Rocky Ford enterprise., 1904-02-26
COLORADO BRIEFS.

The summer school OF the State Nor
nal school at Greeley will begin June
l4th and continue until July 22d.
| According to the report OF Orchard
Inspector Smith. Larimer county last
year produced 3l50.000 worth OF fruit.
The new Protestant hospital at Colo
rado Springs will be called the Deacon's
hospital. II was formerly the Bellevue
sanitarium.
! George Waybright. deputy city mar
shal at Hastings. was assaulted and
badly injured by striking Italian min.
ers at Aguilar February goth.
An attempt to change the date OF
the meeting OF the Republican State
| Central Committee did not succeed. II
will be April I'd. as at first announced.
Two hundred lawyers were present
mt the annual banquet OF the Denver
Bar Association on the night OF Feb
ruary goth ut the Brown Palace hotel.
A new hotel. n $35. 600 opera house. n
Carnegie library and possibly new city
hall. are among the buildings that
Trinidad expects to see finished this
year.
The careful enforcement of the game
laws during the last few years is grad
ually making Colorado great quail
state. whereas formerly there were but
few quail here.
Pueblo Is to have an open air am
| phitheatcr at the corner OF Sixth and
Main streets that will seat 1000 people.
IL is proposed TO complete the structure
! by June list.
The Colorado Springs Y. n. c. a.
has received check for $500 from
Rev. d. Stewart Dodge. n New York
fat IA laA h.. q
Indebtedness OF the organization.
Dr. Sol RinsoislSy OF Denver has ae-
ccpted the terms OF the Salida Cit.
Council and has agreed to install n rub
bcr plant In the Salida creamery build
Ing. The plant is to be ready for ope-
ration within thirty days.
Samuel RauSh. one of tho principal
ranch and horse owners OF the Platte
valley. died Mt Brush. February 18th.
He was the owner OF the NH brand.
and had been n resident OF this valley
for over thir'y-nvc years.
Under the direction OF DR.. Wallace
Il. Struble OF Chicago. international
lecturer OF the American Anu-ciIarc;tc
League. n crusade has been inausurutcd
In Colorado against the smoking OF ci-
.urcttes by school children.
Mabel Joseph. thrcc-ycarold dau.h.
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. I. ". Joseph of
Pueblo. died February 18th Ms the re.
suit OF burns received u few days be-
fore. Her clothing caught FIRE while
playing near n nrc In an alley.
In the District Court Mt waiscnburs
February 18th Judge Sorthcutt SEN
fenced Henry Crumblcy TO the pcnitrsi-
| tiary for from two To Ave years for
arson. Last October crumblcy set firc
To n barn nt La vcta belonging TO
Charles Martin.
The Pueblo City Council has added
$500 to tho $500 already given by the
county commissioners for the purpose
OF dcfrayin. the expense OF construct
ing n relief map OF the Arkansas val
ley. which will be shown ut tho ST.
Louis exposition.
Judge Voorhees,. In tho D.stric;
Court nj Pueblo. condemned attaches
OF the shcrln's once and police de.
par,mcnt for permitting the Increase
OF houses Of III rcpu,c and saloons of
n questionable. character in certain dis
tricts OF the city.
". A. Saviilc. United States mcchan-
icai engineer. has come TO Denver to
assume charge OF the mechanical equip
mcnt OF the new mint. Under his d.
for the electric lighting. heating. etc.
of the building will begin at once.
Tunnel No. s on the MoiYat line Ia
about completed. II is thirty miles
from Denver and IL -: feet In length.
being one of the sirrt long tunnels on
the road. This will make the eighth
tunnel finished. the track having al
| ready been laid through seven Of them.
An examination OF tho registration
books at the University OF Colorado
shows that there arc 40 students from
Denver now attending the state univer-
atty. In other words. n little more than
twenty per cent. of the students now In
the university come from the capitol
city.
Two Methodist ministers who for
mcrly lived in Denver and who have
many friends in Colorado. are now In
Korea and some concern IL felt as to
their safety. They are Rev. Phillip
Gillette and Rev. ". Il. McGill. the lat
ter a graduate OF tS,c ilifr School OF
| Theology.
Pa, Dcrmott. one of the pioneers Of
+, Cripple Greek. who was credited with
having been The locator OF the Last
Dollar mine. was found dead in his
| cabin at Independence on Tuesday, the
10th inst. He had not been seen since
Saturday and II is supposed that he
died Sunday.
BY the report of the committee ap-
pointed to audit the Pueblo county
trcasurer's books 1t was shown that
William d. Moore. n clerk In tie treas
urer's office. was $1,000 short In his ac-
counts. The committee recommended
that no prosecution be made. as the
friends OF MIR. Moore will make good
| the amount.
Jean Mignolet. the Belgium consul in
| Denver. has been notified by his gov
ernment to request the mine owners
| and the state OF Colorado to make an
| extensive exhibit at n worlds eSposi-
tion to be held at IieEc HplEium in