Rocky Ford enterprise., 1901-10-25
COLORADO NOTES.

IL Ii said that the leaders OF the state
hbor organizations are arranging To
nhlohizs the labOrcrs in the beet sugar
factories.
Thirty-ihrcc building permits have
been ISSUED since April LIST by the city
clerk OF LonsmOnt. nnd the estimated
cost OF their construction WAS placed
at ssbtOnp
Nearly II quarter OF million dollars
was distributed on the 18Th Instant mt
tile Minncpua steel works In Pueblo
nnlunE III" employees Of III. Institution
ana the men aHsnscd IN doing contract
work Ihcn-.
Carl WulSirn, Held director at Silver
GIN. l. 10 pr'parr. among other cShlb-
Its for the ~. Louis exposition. u plns.
ter "I paris model Of the volcanic rc-
sioh OF Custer county. ~ nn adjunct To
the mineral display.
The secretary of the interior has nf-
nrinci the action OF the general land
Office Diminishing the protest of James
e. Weller against the homestead entry
Of James :. Clark Of a tract In the
Mnniros" land district.
III" county commissioners of Pueblo
county have disposed of sixty tons OF
alfalfa. the product OF the poor farm.
nj SUI, ton. The hay crop has been
good nnd l. In a large measure helping
To- i"frly the expenses of the poor
farm.
4 new shipping station has been cs-
iablish-i two aud u half miles north
OF lOnsmont ON the Colorado Il South
rrn. 1, Il called Bocttclcr. in honor of
the president OF the Loyciand sugar
factory. and was put In for the accom-
mediation OF the beet ralscrs.
Lafayette puriscr. Denver man, l.
introducing his mining machinery Into
the far-awny mines Of South Africa.
He haS mnic application at Blocmfon.
tcln for u patent FOR motor-opcEhtcd
rock drilling engine. II Is called the
Dufkcc Lightning drill.
a contract has been awarded by the
county commissioners OF Teller coun-
~ for hospital and poor house. to he
b,llt ut broadway and Moynahnn ave-
nue.. In Cripple Creek. The contract
was let to Edwin Barrett. The build.
Ing viii lie two stories high and VIII
cost about $1,000.
John ID. iiuwlnnd's latest painting.
entitled The Coming Storm" which
has been ON exhibition ut Denver. has
been purchased by Edward Williams
Uf Central city. The painting repre-
scnts II herd Of buffalo milling" ON
the prairie for mutual protection
against an approaching storm.
The woudmcn OF the World. who are
2.OOD strong In Pueblo. are discussing
the project Of raising among them
selves u sum OF money sufficient to
purchase land aud erect handsome
Woodman building FOR the use OF the
various camps. The project will re-
quirc between $4,000 and SI3.ooo.
Or, 4. l.. Hazlctt OF Colorado City
sailed from san Francisco October 10th
for the Philippine islands, being one OF
the committee appointed by General
Macarthur to investigate the moral
conditions prevailing there. ON his re-
turn the committee will submit Its re-
port to the government.
Curator VIII c. Fcrril of the State
Historical and Natural History Society
has laid claim to the Lost Park buifalo.
He wants It for the state collection OF
which he Is curator. The animal. he
saws, property belongs to the state. ~
IL is valuable both from historical
and scientific standpoint.
. The recent purchase for $4,000 of
200 acrcs of land southwest of lvywild
by the International Realty Company.
which has assumed ownership OF pr'ic-
tically all of Stratton's real estate. re-
wives interest in the report that Mr..
Stratton and other Colorado Springs
pcoplc intend to build n big athletic
park in that vicinity.
Secretary Whitney of the Rocky
Mountain Smclter Company at Flor
cncc has uncarthed n relic In the shape
of n bulletin of the New York Mirror,
issued June IL. 1872, containing the
news that war had been declared
against England. The paper was found
bctwecn the leaves of an old Bible anu
is very well preserved.
In the District Court at Pueblo on
the 18th instant Mike Ryan was sen
fenced to not less than ten nor more
than twelve years in the pcnitentiary.
RYAN was found guilty of committing
an assault on Herman kujath with a
nick August 9th. He drove PICK
through Kujath's face while the lat
fer was sleeping at his home.
Hereafter the Colorado Springs High
cnhon1 cadets will drill with Winches-
tor rifles loaned the school by Adlutant
mud Superintcndcnt of Schools John
Dietrich called upon the adjutant gen
cral and put in n formal request FOR the
rifles. 1t was granted. as the state hau
, number which were not in use.
The contract for the work on the
now IongmOnt water system mas beeH
LOT 70 II. +. Mcdonald of Denver. Inc
contract includes only the work to be
1nne thc city having purchased the
nine for the twelve miles of the main
line. The price for the work was 80. 80.
600 Bv agreement Longmont labor
viii be used ns far as possible in the
work.
william Grant. miner employed In
+h, isabella mine in the Cripple Creek
district, had miraculous escape win
his life on that property a few days
nro He accidentally walked into the
.So .'hoft .t thc twelfth level and fell a
distance of 10 feet into the water ,oi
,ho sumn. thirty feet below the tliir-