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Newspaper
Rocky Ford Enterprise
Location
Rocky Ford, Colorado, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1903
Page
2
Jean Charteris steps out into a pearly dawn to admire her garden as Decoration Day brings festive crowds to a western town. A freckled boy Billy and Rosine plan to accompany her to the country cemetery while Miss Charteris contemplates floral wealth and the past thirty summers.
Two women, Aunt Jean and a young girl, arrange flowers for graves after a sunlit procession. A child’s questions about poverty and loss mix with memories of a vanished family, while Billie watches from the road as a stranger approaches with intent.
In fading light at the Chilton cottage Jean Charteris learns the truth about her child Rosine and her husband’s past betrayals. The couple reconciles after revealing Rose’s honesty and Rosine’s fate, as Billie and Rosine play nearby and the night settles over the village.
A Chicago Record-Herald narrative recalls Frank Thorn once bold and brave, now an old toper in ragged clothes. His Grand Army badge gleams as rain falls and crowds pass, a veteran humbled by war, loss, and drink.
Short telegraphs report that actress Maude Adams plans a tour of the Holy Land. The item lists other brief European and U S notes including notable deaths, sporting deals, and political rumors from May. It preserves quick hits on figures like Vincent Figaro and Sybil Sanderson, plus shipping and labor stories.
London observers criticize Count Cassini’s assertion that Kishineff troubles stem from Jewish money lenders. The Jewish World editor offers 250 dollars to any American charity named by Cassini to substantiate the claim to three prominent Americans.
Denver May 22 The Citizens' Alliance and the labor executive committee have signed a settlement ending the Denver strike. The agreement sets arbitration for wage hours and conditions, allocates ten arbitrators with an eleventh neutral, and orders all strikes and boycotts to be lifted. It also reinstates workers where possible and dismisses several court actions with costs. The document names J C Craig as Alliance president and D C Coates as labor committee chairman.
A series of tornadoes hit multiple Kansas communities on May 22. In Saline County Assyria suffered two deaths and about a dozen injuries as a Olson family home was demolished and a boy’s body found far from the site. Bridgeport and Ashland reported extensive crop and property damage with no reported fatalities. Wright and Blaine also endured demolished buildings and unroofed homes but no severe injuries.
California promotion committee reports four canneries will hire about 4000 workers beyond current supply to handle the big fruit crop. Fruit growers say over 3000 harvest workers are needed, with potential crop losses up to 50 percent if not addressed. Committee denies attempts to import cheap labor to compete with union labor.
A $1,000,000 sugar beet corporation filed papers as Western Sugar and Land Company with the secretary of state. Base of operations will be El Paso and Mesa counties, principal office in Colorado Springs, incorporators Alfred Hand J R McKinnie and R P Davy. Plans include growing sugar beets cane and saccharine products, manufacturing sugar and molasses, establishing refineries, dealing in lands, building reservoirs and irrigation. Branch offices planned for Grand Junction and Scranton Pennsylvania.
President Theodore Roosevelt traveled from early yesterday morning through the Willamette valley ending in Portland after a Salem stop of three hours at the capitol where he spoke on citizenship. He also halted at Oregon City, a manufacturing town south of Portland, with crowds greeting him with enthusiastic reception along the route.
The 115th Presbyterian Church of the United States assembly met in Los Angeles on May 22 with 600 plus commissioners. Rev Dr Robert F Coyle of Denver won the moderator post on the second ballot after Rev Henry Van Dyke's annual sermon. The gathering included a notable mix of conservatives and liberals and a large contingent of young delegates. There were twelve colored commissioners accredited to the assembly.
The Uncompahgre Valley Waters Association was incorporated May 20 with $100000 capital. Incorporators include John C. Bell George S. Conklin and others to acquire the Gunnison tunnel and distributing canals built by the government. Territory covers Uncompahoe valley from Ouray county north to Gunnison river. Shares are 100000 at $1 each, assessment up to $24 per share, organized for twenty years with main office in Montrose and Delta branch. Stockholders meetings in Olathe Montrose county.
In Omaha on May 22 a lockout affected seventy five colored waiters and cooks hired to relieve strikers as the restaurants closed pending settlement talks. Two large department stores rehired old drivers on the prior schedule while several small places also settled with their workers. one hundred deputies were discharged though many remain on night duty. The chief of police says the strike is being settled piecemeal with no anticipated further trouble.
Bozeman Montana May 22 A district forty miles square east of Forsythe is devastated by Rocky Mountain grasshoppers eating crops and forage cattle are driven from the area as fields lie stripped. In contrast another Montana area is buried under three feet of snow. Professor R A Colley of the Agricultural College reports the infestation.
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