Rocky Ford enterprise., 1904-12-16
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

Goth.
During the year ending November
50th Otero county spent 33.S23,5O in
caring for Its poor.
Lester Mclean. a prominent Den
yer lawyer. died suddenly on the night
OF December ith of heart disease.
Manual training departments are be-
inb established In many OF the larger
district schools throughout the state.
There Is a serious egg famine In the
Denver market and eggs have been re-
failing st thirty'nve to forty cents
dozen.
President Theodore Roosevelt car
ried the state OF Colorado by plural
ity OF 3$.5s2 votes. Four years ago
Bryan carried the state by 3o.G9t.
The Colorado 4 Northwestern is al
most into Eldora. and II Is officially
announced that the road will be com.
pieted and trains running TO Eldora by
Christmas day.
Edward 4. Gilman. superintendent
of the Silverton railroad. stated while
In Denver recently that the road
would be built over to Ourny during
the coming year.
Tho school at Marshall in Boulder
! county, has been closed because OF the
prevalence OF diphthcria- Marshall Is
q coal mining camp and Is inhabited
mostly by Italians.
John Hipp. state chairman of the
Prohibition party. was somewhat badly
injured on the 7th inst nt his home
In Denver by falling through q trap
doorway into tho cellar.
Four thousand one hundred men are
now employed In the MinneQun steel
works at Pueblo. and the force will
probably be increased to 1000 or more
during the next six months.
President Slocum and the trustees
Of Colorado College nt Colorado
Springs arc starting movement by
which they hope TO secure m cndow.
mcnt Of 100000 for the college.
A movement has bccn started In
Denver to arrange for m extensive
display Of electrical appliances dur.
ing tho convention Of tho National
Electric Light Association In June.
II IL stated at Pueblo that John d.
ID. Rockefeller intends to build homes
In tho Lake Mlnncqua reservation for
the steel workers. Of whom there viii
be q largo infux within tho next six
months.
Tho First National bank OF Arvada.
Colorado. has been authorized to begin
business. with $4,000 as capital.
George c. Swadicy Is president. A. II.
Barth vicc-prcsidcnt and ID. II. Stalcy
cashier.
The United States Weather Bureau
In Denver In to be the central point
OF a river and food signal service.
which will be established In New
Mexico. western Texas and southeast.
'srn Colorado.
The following new postmastcrs have
been appointed In Colorado: Arlo.
ldontcxuma county. Henry Wagner.
vice ]. n. Millspaush. resigned: Mesa.
Mesa county. Lee l.. Prcwitt. vice 7. 7.
Carr. removed.
W. W. womack. aged fifty.ninc
years. was seriously injured In an acci.
dent while Mt work In the Valley Forge
mine near Salina in Boulder county
few days ago. A piece OF rock fell and
fractured his skull.
In q quarrel over the sale Of some
chickens. which took place on the road
near Lttleton. December 9th. Simon
Miller was fatally stabbed by Elmer
Cobb. Tho ARRAY took place just In
the edge OF Jefferson county and Cobb
was taken TO the Jail Mt Golden.
Il Is claimed that one million pieces
OF mail matter. each telling about Colo.
rado and Denver, will be sent out to
boom the convention OF the National
Electric Light Association, which will
be held in Denver In June. Excursions
will be rup to different parts Of tho
state.
Judge Lindsey Of Denver has re.
ceived a personal letter from Presi.
dent Roosevelt, commencing the work
OF the Denver Juvenile Court and ask
ing him to come to Washington and
deliver an address on the work accom-.
p!Lshed by the court among the boys OF
Denver.
Francis Droney. who was elected
city clerk Of Salida fifteen years ago
and had served the city in that capac.
ity continuously since that time. pre-.
scented his resignation to the council
few days ago. He was forced to re-
sign on account OF i'll health and will
go to California to recuperate.
The sugar company now running a
beet road from the Colorado & South
ern track to the new town of Johns
town, east OF Berthoud, has begun
work on an extension of the road from
Johnstown to q point on the Colorado
& Southern about five miles north OF
Longmont. thus completing loop for
the road.
A systematic plan will be put in op-
Grafton by the Board of Charities and
Corrections of Denver county to re-
lieye the congested condition OF the
county poor farm. Nearly 200 pa
tients are there now. Many Of them
have been sent In from Pueblo, Gilpin
and other counties for care, and these
will be sent back.
Fire on the night OF December 9th
destroyed the engine house at the No.
5 shaft OF the Matchless mine at Lead.
Vile, causing a loss of about $4,000.
The Matchless Is one OF the bonanza