Rocky Ford enterprise., 1903-09-18
COLORADO BRIEFS.

The new Dodge hotel az the corner
OF broadway and Seventeenth avenue,
Ia Denver. will be opened October LIST.
The Denver Lodge Of Eiks imported
clans and had clam bake on Labor
Day, II they had few clans they had
plenty Of sport.
North Park is prosperous this year
anu the people held big festival a,
Walden. September Tth, sth and sth. IN
the shape OF harvest home pienie.
The board of trustees Of the Denver
Public Library have elected William
u, Tebbetts as a member of the board
TO succeed the late Roger ". Wood
bury,
Charles r. Carter. superintendent OF
the schools of TaTsntine. Pa. for the
past three yeaTs has been elected pEih-
eipai OF the Greeley High sehoo. for
the ensuing yesE
The Golden smelter closed down
September ilth for an indefinite per
lod. The smployes were paid on aud
told that when they were again want
cd they would BE- notified.
Cold weather msTE-d the Labor Day
celebration September .th at many OF
the mountain iONns. Th. fiTst heavy
fall Of snow oH the f.onl range was
viewed IRON beaver and other plains
points thar morning.
The Boulder county Democratic
convention adopted resolutions con
d-mnins the present calling out OF
troops to tbs Cripple Greek district BY
Governor Peabody and also the former
call Of troops to Colorado city.
District Organizer John G-hr OF the
unitsd Mine Workers Of America. re-
l ssGufty =. F.A fts tn La
Eaniration OF the miners in the TrinI-
dad district preliminary to the antici-
pai-d s'rlk. for an -isht-hour day. and
bl-mon'hly pay day.
Thomas W. Wright. who died at Sa-
Ida April i.ih Of typhoid fever at the
I age of thITty-ts0 yeaTs. had served ten
years In the United States navy and did
Important s-rylF" on beard the San
Francisco In cubaa waters during the
Spanish-AmsTican var.
Announcement Ia made that another
' evening daily paper will b. started In
Pueblo October 18th. Il II stated that
there ih plenty Of capital behind tn.
new entcrpris. and that the new paper
will re independent In politics Local
men will b. In charge.
| The town board Of Monument grant
ell n franchise to Thomas J. Chase to
maintain and oPcrat. water system
! for term Of hfiy years. Mr.. Chase
has number ut good sprlnsH ON his
ranch above the town and will build
reservoir 10 sore the water for tn.
system.
Council has decided tn recommend the
establishment, Of creamery Mt the
county poor farm. There are forty cows
ON the farm and II IL proposed to add
forty more. A creamery. together with
an Ice plant. can be built for about siv.-
900.
Dr. Arnold Stcimnn. one OF the old
est and most prominent physicians OF
/ Denver. waH operated on for appendi-
cI,iS Thursday September id. DR.. Sicd-
man IN EiSty-four years OF age. and
while he stood the operation well his
condition has awakened serious apprc-
hcnSionF.
Ground will soon be broken for the
new Episcopal cathedral in Denver. II
Will be situated on Capitol hill be-
tween Thirteenth and Fourteenth ave.
nu,s and Washington and Clarkson
streets. Only portion Of the building
will be erected at first at n cost OF
about $4,000.
The Colorado Equal Suffrage Asso-
1 VIII N'uNH
| versary November 7th. A meeting will
be held Mt the womnns Club building
in Denver and Invitations will be sent
to the officers OF the national society.
Mrs Carrie Chapman Gait. Mrs. Ellen
Shaw and Miss Susan Il. Anthony.
The Pueblo City Council has ratified
the appropriation Of $4,000 for park
district No. 9. With this money Carliic
park will be purchased and improved.
| II contains $50 acres, and Will be crea-
ted into the City park. The car lines
Will be extended to II. Drummer park
will receive part OF the appropria-
ton for Improvement
The Denver Republican correspond
ent at Rocky Ford says II Is the opin-
ion of cantaloupe buyers that the yield
for this year in the Arkansas valley
will fall from twenty-five to thirty five
per cent. below the yield OF last year.
The entire crop will probably not
amount to over 500 cars, while the ship
ments OF last year amounted to 500
cars.
During the last week OF September
there will be given by the colored citi-
zens of Denver Colorado students
benefit concert to assist fifty students
to receive an industrial education at
the Topeka Industrial institute, the
Western Tuskegee. at Topeka. Kansas.
Successful benefit concerts have al
ready been given in Colorado Springs
and Pueblo.
A letter received from Andrew Car
negie by the trustees of the Carnegie
library in Pueblo. announced that he
will give $4,000 additional to the $780,
600 already donated with which to COM
plete the building in process of con-
struction at Royal park. The offer is
made on condition that the City Coun-
ell increase the appropriation for
maintenance of the library.
Work or the new county road from
Loveland TO Estes park up the Thomp-
son river. was stopped September 18th
owing to the fact that most of the
force quit to go to work at the Love
land sugar factory. 1t will be continued
when workmen can be had. About
twenty miles of the road is already
completed and four miles remain TO
be done. The road has thus far cost
about $50, 900 and will require $4,000 to
complete.
The coroner's jury at Grand juno
tion on the death of Eben T. Massey
returned a verdict that "Eben r. Mas