Rocky Ford enterprise., 1906-03-16
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

zens' Alliances have consolidated.
Representative Hogg has named as
cadet at the Annapolis naval academy.
Carrollton q. Northcuti, Of Trinidad.
The Denver Real Estate Exchange
will raise 81 800 for the purpose OF en-
tcrtaining visitors during the coming
season.
The State Supreme Court has again
decided that the law aboiishing the
Zee system in county offices Is consu'
tutional.
The new Giipin County Chamber OF
Commerce was successfully launched
ON the 7th inst with paid member
ship OF about 200.
The Ministers association OF Boul'
der has passed resolutions discoun-
tenancing Sunday funerals. except ON
urgent occasions.
The Battlcment Mesa forest reserve
Will be opened to cattle growers Aprii
LIST instead OF May as was at nrst
announced by Forester Plnchot.
The taxpayers OF La Junta have
voted by IA majority OF over six TO one
to bond the city for tho sum OF Sbo.'
200 for the purpose OF putting IN new
water works.
For the first time In the history OF
Teller county both the county and
every school district Is paying cash.
the last OF the county and school war
rants having been called In.
Since November LIST of last year Pc
ter Hnldi has brought to Boulder from
Altoona iE Boulder county the heads ot
ninetecn coyotes. three dead and one
live Wild cat and one live eagle.
James unterincr. miner nj the
Great Western coal mine ut Hcathton.
six miles south OF Canon city. Tell
l57 feet down the shaft OF the mine
and was Instantly killed on the Sth
inst.
Joseph Weir. u ranchman. was shot
and killed on Thursday. March sth.
In Blanco basin. Archulcia county. by
his nephew. Oral Weir. who claims
that the shooting was the result OF
quarrel.
Charles Johnson. employed In one
Of the mines of the III. Five In
Boulder county. WAS fatally Injured by
either n falling drill or rock ON the
night OF the 5th inst. his skull being
badly crushed.
Walter Rock. who was reported to
have been murdered In Goidheld. Ne
vada, several months ago. has re-
turned TO Cripple Greek and says he
was not at Goldncld ut the time the
story started.
There are cighty.onc applications
for divorce to be disposed Of during
the present term of the County and
DIytric, Courts mt Pueblo. Why not
decree n blanket divorce to cover the
entire popuiation--or at least all who
want to unhitch:
T.. V. Brake. deputy labor commits
sIon.r. IL making strenuous efforts to
enforce the law requiring semi.
monthly payday on the part OF ali
kinds OF corporations. He viii SEND
out a letter to all the mining COM
panics In the state.
Three camps have been established
on the Holly & Swink railroad grade
Mt the Holly end Of the line. They
are located Ave, eight aud twelve
miles, respectively. from Holly, anu
have over 200 teams and II similar
number OF mon engaged.
County Judge Mirick. OF Pueblo. has
appoiptcd a commission OF six persons
whose duty II shall be 10 assist the
juvenile court In keeping track OF the
county's charitable and rclormniory
institutions. Three are Republicans
and three Democrats.
The commissioned OF Indian affairs
has appointed John $. Spear 10 sue
coed William NJ. Peterson as supcrin-
tcndent OF Fort Lewis Indian school
at Durango. Spear Is transferred To
that post from the school mt Fort
service.
The House OF Representatives has
passed bill allowing the Denver mint
t.ts
coinage has heretofore been done en-
lirely at Philadelphia. but the other
mints OF the country will make the
minor coins hereafter II the Senate
passes the bill.
Charged with murder alleged to have
been committed nearly four years ago
at Aguilar. Antonio Mastello, an ltai-
ian, was arrested at Louisville n few
days ago by Frank Trujillo. deputy
sheriff ard special officer for the Colo
RADIO & Southern railroad and taken
to Trinidad where he was placed in
Jail.
Governor Mcdonald has appointed
three accountants to audit the books
of the. state treasurer and the board
of land commissioners. The commit
tee is composed OF C. +. Allen. L. X.
Harper and Charles c. Hendrie. The
law requires that the books of the
treasurer and land commissioners be
audited twice year.
Maggie Pututaro. wife of we'll
known saloonkeeper, was fined S25 and
costs by Justice Bowers at Trinidad.
on the charge of brutally beating IL
year-old Nick Colasco. an Italian boy.
who had been left in her charge. The
court declared but for the woman's
physical condition he would sentence
her to a term in Jail.
Contractors have finished over
twenty miles of the Colorado Fuel &
Iron Company's million dollar canal
under construction between Florence