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Newspaper
Rocky Ford Enterprise
Location
Rocky Ford, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1901
Page
1
The notice invites interested parties to move into the Arkansas Valley to farm and rent or buy arable land. It calls for six suitable farmers to relocate, visit their old homes, and establish new homes in the valley, noting success of prior settlers.
A survey of Colorado notes reports Berthoud hail damage and a fire in Den Co Springs donors gift naming, Leadville mining deaths, water mains progress at Eaton, polio in Denver dogs, Loveland lightning injuries, and a broad street naming plan extending beyond the city with one two and three syllable designations for streets and places.
Secretary Root cuts army and river project estimates by 15 million dollars for next year. Lawton Oklahoma sells 142 town lots raising substantial receipts, with average price around 201 dollars per lot, funds to be used for local improvements. General H W Lawton portrait planned for postal display noted. Governor of Porto Rico William Hunt born in New Orleans November 5 1857. Yale educated.
Buffalo reports the President’s condition improving with Dr Roswell Park and Secretary Wilson expressing cautious optimism. Park says no alarm, patient fully conscious when awake, able to talk, and healing begins as peritonitis risk passes. Wilson notes absence of new alarming symptoms and foresees continued improvement.
Buffalo dispatch reports U S Secret Service nearing arrests in a web of anarchists tied to the McKinley assassination plot. Emma Goldman is named as a leader candidate. Leon Czolgosz’s links to a “Free Society” group are traced through Chicago and Buffalo.
Denver September 10 Proceedings opened in the Colorado Supreme Court to oust Frank I Owers judge of the Fifth Judicial district based on a writ of quo warranto returnable October 1 The information accuses him of not being a district resident at election and thus unlawfully holding office affidavits from Campion Cavene and Maxwell are cited Owers denies Denver residence claims health limits continuous Leadville residence and voting place are asserted End of Denver Contempt Case Also in Denver Mullins hands down contempt ruling in the Anderson trial discharging Police Magistrate Thomas and Fire Warden Sader while Bailie Schrader is fined 250 plus costs Protocol signed Pekin China powers agree evacuation dates for Pekin and Pe Chi Li areas
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