Rocky Ford enterprise., 1904-03-11
COLORADO BRIEFS.

sus of the city next month.
At Durango on the 9th inst. Ben
Beatty. a fourteen'year-old boy. Tell
over cliff on the mountain above the
smelter and was instantly killed
District Attorney Trowbridge at
Cripple Greek has nolled the remain
ing cases against Sherman Parker and
Thomas Foster for train wrecking.
A large and characteristic education
al exhibit Is being prepared AT the
University of Colorado to be displayed
at the 81. Louis Exposition next SUM
nier.
The new 3G5. 900 addition TO St Fran
cis's hospital at Colorado Springs Will
be formally opened with appropriate
exercises on April 18th. The equip
ment will bring the total cost TO $ioV.-
900.
The Denver Horse Chow Association
has decided not hold a horse show this
year on account OF the Worries Fair.
The finances of the association are IN
good shape. there being $4,000 In the
treasury.
The option given to Pueblo parties
six weeks ago ON the Colorado Springs
Western League baseball team expired
March LIST and the team Will remain al
the Springs. Players have been ordered
to report on March 2ist.
A great wind and dust storm ragged
March End all the way from Cheyenne.
Wyoming. down to Trinidad. Colorado.
II was fearfully bad at Denver. Colo
RADIO Springs and Pueblo. Al Colorado
Springs the wind reached velocity
OF sixty-siS miles an hour.
John Hawthorne. who shot and
killed Merritt a. Scott at Meridcth. In
Pitkin county. March 18th. waived
preliminary examination and was
bound over to the District Court. He
was admitted to bail. ns appearances
seemed to Indicate that he shot In self
defense.
The big steel bridge OF the Trinidad
electric railroad across the Las Animas
river. just above Jansen has been nm
ifhcd and accepted from the contract
ors by the company. All Of the thirty
two trcstics and small bridges on the
limo between Trinidad and Sopris and
Starkyiile have been completed.
The Overland cotton mills Mt Denver
were started up on the 9Th Inst. with
a force OF twenty Ave men for the pur-
pose Of finishing up the cloth left In the
looms when the works closed for want
OF coal last fall. When this work II
done. and Il will only last u Few weeks.
II Is expected that the mills will be per-
mancntly closed.
On March End n firc near Glcnmorc
lake, about two miles west OF Pine
Grove, In the Platte canon. burned all
tho buildings on the Maui ranch. IN
Guiding hay. buH1ics. wagons and farm
implements. St. Marks church In
Denver had nm option on the rancl,
for use In connection with their sum
mcr home.
1t In reported that Rev. c. ". Bride
well. the cx-prcachcr who gave street
sermons In Denver and other towns
Of Colorado since he was relieved OF
regular charges by his church. was re-
Gently tnrrcd and fcathcrca Mt Bride
well. Montana. where he was accused
of preaching doctrines calculated to in-
ducc wives to leave their husbands.
Lulu Adams. who sho, and killed r.
II. King. Jr.. few days since. was
given preliminary hearing at La
Jun,a before Judge Clark and bound
over to tho District Court In the sum
of s.. 600. in default of which she was
remanded TO the county jail. there to
nwait the convcning Of the District
Court. the second Monday In June.
Colonel W. W. Ferguson. custodian
Of the war relic department Mt the
state house In Denver. who was SO Sc
riously injured in street car accident
December End. is now able to visit the
museum occasionally and keep track OF
things. He has some slight use OF his
left arm. which was broken In three
places, but the right arm. which was
fractured In fiye different places. ts still
carried in n sling.
David Il. Stotler OF Fort Lup;on
has been appointed by Governor Pea
body to the State Board OF Horticul
turc to ill the vacancy caused by the
removal OF the former Incumbent. s. a,
Smith. who has left the state. Mr.
Stoticr. who IL n practical fruit grower
will have supervision over district No
/. comprising Larimcr. Weld. Morgan
Logan. Washington. Sedgwick. Phil
lips. Yuma. Grand and Routt counties
A large storage reservoir will be
constructed in Sedgwick county durinE
the next few months by Greeley and
Denver capitalists at an estimated cost
OF about 100000. The reservoir site
Is located on the range line between
Sedgwick and Logan counties and Is
known as the Jumbo site. II covers
100 acres of land and will have n
capacity OF 1900. 100000 cubic feet. q
sufficient volume OF water to irrigate
%. 900 acres OF land.
Attorney John NJ. Glover. who resist
ed arrest at Cripple Creek, has filed
suit in the District Court. In which
Governor James II. Peabody. Colonel
Verdeckberg. and every known mine
manager and mining corporation rep
resented in the Mine Owners and Op
orators Association. as well as its Of
ficers. and Nelson Franklin. are named
as defendants. He sues for S15O,O0C
damages for alleged mistreatment. In
juries to his character, etc.
Two thousand rainbow trout were
transferred from the Denver hatchery