Rocky Ford enterprise., 1908-07-10
COLORADO NEWS

at an early date at cost OF $2OO,0Oo.
1t has been given out on official au-
thority that work on the Union Paclfic
roundhouse at Hugo will be resumed
early in July.
G. w. Shelton. county treasurer OF
Morgan county. died June 3Oth OF peri.
tonitis. He was completing his second
term in office.
The Leadville tonnage for the month
of June was about the same as for the
previous month, 65,O00 tons OF all
classes of ore.
A special election for the purpose
of approving the issuance by the city
for $55,000 in water bonds was held
at Fort Morgan and carried by vote
of 2S4 to 16.
Mrs. Martha A. Shute of the State
Horticultural Society received an
elaborate fruit exhibit from Fremont
county for display during the Demo
cratic convention.
J. G. Gwynn, who has been acting
as chief engineer of the Denver & Rio
Grande railroad since the death OF
Chief Engineer f. J. Yard. has been
appointed permanently to the office he
has been filling.
The Green Mountain Falls hotel at
Green Mountain Falls, costing $4,000,
owned by J. ID. Robertson, was burned
by fire Monday afternoon that orig
mated from an exploding kerosene
lamp.
The following Colorado postmasters
have been appointed: lgnacio. La
Plata county. Hans Aspaas. vice II. L.
Hall, resigned; Schley, Ebert county.
n. II. Baird. vice William Welas, re-
signed.
Approximately $500 acres Of state
| land was sold at auction by Register
John +. Vivian in the office OF the land
board at the State house in Denver
July 1st. The land brought from 81 to
$25 per acre.
A miniature tornado struck Chcraw.
a small settlement ten miles from IA
Junta Wednesday afternoon. Water
in a lake was whirled to height OF
thirty feet. There was no rain but n
heavy hail accompanied the wind.
One mile of the new state highway
| In Las Animas county has been COM
pleted by the convict gang which be-
gan work two months ago. Captain
| Clegborn. brother OF Warden Cleg-
born. who is in charge of the camp.
| says he is well pleased with the pro-
| gress made.
Three troops of the National Guard
on an annual practice march through
the mountains. The trip will last eight
days and will be made through Mount
Vernon canon, Idaho Springs, Black
Hawk. Central City, Tolland, Nedcr-
| land and Boulder. About 100 men will
| make the trip.
According to report issued by Sec
retary of State O'Connor. 40 corpor-
ations were organized in Colorado dur
ing the six months ending May 3lst.
| OF these n large numhei include man
ufacturing companies and irrigation en-
terbrises in which millions of dollars
| are being invested. The fees collected
| by the state for the issuance of incor-
! poration papers alone amounted to
| S39.02O.S5 during the six months.
Under authority OF an act of the
! Sixteenth Legislature. ntenant- Gov
| ernor Harper has just appointed two
commissions to purchase burial places
for old soldiers. One request for an
| appointment came from Cripple Creek
and J. c. Denny. NJ. J. Walsh and Hen.
| ry Gessell were appointed. w. ID. Otis.
X. B. Spencer and J. F. Arbuckle were
appointed for Fort Morgan.
d. p. Maven found himself'the victim
Of record-breaking justice in Pueblo.
At 1880 he stole $3.50 worth OF clothes
and jewelry from an automobile be.
longing to c. F. Morrow OF Lawrence.
| Kansas. while 1t stood in front of the
| Grand hotel. At 2:3O p. m. he was in
| the District Court charged with the
| crime and n few minutes later he had
| been sentenced to one year in the pen
itentiary.
| George y. Raymond, editor of the
Evening Herald OF Durango, who has
; been writing "P. NJ" after his name
! for the past five years. is no longer
postmaster of Durango. having been
succeeded by W. W. Parshall. 1t is
understood that Mr.. Parshall will re.
tain s. w. Strader as deputy and will
! make no changes in clerks. Mr.. Ray
mond proposes to devote his entire
| time to the Herald.
The three children of Adams Clause
at Windsor were burned to death on
| the afternoon of July Cd while locked
in the house in the absence of their
mother, who had gone down town on
| an errand. They were Pauline, aged
5: Alexander. aged 21s and Alma.
| aged seven months. The mother re-
turned Just as the bodies of the chill
| dren were being carried out by the
neighbors and was prostrated by
| grief.
At the meeting of the Colorado State
Federation of Labor, which will con-
vene at Denver August 10th with 200
delegates from 1876 local unions, 1t is
said that the principal question to be
considered will be that of Iolitics
| 1t Is the intention this fall to
have n systematic campaign of the
| full abor vote. To facilitate this the