Rocky Ford enterprise., 1906-11-23
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

the use OF the CITY omsidis oI Lrhsef.
The Colorado Fuel & Iron Company
reeentiy shipped trainioad OF twenty
cars Of fence wire To Ottawa. Kansas
The newly elected governors name
Is pronounced as II IL were spelled
Booktle, with the seeent ON the book.
-Buck,telr and -Buehtie" are both In
correct
A sugar beet recently brought 10
the Greeley factory by Gordie MeMii
Ian Of La Sale weighed twenty one
pounds when trimmed and ready foi
grinding.
A reduction of twen,y,iy. per cent
on telephone charges will become 81
feeliye al Florence December LIST. ana
the rate GU Canon City conversations
will be reduced.
The Grand Junction sugar factory
recently turned out i.SsS bass az
sugar ia one day and the seasons pro
auetion is expected TO exceed 10000
bags. as agaihs, $4,000 last year.
A colonization syndicate Of Geneseo.
niinois. has bought J 500 acres al land
in tho San Luis valley. the price b-ins
stated at about 10000. u, Is planned
to settle the tract with SandinaSishs-
Paymaster u. q. Amman. retired,
United States navy. has been ordered
To duty ns pay offieer. purchasing pay
ofieer and general sior.k.epsr at IN.
naval hospital At. New Fort Lyon
Colorado.
The Buekhorn plaster mill. about six
miles west of LnSeiand. was burned
befor. daylight on the morning OF the
10th inst. being a total loss The loss
ON mill and stock Is estimated at t.f.'
900. with $500 Insurance.
Levi balm. aged tw.n,y.,hEc-. Will"
o!iins machinery at the Fort Collins
sugar factory. Was caught by bolt
on the ilth Inst. and 10 Injured that he
died the same day. One arm was torn
from his body and one les fractured.
Most of tho apparatus for tho new
Trojan powaer works at Oserton.
cirh, miles north of Pueblo. has ar-
rived. The buildings arc almost com
plet.d and Il ID thought III. manutnr'
iurc OF powder will bc started bcfoEs
December lH'.
James Mitchell was found on the
iith inst. In starving condition In his
cabin Mt Pie,on. near waiscnbur.. and
died after being taken TO hospital nj
Pueblo. lie was hut little known and
had not been seen for eleven days be-
fore his death.
Mrs. Annie Duncan has brought sui,
against the Denver & Rio Grandc rail-
road. In tho District Court at Colorado
Springs. to recover $1,000 for the loss
OF her son. Leslie II. Duncan. who was
Killed November 10. 1905. while en-
ploycd ns switehman.
David Matthias. Of the freshman
class Of the State Agricultural Coilcg.
at Fort Collins. los; all tho fingers of
his left hand at tho second Joint on
the itih inst. while ut work with n
busz.saw In tho college shops. Ma
thIas In from Monte Vista.
Thomas Mctcnif was found dead on
Mount Hayden. near ourny. on the 1ith
inst, Hc wns nt work alone on min.
Ing claim and IN believed to have fallen
from tho dump on account OF heart
disease. Mctcnlf wax about sixty years
Of age and had lived in ouray for ten
years.
Mrs. James wcstc. seventy years Of
age, was robbed Of $50 on the road
between Victor and Goldhcld on the
night Of tho 10th inst. Two brutal foot.
pads led her away from the road and
roughly searched her person. finding
the money which she had sccretcd In
one OF her stockings.
The applications OF d. N. Freeman
Of Durango, w. c. Chapman. Frank
E,dredge, Z. N. Hampton. Il. q. Hamp.
ton and A. T. Sullenberger to organ
izc the First National Bank OF Pngosa
Springs, with capital OF 325. 1000. has
been approved by the comptroller OF
the currency.
Charles Irvine. sixty years old and
an employe OF the Greeley sugar fac
tory, who had been arrested on tho
charge of assaulting an eight-year-old
girl, committed suicide on the 18th
inst. by shooting himself through the
head n few minutes before the preli:l.
mary hearing was to have begun.
Patsey Butler. the nineteen.yeur-old
son Of Adam Butler, pioneer OF the
Cripple Creek district, now located ut
GoIdfeld, Nevada, is said to have
cleaned up $4,000 In n stock deal in
the Nevada camp on an original in.
yestment of few hundred dollars he
had saved. Butler left the district
about nine months ago.
Governor Mcdonald has appointed
Hon. H. C. Stimson on the board OF
control Of the State Industrial School
for Girls, to succeed Attorney Freder.
icl; s. Ellsworth. resigned. Mr.. Tits,
worth was n Democratic appointee.
and his successor, Judge Stimson, was
candidate for governor on the Demo
cratic ticket several years ago.
State Game and Fish Commissioner
Woodard has been informed that cer-
tain hunters In Gunnison county mis-
construe the law and propose to kill
mountain sheep after January 1st. He
says that section one of division Of
the new law expressly forbids the kill.
ing of mountain sheep at any time. and
that it will be enforced.
John c. Canute, ranchman, was
killed at Calnan on the 11th inst.
Canute was feeding his team and was
standing in front of the animals, when
they became frightened. The horses
lruoclrad him down and tramnled Ills