Rocky Ford enterprise., 1904-11-18
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

has Increased its capital stock from
so.vvv.vvo To slO.OoV.oVv To provide
larger working capital.
The day after election SHOW storm
was reported from many points In Col
orado. but IL Nas on the day before
that heaps OF candidates We're showed
under.
Justice OF the Peace Rice at Denver
broke the record by marrying three
couples In ten minutes ON the day alter
election. Perhaps they were paying
election bets,
One of the first things that Hon.
Aiva Adams did when he found that
he was probably elected governor Was
10 telegraph the news To his aged pa
rents at Pasadena. California.
The town OF Manitou is negotiating
with General Palmer for a lease on
Manitou Soda Springs park II il is SO
cured the park will be greatly iui
proved and made city park.
The remaining four bodies were
taken from the mine at Tercio on the
10th Inst. and taken To Trinidad fof
burial. The recovery Of these bodies
raises the loss OF life BY the explosion
To nineteen.
of the Colorado School OF Mines. has
become associate editor Of the Engi'
nsering and Mining Journal of SeS
York. with Mr. r. A. Wiekard. formerly
state scolosist OF Colorado.
Elmer Shceder OF Independence.
while pushing a car In the Pinkcrton
shaft. was disabled by strikin. his
head against a timber and forced by
tFt0 Nxh hs.Ys a. n
drowned In two feet OF water.
The once Of the weather bureau In
Denver has been removed from tho
federal building TO the fourth story OF
the Boston building. at Seventeenth
and Champa streets. where more CON
modiouk quarters have been secured.
The day after election Chief OF Po
licc Delaney started In to clear the
hobocs out Of Denver. This suggests
that possibly the campaign bossca had
NO further use for them and hastcncd
TO surrender them To tho tender mcr
cics OF tho cops"
Fred =. Whiting. proprietor OF drus
store on Humboldt street In Denver.
was held up on the night OF the 9Th
inst by n masked robbcr and robbed
Of SIZE In cash. Drug ntorcr and 81.
looms. being open nights. are the favor
Ito victims OF tho hold-up fraternity.
At the annual meeting of tho Y. ".
G. A. Of Colorado Springs Mrs. Mary
r. Hatch was reelected prcaidcnt. as
were nil the officers with one cxccp
ton. and iiity Of tho most prominent
society and charitable women OF the
city were chosen for tho board Of di.
rcctorE.
W. L. Pabor. an old.,Imc Colorado
editor and coionixcr. In Stili printing
the ''Pabor Like Pineapple" Mt Avon
Park poStoiiicc. De Soto county. Flor.
Ida 1t is published monthly and pre-.
hcn;s IN attractive and prosperous mp
pcaraHcc. The October number ls .
-Hpcclai Information" issue.
A robbor Snatchcd womnn's pock
ctbook on nm electric car Mt Crippl.
Creek and knocked down tho con
ductor after the latter had restored II
to the owner. Then the robbcr jumped
of the car near the Morning GLORY
switch. going over n procipico and
breaking his neck on the rocks. HIA
body was found later.
Two carloads of Las Animns county
burros were recently shipped by cx
press to San Francisco Mt which point
they will be loaded on n transport and
sent to the Philippines to be used as
pack animals for the army. The bur.
ros were purchased by Secretary Haw.
ley OF the State Agricultural College.
who acted rs n special agent for the
government.
Patents have been issued to Colo.
RADIO residents as follows: Milford T.
Goss, Denver, water tube boiler; Ed.
ward d. J. Hon. Colorado Springs.
water meter; Ephriam X. Hutchison,
Denver, damper regulator; Louis G..
Mayes. Greeley. metallic railway tie;
Joseph W. Stephens. Denver. coin re-
ceptacle; Swan +. Swanson, Pueblo.
dumping car.
The health department OF Colorado
Springs has mailed 1000 copies OF the
October health report. copies being
sent to all the delegates from foreign
countries who were the guests of the
United States government in st. Louis
at the tuberculosis congress and the
congress Of military surgeons. The
report is the best ever Issued from the
city. 1t shows n death rate, exclusive
of tuberculosis. of So per thousand, on
n basis Of 10000 population.
An orchard owned by w. s. Coburn.
president OF the State Board of Horti'
culture, has made record In Colorado
fruit this year. says n Denver daily.
The orchard is located at Hotchkiss.
and contains about thirty acres. Mr.
Coburn has already picked $500 boxes
of apples from the trees and is prepar.
ing to care for 1,500 more. 1t Is one
of the heaviest yields ever made by tho
orchard and establishes record in
that vicinity.
A sensational suicide occurred at
Tercio on the morning of the Sth inst,
when Harry Waters stood at the en-.
trance of No. 3 mine and blew the top
of his head off with a six-shooter. This
Is the mine in which nineteen people
lost their lives In an explosion. Waters
had been acting as n watchman about
the mine since that time. 1t Is sup.