Rocky Ford enterprise., 1902-01-03
COLORADO NOTES.

Adams returned to Pueblo December
2Sth from California. where they spent
some six or eight weeks.
Rural free delivery vill be esiab'
lished ut Brighton on the first Of Feb
rnry. The area covered II thirty.
eight square miles and 800 people VIII
be- served.
Tho postofice at Bolton. Arapahoe
county. has been moved to tho statc
line at Clugh. Cheyenne county. Kan
sas. Charles Il. Cottreil is named Ms
postmaster.
J.. +. Dyer. superintendent OF the city
schools OF Gunnison. was severely Ia
Jurcd by a bicycle accident December
10Th. but Will probably not be inca
paciated for work.
All the Ice In the Grand river nt
Fruitn went out December 21th-some-
thing very unusual. II was frozen To
a depth OF about six inches. but owing
to the continued warm weather broke
and went out.
The Boulder Fruit Growers Associn-
ton Is preparing to have u big state
convention In Boulder ON January 18th
and 10Th. A iine program is being mr.
ranged and wcll.post.d speakers ana
lecturers will be present.
The following agents OF the Colorado
Humane Society hnv. recently been np-
pointed: T.. Z. How and l.. y. Iayen-
der OF Telluride. Thomas Il. BELL OF
Denver. John W. ulli OF fampa and L.
X. Caldwell Of Pasosa Junction.
There have been nm unusual number
OF deaths from pneumonia In Denver
recently. People seem TO have gone
out without ovcrcoats and wraps on
account OF the bright weather. which
was much colder than II seemed.
Telephone poles are being received nt
Ainmosa for the new line to connect
Alnmosn and walscnburI. This line
will put Alamosa In t.lcphonlc conncc-
don with Pueblo. Colorado Springs,
Denver and other eastern and northern
points.
A large new furnace nt the Philndcl-
phin smcitcr. In Pueblo. Is practically
completed. making the twelfth OF the
new model. II is planned 10 replace NIL
the small furnaces. one OF the new
ones having a capacity equal TO two OF
tho old.
Robert Hnight. scycnty.nvc years
old. n Colorado pioneer. dropped dead
Mt the headquarters OF the Pioneer SO.
cicty In the Charles block. Denver. on
tho night OF Christmas. He had been
playing whist with old friends during
tho evening.
The Colorado Kennel Club has de-
cidcd to test the city ordinance In Dem
vcr which directs that license shall bc
collected from dogs kept In kennels In
the city limits. The club holds that
license should be collected only on dogs
allowed to run at large.
On the pay roll Of tho steel works Mt
Pueblo. December 2sth. when n count
wns made were the names OF $500 men
who worked on one or the other shift
during the twcn,y.four hours More
than 5000 OF these were engaged In tho
production OF iron and steel. Tho 9th.
crs were clerks and other office en-.
ploycs.
The custom house business Of Den.
yer Is increasing materially. The re-
ccipts for the last six months OF this
year. December estimated. were sos.
2SS1, an Increase OF S2J. .2GS.32 ovci
the same period for last year. The
number OF entries wcrc 523. m In
crease of 1iG.
The Board Of Directors Of the Fcsti.
val of Mountain and Plain met In Den.
yer December 2Sth and President
Monnsh appointed the following com.
mittccs for 1902: Finance. Jacob Fill
Illus, W. ]. Parkinson. G. II. Reynolds,
o. r. Bnur. G. Schirmcr. Property. 3.
NJ. Allen, +. C. Smutzer, G. NJ. Day.
Railway transportation, Charles III.
Reynolds. chairman: other members 10
be chosen later.
The Denver Real Estate Exchange
and the directors of the Festival of
Mountain and Plain are planning an
excursion in January TO FL Paso. Tex
ns, to attend the winter carnival which
Is held there from the 14th to the 18th.
The Santa Fc road has made a special
rate OF S2J for the round trip. and
enough persons will go, 1t is expected.
to enable the committee on arrange
ments to provide n special tain.
Flora L. Mcdonald. formerly of
Georgetown, but who had been in Dem
yer for some time, disappeared on
Monday, December 23d. and was found
dead in the lake at the City park on
Christmas day. Her father, brother
and sisters live In Georgetown and she
had been living with her brother-in-law
and sister. Mr.. and Mrs. George Dal-
gleish, in Denver. 1t is supposed to be
n case of suicide occasioned by de-
spondency.
At 2:15 o'clock on the morning Of De-
cember Both the floor of the press room
of the Evening Post on Curtis street in
Denver. caved In. precipitating n lot
of machinery into the cellar. A small
blaze followed the collapse. and the
fire department was summoned. The
damage, except to the machinery, is
nominal. No one was injured. In ad-
dition to the machinery. about 10000
supplements of the New Years edition,
stored in the room, were damaged.
A romantic ending to n case pending
in the County Court of Pueblo county
was announced December Goth by the
granting of n marriage license to Hen
ry w. Snider of Burlington, Iowa, and
Miss Imogene Hopkins, aged nineteen,
Of Carmen, Illinois. Less than n week