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Newspaper
Rocky Ford Enterprise
Location
Rocky Ford, Colorado, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1903
Page
2
A miscellany of aphorisms and short items from Rocky Ford Colorado, touching love and poverty, death, Edison, war, and public figures. Snippets mention Buffalo, Burdick and Pennell, Lipton, Edison, Clara Barton, Chamberlain, Morgan, Depew, and Canada’s cigarette ban, all presented in a light editorial tone.
Adjutant General Sherman Bell vows immediate enforcement of the military poll tax, aiming to raise $70,000 for the military fund and to compel counties to collect $1 from every able bodied man. Exemptions include judges, firemen, religious objectors, and certain disabled individuals. The state prepares to pursue delinquents through county attorneys if needed.
The Court of Appeals affirmed the Arapahoe District Court on the How lease dispute over Florence oil land after abandonment allowed canceled leases. It reversed a lower ruling in A W Rucker vs Omaha and Grant Refining, allowing amend pleadings. Other opinions covered Kellogg vs Denver Tramway safety, Zimmerman child death contributory negligence, Roche vs railroad verdict, and Donahue finger injury on a crowded Georgetown to Silver Plume train.
Colorado briefs report on Glenwood Springs strawberry festival in June. Miners Union Idaho Springs plans a general store independence from merchants. Dr O G Place buys Roberts hotel Boulder to run private sanitarium. A mountain sheep sighted near Empire. Bishop Cranston chosen for Colorado conference in Denver next August. K L Wooton named chief of police in El Paso Texas. Dr J N Hall elected VP of American Therapeutic Society in Washington. Frederick W White Jr dies in Pueblo after typhoid fever. Harvard party to explore Colorado Needle mountains camp mid July. Orchard Place and Chervelyn vote to form Englewood. McClurg of Colorado Springs Chamber lectures in New England. Midsummer joint meeting set for Glenwood Springs June 8-9. Dr Pfeiffer donates shade trees at State University. Fort Morgan armory opened May 14. Colorado Springs baseball team leads Western League with 11 wins in 13 games. Benedictine College cornerstone laid in Pueblo May 12. Rev D Paul Rader of Denver regains sight after football injury. Union Grange dedicates new hall south of Fort Collins. George W Washington of Pueblo, publisher, found dead. Black Hawk Stable safe robbed at Leadville. $350 taken. Morrison hotel project linked to John Brisben Walker Jr. Downing bound over for trial in Grand Junction. Conway of Buffalo buys gas pipe for Boulder gas service. Central District Christian Endeavor picks officers. Denver ’03 theme. High school oratorical contest won by John Booth. other placers listed. Miller denies Harriman rail interest. road remains independent. Moffat road to sink wells near Utah Junction. Utah Junction-Leyden line progress. nine miles ready for track.
Denver May 17 The executive committee of organized labor responds to Citizens Alliance claims on arbitration. They state the Alliance statement is false and that organized labor is willing to deal with organized employers. They urge that the right to organize be conceded and that employers select arbitrators for trade differences. They contrast the Alliance with unions and urge arbitration under the State Board of Arbitration while defending the use of strikes and boycotts. The letter is signed by D C Coates, chairman, and Henry M Walker, secretary.
Omaha World-Herald editor and Bryan ally Metcalf signals that if Democratic reorganizers seize control the Bryan wing will back Roosevelt for president. The piece frames harmony as a clash with Cleveland and Kansas City platform demands, hinting a party split may form between Roosevelt supporters and Cleveland loyalists.
President Roosevelt spent a night in a snowstorm near El Capitan and Pohono in Yosemite. He rode through the high Sierras with trusted friends, planned a Raymond Limited train ride, and recalled last night’s solitary camping as among the most pleasant of his life. A Yosemite boy greeted him with a hello, prompting a stern parenting lecture from the President.
Reports from Ouray Leadville and Aspen say snow storms raged last night. Ouray saw five inches on the ground after snowing all day. Aspen experienced heavy snowfall that soon melted.
Kansas officials announce a plan to dip all cattle entering Kansas to curb Texas itch or mange. Governor Bailey will issue the proclamation, and the State Livestock Sanitary Commission will meet next Tuesday to coordinate quarantines with Colorado and outline disease prevention steps.
Washington reports that as war prevention efforts intensify, the War Department backs a plan to train schoolchildren and general citizenry in marksmanship. A Dick militia bill funds national trophies, medals, and cash prizes, with initial shoots at Sea Girt in September and gun clubs nationwide to provide rifles and ammunition to nonmembers.
London May 18. W T Stead's Review of Reviews urges King Edward to break records and tour the United States in 1904. Stead proposes the St Louis exposition as a suitable pretext and warns the monarch risk being overtaken by the Kaiser or the Czar if he delays action.
Governor Bailey appoints N H Loomis general attorney Union Pacific S S Ashbaugh Wichita and F D Smith Kinsley as attorneys to assist Attorney General Coleman in the Colorado Arkansas river waters litigation Pension Commissioner Ware named but likely unable to serve
The Bureau of Statistics reports that colonies account for one fifth of land and about one third of the population. Britain, France, the Netherlands, Germany, Portugal and Belgium govern vast noncontiguous territories, with Africa Oceania and southern Asia largely under distant rule and populations split into East Indian West Indian and Africa groups.
The Szabadsag, published in Cleveland as the oldest largest Hungarian newspaper in the United States, dedicates its Christmas number to promoting a monument to George Washington in Budapest. The issue highlights Hungarians here showing friendship and honors the Kossuth monument in Cleveland, publishing letters from prominent Americans supporting the project.
Keep Your Eye on the sunny San Luis valley for a likely winner this year. The column promises full information from time to time and references the Colorado Bureau of Immigration in Denver as a contact point.
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