel
ut Glenwood.
David ii. Moffat Is credited with hav-
ing cleared S25O.OOO by the recent rise
In Isabella stock.
Judge Victor a. Elliott. formerly n
judge of the Supreme Court. died sud
denly ut Denver on the 9th.
The New Mexico House has passed
a bill npproprintlng 5000 for complet-
ing and furnishing the Silver City
normal school.
The preliminary hearing mt Greeley
of Frank Herald, the alleged murderer
OF the O'Hnras. resulted in his being
held to the district court.
The Midland broke through the
drifts on the 9Th but the Rio Grnnde
required few days longer to remove
the numerous avalanches on Its track
above Glenwood.
The bounty bill approprIating $40,-
600 hns passed the lower house OF the
Wyoming legislature by large ma
and 81 for coyotes.
The Cntron capitol bill to provide
100000 in bonds for the completion OF
the territorial capitol building passed
the New Mexico House without dis
scntlng vote.
Citizens from the western part OF
New Mexico are lobbying the Legisla-
ture for the creation of new county
to be taken from BernalillO and Va
lencia counties, with Gallup as the seat
of government.
The town Of Independence. near As
pen, IL cut OF from communication
with the outside world by the heavy
SHOWS. The stock OF food and fuel Is
running low. md II Is feared that the
people will suffer before the blockade
Is raised.
]. H. Miles. president of the Fre-
mont Hot Springs Company OF Wyo-
ming. has gone East to press his oner
Of S2o. 600 for the Shnrkey- Fitzsimmons
fight, He says he Is fully able to DEM
onstrate his ability to pull on the light
without interference ut that point:
and also to give any guarantee desired
as to the financial end Of the anair.
Pueblo Is now said to be free from
smallpox. Not n suspected case or
the city and but three patients remain
mt the pest house. Universal vaccina-
tIon taking In not less than 10000 peo-
pie and the free expenditure of money
for quarantine and isolation have
stamped out what threatened at one
time to be an epidemic.
An apprecIable increase Is apparent
In the receipts at the Denver postofficc
- - ., of @v,<,v vnvn mt
over 1903, as regards the sale of stamps
and stamped paper. 1t amounts to n
trifie over sixteen per cent, January re-
ceipts from these sources being 33,OS3.
which is $4.74S more than for the same
month in 1893. The increase from the
rental of boxes has been four per cent.
A bill has been introduced providing
for the reorganization Of the New
Mexico militia, which is to consist Of
one full regiment of cavalry and one
full regiment of infantry of twelve
troops and companies each, and one
battery of artillery. The adjutant gen.
eral is made brigadier and his pay In
time of peace Is placed at 81 200 and
mt 81 800 in time Of war.
BY statements obtained from the
local banks it is learned that the people
of Ouray have $35O,O0O on deposit sub
ject to check. AS the population of
the city is $500. this would be a per
capita deposit of 500, a showing per-
haps no other city in the state can
make. There is not an empty house
or store room in the city, and healthy
demand for real estate exists.
A movement has been inaugurated
to have the first annual reunion of the
II - h1 LAT 4,
Spain beld. and the place thus far
mentioned is El Paso, from the fact
that the city furnished great num-
her of riders. Governor Roosevelt has
notified Ex-Governor Prince of New
Mexico that he will visit that territory
this year and while down in the great
southwest the effort will be made to
hold the reunion of his Rough Riders
written to Russell Mason, manager of
the Alcora hot springs. who is trying to
get the next Sharkey fight pulled OFF in
wyoming, that he has no sympathy
with his efforts. He does not think
the benefits suggested by Mason will
compensate for the damage to the repu-
tation of the state should the fight be al
lowed. He also states that the laws
will be rigidly enforced il any effort is
made to have the fight in Wyoming.
The funeral services at Denver over
the remains of Rev. Myron w. Reed
were remarkable for great out
pouring of people of all classes. The
throng was immense. 1t filled the
Broadway Temple to overhowing. A
thousand men and women stood in the
street outside, cold as the weather
was, unable to see or hear any of the
ceremonies, but 10th to leave the build.
ing where the last honors We're being
paid the man they loved. In the serv-
ices IL jewish rabbi. n Catholic clergy
man and several Protestant ministers
participated.
Cha t.es A. Woodward. ex-postmas.
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