Rocky Ford enterprise., 1907-04-26
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

Ing house.
William Youst, a pioneer miner OF
Goldheld. recently died. and was bur-
led at Victor.
W McClelland. OF Glenwood Springs.
accidentally fell into the Frying Pan
river Tuesday and was drowned.
Idaho Springs has taken on renewed
mining activity this spring. and the
camp claims to be the best In the
West.
Mountain and Plain this year. The
Greater Colorado movement now has
the floor.
The Trinidad Trades and Labor As
sembly. which has been out OF com.
mission for four months. has been re-
juvenated.
The Baptist church on Seventh and
Macon avenues. Canon City. will bc en-
larged by the addition OF two-story
20x30 wing.
The Erie Boosters are pushing their
old uncle. Success. right up the tree.
and he is reaching right out Tor the
apple OF reward.
Governor Buchtel has vetoed the
anti.fusion bill passed by the Sixteenth
Assembly. ro just 20 right on and fuse
as much rs you like.
Thomas Miller. n student In Colo
RADIO College Mt Colorado Springs. was
arrested for cruelty lashins horse he
had hired at livery stable.
A workmen returning from Panama
says there Is great deal OF unrest
among the laborers down there. ana
that there Is liable to be strike any
day.
Napoleon Stone. nm aged farmer
from Washington. has disappeared In
Denver and the police are lookin. for
him. He had considerable money with
him.
John jolly ovcrtnnkcd with liquid
Joy ai Golden one day this week. aud
is charged with carrying on several
gallons outside Of his hide. lie Will
have to answer to the District Court.
The Rev. J. =. Lucas. who has bccn
chaplain of the Pcni'cn,iary for iour
years. Inns been succeeded by Rev. J.
q. Blake of siivcrton. The Rev. Mr..
Lucas will 20 to Colorado Springs. his
former home. to rest
N. II. Tombiin. George ". wiilIamf
and W. ". Drggc. OF Boulder. have
purchased the townsi,- of Scdcrlaud
and will Immediately exploit tho prop
cr;y with view Of increasing tho pop.
ulaiion of the town.
Headquarters have been opened AZ
Trinidad by ID. y. fiiion for the pur.
posi- OF pa,roiiinE and conserving tho
now Las Animas forest reserve In this
and Hu-rfano counties. Three rang.
css will be assigned to the district.
Scientists tell us that. on an average.
tho carth'a crust ID only fifteen miles
deep and the inside Ia a boiling. nrcth.
inE mass of lava Someone ought TO
speak To these Colorado schooimarms
aboa, walking too hard ou the ground.
Word has been received that n pro
ccssion of nifty covered wagons loft
Grand Island. Nebraska. and vicinity.
this week. and tnat their objective
point IL the Arkansas valley. a srcat
many OF these immigrants have tho
means TO purchase small farms.
Frank II. fockcy. cs.poiicc judge.
who failed Of appointment when tho
ncw City Council assumed the rcins OF
municipal government. threatens to ap
peal TO tho state authorities to test the
eoasti,utionaii;y OF the Law passed by
tho Sixtcon,h Assembly. making here
tofosc elective officers appoin,ivc.
County commissioners at Fort Col.
iins have decided TO bridge the foudro
river. ten miles from Fort Collins. This
decision was reached while the county
commissioners and three members Of
tho City Council we're marupncd an
hour and twenty minutes in the mid.
die Of tho river by baking team.
John Noiou. well known IA the pro
prictor Of several large gambling
houses during the paimy days OF Grip.
pie Greek. IL planning to invcs, So. 900
In improving his property in Manitou.
lie also will build n business block on
the main street, Solon has maintained
a residence at Manitou for a number OF
years.
Tho Denver Marble aud Granite Com.
.pany has Just completed a magnificent
granite monument to be placed over
the grave Of the late Ex-Governor Davis
II. Waite. The monument ~ the Gift
Of the Western Federation of Miners
and will be unveiled by that organisa-
tion with proper ceremonies at the
cemetery In Aspen on Decoration Day.
A company is being formed at steam.
boat Springs by Clinton Biveas and
Claude II. Rowiette for the piping OF
natural gas to that city from the
Charles Helsey ranch. where there Is
n strong flow Of gas out Of the earth.
The Helscy ranch is four miles north
Of Steamboat Springs. and within half
a mile Of the Republican mine on Cop
per range.
Charles Scherard. Santa Fe freight
train brakeman. while walking on the
train to the cabposc in stiff wind.
at La lun,a. was blown from the top
of one of the cars and fell between
two others. He was dragged coo feet
and was found on the track uncon.
scious with one leg broken. He was
taken to the Santa Fe hospital and
probably will not recover.
Judge W. II. Thompson Of Greeley.
Colorado. died at sanItarium in Lin.
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