Rocky Ford enterprise., 1904-08-05
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

| OF Denver. has voted TO incorporate.
The Santa Fe depot at Fowler was
destroyed by fire on the night OF July
27th.
| Hereafter sheriff Clarke of Las Ami
mas county will run down criminals
with a first class automobile.
Up TO July 26th the secretary OF the
| fish and game commission OF Colorado
at Denver had issued l.7i0 hunting
| permits this year.
Harry u. Mulnix has been given
contract to audit the county books OF
Pueblo county. for which service he
Is to be paid Sl.+3o.
President Meyer OF the Western Fed.
Grafton OF Miners says that the coop
erative stores at Cripple Greek and
Victor will be reopened for business.
II is estimated that there is now
over 5.O00.000.000 cubic feet OF
stored water In the Poudre valley
available for the maturing Ct crops
this season.
Gus White. the S.year.oid son OF G.
A. White. q fruit dealer Of Pueblo. ran
away q few days ago and was neard
from three days later At Great Ssils.
Montana.
Thomas Clark has offered q reward
OF s25 for Information leading to the
arrest OF the parties who dynamitcd
his fish pond near Longmont and
killed u wagon load OF nsh.
The fall circuit OF the Arkansas val.
Icy Racing Association will hold races
In Leadvillo for three days. August IL.
IL and IL. under the auspices OF the
new Leadville Racing Association.
John Alexander Dowic has been
sending large quantities OF Zion City
literature to Pueblo and people are
wondering II he ID not coming out In
person to try to capture the town.
A haIistorm July 26th between Or
chard and Weldon. In tho western
part OF Morgan county. did consider
able damage. In some places chick.
ems. pigs. sheep and calves were
killed.
Eugene W. Holmes was burned to
death Mt Pagosa Springs July 22nd. In
u hrc that destroyed Gaylord 4 Gar
wins saloon. Holmes was about hfty-
ilvo years old aid had been at the
Springs nbou: thres years.
A. d. Hall. farmer living near
Sterling. was Killed July e7th while
passing from ono part OF his farm TO
another upon tho Burlington track.
stepping In front o. n train that he
failed to see.
Among tho successful Colorado
drawers OF land In the Rosebud rcser-
vntion In South Dakota are Charles W.
Meyer OF Denver. W, Il. Montgomery
Of Colorado Springs and John ID. Coop.
or OF Colorado City.
Walter wciimnn. representing the
New York Heraid. the Chicago Record
Herald and the Philadelphia Press. one
OF tho best.known newspaper men OF
tho country, has been looking into nf-
fairs at Cripple Creek.
Tho employees OF Denver dry goods
establishment gave nm excursion on
the Moffat road a few days ago In
which over 1.eo0 people are said to
have participated. The new line In
proving highly popular.
Harry Hunter OF the Big Creek
ranch near Pearl. In Iarimcr county.
lassocd n big cinnamon bear near the
rnnch n few days ago. He afterwards
tied the bear. loaded him into the
wagon and took him to the ranch.
C. A. Rogers. n Silvcrton restaurant
keeper. was killed few days ago by
slipping from n mountain trail near
Gladstone and rolling down the noun
tain side for distance Of 325 feet. He
was on his way down to q mining
claim and his body was not found for
several days.
Willie Ennis. the tweivc-year-old
son oil +. J. Ennis. living eight miles
west of Fort Morgan. was instantly
killed by lightning on the night OF
July 25th while riding a horse on the
prairie. His horse and dog were also
killed and the three were found to-
gether later in the night.
Harry Davies. the Colorado snake
chnrmer. received his twenty-seventh
snake bite at Denver q few days ago.
He was only Just recovering from the
bite OF a Gila monster. This last nip
was from a Texas diamond.back rat
tier, but Davies doesn't mind little
thing like that.
DR.. r. d. Bancroft, who has been
in Colorado Springs for some time ne
gotiating for the construction OF
free home for consumptivcs. has Sc
cured an option on 110 acres directly
west OF the Portland mill in Colorado
City, and expects to commence actual
construction In the fall.
Earl Losey. the 1i-year-oId son Of
Charles A. Losey Of the Colorado
Springs Fire Department, ran away in
company with another boy a short
time ago and on July 25th word was
received that he was killed near Ozone
Junction. twenty-five miles west OF
Cheyenne, Wyoming, while trying to
steal a ride on a freight train.
To determine whether the rubber
plant can be profitably cultivated in
the lower Arkansas valley the Amer
lean Crude Rubber Company has en-
ployed a botanist from the State Ag-
ricultural College to conduct expert
ments. Pueblo people are interested
and the Business Mems Association
has numerous inquiries from eastern
investors.
President Boyle OF the Colorado
City Chamber of Commerce is inaug