Rocky Ford enterprise., 1904-05-13
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

June sth will be commencement day
at Colorado College.
The May term of the federal court
in Denver opened May I'd. with Judge
HalleIl on the bsReh-
Rural free delivery service is or
dsred established June LIST a, Dolores.
MOnIszuma county. with one carrier.
The new electric railway az rTini'
dad is starting out with a large bnsi-
ness. thousands riting for pleasure on
Sunday.
Reports from all over the state
show that large amount Of Interest
~as eNiEeed in the school elections Of
May snd.
Mack KunIz. a noted pigeon faneier.
is preparing TO make carrier test
with sixteen pigeons from the Worlds
Fair TO Pueblo,
The track of the new Moftat rail
road has been laid TO a short distance
beyond Rollinsyiile. and tho ballastins
Is being completed as fast as may be-
When Governor Peabody got home
from the st. Louis Exposition he felt
50 good that he al once ordered tho
dome Of the state house To 1o illu.
minated.
man Of Boulder. dropped dead in his
stable on the mornis of May I'd. lilo
Was apparently an well as usual Just
befoT. his death.
Ex-senator Edward o. woicott and
Senator Henry ~. Teller both arrived
In Beaver ON tho 18th inst The former
mcr came from tho East to attend the
Republican state convention on the
9Th.
The ministers Of Denver. AT recent
netting OF the Ministerial Alliance.
passed resolutions dcprccatins Sun.
day funerals and saying that services
Mt the grave should bc omitted In such
cases.
The Colorado Federation OF woman'n
clubs will hold iis annual Convention
this year In Fort Collins from Octo-
bcr In, to 9Th. and tho Fort Collins In.
dies arc already making preparations
for i,s reception.
Postmaster L. c. Dana Of Colorado
Springs. tho newly elected president OF
tho PoHtmnstcrs' Association. has cx.
tended an invitation To tho letter car.
ricrs to meet with tho posimnatcrs. ut
Colorado Springs. on May 5o,h.
The Secretary of the Interior on
tho tth Inst. issued permits permitting
tho grazing Of $50 cattle and horses
in Pixies Peak forest reserve. and i.tsl
cattle and horscn In Plum Creek re-
serve during the comm. season.
The Fort Collins district made tho
banner ksIpmcnt Of lambs for the
Eastern market May End. when sew.
snty.iour ears were started for Chiea.
20 and river markets. The shipment
was divided between eighteen ship
pcra.
The Colorado Springs Chamber Of
Commerce asserts that ~itnin the
have located Mt the Springs. and that
past year about iifty wealthy families
the average amount Invested by them
In residence property has exceeded
$4,000.
sixteen striking miners. who had
been arrested by the military. wcrc
placed on Colorado a Southern
special train ut Trinidad May End and
taken south OF the New Mexico line.
where they were put off with orders
not to return.
The annual high school ora;oricnl
contest Of Colorado. Inauguratcd by
the State University. will take place
mt Boulder on the night OF May
18th. There will be eight speakers. On
the same day eight girls will read es-
says for prize.
The Western Unions now telegraph
line which Is being built from Omaha
to Los Angeles reached Denver May
End. II follows the Burlington from
Omaha to Denver. and will take tho
Santa Fc and the Denver and Rio
Graadc to the coast.
The third book issued by the Colo
RADIO Promotion and Publicity Commit
tee is entitled "Colorado-lts Gil
mate" It will be distributed where It
will do the most good. The City Coun-
ell OF Denver has Just appropriated
81 900 for the use OF the committee.
BY the burning of Hotel Turret Mt
Turret mining camp in Chaffee coun-
" on the night of May 5th. Raymond
Zook, n miner, was burned to death
and II. J. Gregory perhaps fatally
burned and suffocated. Six other men
who were In tho building barely es-
capped with their lives.
The summer school OF the University
OF Colorado at Boulder will be in ses-
sion from June Goth to July 3Oth, un-
der direction Of Prof. Fred b. X. Hell
lens. Instruction in all the depart
mcnts will be given by recognized spe-
cialists, brought together from lead
ing institutions of learning. East and
West.
While Mrs. Eva Parkinson, who
lives about six miles east Of Fort Col
lins. alarmed by break in the banks
of the Larimer and Weld canal. was
attempting to so to a neighbor's house
with her three small children on the
night of May I'd. the eldest. boy OF
nine, slipped into the swift current
and was carried away and drowned.
John Charles, supervising inspector
Indian bureau. now in Oklahoma, has
been ordered to Grand Junction. to
formulate plans and specifications for
the new mess hall at the Indian school.
Congress has appropriated $4,000.
There are other minor improvements
.a,, o,, tod nj Grand Junction which