Rocky Ford enterprise., 1905-04-21
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS


bankrupt Overland Cotton Mills Com
pany a. peayeE.
An elaborate system of brilliant
street lights is being arranged foE in
Denysg. 10 be ready By the beginning
Of the tourist season.
Senator RobsEt la Toilette Of Wis
eonsin has been invited by the Rspab-
lieahs Of DeayeF to deliver several ad-
dresses On the railroad problem in Deh'
yer nsIt noaih.
Charles Johnson. foreman OF q Rio
GFahds ~Feeking crew al DenyeF. com
miitsd suicide April isth by taking ey'
aniis o, potassium The act Is a,lEib-
uted TO alcoholic insanity.
Aaron Cove. former superintendent
Of public schools in D-nyer. Is plan
nins for an extensive tour Of the East.
Including China. aud expects TO sail
from San Francisco the nrst week in
May.
Las Aninas county Is TO have dis
tiilefy. = caddell Of waisenburs has
purchased tract OF land near AEui-
lar and has commenced plans for fiye
buildings which ~ill constitute tho dis
tiiiey.
D-nyer will Try hard to secure the
location Of the national home for letter
carriers and ~ill send y stroas deiesa.
tioa. accompanied by brass band. -
the eonyentIoa at Portland next Sep
tsmb-s.
\ delegation of the Denver Chamber
Of Commerce and other business n-n.
yciep, "boos;srs.- will start on an.
other trade expansion tour May LIST:
this time TO pola;s In Utah. Idaho and
Wyoming.
a
Elevator Company has decided TO build
a large mill In p-nsur near tho Bur
linston tracks on the north side. The
enterpfis- calls for the investment OF
about 100000.
Tho chin. Of nine bells prcsen;ed
20 the Episcopal Church NJ Boulder
by II. y. Bradley has been tcmporar'
lily placed In wooden tower In front
of the me stone church now In couTH.
Of construction.
The Colorado Automobile Club,
which was to have held an uphill race
ht Fort Logan the middle Of April. has
postponed the rae. until the middle OF
May. IL was feared that April mud
would make IL uphill work.
The people of Trinidad turned out
almost en- maRsc to nttcna tn. funeral
of John II. Fox. who was killed by Jo-
seph Johnson on the Sth Inst. There
was larE. representation of the Ma
sons. Elks. woodmcn and Red Men.
a stage line Is being organized in
Middle park to connect with the Moi.
fat road Mt Arrowhead and from there
penetrate to Hot Sulphur Springs.
Steamboat Springs. Hahn's peak and
other important points In Grand and
Routt counties.
The county commissioners Of Phil.
| lips county have sold tn. tax deeds of
ia quarter sections of land TO Il. y.
=. White for 5000. the same to be taken
within ninety days. They comprise all
the land In the two townships which
/ the county now holds. The county still
owns 900 quarters Of land subject TO
tax deeds.
The county commissioners OF Arapa-
hoe county have granted franchise to
the Colorado Monorail Company to build
n one-track railway between Engle-
wood, the end of the Denver street car
line. and Littleton. 1t is stipulated
that work on the road shall commence
July 1st. Fort Logan is included in the
franchise.
Two convictions under the rame
| laws have beer obtained recently by
Game Commissioner Woodard. Spec
tal Game Warden William X. Jones,
Jr.. arrested J. Q. Baker and J. A.
Starcher near Greeley, April sth, for
hunting without n license. They were
tried in the County Court ut Greeley
and each fined $25 and costs.
The comptroller of the currency has
approved the application of George II.
Williams, president OF the Mercantile
National Bank of Pueblo; Clinton A.
Bowman, Nelson A. Ballow, Fred G.
Helmboldt, Albert l.. Brown, John II.
Slattery and Guy l.. Emerson to organ
ize the Silverton National Bank of Sill
yerton, Colorado, with $4,000 capital.
The Union Pacific is said to be
planning big improvements in Colo
rado construction. 1t is estimated by
officials of the road that at least S2,-
600. 900 of the S100.000,000 bond issue
will be expended in the construction
of the cutoff between Denver anG
Cheyenne and the tunneling of Athol
hill. This will form the Denver.Chey-
enne line of the system.
Governor Mcdonald has appointed
four new members of the State Board
of Health and it now consists of DIR.
w. H. Davis, DR.. Hugh L. Taylor. DR..
George c. Stemen, DR.. Minnie c. T.
Love and DR.. NJ. II. Sears, all of Den
yer; DR.. Herbert Work of Pueblo, DIR.
F. n. Carrier of Canon City, DR.. J. Ira
cey Melvin of Saguache and DR.. o. ].
Myne of Como.
! Construction will begin about May
1st on a depot to be built jointly by the
Denver G. Rio Grande and the Colo.
RADIO Midland at Grand Junction. The
depot when completed will occupy
ground lbout 500 feet from the pres
ent structure. 1t will cost $4,000 and
will be completed about July 1st. The
proposed structure will be one of the
finest depots in the state.
Charles S. Wynne, who, under the
belief that he was Wellington c. Lew