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Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-10-24
SAYS HE SURE HAS OIL
Believes Gusher Can Be Developed
Between Here and River

Noticing the article in last weeks En-
terprise regarding his search for oil IN
this neighborhood B. F. Knapp. an oil
locator who appears to use the divining
rod method, sends US the following par
ticulars:
81 got two attractions within distance
of four miles west of Rocky Ford. |
traced one to south of the feed yards.
where struck the pool and followed it
north of Rocky Ford but south OF the
river. 1t appeared very strong and be-
lleye gusher could be developed less
than 500 feet deep.
The other followed to two miles north
of Fowler and there | found that the
Fowler company had drill on the loca-
ton. in the center of the pool which is
200 feet wide. They are sure to strike
oil if they go down about 400 feet. and
| believe it will be gusher.
never have failed with my instrument.
1t is something new and only one other
like it that | know of. 1t is natures
scientific instrument. know lots Of
people are seeptical on this point. but
nevertheless it is true as steel. as will
shortly be demonstrated at Fowler.
am anxious to promote a company to
drill and it will not be very long till !
will be at liberty to more thoroughly
work in the oil field. which will be so
close to Rocky Ford that your people
will get the full benefit of the enterprise" p"
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-10-24
Racer Goes Back East

Charlie Boyd left on Wednesday for
Assumption. ILL.,. with racing mare that
since fair time has been enjoying life of
ease in Rocky Ford livery stable. 1t
appears that the mare was brought to
Lamar last spring without the formalIty
of settling mortgage held upon her by
the State Bank of Assumption. She was
entered on the Santa Fe racing circuit.
but got the flag in her second race at Las
Animas and was brought to this city to
become acclimated before again entering
the speed ring. Not long since the bank
is said to have got wise" as to where the
mare was at,">and put their case in the
hands of Glenn & Goblin. with the result
that she is returning to her native heath.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-10-24
FANNIN KILLS WIFE
Former Rocky Ford Man Then COM
mits Suicide-Woman's "friend"
Blamed for Tragedy

Enterprise readers who were acquaint-
ed with Mrs. L. E. Fannin and son
William. former residents of this city, and
who still own some property on the east
side, will be shocked at the following
news from the Denver papers of Tues
day.
"A prediction of murder made months
ago by the police was last night fulfilled
when William L. Fannin. 80 years old,
plumber, in jealous rage.slashed the throat
of his wife, Bertha. with razor. and
while she bled to death on the kitchen
floor fled from the house at 1922 Cali
fornia street and took his own life by
swallowing carbolc acid.
The murder and suicide were the out
come of a series Of quarrels between
Fannin and his wife over a third man.
and when Fannin was arrested on June
% of this year for threatening to shoot
his wife the police declared they feared
he would some day kill her.
He got the razor at the home of his
aged mother, Mrs, L. E. Fannin, z59
Larimer street, with whom he had been
living since he and his wife separated a
few months ago. A few hours before he
killed his wife he asked his mother to 60
at once with him to California. saying he
wanted TO go away from Mrs. Fannin
and Roy Stoutsemburger. the "other
man."
The mother was unable to go to Cali
fornia. and then Fannin armed himself
with the razor. He laughed and joked
with the aged mother while he sat at the
supper table, although the weapon with
which he intended to end his wife's life
was then in his pocket.
The couple had been married about
year and half. and Roy is said to have
come into their life few months ago."
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-10-24
Teachers VIII Draw Full Pay

H. M. Barrett of East Denver High
School, as president of the Colorado
Teachers association. has been cores
ponding with the school boards Of the
state concerning the matter of getting full
pay for all teachers who attend the an
nual meeting Of the State Teachers
Association in Pueblo. Nov. "a to 26. He
reports that all the boards from whom he
has heard up to date have granted the
full amount of salary for the time to be
spent in Pueblo.
The Denver office Of the State Teach
ers association is this week sending out to
all teachers of the state blank enrolment
cards for the coming session at Pueblo.
These cards are to be returned. and
each teacher so registered will be assign
ed room in advance, so that no one
need leave for Pueblo under any uneer-
tainty as to accommodation.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-10-24
weitzer Teacher Acquitted

Almost the entire population of the
Weitzsr school district was in town last
Saturday to attend the trial of Miss Nellie
Joy. the young Weitzer teacher, who was
charged with administering excessive
punishment to the little son of C. S.
Warren.
The case came up before Judge chrt-
ton but was taken to Judge Fenlason's
court on change of venue. The latter's
courtroom was altogether inadequate to
hold the crowd so the Judge moved to the
rooms of the Otero Agricultural associ-
alton. A Jury was impanneled and after
hearing the evidence returned verdict
Of acquittal after short deliberatlon,
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-10-24
SnALL-POX SITUATION
Health Officer Reports the Disease
Well Under Control

There are now eighteen houses under
quarantine in town. 10 soma houses
there are more than one sick.
Nothing unexpected or surprising has
occurred. All the cases thus far have
contracted the disease. 81 far as we can
learn. from the families where it had
been mistakenly called chicken-pox or
sometimes Cuban itch,
There will yet be some new cases. but
not in such numbers as we had last week
and two weeks ago. believe we are
now at the worst.
One lesson the community should take
to heart, chicken pox is. under the law
of the stats, a quaratinable disease.
Had those first cases, even under the
mistaken diagnosis. been promptly and
properly reported to me, this epidemic
would never hove amounted to much.
L. P. BARBOUR, Health Officer.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-10-24
BUSINESS CHANGES
Hardware and Confectionery Stores
Sold This Week

On Monday of this week big business
deal was closed in this city when John L.
Bass, the hardware and furniture man.
disposed of his large and flourishing busi-
ness to Nichols g. Austin of Bristol. Ac-
cording to the terms Of the deal Mr.. Bass
will not give possession Of his store until
the first of the year. but sufficient de-
>posit was made to guarantee that the
purchasers will live up to their contract
and carry through the deal. which invol-
ives about s25.ooo.
Mr.. Bass has accomplished great things
since embarking in business in Rocky
Ford-havlng quadrupled an already
large business-and The Enterprise is
pleased to announce that he will still be
identified with the business interests of
this city. Within short time Mr.. Bass
will begin work upon fine two-story
brick block on the northeast corner Of
Main and Walnut. which he hopes to
have ready for occupancy by the close of
this year.
Art W. Black. who is known to our
people as genial and capable young man
this week went into business for himself
in this city. when he purchased the to-
baoeo and confectionery store of w. R.
Davies on South Main street. As our
readers know BLACK will treat you white
and he'll undoubtedly build up a fine
trade.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-10-24
0LD-TIMER GONE
Pneumonia Claims Dick ValIandig-
ham After an Illness Of but
Five Days

This community was grievously shock
ed on Monday to learn of the passing, at
an early hour that morning. of Richard
L. Vallandigham. after being bedfast for
but five days.
In the early days when this section Of
the Arkansas Valley. was range ooun-
try, there was no more familiar cowboy
figure than "Diok" Vallandigham. He
was known to everyone. With the set
tling of the range "Dick" became ranch
er. but he was still the genial chap whose
likable qualities endeared him to every
one and a. his passing a legion of firm
friends were left to mourn.
On Wednesday last "Dick" returned
from sheep buying trip to Trinidad.
where he contracted such severe cold
that the services Of a physician were re-
quired and he was found to be suffering
from pneumonia. Everything possible
was done to counteract the disease. but
to no avail. and the end came suddenly as
noted above.
Mr.. VallandIgham was 81 years of age
and leaves broken hearted wife in this
city and an aged and feeble mother at
the old home in Missouri to mourn his
demise.
Funeral services were conducted at
the stricken home. 2ll North Twelfth
street, on Wednesday afternoon by Rev.
Fred Golf. and were attended by large
conoourse of friends.
lnterment was in Valley View ceme-
terry, where the beautiful burial cere-
mony Of Rocky Ford Lodge No. ll4z,
3. P. o. Elks was conducted over an
esteemed brother and true-hearted
friend.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-10-24
DROPS DEAD
Coroner Investigates and Finds
Death Due to Natural Causes

A dispatch to the Enterprise received
yesterday morning brought news of the
sudden death in East Pembroke, N. Y,
the night before Of William G. Searls,
aged SIS. brother of o. W, Searls of
this city. Because of the suddenness
with which he was taken the coroner
made an investigation but found that
death was due to heart failure.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. w. Searis left last
week for Lincoln. Neb.. to attend the
wedding OF their son and the news was
yesterday sent them by their daughter,
MIS-. r. h. Scott.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-10-24
TRIALS OF NEGRO
BURGLAR SUSPECTS
Begin in District Court at
La Junta This Week
C0L0RED PAIR is LEE
CARROLL AND GEO. LEWIS
Former Yesterday Found Guilty of
BurgIaries of Rocky Ford Homes,
Latter Swiped Clothes


District court convened in La
Junta this week with Judge Rizer
on the bench. There is total of
95 cases on the docket, in Two of
which the people of Rocky Ford
are particularly interested, and in
each of them the defendant is
negro who is alleged to have for
saken the straight and narrow
path.
The first to come up is that of
George Lewis, the colored sport
from Pueblo who ingratiated him
self into the good graces of our
colored gentry until they EXTEND
ed to him the hospitality of their
Main street home along in Sep
tember.
About 2 o'clock one morning
one of the men heard someone
leave the house and becoming
suspicious started an investigation
which revealed the fact that
George mad flown, and with him
most of their best clothes and
some $50 in cash.
George was captured in Trini-
dad while sporting a suit identi-
fed as one of those missing from
the Main street domicile, which
resulted in his appearance before
the district judge.
Lee Carroll is the negro who
was arrested by the night mar
shal of Sugar City in August last,
after the fellow had put up a gun
fight in a desperate effort to kill
or main the officer SO that he
might make his escape.
Carol had been suspicioned as
the party who had for several
weeks terrorized the residents of
this city with series of success
full robberies and the officers were
trying to find his cache in La
Junta when the fellow evidently
became suspicious and made his
getaway, but not until a watch
that was identified as the property
of J. o. Baker had been pawncd
by the light-complexioned coon.
But the officers got the goods
on Carroll when he was searched
at the time of his arrest and was
relieved of watch and other ar
ticles that were identified as those
stolen from farmers home in
Holbrook the night before his
capture, and he was yesterday
found guilty by the Jury and was
sentenced to the penitentiary for
term of from seven to ten years.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-10-24

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Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-10-24
GEORGE HILL
DISCHARGED
Shooting Case "Nolled" by
Prosecuting Attorney
STATES WITNESS HAD
TOLD CONFLICTING STORIES
This with Defendants Alibi And
Hung Jury of First Trial
Caused the Dismissal


In the district court at Pueblo
on Saturday the case of the Peo-
pie vs.. George Hill was "nolled"
by instructions from District At
torney Davidson.
This was the case in which
George Hill, young fellow from
this city, was charged with shoot
ing James Gray. Rio Grande
watchman, in the railway yards at
Pueblo.
Hill and his companion, Bud
Glessner, were held in the county
Jail at Pueblo for several weeks,
and when placed on trial the first
of this month Glessner was dis
charged by Judge Rizer and the
jury voted 8 to 4 for the acquittal
of Hill, who since Oct. 3 has bsen
held under $500 bond for re-
trial.
Since this trial the defendants
attorney, Fl. M. Minor of this city
had become possessed of addition
al evidence that Gray had told
stories of the shooting in conflict
with his testimony on the stand
and the states attorney becoming
aware of this fact judged it best
to withdraw the charge.
The trial of Hill, in some re-
spects was one OF the most dram
attic that had ever been staged in
the district court at Pueblo. The
veteran watchman, Gray, posi-
lively identified Hill as the man
who had shot him and in court he
insisted in no uncertain terms,
and with considerable accompany
ing profanity, that he had been
the victim of revolver held by
the Rocky Ford youth. Gray
showed considerable animosity
and feeling towards the prisoner,
pointing 10 him dramatically and
declaring that lie was the "sallow
shrimp" who had shot him down.
In contradiction Hill told
straight forward story of his
movements and swore tnat he was
not in the vicinity of the railway
yards on the night of the shoot
ing. Witnesses testified that
neither of the boys had revolver,
nor money with which to buy one,
and yet another witness swore
thst Gray had told him while in
the hospital that the man who
shot him was six feet tall while
Hill is only five feet four inches
in height.
Had the case gone to retrial At
torney Minor had a witness who
was prepared to swear that Gray
told him that both Hill and Gless
ner had shot at him, in direct con-
tict with his testimony in court,
and it was these discrepancies in
Gray's stories that discredited his
statements 30 that the prosecuting
attorney knew no credenee would
be placed in his word and it would
be useless to go to trial again.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-10-24
Feed Regulates Flavor.

There is no foundation for the as
sertion that the sweet. rich flavor of
the egg belongs to the breed. That
condition can only be brought about
by the quality Of the tasd
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Woman
Head of Worldwide Organ
ization Makes Her Home on ),
Arkansas Valley Ranch.

Enterprise readers of whom quite well acquainted
with Mrs Belle Harber and especially members of the Agr
cultural whose assistance Europe
be will be greatly interested in the following Poy
which appeared in the Denver Times last Sunday:
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The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1913-08-08
MAYOR HOWSE
IN TO FINISH
SAYS He WILL NOT GIVE WAY TO
ANY CANDIDATE ON COMPROMISE
Was Talk of Compromise - Insists
There Are No Grounds for Such
Movement and Labor Peo-
Pile Are Not Interested.

Mayor Sowse will not step down
and out FOR any candidate, compro-
mise or otherwise. He is in the
race to finish and says he has great
er encouragement to day than since
he announced his candidacy for the
Mayorship under the commission
form of government.
Il am in the race to the end" said
Mayor Howse recently. There
was some talk of myself and Judge
Meeks quitting the race in favor of
some compromise candidate on
whom the labor element could agree,
but | have learned that there was lit
tie grounds for such a movement
There was really nothing to it. Sew
eral of my friends were approached
on the subject and were urged to get
me to agree to get off the track for
the good of the party,
Il have served the people of Nash
vile for four years and they know
where / stand. | am a Democrat and
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1913-08-08
TO THE MEN OF THE TENTH
CAVALIY.

Can Editorial from the Evening
Star, daily paper published in Win
chester, Va. July 2S)
1t is to be regretted that the Bal
timore Sun of Sunday saw fit to print
on its front page a nentirely errone-
Gus statement respecting the CON
duct Of the Negro troopers of the
Tenth Cavalry, who are encamped at
Winchester The Sun, as will ap-
pear in our news columns to-day,
stated that the behavior of the Negro
troopers and the women who parade
the streets with them is becoming a
nuisance, and that the troopers have
crowded white women from the
sidewalks.
Such statements as these are Who'll
ly at varianre with the wacts. 1t is
true that there may be, and very
likely will be, isolated cases where
the troopers of the TENN have be-
come noisy on the streets and given
some offense to some citizens. But
on the whole their behavior in Win
chester has been excellent so far
end VIC have reason to believe that
thep will continue to conduct them
selves as men should who wear the
uniform of the United States Army.
whether they be black or white.
Because a mans skin happens to
be black constitutes no reason why
he should not be treated with fair
ness end consideration if ne conducts
himself in a proper manner in his
bearing toward his felow-men. II
tie troopers of the Tenth Cavalry
lommit offenses against the peace
and comfort of the people of Win
chester, they will be adequately and
promptly punished. If they do not
commit such offenses, and show
themselves to be law-abiding and
properly-behaved men then they are
surely entitled to liberty and freedom.
Colonel Gresham, the commanding
officer Of the Tenth, tells us that his
men are well-behayed, and that such
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1913-08-08
WANT $4,000
FOR WALDEN
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION PLANNING FOR
A FINANCIAL CAMPAIGN
5000 to Be Raised by October L.
Great Opportunity To Help
Falter:ng Institution
Never Before People.

In support of the plans of the Freed
mems Aid Board, of Cincinnati. TO re-
organize Walden University and to
place it on a sound basis so far as
equipment is concerned, the alumni
association, numbering two thousand
or more, has launched a financial
campaign to raise $4,000 Two thou
sand of which is to be put down by
October l.
The alumni and friends Of the
school regard this undertaking as
Walden's greatest opportunity to
strengthen its prestige which has been
for a nalf century astonishingly fat
tering
in speaking of the campaign that
has been planned, a friend Of the in
stitution said: 1T is remarkable that
for ten years under the most trying
circumstances the university has SO
successfully held its own, and it is to
be noted that during all these years
of embarrassment it has not been
conspicuously before the public ask
} ing for money.
Nashville has never been given an
opportunity to donate largely to this
end of the institution which has
held such a unique position in the
educational, social and commercial.
life OF this city,
The plans under which the alumni
are working will place before every
citizen an opportunity to assist in
this worthy call Indeed their plans
will be a positive challenge. to the
interest and beneficence Of the friends
of the institution. The club. system
will BE- operated by the following lead
ers; w. d. Hawkins, chairman, Club
No. / Miss Vera Lee Moore, secretary
and treasurer, Club No. 2; Miss Fill
lie Lloyd, Club No. 3; Mrs. |. B.
Scott, Club No. 4; Prof w. L, Brown.
Club No. 5; DR.. w. H. Walker, Club
No. G. Mrs. Florence johnson Ford,
Club No. Z; Mrs. Lulu Jolly Derrick,
Club No s; Miss Mamie E. Perkins,
Club No. 9; Miss Selene McGavock,
Club No 10: Mrs. Ida Bell Evans
LUckie, Club No. II.
Bishop T. H. Henderson. of Chatta-
nooga, comforting with the alumni,
announced the first ground breaking
of the new building, October 6, at
the session of the Tennessee Annual
Conference.
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1913-08-08

The Literary Club met last Wednes-
day evening with quite a large atten-
dance. The special purpose of the
meeting was to raise educational funds
for Turner Normal College A sum
of SO was realized for the same The
subject for general discussion was
Success and How to Win It," led by
DR.. Giddings and others. One of the
principal speakers of the evening was
Mr.. Jones, of the Junior College Class
of Fisk University, who spoke briefly
on the subject "The Uplift OF the Ne
gro Race Duet by Mesdames Mar;
tha Turner and S. r. Goodall Recita-
tion from Dunbar, Miss Bertha Meeks.
After the program refreshments were
served. Miss Martha Stratton, secreta-
ry of the club, is reported i'll this
week