Rocky Ford enterprise., 1905-09-15
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

vIbitiuS SIippic StNcA.
Governor Mcdonald has made an
order that the state house offces may
be closed at noon every Saturday dur
Ing the year.
Rev. Henry J. c. Geriand. pastor OF
the German Evangelical Lutheran
church ON Evans avenue, died on the
9Th inst.
W. Van Austen Of Crested Butte.
who marched In the Grand Army pa
rade ut Denver. Ii past eighty'three
years OF age.
Victor was pretty badly flooded by
an electric storm on the night OF the
9Th inst. There was u heavy fall OF
both rain and hail.
Gilbert McCiurg has been employed
by Denver business men to give
twenty lectures on Colorado Al the
Portland exposition.
The success OF the recent Harvest
Day festival at Greeley has resulted
In the formation OF an organization to
make II an annual anair.
Mayor Connor of Cripple Creek ap-
pointed committee Of 500 citizens TO
entertain tho visiting members Of the
Grand Army OF the Republic.
James Alvord. q miner working the
Mammoth shaft at Leadville. was
killed on the 9Th Inst. by the falling OF
. rock from car above him.
The City Council OF Colorado Springs
Appropriated $500 for the entertain.
ment OF visiting G. A. r. veterans and
the citizens raised 1900 more.
Prizes have been awarded to chill
dren. schools and organizations for
successful competition In raising now.
ers and vegetables the past summer.
Major +. + Footc. q. A. II. veteran
and pioneer resident OF FL Puso county.
fell down an elevator shaft ut Colofndo
Springs on the I'd inst. and suffered
fracture OF the left thigh.
Dean Richardson of the Harvard
Medical school has notified the author
itics OF Colorado college that work
done In the college will bc accepted In
the Harvard Medical scaool.
Walter @. Bradshaw. who was en-.
ploycd ut tho J. q. Reynolds livery.
was struck by lightning and killed ON
the 9Th inst. while walking on East
Moreno street In Colorado Springs
W. II. Tabor. for several years head
Of the police department ut Florence.
died ut Folsom. New Mexico. on the
9th inst. OF stranguiation OF the gall
duct. Hc was forty.four years OF age.
Gen. A. J. Sampson, formerly of
Colorado and now envoy extraordinary
and minister plcnipotcnt!nry for tho
United States to Ecuador. was present
ut tho Grand Army cncampmcnt In
Denver.
Lightning struck the engine room OF
tho Pueblo ChIcftnn on the morning OF
tho LIST Inst. and filled the composing
and editorial rooms with smoke from
burning fuses. but the blaze was soon
cxtlnguishcd.
The South Cheyenne Canon com.
pany mt Colorado Springs offers to re.
ducc It's admission charges from so
cents to 25 cents II the city Will grant
franchise for trolley limo 10 the
entrance gate.
a run OF tho Denver hre department
on Fourteenth street. with red fire and
Roman candle accomplishments, was
ono OF the most striking features OF
the entertainments offered TO the
Grand Army visitors ut Denver.
The annual report OF Commissioner
of Pensions Warner shows that on
June 30, 1905. there were. on the pen.
sion rolls S,iSi residents OF Colorado.
who, during the fiscal year ended June
30;h, drew pensions agsrcgating si..
1914 ,io2.
The application of o. II. Shoup OF
Colorado Springs. Max Buchanan, j.
l.. Warren, ]. II Mckinnle, A. J. Ben
die and v. z. Reed to organize the
American National Bank Of Alamosa.
Colorado, with S50, 900 capital, has been
approved by the comptroller OF the
currency and the bank authorized to
commence business.
At Durango on the Sth inst. Judge
Russell sentenced Robert ]. Taylor to
not hess than three years nor more
than Ave years in the penitentiary and
Mrs May Wilson to not less than two
years nor more than three for the
crime of robbery. Taylor and Mrs.
Wilson last June held up F. ]. Parker
and took s25 from him.
The second annual fair Of Mesa
county, September 18th to 22d inclu.
sive, promises to surpass all other
events of n similar nature held AZ
Grand Junction. There will be horse
and bicycle races, baseball and trap
shooting. There will be increased
prizes on fruits, farm products and
! stock.
The first section OF n Santa Fe west
bound passenger train was wrecked
one.half mile east of Boone, twenty
miles east OF Pueblo. Monday after
| noon. Eight or nine persons were in.
dured, but the railway officials claim
that their injuries were slight in every
case except two, and those will soon
| recover.
When Wilford Howard was dis
charged from Jail at Trinidad on the
Sth inst, after thirty days conflne.
! ment, he was again arrested and tried
for the same offense. being given sixty
days more. He was n deputy game
warden and 1t is alleged that he ex.
torted money from unsophisticated
persons whom he found hunting with
| out licenses.