Rocky Ford enterprise., 1905-02-24
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS


Durango.
The Rio Grandc railroad paid over
$4,000 TO its employees at Pueblo on
It's last monthly pay day. February
nth.
The Pixies peak climbing contest for |
automobiles next August is attracting
u good deal OF attention all over the
country.
Isaac Rossknm. who died at Phlla- !
delphia recently. left $1,000 for the Ma
tional Jewish Hospital for consump'
iives nj Denver.
The annual exhibition OF the Colo
rado Kennel Club will be held at
Denver March I'd TO 18th. Some ia
nous dogs will be shown.
William J.. Jones. auditor Of the Moi'
fat road. who has recently returned
from the East. states positively that
the road has not been sold.
IL is said that creamery men
throughout the state propose 10 take
active steps To enforce the law In re-
lation to olcomargarIne and butterine.
The name, San Cristobal.' aS ap.
piled to body Of water In Hinsdaie
county. has received the approval Of
the United States Board on Geosraph'
zeal Names.
Chris Laib OF LonYmont was badly
frozen while trying to walk from Ned.
crlnnd to Caribou ON the 18th inst, and
II may be necessary to amputaic some
Of his limbs.
a. NJ. Stevenson. Republican ma
tional committeeman from Colorado.
has been notified that he has been ap-
pointed n member OF the presidential
Inaugural reception committee.
J. &. Boosingor. the Pueblo cnsin'
ccr who was injured In II Denver 4
Rio Grnndc collision near Portland
In Fremont county. some months since,
died In the Saiida hospital on the 18TH
Inst.
Engineer Sullivan Of the Colorado a
Southern. In charge of engine 40. was
badly scai,icd nt Loycland On the la'h
Inst. by the looscning Of n rivct In the
boiler. lie WAS taken to the Loscland
hospital.
Numerous robins and meadow iarks
made their appearance In many parts
OF Colorado previous to the recent cx'
ircmciy cold weather and !, Is feared
that some OF them may have been
killed by II.
Oscar c. RoIizc. former president OF
the Rci,xc Wall Paper and Paint Com
pany at Dcnycr. committed suicide by
shooting himself through the head In
his room mt the Baltimore hotel at Vic.
tor February lIih.
Mrs. Jennie Peabody. widow q: tho
late Jesse Peabody. and giatcr'in'lnw
OF Gov james II. Peabody. died nj her
home In Canon City fcbri ary iIth.
eight days after having suffered n
stroke Of pnralysis.
The late r. A. Faikcnburg will be
succeeded rs head cunxnl OF the Wood
men of the World by John II. Foley.
head adviser OF the order. until meet
Ing of the head board OF managers
can he held to make permanent Sc
lection.
Mrs. Elizabeth Sopris. widow OF
Richard Sopris, former mayor OF Den.
yer. celebrated her aoih birthday ami
vcrsary ut Denver on the 18th Inst.
Richard SoprIs. was the FIRST reprcscn'
tativc OF the Pixies Peak country" In
the Kansas Legislature.
Finy.ave carloads Of lambs. mum.
herring 1900 head. left the depot at
Greeley for Omaha. st. Joseph and
Chicago February 10th. II is estimated
that about onc.hnlf OF the sheep being
fattcncd for market In northern Colo
rado have been sold.
the application of Morton Jones OF
Denver, ]. NJ. Herbert. a. c. Foster.
lM. Y. Osborn. ]. j. Meade and T.. L.
Fnuycr. to organize the First National
Bank OF L.ovcland. Colorado. with s50.'
900 capital. has been approved by the
comptroller OF the currency.
Miss Margaret Prcndergast. first as
sistnnt In the Department Of Domestic
| Art Mt the Colorado Agricultural Col.
llcgc. has ben elected to the professor
shin OF domestic science and art at the
wyoming Agricultural College and will
begin her duties there next Scptcm.
ger.
The trial of Charles Wynn. alleged
to be Wellington Llewellyn. for the
murder of Policemen Thomas Clifford
and William GrifIiths. will be held Mt
Denver during the second week In
March. II is claimed that many wit.
ncsses will swear to the identity OF
Wynn and Llewellyn, which the de-
fcnse will deny.
The secretary of the treasury to-day
requested Congress to appropriate
$4,000 TO supply the deficiency In the
appropriation for new machinery for
the Denver mint. The cost of ma
chincry has been greater than was
estimated. and that amount is needed
In order to have the mint ready for
coinage June 1st.
Treasurer Holmberg's deputies have
been engaged the past month hunting
up druggists. saloons. bottling houses
and others who sell liquor, and collect
ing the state tax. In Denver, since
the lst OF February, they have found
100 unpaid licenses. Out in the state
the discoveries are even larger. 1t
is all to be collected. The state tax
is s25 year.
Judge Moses Hallett of the United
States Distsjct Court refused to review
the evidence in the Pueblo case of the
seven French girls alleged to have
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