Rocky Ford enterprise., 1910-02-18
COLORADO NEWS

News is received that President d.
II. Moffat has ordered twenty new To-
comotives for the Moffat road.
The pension application of Raplh Da.
ing with it $1,000 back pension.
The Farmers and Merchants State
Bank of Fort Lupton has been incor-
porated with capital of $4,000.
Contracts amounting to $4,000 have
been made for free band concerts in
the City Park at Denver next sum.
mer.
| A carload of hogs was sold on the
Denver market on the 11th inst. for
sS.75 per hundred. which is the record
price up to that date.
Company A, Second Infantry. Ma
tional Guard of Colorado, has been
mustered in at Colorado Springs with
a membership of seventy-eight. DR..
Paul NJ. Lennox was elected captain.
Canon City automobilists have taken
up the movement for the Arkansas
valley automobile boulevard. and viii
Join Pueblo in extending the road from
Pueblo to Canon City.
About 1000 carloads of potatoes left
the Greeley district during January.
and with a steady market and fair
prices. as many should go out this
month but for the shortage of cars.
Andrew Carnegie has written Rev.
G. B. Stewart, pastor Of the First NJ.
L. church at Colorado Springs. that he
will give $1,000 toward the fund being
raised to buy a new pipe organ, which
will cost $500.
Surrounded by her family and
friends. Mrs. Abigail Dunham. the old.
est member Of the Society Of Union
Colony pioneers, celebrated her nine
ty-third birthday at Greeley on the 9Th
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The medical inspection Of the
schools of Trinidad has Just been fin
ished. 1t shows that of the 1.733 child
rem examined. 43i or Just twenty-five
per cent, have defective eyesighe. Only
fifty. or less than three per cent, have
discoverable defects of hearing.
Representative, Rucker OF Colorado
has introduced bill providing for the
extension to include the Philippine
islands trade of the coast-wise laws
which restrict to United States vessels
the transportation Of passengers and
merchandise between ports OF the
United States.
flee last month were $1OO.3SS. as
against $SO.l45 for January. 1909. an
Increase of twenty-five per cent. This
percentage Of increase was exceeded
at but three offices in the country.
and at but one in the West, Portland.
Ore. The increase at Kansas City was
thirteen per cent, Omaha eleven per
cent. and Salt Lake ten per cent.
The second state indoor rifle match
Just been finished. The first prize
was won by troop A OF Walsenburg.
the second by troop d Of Boulder and
the third by company NJ Of Golden.
The contesting teams did the shooting
In their own quarters and the results
were sent to the executive committee
in Denver. who made the decisions and
will award the prizes. so
DR.. c. A. Hanson, representative Of
and the Advent churches and organiza.
tions Of Wyoming. Colorado. Nebraska,
Kansas and Missouri. assured the
Boulder Commercial Association that
1t is the purpose Of the church orsani.
zation OF the five states to greatly en-.
large the Boulder sanitarium and to
make 1t equal to the Battle Creek insti.
tuition. 1t Is already crowded to its
capacity and the output OF the health
food factory has reached its limit.
The 100000 necessary to be raised
at Lamar for the Denver q Gulf rail-
way has been deposited in a Lamar
bank. 1t will be turned over to the
directors Of the railroad upon its COM
pletion. which is to be not later than
July /. 1911. The railroad also gets
twenty acres Of land for roundhouses
and yards. and residents furnished the
right OF way for fifty-one miles south.
The line will run to Texhoma, Texas
The Colorado Springs City Fedora
ton OF Colored women's Clubs has
addressed a petition to Manager Nye
of the Colorado Springs opera house.
asking him to cancel the engagement
OF "The Clansman." booked to give
two performances February 26th. Tho
petition cites recent riots and blood
shed in Southern towns as a direct
result, 1t says. OF the production of
THE Clansman," and says the play
"engenders race prejudice and hatred"
Superintendent Taylor OF the Central
Colorado Power Company is installing
the big generators at the power house
in Middle Boulder canon. The initial
installation will be 10000 kilowats
the water coming to the wheels with u
head OF 1.s60 feet from coming through
concrete pipes over twelve miles from