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Newspaper
Rocky Ford Enterprise
Location
Rocky Ford, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1901
Page
1
A draft plan promotes attracting new farmers to the Arkansas Valley by inviting former residents and successful farm families to visit their old districts. The aim is to fill arable land near factory ditches with durable farming households, encouraging landowners to relocate and settle in the valley.
Denver reports a rising temperance push as Prohibitionists prepare to campaign in Colorado. Fremont county names Mrs. Mattle Wilson as county superintendent of schools after J. M. Hanks’s death. August tourism soars with record baggage at Denver union depot. Beav er Creek Reservoir Company forms in Fort Collins to build six reservoirs. A bevy of incidents from Denver to Victor include a suicide in Coal Creek and a dynamite blast near Eagles mine. A new 10 000 hotel planned in Colorado Springs, and beet industry draws capital in Grand Junction. An Erie area fight ends with exchanged shots but no injuries.
War Department receives the annual report on Philippine public instruction covering the period to June 1901. It notes 751 of 14 teachers appointed, urgent needs for better school buildings, girls' education expansion, and English language adoption by Pilipino teachers. High schools planned. religious instruction restricted. catechism and religious symbols removed. attendance remains high. Militia funding: $1,000,000 allotted to states and DC.
Plans for a $5,000,000 hotel to span the Park Avenue block between Forty first and Forty second streets nears completion. Subway Realty Company owns the property, with B L M Bates as hotel lessee. The building is touted as potentially tallest in the world at 883 feet. In commerce news, Germany's iron and steel trade shows US machinery exports strong, while a 1900 census reports a 10 percent drop in death rates across ten states.
Colorado Springs officials plan an electric railway to Pike's Peak summit along the new Short Line, with construction costs estimated at 300000 to 500000 dollars. Promoters include W A Otis & Co and M MacNeill, with legal work by Tall Babbite Thayer. The project aims to begin soon and target next summer for operation.
Cleveland awoke to a catastrophic flood causing about 1 million dollars in damage. The eastern districts faced eight miles of inundation up to six feet deep, with culverts and bridges torn away. Rescue efforts used boats and river life savers as gravesite damage and Doane brook floods intensified fears. Weather officials called it the heaviest storm in four decades, recording 4.28 inches of rain from dawn to 7 PM.
Denver judge grants defense motion and orders acquittal for H H Tammen I G Bonfils W J Thomas Daniel J Sadlier and Robert Schroeder on charges of attempting to bribe a jury in the case of W W Anderson. Jury instructed to return a verdict as directed.
Basle dispatch reports doubt Prince Chun will travel to Berlin to offer apology for Baron Keiteler’s murder. Expiatory mission members refuse to go, opposing attendants bowing to the German Emperor. Separately, Great Northern plans electric locomotives on Cascade division, with potential broader rollout.
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