Rocky Ford enterprise., 1903-02-27
COLORADO BRIEFS.

General Funston and his aide. Lieu
tenant Burton Mitchell. will leave
Denver for Vancouver barracks.
March Z.
The present bonded Indebtedness of
the city OF Denver is sl.i3l.Gls. OF
which amount $4,000 will be paid
during this year.
II was cod day when St. Valcntine
came to Colorado. Even Cupid mtist
have suffered unless he changed his
sarb and wore an oyereoat.
President Roosevelt has accepted the
Invitation OF the Deayer Chamber or
Commerce To visit Denver during his
coming western "trip in the spring.
The Lake Minnequa Park and
Amusement Company at Pueblo Is pre-
pairing To establish IA pleasure resort at
Lake Minnequa and build a $4,000 the
ater.
Several of the big department stores
OF Denver have adopted the .isht-hour
system for their employees. keeping
their stores open only from $3.50 u. III.
10 $3.50 y. III.
Twenty horses were burned to death
In IRE which destroyed the stables
OF the Continental oil company In
Denver on the night of Feb. 18th. The
entire loss was about $4,000.
Col. II. n. ChI,tenden OF Denver.
veteran OF the Civil War. who was well
known in business circles and had
many friends throughout the state.
died February 18th at the age OF sixty
one.
.sank II Stockton. boy fourteen
years old. died In Denver on February
18th OF n disease pronounced by one
OF his physicians TO be hydrophoblE.
lie was bitten by shepherd puppy
November 2Sth.
The Park Center Land and Water
company has bought all the water
iiowin. from the mouth OF the Cripple
Creek drainage tunnel and Will Use IL
to irriFatc n large tract Of land south
OF Canon City.
Rev. Marvin a. RAIDER. the young.
active and popular pastor of Grace VI.
l.. Church. Dcnver. has resigned to
accept IA missionary appointment In
the Philippines and will sail from San
Francisco April 18th.
The house judiciary committee hns
brought In u report csoncrnting Judge
William T.. Seeds Of the Fourth Judi
cinl District from the charges on which
his Impeachment was sought. The
committee recommends that the
charges bc dismissed and ail proceed
ingA In relation to them cSpunscd
from the record Of the house.
On the night of February 10th a doc
tor was held up and robbed of sl5:
ON Champa street In the very heart
Of Denver. II was before midnight and
several persons passed while he was
hal t,, tai IN a.
two men. who threatened to Kill him II
he called for help. The Little Emma
saloon. In the lower part OF the city.
was robbed the same night.
The total number OF deaths In Colo
rado during the month Of January. as
shown by the report OF the State Board
of Health was $50: total number OF
still births. twcnty-thrcc: estimated
population. 5Gi .i3G: annual death rate
per 1000. cScludin. all still births.
i7.t1: deaths from diphth.ria durin.
the month. twelve: from scarlet fever.
seven: from typhoid fever. twenty
, three.
ID, f. Scwcomb Of In lara. special
agent of the Humane society. sold 1:3
head OF wild Texas ponies ut Alnmosa.
Feb. 10th. getting for the first car
load sG.c5 per head: second. $40:
third. $40. and the balance. $40. or
these les head were sold for the own
crs. So far Agent Ncwcomb has sold
1000 head of these ponies. and thcrd
are probably 1000 head still runninb
wild In the San Luis valley. Five
hundred more are reported to be In tho
pinon hills around La veta. Many
horses are snid to be suffering in tho
Snow near Crecdc.
According to the monthly bulletin
issued by the State Board OF Health
for the month Of January there was
n decrease OF diphthcria cases last
month rs compared with December.
the number being forty-threc less.
There was an Increase Of scarlet fever
cases rs well rs smallpox cases. The
decrease OF typhoid fever cases was
lO7. The bulletin states that the quar-
antinc period for smallpox cases has
than four weeks from the beginning
OF the eruption. and in any case not
less than ten days after scaling Is
completed.
The eighth state conference OF Char
tiles and Corrections Will be held in
Denver March LIST. 2nd and 3rd. The
subject of all the sessions. four in
number, will be child-saving. Every
estcd In helping the little children. II
ia hoped that all will prove their in
terest by attending the conference ses-
sions and by making suggestions rs to
what should be done for the preven-
ton of juvenile delinquency. the care
OF dependent children. and child labor
The governor, the mayor. the presi-
dent of the conference and other
prominent persons will open the con-
ference at the First Congregational
church. Sunday evening. March list.
Monday evening the legislators will
receive the delegates and the public.
and listen to pleas of the institutions
for which appropriations are needed.
as well as to addresses by good speak
ers. Two sessions. Monday and Tues
day mornings. will. through the cour-
tesy of the Woman's Club, be held in
its auditorium.
The Colorado Springs City Council
has decided TO issue bonds amounting
to s459. 900, ALL but $4,000 being for
the Improvement of the Seven Lakes
reservoir system. The latter sum will
be expended in extra contracts for the
new city hall building.
A Rio Grande engine jumped the