Rocky Ford enterprise., 1908-05-01
COLORADO NEWS

A postonice has been established at
Clifford. Lincoln county. with W. Mike
Monahan as postmaster.
Lewis +. Weber and Ben MCGEE.
TRUSTEES. who escaped from the peniten'
tiary April 23rd. were captured next
day at Skaguay and taken back TO
Canon City.
Pains famous Carnival and Naples
and Eruption OF Vesuvius" will be the
big night attraction at Overland park
In Denver during the Colorado inter
state fair and exposition. September
7th to 18th.
The strike Of the $50 marble cut
ters employed by the Colorado Yule
Marble Company has been settled. the
men to work nine hours instead OF
eight. and to receive an Increase Of 30
cents day In wages.
Henry Van Kleeck has been ap.
pointed as delegate to represent the
Denver Chamber of Commerce ut the
National Conference of Peace Arbitra.
tion which will meet. as II annually
does. at Mohonk Lake. New York.
May 2lst.
The town OF Craig. one OF the prin.
cipal places along the line OF the Mof.
fat road In ROutt county. has decided
to incorporate by u vote OF eighty 10
forty-nine. This Is the culmInation OF
an agitation that has covered the past
two years,
Effective May LIST L. ID. Knowles.
general agent In Milwaukee for several
years OF the Missouri Pacific system.
has been appointed general western
agent Of the same system. with head
quarters at Denver. Mr.. Knowles has
been In the railroad business twenty.
five years.
Mayor Green Of Greeley issued n
proclamation April gard. ordering that
NIL dogs In the city must be either
muxxied or temporarily confined by
their owners. because many dogs
have recently been bitten by or ex.
posed to biting by a dog suffering with
hydrophobia. Every dog not muxxled
or confined was ordered to bc killed
by the marshal. l--s-.
In the District Court at Canon City
tho United States Reduction and Re.
filming Company was granted q judg'
mcnt against the Denver 4 Rio Grandc
Railway Company for 500 900 for the
burning Of tho Union mill At Florence
two years ago. This reduction com.
pany brought suit for S:50.000. claim.
Ing that tho fire started from n spark
from passing Rio Grandc engine.
A committee from tho State Bar As
ISOLATION. headed by Hnlstcd l.. Ritter.
held memorial services In the Federal
Court at Denver. April :3rd. passing
appropriate resolutions on the death
OF various members during the past
year. Tho members who passed away
were Charles W. Tankcrniey. Herman
II. Dunham. Albert q. Gricr. John II.
Murphy. Charles ]. Thomson and
Charles 81. Brown.
AT Gicnwood Springs on the night Of
April ::nd. John L. TAYLOR. convicted
OF sccord degree murder for killtnf:
his wife. and sentenced to not less than
twenty years In the pcnit.n,iaE,
cheated the court by hanging himself
In his cell at the city jail. lie rscd a
rope male OF strips of nis bedding. lie
was found shortly after midniIh, and
had evidently bccn dead for several
hours. The crime Of which he was con.
victcd was killing his wife Mt Coal
Basin last July. His attorneys tried
to prove tina, his wife committed SUI
eide.
Considerable attention was attracted
by n half.grown mountain lion cxhib'
tied In the window of the Moffnt road
ticket office In Denver. The animal
was captured by II. !. Horne on Gore
range. up the Moffat road. and will be
sold to park In Washington. Some
time this spring J. A. Loring. supcrin'
tcudcnt Of the Denver City Park ZOO
intends TO 20 up to an elevation oi
5000 feet In tho country near the Moi.
fat road and capture number o'
young mountain sheep. These lambs
will be brought down to the Pinncy
ranch. 5000 feet high. where they Will
be kept until they are old enough to
be brought to Denver and placed In the
park.
Governor II. A. Buchtcl has been
asked to give $4,000 from some state
fund for the construction OF topo'
graphical map. l6x11 feet. from which
copies may be made for exhibition nj
tho International Congress Of Tuber.
culosis to be held at Washington next
September. committee from the
Chamber of Commerce and the Den
yer Medical Society called upon the
governor with this request. Those on
the committee were T.. l.. Scholtz. w.
F. Il. Mills and Drs. W. n. Besgs, w.
W. Grant. q. ". Holden. II. d. Whit
ney, Charles Dennison and George II.
Slower. The governor may possibly
be able to appropriate the sum asked
for from the building nnd.
At the annual meeting of the State
Board OF Charities and Corrections al
Denver April 23rd. Rabbi w. s. Fried
man was reelected president OF the
board. All the members were present
including DIR. d. II. Dougan. Mrs. James
Williams, Father Malone. Mrs. Caspa'
and Judge Thomas OF breckenridge
Mrs. Stanley NJ. Caspar was elected
vice president and Father Malone was
delegated to attend the national con
vention of charitable organizations In
Richmond this year. Reports from the
various Institutions controlled by the