Rocky Ford enterprise., 1907-05-10
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

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A double track is being built on the
railroad between Canon City aad
Florence In order to take care Of the
heavy ,Iafiie.
Gen. William J. Palmer has sent 10
i.e Civic improvement, ieagns OF
Canon City several hundred shrubs for
the state park,
~. u, Scott has besn elected prs
iisnt Of the North Poudre iffisaIi4-.
Company 10 nil saeaneey caused b.
resignation Of waison ZsIsler.
The base baii season opened In Den'
yer last Saturday In = snosslosfn.
Those who eouidnf see the base bali
amused themselves throwing snow
halls.
A complaint has been made against
y y Beausaih, at North i.ongmoni.
charging him with killing ins hossa
By foreibiy administering the water
cure.
Gold has been discovered In tho VI
entity of S.mpsr--oas on the plains-
Another evidence that all you've got 10
do in Colorado Is dis. and wealth 10
yours -..r .....
The interior Of the Lowell school.
Colorado springs. IL bsins decorated
with copies u famous paintinss basts
Of famous men have also bvsu par'
chased #tr.-.. .-..H. E-.
Walter cuniifc. director off ,h.
Hank Of England. and prisaI. car
party. spent several days in III. Pixies
Peak region. The party also visited
Cripple Creek.
II Is aficiaiiy announced that in all
probability homese-kess' rates. hiIhrr.
to given oaiy TO Denver. Pueblo aud
Colorado Springs. will hereafter DO
given TO Greeley.
u. .. Milford, the ear-,as~r Of the
Silver lake reservoir. tciuphoncd the
city clerk al Boulder that eighteen fec:
OF Snow had fallen at that place th.s
winter and nv. feet this month.
Mrs. ". II. Miller OF Gunnison blew
her brains out with pistol because
Of dcapondeney oycr her husband los.
ini his position rs station agent. She
had been an inNalid for years.
The low temperature OF the past two
weeks has frozen IN. leaves
on the trees and there Is strong
likelihood that jh. sugar b-cis will
have to be rcpianicd In tho vicinity Of
Holly.
uC NhHE'u pbuf VI ttVhfy spuH"ys
foreman OF the eaicinAiion department
OF the Portland ccmcn, works at
Florence was found In the whitchot
tank recently. II il thought he cou,-
miitcd suicide. .-...| .... s.-
Coiorado's unusual spring weather
kpt the Smile aud Push Club very
busy during the waning days Of April
and the front end of May. explaining
To visitors that II never happened this
wny before. 1FrI aa. gsf
Emma Goldman. the female alarm.
list, has been In Denver for few days
aud none the daily papers actually
found 1t necessary to put on nm extra
kcg Of red Ink In order 20 properly
handle her warm remarks.
Sterling is too busy getting In her
spring crops and driving her cows to
pasture to be bothered with n spring
term of court. and the few cases on tho
docket may be sent to Denver where
the mills ever grind.
Boulder children between the ngos
vi sixteen and twenty-onc may now
play pool and billiards upon written
permission Of their pnpas and man.
mas. according to revised ordinance.
And this is Better Boulder."
An engine on the Colorado & North.
western railroad overturned while
bucking snow near Ward, on Sunday.
ubd tumbled down the mountain side
400 feet, killing Engineer Robt. Cook.
The engine was torn into pieces.
A meeting of the ouray Development
club was held at the city hall. It is
proposed to raise $4,000 to bo ex.
Hal lv, pI, ,tt Tot
y, cially mineral. during the next two
months. In addition plans are on foot
for u big tourist hotel, sanitarium and
a swimming pool. which will utilize the
water from the natural hot springs.
At meeting of local No. sc. West
ern Federation of Miners. at Central
City, 1t was unanimously decided to
ask an increase of SO cents for machine
men in the mines. The present scale
is 50. The increase Is not asked to be-
come effective until the first OF June.
AS the demand is reasonable there Is
no doubt that it will be granted by the
operators. e1Tei7l -5ra
Frederic Boughton, a Santa Fe engi.
neer, and his fireman, Ben Abbott, are
lying at the point of death and score
of passengers suffered broken bones
and other injuries as the result of a
wreck of east-bound Santa Fe passen-
ger train No. s, which occurred twenty.
eight miles south of La Junta May 3D..
The wreck was caused by spreading
rails. The engineer stuck to his post
until the locomotive turned over on Its
side.
Miss Jane Adams of Hull house, Chi.
cago, who will give the commencement
Grafton at the University of Colorado
commencement exercises, Wednesday,
June 9Th, in the Chautauqua audito-
rum at Boulder. will speak on Chang
ing Ideals in Education" A new fea.
ture OF the commencement exercises
this year will be the Sigma 81 exer-