Rocky Ford enterprise., 1903-05-29
COLORADO BRIEFS

The Boulder liverymen have effected
nn organization to establish and main
tain uniform prices.
Albert T.. Fife, aged thirty years. was
killed by lightning at his home. near
Beythoud. on the 10th inst
The annual convention of the State
Realty Association will be held in Pu-
eblo June 9th. 10Th and 18th.
The corporate existence OF the First
National bank of Idaho Springs has
been extended for twenty years.
James II. Smith. ex-labor commits
sioner. has accepted the managing edi-
torship OF the Durango Trades Jour
nal.
A number of tents have been erected
on the Health farm OF the Young
Mems Christian Association. near Den
Yer.
The election of delegates to frame
charter for the city and county OF
Denver will be held on Tuesday. June
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James ID. Gage. formerly county COM
missioner OF Montrose county. died AT
Montrose May 18th. at the age OF sixty
nine.
Nearly five thousand people attended
the formal opening of the new III Pnso
county court house at Colorado Springs
on the afternoon and night OF May lOth.
The census OF the school district
which includes Greeley and the coun-
Try districts within radius OF two and
n half miles, shows a school popula-
tlon OF .i2O.
The report OF the FL Paso county
grand jury charges that the police de-
partmcnt OF Colorado Springs has
piundered residents and robbed tour
lists, protecting the guilty.
An automobile coach service has
been iEauIurnted In Denver for the
purpose OF conveying visitors to points
of interest In the city. after the fash
Ion of the Seeing Denver cars.
An anonymous donor has made of n
gift OF 5000 to the Denver Real Es-
tate Exchange for the erection of nn
ornamental gateway at the Eighteenth
avenue entrance to City park In Den
yer.
Frederick vanderford. formerly of
Pueblo. where he belonged TO the
Plumbcrs' Union. committed suicide In
the s,ockynrds of the Union Pacific at
Henderson. east OF Denver. ON May ID.
Hc took morphine and died In convui-
slons.
yer was shipped To Philadelphia May
20th. and In less than two weeks II VIII
he hung In place ON the vessel. The
silver service will not he sent until
the ship In In commission and ready
to receive the sift.
The annual Strawberry day festival
Mt Gienwood Springs will be held this
year on June Goth. The day will In
cludc, besides the usual big free
strawberry feast. the features OF free
admission to the b!. swimming pool
and free open air dance In the even
ias.
Louis r. Block. the Denver business
man who killed II. II. Jones In
fisht In the formers Office Mt 1895
Champa street on September :. 1909.
has been sentenced To one year In
the county jail by Judge johnson of
the West Side criminal court This
was the limit of the law.
The board of the Colorado Chaiitau-
qua nj Bouidcr has received furniture
sufficient to accommodate ali guests
of the great hummer school. The aR-
HocIaiion has purchased outright s: 300
worth OF beds. cots and commodca.
Guaraniors OF the chnuiauqua fund
have advanced to the association the
money required TO mc.t this hill.
The largest mountain trout ever
seen In Trinidad was brought to the
city by II. Russell n few days ago.
The fish, which IL OF the spcckiod
variety. was caught May 18th in the
StpncwaIi country. II Ia thirty inches
In length and weighed 17t. pounds M
Il came from the water. snd 1iis
pounds dressed. Mr.. RaiHscii rafuscd
several offers Of IS for the sktn.
General William J. Palmer has In
creased his original gin of $4,000 for
n library for the State School for the
Deaf and blind at Colorado Springs. to
approximately $1,000. the additional
$1,000 being the means to acquire n
tract OF eight acres Immediately cast
of the school. near Willow street. The
land will be used as n playground. tho
two institutions to bc known respect
lively as Palmer field and Palmer IL
brary.
George II. Fravcrt. one of the iars-
es. and most successful hnit growers
on the wsE2 sl2pc. In writing to
s.. { -. yFs: The fruit
e. bot damaged in
y ~ ~ oSpcets of the
e 1 ~. +. ~ | = = ~ Nuns cherries