Rocky Ford enterprise., 1909-03-26
STATE NEWS ITEMS

OF 1Orty-nve thousand DrlcKS day.
The fourth class postoffices of
Cortez and Dolores will be made pres
idential after April 1st, with salary of
$1.100 each.
The plant of the Colorado Briquette
Company at Grand Junction was de-
stroyed by fire on the 18th inst. The
loss is estimated at $4,000.
Canon City has increased the salary
Of its mayor from SIS a month to $50
per month. Aldermen will hereafter
receive $25 a month instead of $40.
II. H. Tammen of the Denver Post
is building 4 $4,000 residence on Cap
itol Hill in Denver. Envious contem-
poraries insist that it should be
painted yellow.
The Denver, Laramie & Northwest
ern Railroad Company will purchase
forty acres Of school land east of Den
yer for a town site, the cost, 1t is said.
to be 5000 per acre.
Plans are being drawn for par
ochial school to be erected for st. Jo-
seph's Catholic parish at Fort Collins
at a cost of $4,000. The great influx
Of population. especially Of beet work
ers, has created a demand for Cath
Ollie school.
Active work was begun on the 18th
inst. on the Greeley-Poudre Irrigation
system when engineers started final
surveys for the building of the Nc
Grew & 0mfield reservoir and the ex-
tension of the Pierce lateral ditch east
ward.
The state convention of the Farm
ers' Educational and Cooperative
Union at Pueblo passed resolutions
condemning the delay Of the Legisla-
ture in acting on needed legislation
and a telegram to that effect was sent
to the proper officials In Denver.
Fearing repetition Of the flood OF
1894. On account OF the heavy snowfall
during the winter. the directors Of the
Pueblo Business Mems Association Is
taking steps toward Strengthening the
levees Of the Arkansas river and other
wise protecting the city from the flood.
The Farmers Educational and Co.
operative Union. at its meeting in
Pueblo. by unanimous vote of dele
gates. representing 10000 Colorado
farmers. gave its approval to the ac-
tion Of the Arkansas District Valley
Union in its demand for n nat rate OF
IS per ton for all beets grown this
year.
United States District Attorney
Ward has started suit for the gov
ernment to recover s5s .s9S.60 from the
estate OF Samuel A. Gutshail as an IN
demnity for 3,926,44O feet OF timber al
legged to have been cut from govern.
ment reserves In the Montrose land Of
flee district between the year 1902 and
1908.
Resident Trustee McCaffery and
Superintendent Deacon Of the Union
Printers Home at Colorado Springs.
have received a telegram from the sec
retary-treasurer Of the /. r. U. author.
izing them to commence construction
Of the proposed addition to the home.
which will be of stone. two stories. and
cost $4,000.
After six years service as water
commissioner OF District No. 2, as an
assistant under State Engineer T. w.
Jaycox, c. NJ. Jump has accepted n po-
sition with the United States reclama-
tion service as general canal superin.
tendent of the Pathfinder dam pro.
ject on the ShoshOne river in north
ern Wyoming.
John NJ. Walker of keota, sixty-fivc
years old. a veteran Of the Civil War.
computing that 1t would require two
days to reach Greeley by rail. started
across the country on foot and made
the forty-five miles in thirteen hours.
Last Fourth of July Walker walked to
Greeley over different route. doing
fifty-five miles in eighteen hours.
The motive power for the Gold Run
cyanide mill at Wall Street, in Boulder
county. has recently been changed
from steam to electric power. the cur
rent being supplied by the Eastern
Colorado Power Company. which in
turn is supplied by the Northern Com
pany. while the power pla2t is being
constructed in Boulder canon.
1t is stated that Frank Shercliffe,
alias Morris, now In the penitentiary
at Canon City. has employed a lawyer
TO appeal his case to the Supreme
Court. Sutcliffe was convicted OIL a
charge OF numbering Leadville sa-
loonkeeper, fifteen years ago. On his
way to state prison he escaped ffom'
Sheriff Bonner of Ieadvilie. and was a
few weeks ago brought back from
Minnesota. where he was acquitted OF
a charge OF train robbing.
F.. N. Pierce. a pioneer of California
Gulch In 1861, and for many years n
prominent lumberman In the state.
died at his home in Denver on the 10th
inst. He was brother.in.law OF the
late Senator H. A. w. Tabor and foun.
der of the Tabor-Pierce Lumber Com
pany. which operated saw mills at
Tennessee Pass, Breckenridge, Red