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Newspaper
Rocky Ford Enterprise
Location
Rocky Ford, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1900
Page
2
In a tense scene Bluebell contemplates leaving with Adair Rothes as Kruger’s demands loom and Ladysmith braces for siege. They acknowledge danger, parting paths, and the looming prospect of battle as civilians and soldiers brace for the defense.
In Natal Bluebell Leslie meets Doctor Rothes and the millionaire Gerald Moore as Boer marching news arrives. Rothes warns of danger and pleads for Bluebell’s safety while Moore urges removal from New Kelso. Tense exchanges hint at secrets and looming peril on the veldt.
The Boston Transcript notes Hong Kong, despite sanitation and drainage, remains highly unhealthy due to tropical heat and humidity. Narrow streets and shaded rear courts limit light and ventilation, while mossy damp grounds replace grass. Residents appear pale and exhausted from exertion. long-term health risks are implied.
Reports from Tien-Tsin and Pekin describe shelling, fires, and damaged rails as foreign troops and civilians adapt to worsening conditions. Dispatches cite empress confidences, Boxers, and rising amid mobs, with troops from Britain, Japan, Russia and France reinforcing the area.
In Tung Chow missionaries urge Minister Conger to send a guard to escort fifteen women and children to Pekin after soldiers refused protection. The viceroy of Chi Li Province resists more guards. Last night eleven converts were killed at Huang Teun and several at Feng. Rail stations at Lay Fang and Lo Fa were destroyed. Mission work in North China is reported crushed.
In St Louis June 10, clashes between strikers and authorities produced three deaths and multiple injuries including C Edward Thomas and George Rine, both struck by deputies. Fred Boehm and Ed Burkhardt were killed or gravely wounded as lawmen faced rioters near a six story Washington avenue building housing the sheriff’s posse headquarters.
London dispatch reports the Boers ripped up about twenty one miles of Lord Roberts’ railway between America Siding and Roodeval in the Transvaal. The disruption could hinder supplies while General Kelly-Kenny pursues the raiders and aims to reopen the line. Buller advances into Boer territory near the GanSolo area as frontline observers note the war continues.
A daytime crash on Warwick's Union railroad suburban line killed four people and injured about twenty, with Lieutenant Governor Kimball among the likely fatally hurt. Motorman Burroughs, following a switch signal on the single track toward Oakland Beach, caused the end on collision between two cars. Several injured are in precarious condition awaiting updates.
Experiments show vessels with fish fin imitate propellers to gain power, signaling a water travel revolution. The piece notes nature's ways as best and mentions Hostetters Stomach Bitters as a cure for indigestion and biliousness. It cites Mexico cottonseed oil production around 3,300,000 pounds annually with 31,000,000 pounds consumed in 1899 at about 12 cents per pound and Juan Brittingham building a plant near Durango to process oil from the Durango belt.
An advertisement promotes Allen's Foot-Ease powder for swollen feet with a 25 cent price and free sample from Allen S. Olmsted LeRoy N Y. A comic exchange follows about a couple discussing a flat that fits their Navajo rug.
A promotional notice for the Gold Medal Prize Treatise and The Science of Life volumes offers 25 cent pages, engravings, cloth cover, and a full gift set for $1. The Peabody Meds Institute at 4 Bulfinch St Boston claims a million copies sold and invites orders with six cent postage. Also included is a brief dialog line about a man and a girl discussing past loves.
John Morley spoke at Oxford declaring support for Boer settlement and urging an end to the war. He warned the Orange Free State title change blotted out Bree and argued the empire erred in South Africa, calling for a different spirit in settlements.
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