Rocky Ford enterprise., 1906-06-29

The Colorado State Normal summer
school at Greeley began Its sessions
June 18th with an attendance OF 800
and will continue for six weeks. clos.
Ing July 3ist.
Thomas Cunningham. a miner EN-.
ployed on the School Section Leasing
Company's property at Victor. fell
down /; shaft l25 feet on the 18th inst.
and was Instantly killed.
The Colorado Fuel and Iron Com.
pany will establish semi-monthly
pay day at the Pueblo Steel Works.
which will do away to large extent
with the use OF scrip or orders.
The assessed valuation OF Fremont
county property this year will be $6.'
900. or sl25.000 more than last year.
The ircrease is due to improvements
made In the vicinity of Canon City.
About 500 colored citizens from Pu.
ebio, Colorado Springs. Victor and
Cripple Creek attended the picnic
given by the Nonpareil band OF Pu'
ebio at Clyde. on the Cripple Creek
Short Line.
The school census OF Lhrimer county
taken in April shows the total number
of persons OF school age is 1860. This
is nearly double the number reported
"A rapid growth.
The commissioner OF the General
Land Office has withdrawn from pub
lie settlement, to be included In the
Fruitn forest reserve. 1876. 1000 acres pf
public lands In Mesa county. near
Grand Junction and Fruita.
twenty-five miles Of the gigantic
Colorado Fuel and Iron Company's ca
AL 50. h.. at. IH
ter from the Arkansas river have been
completed. and the workmcn are now
within eight miles Of Pueblo.
Clarence Tracey and Frederick
Hannt. lIncmen of tn. Denver Gas and
Electric Company. were dangerously
injured on the 18th instant by tho
breathing OF an electric light pole on
which they were Mt work.
Judge Charles ~. Campbell. for
many years prominent lawyer OF
Denver. died at st. Ios-ph'H hospital IN
Denver on the 18th instant OF hcmor.
fhnsc OF the brain. IL. had retired
from active practice about two years
ago,
Tho counties of Fremont md Teller
have decided to construct steel
bridge over Wilson creek on the new
state road. The cost. $1,000. will bc
borrs jointly by the two counties. The
bridge will be forty feet Ions and six
teen feet wide.
John r. Baldwin. III. cisht-ycarold
son OF c. A. BALDWIN. was dragged TO
death by a frightened burTo in North
Cheyenne canon NJ Colorado SPRING.
ON tho 10th instant. Mr.. and Mra.
Baldwin are former caiifoTniana who
arc erecting 100000 residence at
BTuadmooE.
Tn. city and county of Denver has
purchased iia own auditorium bonds to
the amount of $4,000. tho money
coming from the following sources
Eighty thousand dollars from the sink.
ins fund. $4,000 from III. arcmcns
pension fund. and $4,000 from the 10.
ilecmcn'a pension fund.
Cyrus l.. Mann. an accomplished
landscape gardener. committed sui
eide at Denver on the 18th instant by
taking opium. lie had previously made
several attempts to kill himself. Do
iuua'ic troubles. leading to n divorce
from his wife on account Of his use Of
liquor aud drugs. we're the source OF
his downfall.
Mitchell Benedict. of the Law firm of
Benedict and Phelps. one of the pio
Hccr lawyers Of Denver and a man of
prominence in his profession. died Mt
AsbuFy Park. New Jersey. Jun. 95i
from heart disease. Judge Benedict
Nsa n Civil War veteran. having been
. captain iu the Twelfth Pennsylvania
and acting as a provost judge.
Plans for the $500 building of the
Y. n. e. A. to be located in Vest Den.
yer near the Denver & Rio Grandc
shops. arc being completed by the rail.
way department of the association.
Helen Miller Gould has promised Do.
nation and with the $4,000 in the
treasury of the organization. the strue-
turp wiil be erected. The Denver &
Rio Grandc will pay for the site.
Daniel witicr. widciy.known Col.
oTado pioneer and prominent land at.
torney in Denver. died June 2sd. He
had held the position of miners judge.
member of the Legislature. collector
of internal revenue for Colorado. vice
president of the first street railway in
Denver. of the Denver Safe Deposit
and Savings bank. and of the Denver
Water Company. He was the first Re.
publican nominee for governor of
Colorado.
The reunion of the old settlers OF
Lincoln Park. a suburb OF Canon City.
was held June 2ist. at the home OF Dai
Dewaese. OF the haltscore guests
present. only one. W. II. Slower. has
resided at Lincoln Park twenty years.
In fact. all the territory included
within its borders was a dry. treeless
plain at that time. Lincoln Park now
contains about 1000 people and is one
of the most delightful rural communi.
ties in the West.
Arrangements are being made by a
number of the citizens OF Pueblo 10
dig up from South Union avenue the
stump of the famous old tree that
stood in that thorouEhfarc until 1855.
mention Of which is given in the early
hiatnr.N. of Cninrnhn and which was thn