Rocky Ford enterprise., 1902-01-31
COLORADO BRIEFS.

George u. Gum OF Golden committed
suicide ON the Goth.
Citizens OF DcBcGuc now use native
oil for lighting their houses.
/, 8. said that n syndicate Is to bore
for oil In Washington county.
A handsome new church was dcdicnt-
cd by the Prcsbytcrinns Mt Canon City
on tho 25th. II cost about $4,000.
Representative John G. Bell hns np-
pointed II. u. Zimmerman OF Colorado
Springs ms West Point cadet. and
Fred Carstnrphcn OF Pueblo Ms Alter
nate.
The Colorado Fuel & Iron Company
paid 100000 In wages In 1901. and
turned out n product. including 4.Ol3,-
$50 tons of coal and 55i.iiO tons OF
coke, OF about thirteen million dollars.
Another man has been arrested. sus-
pcctcd OF the murder Of Harold Frtd-
born. He was captured thirty miles
northwest OF Fort Collins. When ar
rested he tried TO shoot the officers and
then wounded himself.
The local union at Eric of the United
Mine Workers OF America has posted n
notice OF n special meeting for the pur-
pose OF Initiating all non-union miners
now ut work In the mines OF that camp.
This is to give the non-union men n
chance to Join before February 1st. as
after that date the union will demand
of the operators that none but union
men be employed.
Arthur i. Francis. secretary OF the
Cripple Creek Chamber OF Commerce,
has received letter from President
Trumbull OF the Colorado & Southern
railroad. thanking the chamber and
the business men for the interest dis
played In the building of the cutoff
from Denver to Cripple Creek. Mr..
Trumbull assured the secretary that
undoubtedly the road would be built
in the near future.
For the second time within four
months triplets have been born in Pu-
eblo county. On the 9th Mrs. Rosario
Mestas gave birth to three sons, whose
combined weight is twenty-one pounds.
She is the wife of an employe of the
Philadelphia smelter and lives Mt Salt
Creek, n Mexican settlement within q
short distance of Pueblo. The little
fellows are all well formed and
healthy, and the mother is reported to
be doing well.
Work on the construction of mon
ster packing plant, to be erected by
Denver capital. near the Denver Union
Stock Yards, will, 1t is now practically
settled, be commenced within the next
forty days. The company, which is
to include among its incorporators d
II. Mofrat of the First National bank
Charles Boettcher and d. G. Dodge OF
the National Bank of Commerce, and
other prominent Denver men, will prob
ably file its articles of incorpora.
tion within the next ten days, and
will begin on the plant.
The duplicate train order system re-
Gently adopted by the Chicago & Alton
may soon be adopted by Colorado rail
roads. The Denver & Rio Grande is
the first road in this stnte to consider
it seriously. Under this system 1t is
said head-end collisions are impossible
Under the present system each train
receives an order to meet another nj
n certain station. These orders were
sent to the trains far from the meeting
place. When the train crew misinter-
preted the order n wreck was the re-
suit. Under the new system. the or
ders are duplicated and sent to the
operator at the point Mt which the
trains are to meet. He holds either
train until the other arrives