Rocky Ford enterprise., 1899-04-06


Routt county, Colorado.
Frank Springer. a ID. & II. q. brake
man. was run over and killed nt Pueb-
10 while switching ears. ....
Suits have been commenced In Arnp-
ahoe and FL Paso counties to test the
constitutionnlity OF the law creating
Teller county.
Jack Edwards. the former sheep
king. has purchased from Rock
Springs and Saratoga parties twelve
copper claims on Big creek In the Up
per Pinto mining district. paying for
the same the sum Of $4,000.
The pastors of several Of the Chey-
enne churches nre organizing an asso-
ciatiOn which IL to have for ks object
the enforcement Of laws now partially
gard to closing business places and sa-
looms on Sunday.
Thomas r. McSweeney. section fore
man on the Santa Fe Pacific. died at
the railway hospital mt Albuquerque
as the result of three bullet wounds
received nt Winslow during an alter
cation with n discharged employe. His
slayer Ii In custody and well guarded,
uS .theEe WIS soihe tulh Ot u iyhehihb.
In nll probability n monument will
he erected in Pueblo to the memory of
Captain John Showers Stewart Of the
First Colorado volunteers, who was
killed In nn engagement In front OF Ma.
niln, March 18th. The monument will
also be In honor OF the other brave
boys who met death In the Philippines.
The Utah Beet Sugar Company has
Just declared dividend OF 25 per cent.
payable In stock. and decided to ex-
pend S50O.OOO In the Improvement and
extension OF Its plant at Lehi. Two
branch factories are to be erected. One
this year and another next year. a
tug and line of scows Will also be
placed on Utah lake for the transportn-
tion OF lime rock from the company's
quarries to the factory.
Trouble is In prospect over the d.
vision of the range In the Platte valley
between sheep owners and cnttlcmen.
A special meeting of the Wool Grow
ers' Association was held recently to
take action In reference TO the declared
Intention of the cattlemcn to extend
the area of the cattle range beyond
the limits established by former
agreement The result of the meeting
has been Kept secret.
Colonel II. NJ. Chittendcn. U. s. A..
has been detailed to take charge of
the improvements to be made this year
in the Yellowstone National park, in
Guiding the construction of roads.
bridges, etc. Colonel Chittenden's work
In Colorado and Wyoming. surveying
for government reservoirs, attracted
much attention, and there is general
satisfaction that he Is to continue his
work In Wyoming. He Is the author
of comprehensive publication descrip-
tive of the National park.
The stock firm of Cosgriff Bros. Of
Rawlins. Wyoming. has closed deal
with the Union Pacific for the pur-
chase of 2S,OOO acres of company land,
and has also leased from the company
81. 900 acres, lying on the east side of
the Platte river and extending from
Fort Steele to Medicine Bow. The
firm states that it is not the intention
to crowd out small ranchmen who had
prior location. and they will be given
sub-leases OH such lands as they may
require.
Governor Thomas, on the Bird, sub
mitted his appointments to the Denver
boards, MS follows: Fire and Police
Board. Il. w. Speer Democrat, fire
commissioner; Daniel Sayer, Demo-
crat police commissioner: eX-Super-
visor Charles L. Burpee, Silver Repub-
lican. excise commissioner. Police JUS
tice. W. ]. Thomas. Populist Board Of
Public Works, Joel w. Shackelford,
Democrat, president: Andrew ]. Wood
side. Populist; w. D. Todd, Silver Re-
publican.
The land department of the Union
Pacific road has just completed one of
the largest deals of recent years. by
WHICH it sells 2S.000 acres of lnnd east
of Fort Steele, Wyoming, to Cosgrove
Brothers, sheepmen. The purchasers
of this land also leased from the rail-
road company 1850 acres of land in
the same vicinity. 4. G. Miller, also
n sheep man, has purchased 5000
acres north of Fort Steele and leased
10000 acres in the same vicinity. Ne
gotiations are also pending with n
Of other large sheep raisers
for the sale of other large tracts in
this part Of Wyoming. If the sales
nre completed 1t will result in prnctic-
nlly turning this section of the state
over to the EIeep men.
The passage of the Bell antI-scrip bill
means perhaps more to Las Animas
than any other measure that
has ever passed the Colorado Legisla-
ture. Such bill has been demanded
by the people there for several years.
The bill will do away with the truck
store. business whereby the coal com
pnnies are enabled to beat the miners
put of half their wages by forcing them
to buy at eXorbitant prices everything
they may need at the stores owned ty |
the coal companies. 1t Is matter of |
fact that Mt the company stores mer-
Of almost every kind costs the |
miners much more than when bought |
lt Trinidad, or at any store not con-
rolled by the coal companies.
The Supreme Court of Wyoming met |
1t Cheyenne on the Bird and handed |
1own decisions in at least two import
int cases. In the case of John Rob- |