Rocky Ford enterprise., 1906-08-10
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

Tho Tedchefs Institute Tor inc
Twelfth district opened At Gunnison
July 3oth with good attendance.
Santa Fe officials have approved tho
plans for a new $4,000 hospital To bs
buiit at La Junia. and work will be
commenced Immediately.
A. q. Teaehout. proprietor Of tho
Rgerton House at Gunnison and one
OF the pioneers Of Gunnison county.
died July 5ist after n short illness.
The Denver Baseball Club Of the
Western League has dropped down to
fourth place and still sliding. Pueblo
seems to bo securely anchored AT tho
bottom.
A horse valued at $500 and owned
by J. l.. Afford. a Trinidad real estate
man. was stung To death In five min
utes by u swarm II bees that alishted
oG Its head.
A Civil Service examination will be
held August 18th at LeadSiiie: August
18th nj Grand Junction and Pueblo. for
tho positions of clerk and carrier In
tho postofico service
Work Of completing blast furnace y
OF the Minnequa plant Mt Pueblo will
soon be started again. Work on this
furnace was commenced about four
q
plant closed down.
Tho State School for the Deaf and
Blind will purchas. l:o acres OF land
adJolnins the Prin,crn' Hong. near
Colorado Springs nj SO per acre. Tho
purchase will BE- made from tho state.
through tho Land Board.
Dan McKinnic. who tcrrorircd tho
guests at party Mt tho Bodkin homo
In Highland LAX. somc two weeks ago.
assaulted Constable Coates. escaped
aad was captured. WIS sentenced to
sixty days In jail nj Greeley
Chester ScKcr. n scvcn1ycnr-old
child. was crushed under the wheels
of m Ice wagon In Denver n few days
ago and died within two hours. He
vas climbing on the wagon for leo and
his clothing caught In wheel.
While l.. II. Warren was attending
the band concert Mt Colorado Springs
on the nieht Of the Joth ult. his home
nj .3l North wahaatch avenue was
robbed OF $500 In diamonds and Jew
oiry. SEQ In cash being overlooked.
II Ia stated that the two hundred
houses to be built Mt Riley gulch. near
Trinidad. for the men employed by
the Carbon Coal and Coke Company.
an auxiliary OF tho American Smelling
and Refining Company. will all be OF
brick.
The corporate life OF the Society OF
Colorado Pioneers has been made per
pciual through the filing OF renewal
papers In the ofiicc of the secretary OF
state Mt Denver. The papers are signed
by President y. s. Hurd and Secretary
Michael Storms.
While attempting TO light firc with
gasoline. Mrs. Frank Lubb. an Aus.
trian woman thirty years old. was
burned to death ut her home In Pu-
cbio. Her little child. eleven months
old. was so badly burned that 1t died
nm hour after being removed to tho
hospital.
The business OF the Pueblo Land or.
fee for July shows slight increase over
that OF the corresponding month last
year. The filings cover 25.717 acres OF
land and consist Of twenty-four cash
entries. eighteen desert claim entries.
1o7 homestead entries and nifty mis-
eellaneous entries.
With the exception OF the letters
"A-v." tattoocd on his right arm. there
was no Identification marks upon the
body Of the tramp who was killed by
Rio Grandc train ut Fountain July
30th. The head was mashed beyond
recognition, and no papers or cards on
the body served to identify the un-
known victim.
The twelfth annual banquet of the
Teachers Institute OF Huerfano and
Las Animas counties was held In the
high school building Mt Trinidad on
the night OF August LIST. as n climax to
the session. Nearly 200 were present.
Among the speakers were Prof. J. Il.
Treat, County Commissioner J. b. Ma
drid and Rev. b. S. Lawlcr.
The annual session of the normal In.
stitute OF district No. .. embracing
Larimer. Weld and Boulder counties.
convened at the Normal school July
30th. One hundred and thirty teach
ers were enrolled. an increase OF near
ly thirty over the opening day of last
year. The institute will be In session
two weeks. and II total enrolment OF
175 is expected.
Members of the official board of the
Vincent Methodist Episcopal Church OF
Spokane, Washington, have voted
| unanimously to request Bishop War
rem. who is to preside at the next ses-
sion of the Columbia River conference.
| to appoint Rev. Clarence o. Kimball.
pastor of the First Methodist Church
of Trinidad. Colorado. to the pastorate
OF the Vincent Church.
Thomas Mcneil. who was deported
from Victor and dumped on the Kan
| sas plains two years ago. claims to
have struck it rich in the new gold
fields OF Nevada. In a letter to his
wife at Victor. he states he has opened
up five-foot vein in the Pixies Peak
Four claim, which carries values rang
ing from $500 to $500 to the ton and
that there is plenty Of ore in sight.
At the meeting of the State Board
| of Pardons August sd clemency was
| extended to Herman Anderson, who
was sentenced from Lake county by