Rocky Ford enterprise., 1902-12-26
COLORADO BRIEFS.

The poor report of Las Animas eoun-
~ shows thai the total cost OF main
tenanee during last year was ss.3It.-
IS.
The Slaves o! the Silver Serpent at
Denver will TeOfganizs and begin early
preparations for the next Festival OF
hountain and Plain.
George Ellis. aged tventy-four. com
mitted suicide at Seyadsyille on the
ic,h instant, shooting himself through
the head with rifle.
President Packard OF the Denver
baseball club promises 25-eeHt rate
OF admission 10 neAt years games IN
place OF So cents last year.
General William Booth. founder OF
the Salvation Army. had immense aa-
dienees during his recent visit TO Den-
Yer and Colorado Springs
An effort will be made in the next
Legislature To have Larimer county d.
Nided and a separate county made OUT
OF the North Park country.
The President ON the 18th sent to
the Senate the nomination OF q. >.
Mott for postmaster at Telluride aud
OF ID. w. Stone for postmaster al Trim
dad.
A Swedish association. of which
John y. HolmbsFg is president. has
been orsaniz1i in Denver for the puF-
pose OF erecting building TO serve
as headquarters for the SNedes OF the
state.
Pueblo is TO have fros factory. New
York capitalists having decided TO
build large plant nj cost OF $500. .Oco
for tho manufacture OF steel switches
and frogs for use GU all kinds OF rail-
ways.
Goyernor-eleet Peabody has an
nogneed that Ea will appoint John
Cleshorn to BE- warden OF III. state
P.nitentiary upon the expiration OF
the term OF Warden Martin next
March.
Judge Bailey OF Fremont county re.
fused the petition for a change OF
venue In the Denver Gas and Electric
Company case. sixty days time was
granted In which TO f!lc n bill OF ex-
eep,ions.
An imperfectly insulated inenndcS.
cent electric lamp caused the death OF
Joseph Enesmcicr 1t Denver on the
18th inst He stood on the damp noof
while turning on the light and u heavy
current passed through his body.
Senator Teller has made application.
In behalf OF Charles X. Allis. T. II.
Brown. u. T. Smith. q. ". Splitter and
wailae. Ha:eomb. for n charter FOR the
fint National Bank to be organized
at Castle Rock.
The Fourteenth. General Assembly OF
Colorado will convene In the capitol
building Mt Denver on Wednesday.
January Z. 1905. The governor will be
lnaugura,cd and all the ncwiy-clcctcd
state officers will assume their dutics
on the following Wednesday. January
18th.
william Z. pasmorc. Alexander ID.
Snodgrnss md Charles L. Chandler
have been appointed by Judge Lindsey
Mt Denver to appraisc the personal es-
tate Of the late Arthur l.. Collins. the
general manager OF the SmusSlcr-Un-
Ion Mining Company. assassinated No
vembcr 18th.
Gen. Geo. ". Cook. who went to
Buffalo. New York. to cndcavor To sc-
cure the next annual convention OF the
National Car Builders Association
for Colorado. did not succeed. but Dem
yer received the second highest vote
and may capture tho meeting next
year.
Arrangements were completed Do
vcmber 18th for football game nt
Denver on New Years Day between the
football team OF the Preparatory De-
partmcnt OF the University of Colorado
tBouider) and the team of 'he North
Division High School OF Hyde Park.
Chicago.
Work was commenced at the Colo
RADIO Packing Compnny's immense
new plnnt at Denver on the 10th in
ments are completed. will admit OF
killing and dressing 200 hogs an hour.
No part of the hog goes to waste cx-
cept his sausal.
The field notes of the recent surveys
on the Denver & Rio Grandc for the
proposed changes between Denver and
Pueblo are completed. and 1t is expect
ed that II the reports rs to grades and
curves are satisfactory the proposed
improvements will be ordered. The
changes will require an outlay of ST.
100000 or 100000.
An X-ray picture was introduced as
evidence in the District Court at Pu-
eblo in the case of Mrs. T. Humphrey.
who sued the city for 5000 damages.
owing to an injury sustained to her
right hip by falling into an excavation
on Elizabeth street in July. 1901. The
picture in question was taken to show
the existence of a fracture.
Under an order entered by Judge
Palmer in the District Court at Denver
the assigneeship of the Peoples Saw
ings bank will be terminated imme-
diately and Assignee Fermor ]. Spen-
Ger authorized to pay dividend of
eight per cent. The dividend will make
a total of the payment of the defunct
bank to its depositors of 9lk per cent.
According to the officers of the Col
orado Springs Mining Exchange, indi-
cations are that about 300 mining COM
panies operating in the Cripple Creek
district will cooperate in the suit to
be brought to fight the taxation of non
producing properties of Teller county
by Assessor Lysight The litigation
will be started about the first of the
years.
A report is published in some of the
Denver dailies that frauds perpetrated
in the Office of the county clerk of
.Arapahoe county deprived the Buck
lin land tax amendment of between e.
500 and $500 votes. If this can be
shown the Australasian Tax League 10
texpccted to institute vigorous meas