Rocky Ford enterprise., 1905-06-09
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

The board OF pardons has again re-
fused to repf!ese Antoine Wood. the
boy murderer.
A good deal OF damage was done by
q destructive hailstorm between AT,
vada and Golden on the afternoon OF
May 27th.
Gov. Joseph Folk Of Missouri is ex-
pected to visit Colorado this summer
on his way home from the Portland
Exposition.
The five Grand Army posts OF Den
yer will unite In holding great June
Fair and Festival At Denver June 2ist
10 July lst.
Many men are going from Trinidad
to work on tie construction OF the new
railroad from Durango 10 farmington.
New Mexico.
Edwin Williams. formerly at tho
head Of the sampling works at Bout
der. died May 2tth In Idaho. where he
was engaged In mining.
Many thousands acres OF peat
lands have been discovered near Tol-
land on the Moffat road. and plans arc
being formulated for the manufacture
OF fuel from Il.
Heavy storms on May :7th caused
the breasase OF the dams OF the Crater
and Dog Fish reservoirs. near Delta.
Hnnson's reservoir near Paouin. and
tho Irwin dam near Hoiyoke.
Miss Nellie Donahue. ex-city treas
urer Of Victor. was acquitted by jury
Of the charge Of misappropriatins tho
sum of si.ttC. city funds. during the
time she was In ONCE from 1900 10
1909.
The six.year-oid daughter Of Mr..
and Mrs. John Ryan OF Pryor. Huef-
fano county. set her dress on nre while
working Mt the kitchen stove on the
.9th uii.. and was so badly burned that
shc died next day.
Stephen and Charles lmprcy. con.
victed OF n statutory crime against
Gertrude Miller nt lcadvtlic. have
made m nffidayit that sho sworc
falsely against the men.
J. II. Hollands big ranch. twenty.
nine miles northeast OF Pueblo has
been sold 10 J. J. Rose OF Colorado
Springs for $4,000. The ranch CON-
priscs many acres and several thou
sand head Of cattle.
The Empson Canning Company ut
I.onsmont in increasing the capacity OF
its plant for the seasons run on peas.
When the machinery now arriving ID
In place. the factory will have capac-
ity Of 10000 cans OF peas per hour.
May receipts with tho State Land
Board show that the business OF tho
ONCE IL growing gradually. Tho re-
ccipts last month were $:s.so:.:s. In
May. 1908. the receipts were s:0.1:5.ll.
and In 1904 they were 3:5.i5:.3t.
p Colorado is entitled TO twenty dele.
gn;cs to tho eleventh International
sunday School convention. which Will
be held In Toronto. Canada. Juno Esd
:1th. and IL IL expected that many be-
sides tho delegates will take tho trip.
Sia Ticng Ang. n Chinese graduate
of the University OF Denver. and
young man Of much ability. died OF con.
sumption mt the Oakcs Home In Den.
vcr. June I'd. Mr. Sia had many nc.
auaintanccs In Denver and was very
popular.
The United Brotherhood of Railway
Trainmcn. the Eagles. the letter car
ricrs' union and the carpenters union
nrc considering the building OF homes
and Eanitariums In Colorado for the
benefit OF their members throughout
the country.
Authority for the expenditure OF si5..
600 for the improvement OF the road.
bed between Boulder and Fort Col.
Inns on the Colorado & Southern has
been signed by President Frank Trum-
bull. The track will be slaggcd for the
entire distance.
In 1908 the collection for liquor II.
censcs by the state treasurer amounted
10 si7.S75. and In 1901 they reached the
sum of s53.575. 1t looks now as II by
the end of the fiscal present year. In
December next. the collections Will
reach the sum OF SG5.000. This result
Is due to putting out the collectors
over the state.
T.. y. Cooper OF the American De
Forest Wireless Telegraph Company
'.ns selected site for the main receiv-
ing station for the Cripple Creek dis
trict. 1t is at point west of the Amer.
lean Eagles mine on Bull hill. ut which
point receiving station will be estnb-
lished. The altitude of Bull hill Is
above 10000 feet.
Harry A. Mills, between twenty-five
and twenty-eight years of age, n con-
ductor on the High Line electric road.
was Killed at o'clock on the morning
of May 2Sth. at Midway. in the Cripple
Creek district. His death was at first
attributed to q shock of electricity.
but later 1t became evident that he
was caught between the cars.
The conversion of the following named
Colorado banks into national banks ha:
been approved by the comptroller of
the currency: The Salida State Bank
of Salida into the Commercial National
Bank of Salida, with $4,000 capital:
the Poudre Valley Bank of Fort Col
Inns into the Poudre Valley National
Bank of Fort Collins, with s150,000
capital.
Colorado Springs and Denver are
becoming cities of national homes. A
national sanitarium for Swedes, and
another for members of the Evangel-
ical Lutheran Church. as well as