Rocky Ford enterprise., 1904-02-05
COLORADO BRIEFS.


typhoid fever epidemic has begun TO
abate.
The Burlington railroad is testing the
value OF northern Colorado Ignite coal
for use in Its locomotives.
Emmett Fox has been appointed
regular and Bessie Howe substitute
rural carrier at Fort Collins.
Additional rural free delivery service
has been ordered established March list.
at La Junta. with one carrier.
The next annual meeting OF the Colo
RADIO State Federation of Homen's
Clubs will be held at Fort Collins next
October.
Arthur Casady. aged ten. son OF
Harry Cassidy. treasurer OF the Colo
rado Commission TO the Worlds Fair.
died at Boulder. February LIST. OF
diphtheria.
A Leatlville dispatch of January 10th
quotes DR.. Mcdowell q; the State
Board OF health as saying that the ty-
phoid fever epidemic IL practically over
in Leadville,
The commissioner OF patents reports
to Congress that I0i patents and de-
signs We're granted to Colorado people
kduring 1908. this being one for every
1886 people.
The ownership of the Denver and
Kansas City Baseball Club franchises
in the Western League by George Te-
beau was recognized by the league at
Its recent meeting In Chicago.
| The Colorado a. Southern Railway
Company has had 1900 trout fry de-
| posted In the Platte river Mt Bailey.
| Tne trout are six inches long and Will
| bc u good size to catch when the fish
Ing season opens.
Joseph l.. Bailey. n prominent Dem
yer pioneer. for long time well known
throughout the state as proprietor of
the Bailey corral ON Sixteenth street.
died ut his home In Denver February
LIST. In the SiSty-nin;h year OF his age.
Mrs. Arviila Meckcr Of Greeley. Wild
ow OF y. e. Meeker. is recoverin. from
severe attack of pneumonia. She Is
ninety years old and Il was fearci iha;
she would not be strong enough TO
overcome the disease.
The trial OF Newton Andrews and
Charles Peters. charged with the MIR
| der OF Mrs. Amanda Yonnsbiood. was
begun In the West Side Court at Den
yaE. January 18th. II ~as. drcided that
Arnold should be tried separately.
Charles peail of the confectionery
committed suicide January 18th by
shooting himself through the stomach
with shotgun. The deed IL attributed
To despondcLcy ocras!cn-d BY ~
health.
Upon the advice of Attorney y. ~.
! Campbell. the members ot Company q
Of the National Guard st Pueblo de-
cided To make one more plea To Gov
-rnor Peabody for n settlement of their
claims before insii'n'inE suit against
the state.
Eight hundred students have been
enrolled In the Stale Normal School ai
! Greeley this year. Of whom In' are In
the normal department proper. COM
posed Of high school and college grad.
uates. Who arc studying the art OF
| teaching.
The religious census taken by the
united effort af the churches shows
fiosca.c To have i.o.o families. i.vci
people and religious population "t
about i..pp. Th-sr religious people arr
considered thusr directly connected
with churches "f some denomination.
Mr. Dallas J. Osborne. a pEoniasa;
ranchmsn and wool man from las We
sas. Scw Mexico. has purchased a tract
Of land adiutninE the Union stock
Ing to build an extensive wool.srouE.
ias plant. The building will tr iscxic
feet in sire and tso stories in height.
| and Is to he completed by May is'.
An electric light wire which ~as
blown down by the wind storm In
Denver February ist cccasloued the
death Of two young men. Charles
Ormsby and William Daniel. shn sim.
ultan.uiisiy took hold Of u to remove II.
orusby lived with his father and
/ mother in Denver and Daniel had re-
Gently came from Batter. Missouri.
Joseph J. c. woolco,. who died at
Denver January 5ist. ~as probably the
lagos, man in the state. his weight be-
Ing nearly ipo rounds. lie was vet
rtan III the Civil war and at slse time
uf his death had charge uf the Or
tsutio fats Mr. wcolcos was Hye
feet ten inches in height ami Of enur-
nous EiTth. lie weighed about 800
pounds.
Attorney General Hughes for the
DravCr a Northwestern appeared in
the federal court January 2sth and iu-
formed Judge tiailrtt that the court or
der compelling his road TO restore the
/ takcUuci roads tracks at Golden had
been complied with. Aitornet Hughes
then asked for permission to Gle pc
,itiun asking TiEht-uf-vay through
: Golden for the new toad.
The tsp.muuths'uld bpy uT Alhart
Bussr. a farmer living i've miles south
ives, Of Greeley. was accidentally shot
/ ard Killed on .thp lat inst. by Frank
| Williams who was ;hree-duarters Of a
mile distant and out uf sight of the
house in which the infant lay. Williams
/ shot at a coyote with steel-bure Ne
| ~ Savage rife and the hail was defect
| cd upward and went ON to hit the child
| in its cradle.
David c. Coates. rS-lieutsnant COVER
/ nor Of Colorado and first vice president
uf the American l.abor Union. Is now