Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-11-29

The Wheeler opera house at Aspen
was burned.
While he was in his store for few
minutes. E. E. Ellington. Pueblo
merchant, was robbed of his automo-
bile.
1t is reported that construction of
the long-contemplated~ Grand River,
Meeker & Salt Lake railway has been
started
A. S. Wentworth. owner of a pea
canning plant at Norfolk, Neb., is
planning to build a similar plant in
Montrose.
| Potato growers and business men OF
Greeley are planning for state con-
vention of potato growers in Denver
in January.
Henry c'Pappy'O Klein. dean of the
Colorado hotel keepers and veteran OF
the Civil War. was buried in the Ma
sonic cemetery at Walsenburg.
The Colorado & Southern railroad
Company will distribute on Decem-
ber 1st from its offices in Denver.
S620,O0O in dividends to stockholders.
The Elks of Denver held burial SER
vices for Bryan A. Tuttle, the druggist,
who died at st. Joseph's hospital. The
body was cremated at Riverside ceme-
terry.
Passengers aboard the smallpox
special" which was sidetracked at Cas-
| tie Rock, were released from quaran-
tine by order of the State Board of
Health and allowed to return to their
homes.
After five days of hard work by
prosecution and defense, during which
40 veniremen were examined, a jury
was obtained in. the penitentiary graft
cases. Each side used all its chal-
| lcnges.
By vote of IA to the city board
of aldermen of Denver refused to fix
the boundaries of the city's voting
precincts in order to allow an election
upon the question of commission form
| of government.
1t is now definitely stated that there
will be no extra session Of either the
old or the new Legislature to elect a
successor to fill out the unexpired
term of the late Charles ]. Hughes, Jr
or for any other purpose.
Addison Vandervort, an aged
farmer. formerly of Lincoln, Neb..
is suing Mrs. Mary n. Womptner.
widow, to recover 1925, which he says
he advanced her to start in the room
ing house business in Denver.
Two Denver physicians and two
midwives were victims of the nation
/ yutdn ct
charged with using the mails for Grim
inal purposes, brought to a climax in
the arrest of 173 men and women in
the principal cities.
Because her husband did not want
to take her to theater, Mrs. Mary
Leslie, aged twenty-eight. wife of Hen
| ry Leslie of Denver, sought to end
her life. In fit of temper she swal-
lowed part of the contents of a bottle
of carbolic acid.
Denver financial circles took re-
newed confidence in Newman Erb and
his project to build the Rocky Noun
tain tunnel and extend the Moffat road
TO Salt Lake City when they learned
that Erb's hackers are none other
than the Pearson-Farquhar Syndicate
of New York, Boston and London.
Asserting that sex hygiene is not a
fit subject for the schoolroom and that
| It's teachings will result disastrously
to the sexually enlightened boys and
girls, the Denver County Federated
| Catholic Societies registered vigor-
GUS protest with the School Board
against the adoption of the study in
| the nuhlfc schools Of napvar
Declaring that he will kill President.
elect Wilson IL he ever gets a chance,
John ]. Cohan, a one-armed man. ar.
rested at Colorado Springs, on a
charge of disturbing the peace, is held
| pending word from secret service op.
eratives. II not wanted by the gov
ernment, his mental condition will be
examined by local authorities.
Prospective United States Senators
John F. Shafroth and Charles 8.
| Thomas have pledged themselves for.
mally to the Denver Chamber of Com
| merce to support and work for the
| Passage in the national House of Rep
resentatives of the bill which has al.
ready passed the Senate providing
| 100000 for the completion of the Den.
yer postoffice and federal building.
One hundred and three members in.
| itiated into El Jebel shrine rode the
wild ass Of the desert, participated in
| the bucking horse brigade, saw two
| of their members electrocuted and
rode the ropes to the delectation of
between $4,000 and 1900 Shriners
| from all over the United States, for
whose special benefit the class was
put through the initiation at Ri Jebel
| temple, in Denver.
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