Rocky Ford enterprise., 1904-03-18
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

sahiked a city improvement sosioS.
A fne pair Of mountain lions have
teen shipped To the Worlds Fair ~
ST. Louis from New Castle.
Rural free delivery service has been
ordered at Manzanola. otsro county.
April 18th with one carrier.
The Denver team of the Western
Baseball League will be brought to-
gether IN Denyer. March .5th TO be-
gin practice.
The baseball season Is beginning
early this year. Already many match
games have been played in different
parts Of the state.
DIR. q. ii. Slower of Denver. is ex-
perimenting with radium in the tEeat-
ment OF cancer. with apparently good
results SO far as the trial has extended.
The two Grand Army posts al .Pueb-
10 have been consolidated under the
name Of Pueblo Post No. ). Depart
ment Of Colorado and Wyoming. u. A.
H.
The Pueblo Fire Department Is in
siallIng a new switchboard in its nfe
alarm telegraph system at cost OF
about 5000. Il will be thoroughly up
to-date.
The county assessors with the state
board OF equalization will hold n meet
ins In the state houhe on March Il To
discuss the assessment on state proper
" for the year.
IL is reported that the Steamboat
Springs Town Company has given an
option upon It's Interests In the town.
which include all the hot springs and
much other property.
A company from Kalamazoo. MIchl-
gan. has taken long lease on the
Manhattan Beach summer resort In
Denver and proposes to make cxten-
s!vc improvements
The corner stone OF the church
building OF the United Brethren
Church at Berthoud was laid March
18th. The new cdifco is To be con-
ftructed of red pressed brick and Is TO
cost about $4,000.
John c. Reagan OF Mcrino. Colorado.
has sold his ranch OF 10000 acres In Lo-
snn. Morgan and Washington counties
to the Coo & Sieadman Realty Com
pany and $. ID. Hanna OF Denver. the
price being 100000.
Al wedding celebration In Denver
where liquor was provided for the
guests, two fourtecn-ycar-old boys
stole In and took enough To become
drunk. which led to their arrest and
confinement In tho city jail.
The pipe line which supplies PrImcro.
IN Las AnimnA county. with water was
dynamited on tho night of the 18th
Inst. Just outside OF Sc.undo. There
was water enough on hand to supply
the place while the pipe was being re-
paired. 8
The new gymnasium of the Colorado
Agricultural College ut Fort Collins
was formally opened on the Sth Inst
The symnasium has n floor space OF
5sxs3 feet. with ceiling twcnty-onc
feet high. and ID cSccllently equipped
throughout.
The sum OF $4,000 Is bcqucathed to
the home for consumptitcs Mt Denver
by the will OF Sarah seheFmerhoFn:
daughter OF W. c. Schcrmcrhorn OF
Newport and New York. in her will re-
Gently filed for probate Mt Newport.
Rhode Island.
Jasper Hartley. fifty years OF age and
unmarried. committed suicide near
Brighton on the 9th inst by shooting
himself through the heart with shot
gun. The act is attributed to des-
pondency occasioned by incurnble
heart disease.
The Pueblo City Council grant
ed an extension of the franchise
OF the Pueblo and Interurban Railway
Company, which secured n franchise
about a gear ago to build and operate
q street railway along Mesa avenue
and other streets.
Tho confessions OF six boys arrested
In Pueblo for petty larceny indicate
thnt gang numbering us many as thir-
. Ave. hnr hoc hapn
time in plundering vacant houses OF
lead pipe. gas fixtures, etc. which they
sold to junk dealers.
A movement is on foot to organize
a Young Mems Christian Association in
Boulder and erect building. State
Secretary Bilheimer advises that no de-
cisive action shall be taken until the
money is in sight for n 100000 building
and $500 n year for expenses.
Owing to the shutting down of the
Colorado Fuel & Iron CSmpany's plant
Mt Pueblo the Moffat road has been
compelled to purchase n considerable
amount of steel rails in the East
which were brought out in 100 coal
cars recently bought for the new line.
The American Benevolent Associa-
ton. under the control OF the Christian
church, is making preparations to COM
mence at once the erection of the first
cottage in connection with the Or
phans' home to be built at Loveland.
Some time ago the association re-
ceived donation of 210 acres of choice
land about two miles west of Love
land, and plans have been maturing
for the erection OF cottages at an ex-
pense of about $4,000.
Colorado College is considering the
establishment of an experimental sta
ton for the practical exhibition of sci
entific irrigation during the early fall on
the fifteen-acre tract OF land south OF
Colorado Springs, when was secured
by Professor j. A. Betejeman before
his departure from the college. Nego-