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Newspaper
Rocky Ford Enterprise
Location
Rocky Ford, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1900
Page
6
Rocky Ford readers encounter a mosaic of opinions on governance, military readiness, charity, medals as sacrifices, and aging scholars. The piece reflects on public virtue, the value of work, and notable figures like General Lawton and Theodor Mommsen, tying history to present civic duty.
A leading charity notes that widespread good wages lift industrial workers to a freer standard of living and increase support to relatives and acquaintances less fortunate. It contends relief flows from the poor to the very poor, insisting the hour of triumph will come to the ambitious.
London reports wide rumor of Ladysmith relief and Boer retreats with Buller east Warren west, but official war office stays silent. Experts debate plans to attack near Colenso, while attachés depart to Cape Town and censorship suggests only guesswork ahead of news.
Judge Amos Thayer of the United States Circuit Court ordered the release of John B. Reese a member of the American Mine Workers of America from Fort Scott Kansas after granting a writ of habeas corpus. Reese had been jailed for contempt of court tied to a strike action at Western Coal Company mines in Missouri and Kansas.
Moscow Idaho January 16 The Big Potlaten river receded but Kendrick remains largely underwater. Rail damage along the Northern Pacific routes between Voume and Lewiston and a wrecked gent engine blocking the depot hinder travel. Water works and wells ruined. drinking water scarce. Estimated three months to repair rails and flood effects.
A Chicago detective testified in Omaha that Board of Education member M. Cowle accepted bribes to award blackboard contracts. Buckminster, posing as a contractor, said Cowle agreed to win the bid for his firm, with a $125 payoff. Cowle allegedly burned a draft as investigators closed in.
In Mexico City on January 16 Professor Elihu Thomson of Lynn Massachusetts announced a pending patent for a sun furnace. He claims it can smelt ores and produce heat far above an electric furnace, with likely applications in glass making and carbide manufacturing. Metallurgists consider the invention broadly novel and potentially valuable to mining and large smelters.
Denver January report from the Rocky Mountain News details that W W Anderson a lawyer shot Frederick G Bonfils and Harry H Tammen proprietors of the Post in their private office after an altercation over a fire case. Bonfils was wounded in the left breast and neck while Tammen received a shoulder and left wrist wound. Anderson was arrested but released on bond.
New London January 15 Captain W Baron Fersen naval attache to Washington visited for two days to study the submarine arc light created by Yale graduates F G Hall Jr and Q E Burdick The Russian expert praised the device and indicated the government may buy rights to equip its navy A light that does not require air could illuminate wrecks at 200 feet depth enabling photographs of sunken ships
The Elm Branch reports Shanghai dispatches that French warships seized two Chinese gunboats and shelled twenty villages after a boundary dispute at Kwong Chau Wan. In Vegloo a four hour battle left four French dead and twenty eight wounded while Chinese losses were heavier. French expeditions pillaged towns, mandarins surrendered to save their cities, hostages held to deter retaliation.
January 15 report from Mexico describes Yaqui bands conducting guerrilla raids against Mexican troops. A notable incident saw about 100 Indians stampede over 200 horses from a military corral and later seize them for their use. Supplies are hard to deliver amid ongoing skirmishes. General Torres’s forces endure harsh living conditions as progress against the rebellion stalls. American arrivals from Yaqui country corroborate the stalemate against the insurgents.
London January 15. Rifles found in the cargo of the German steamship Bundesrath recently seized off Delagoa Bay by a British cruiser and brought to Durban. The search is ongoing.
London dispatch reports General Buller occupying the south bank of the Tugela at Potgieter's Drift and signaling a forward move behind the Boer lines. He is within fourteen miles of White’s Ladysmith outpost as Boers retreat across the Tugela. Disease at Ladysmith worsens with daily deaths. a St Paul’s cathedral volunteers service sparks mass public homage.
Havana January 13. General Wood removes Federico Mora from the Supreme Court fiscal post citing public service needs after an inquiry into justice administration. Possible successors include Woodbacked Senor Andrade, Senor Pietra formerly editor of Independencia, and Senor Pierra, with Pietra seen as pro American due to years in the United States.
In St Johns Newfoundland on January 13 details emerge of a two masted steamer of nearly 3000 tons that ran ashore at the base of a cliff in St Marys Bay. The crew of about sixty and possible passengers perished as boats were swamped and fire consumed the wreck amid brutal midwinter cold. A messenger from Peters River says a trunk of women's clothing washed ashore there.
Mrs John Corse of 289 Dearborn Avenue was seized shortly after midnight on Chestnut near North Clark, shoved into a cab and robbed of diamonds valued at 600 dollars. She was beaten with lacerations and a bruised face, nearly prostrated. Police in Chicago Avenue are puzzled by the case and suspect the diamonds were visible as she tried to enter a North Clark drug store.
Lake View Field and Will Haines of Navajo county acquire oo acres from Maxwell grant in northern New Mexico near Dorsey station. Sheepmen encroachments force move. Peter Jansen advocates balanced rations for fattening sheep with corn oats bran and salt, stressing regular feeding. A Prowers County writer reviews corn varieties, red and black-hulled white, with yields of 37 and 43 bushels per acre respectively. Captain Upton discusses pruning orchard trees in winter and uses common paint as wound coating. A scattered column covers wagon logistics, cable news costs, and early insurance topics.
E.R. Parsons in Mield and Farm argues that deep work on dry prairie ground enables moisture accumulation and supports trees without irrigation. He cites Samona California and Colorado as examples of dry regions where cultivation, root depth, and soil humus production allow successful orchards despite prolonged droughts and severe winters.
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