Rocky Ford enterprise., 1905-04-07
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

ST. Luke's Hospital in Leadyille has
been purchased by a syndicate OF Lead.
vile physicians, who will rebuild and
enlarge It.
The Denver & Rio Grande railroad
will build a large reservoir on Middle
Monument creek, above Palmer Lake
and Glen Park.
Additional machinery Is being in
stalled at the Longmont sugar factory.
which will increase the capacity OF the
plant to l.200 tons q day.
Ex-Governor John L. Routt Is 70
ported to be very Ill In Denver OF an
affection OF the heart. He will be sew.
enty-nine years old In few weeks.
Henry Wianand. the Denver wife
killer. was found guilty OF murder In
the second degree. which carried q
penalty OF from ten years 10 life I'm,
pr!sonment-
Clarence E. Hagar has been re-
elected secretary OF the State Board
OF Charities and Corrections for an
other term. He Is also secretary fog
the Board Of Pardons.
Charles b. Sloat. general agent OF
the Chicago. Rock Island a. Pacific at
Denver. has inaugurated movement
for the organization OF mountain
climbing club In Colorado.
The State Land Board has decided
to give the Denver Park Commission
Il twenty-years' leave on forty acres OF
ground adjoining the City park on tho
west side n a yearly rental OF $1,000,
The State Fair will be In progress n;
Pueblo NJ the time OF the Grand ArrIy
national encampment nj Denver tha
;irst week in September. and a special
invitation will be extended TO the vet
Grams.
The Denver & Rio Grande Railroad
Company Is said TO be considering u
plan to double-tTaek the line between
Denver and Pueblo In order to better
accommodate the constantly !ncTeas
Ing tra:ilc.
The Kansas Colorado OIL Company.
which has b-en boring for oil ON the
Culver ranch Of Longmont. has consoi
dated with a company of local men.
and III. new company will prosecute
the work with yisoF.
An expensive cement plant. backed
by Pueblo capital. Is TO be erected one
mile south OF Verde station. on the RIe
Grande. twenty-five miles south o,
Pueblo. and II. II. horn will be the
Mss, Lille Barnes has been ap
pointed substitute mall carrier 70,
rural route No. ]. and Mrs. Lucy Nc
Donald substitute for route No. :. al
Greeley. The husbands OF these wotaes
arc tho carriers on the routes.
Tho womaa's Club Of Boulder has
given an order for over thousand
trees and shFuhbrTy which are TO be
A..
north Of the dining room. mainly aions
the walks leading 10 the entrance sata
Tho Grand Junction Construction
Company has been organized to build
an electric railroad from Grand June
ton to Palisades. A bond has been
given that tao miles of the line shall
be completed within tho acst cishisca
months.
Tho sui; Of the sira;;on's indepcnd,
snec Mining Company against the
the mine. which sas decided aEaIas,
Appeals. Is to bo carried TO tho Cai,ea
States Supreme Court.
The American smelling and Rsaa.
Ing Company has announced the aGpps
,ion OF the ciEhthour system a, i;s
Euoptu Vt8Htss apVlIsul' 10 AAs except
yard men. !; will frst affect tho fur.
mace and Tpssicr men. but all vili
come under iis provisions.
All arrangements have been made
for the meeting Of tho Arkansas Val.
isy Press Association at Canon City
May s,h. and President Hardy has
sent out Invitations To all newspaper
.nra from Lradvilic to the Kansas limo
and from Colorado Springs to TTisi.
dad.
Samuel d. Hunter. who died at Den.
ycf March ssth. was one Of the pIo-
nsers Of Greeley and served as mayo.
In 1855. lie built the Opera House
block. the Park Place block and the
Oasis hotel In Greeley. lie had lived
In Denver eleven years previous 10 his
death.
Denver IL being good deal tTou.
bled by the coming of hundreds of In.
digont consumptisss who are unioaded
on Colorado by Eastern communities
A report the other day that forty con.
sump;iycs were TO be sen, TO Dcnver
from Fort Scott, Iowa. aroused active
rcmonstraHcc.
Miss Katharine l. Craig. state super.
Iniendent Of public instruction. visited
summit county the week ending March
ss,h. She rode from breckenridge to
Dillon in a sleigh over snow reported
to be nearly ten feet deep and returned
the same way to address the meeting
at breckenridge.
Anseimo Mcs;az. convicted at Du.
raugo Of the killing Of Pablo Garcia,
whom he beat TO death with pistol.
was found guilty Of voluntary man.
slaughter and sentenced to from ono
year to sixteen months In the peniten.
tiary. The trouble arose out Of jeal.
ousy In relation 10 the wife of mcstaz.
C. s. Clark. a farmer living in the
Box Elder valley. six miles northeast
OF Fort Collins. has lost nine head Of
valuable horses by ptomaine poison.
ing from eating musty carrots. Dr.
Lamb. state veterinarian. was called
TO investigate the case. and his ver
dict agreed with that Of the local doc