Rocky Ford enterprise., 1899-03-23
NEWS FROM THE
WESTERN REGION.

Work on Boulder's electric street rail
way Will be commenced soon.
A telephone line is being put up be
tween Pueblo and La Iunta.
Twenty-Five Indian territory families
have arrived to settle in Eddy.
Mrs. l.. o. Wolcott has returned to
Denver. but the senator is still In WASH
ington.
1t Is stated that Mrs. Wolcott will
take up her residence at colorado
Springs.
Leadville miners got ont and cleaned
the track to hex so that the mines
might start up again.
DIR. T. A. Hughes has resigned his
position as secretary of the Colorado
Board of Medical Examiners.
The imprisoned Leadville miners
have not yet been released and 1t may
be some time before they get out.
The Democratic candidates at Ridg-
way, Colorado. demand the ENFORCE
ment of saloon and gambling laws.
The Denver militiamen returned
from Lake City Tuesday morning. only
one company being left on guard there.
A murderer and cattle thief, who had
been convicted, sawed their way out Oh
the Arapahoc county jail Few DAYS
ago.
Roswell is proving the center of n
great artesian well region. A. ID. Car
rett has just struck n 250gallon min-
ute well at do feet.
Contracts have been let and work
begun on fifteen miles of the grade OF
the Rio Grnnde Westerns Park City
extension up Provo canon.
At the meeting of the sovereign
camp. Woodmen of the World, ut
Memphis, +. A. Falkenburs of Denver
was elected sovereign adviser.
Reports have reached Santa Fe of an
outbreak of smallpox among the Jicar-
lila Apaclies in the Dulce sub-agency.
Agent Walpole Is on the ground IN
vestigating and directing the fight
against the disease.
At the coming municipal election
Rocky Ford will vote upon the propo-
sition Of issuing water bonds In the
sum of $1,000. for the purpose of tax.
ing on $1,000 seven per cent. bonds and
providing funds for the extension ana
Improvement of the water works.
The Colorado Supreme Court has de-
cided that stockholders in savings
banks operating under the laws Of
Colorado must consider themselves lia-
ble personally for double the amount
of their holdings and answerable TO the
depositors of the institution for that
amount.
The Cimarron mail driver reports
that Il prairie fire Is sweeping over
81 a. n.
try east OF Clayton. The adjoining
country was burned over few weeks
ago and the damage to the stock inter-
csts will be very great.
AS n rider to the appropriation bill,
the Arizona Legislature. previous TO
adjournment sine die. abolished all eX-
penditures for the National Guard.
The guard, which consists of ten we'll
equipped companies, with strength
of $40 men, will be at once dlsbanded.
Rev. Jonathan Wood has been grant
ed Il divorce in the County court at
Aspen. Rev. Wood has been pastor
of the Baptist church there FOR two
years past and both he and his wife
have been held in high esteem. Rev.
Wood alleged extreme cruelty and the
evidence showed the wife to be so in-
sancly Jealous that the jury thought
him justified In seeking divorce.
The Wyoming State Board of EIuali-
zation has raised the valuation upon
live stock for purposes of taxation thir'
ty per cent. over last years rates.
Range cattle are raised from Sl5 to SD
per head: range sheep from Sl.io 10
S2.25. and other classes of stock, en-
cepting horses, which are unchanged.
are raised in the same proportion. The
,..I,, Nt.tlI moron s,s
the assessed valuation of the state II
million dollars.
The United States grand jury at
Butte returned indictments against DR..
]. l.. Atkinson, surgeon; Charles Nc
Intire, irrigating engineer. and Frank
A, Hunter. clerk Mt the Fort Peck In
dian reservation, for soliciting CAM
pnign fund for the 1896 election. The
money is alleged to have been collect
cd on November 30. 1896. to help
make good deficit in the campaign
fund of the National Committee of the
Democratic party.
A Lcndvllc dispatch of the 10Th says:
The Rio Grande reached kokomo to-
day, and tomorrow morning VIII start
running passenger trains on the Blue
river branch on time. y train of freight
ears filled with supplies will also be
rushed into the town. The principal
food will be potatoes. flour. butter and
eggs. of which the town is padiy IN
need. This is the first of the blockad-
cd towns in that section of the country
to be opened up. they having been iso-
lated from the outer world for over two
months.
BY the terms of n contract signed In
Denver, the Wells-Fargo company Will
on May 1st place its service In opera
tion over the lines of the Colorado n
Southern railrond. BY this change
l,GOO miles of railroad service is added
to the Wells-Fargo system. thus super
seding the service of the Pacific EN-
press Company. and giving it n direct
connection with the northern and
southern lines controlled by 1t. The
wellS-Fargo company will retain all