Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-12-13
STATE NEWS
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Western Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.
January 2O-25-Eighth Annual West
ern Stock Show-Denver.

j. Y. Burdick, a resident of Denver
for twelve years. died at his home,
3941 Osceola street.
A movement have been started by
residents Of Fruita to petition the
State Legislature for the division of
Mesa county.
Denvers banks are generally recog-
nized in financial circles as among the
strongest in proportion to size in the
United States.
Sir Thomas Upton was made an
Yacht Club just before ending his
visit in Denver.
Stephen O'Grady. 80 years old, died
at the home of his sister, Mrs. w. w.
Fisher, at Greeley, from a complica-
ton of diseases.
William Christianson, 73 years old.
was discovered starved and almost
frozen to death in a frame house at
2464 Market street, in Denver.
Richard L. Lukens, thirty-five, for
merly of Denver, committed suicide in
Evansville, Ind. according to informa-
tion received from the Indiana city.
With the San Francisco exposition
! in 1915 as point on which to con-
centrate. Denver's representative bust
ness men have formed the Colorado
Publicity League.
Democratic women of the state en-
tertained Colorado's first lady-to-be,
Mrs. Elias NJ. Ammons, wife of the
governor-elect. at banquet in her
honor in Denver.
A stranger, apparently fifty years
old, who registered at the Oxford ho-
tel as Charles Smith of Trinidad, took
an overdose of morphine and died at
Walscnburg hotel.
In his first message to the, Colorado
Legislature on assuming the governor
ship Elias NJ. Ammons will recon-
mend legislation which will have for
its purpose the revival of the mining
industry.
Horribly scalded by escaping steam,
Peter Chinberg, machinist. and Carl
Carlson, helper, were found uncon-
scious in the Union Pacific roundhouse
at La Sale by fellow workmen return
ing from lunch.
Mrs. Ellen Jones. who died Novem-
Ter 2S, leaves an estate of $500 to
her son, John Jones, of Denver, provid-
ing that within two years time he
mends his ways. shakes off his bad
habits and reforms.
In the minds of many interested in
charitable work. the Sheridan home at
Arvada for negro children deserves as
much encouragement and attention as
many of the better equipped homes for
orphans in and around Denver.
After she had been carried 200 yards
under the ice in an irrigation ditch,
Nellie Isabel, aged six of Canon City.
was seized and dragged to safety
when she emerged from beneath the
ice by her eight-year-old brother.
Leslie.
Two recommendations will be made
to the next General Assembly regard
ing the inheritance tax department. In
their annual reports both E. R. Harper,
inheritance tax appraiser for the first
district, and State Auditor Kenehan
will suggest changes.
Thirty-six years ago at Castle Rock
William Atcheson was shot and slain
after trivial quarrel. The murderer
escaped. DR.. George Atcheson of Den
yer, brother OF the man killed, has re-
ceived word from Peoria, Ore, that
Peter Davis had confessed to the
crime.
May Fine, sixteen, who was left on
the doorstep of Harry Fine, a Civil
War veteran, when she was two
months old, disappeared from her
home at Grand Junction, and the DO.
lice declare that she has cloped with
Walter Ryan, an employe of the SUI
gar factory.
Crazed with Jealousy. William Bisii-
ard. nineteen-year-old crippled West
en- Union messenger boy, announced
his intention of killing Mrs. Zetta
Zavitz Gagaghan and the latter's hus-
band, William S. Gagaghan, Salida
railroad man, two hours after the two
had been united in marriage at Den
yer.
''The despicable trafficking of wo-
mems souls may be decried from the
pulpit and reform attempted through
various agitations, but establish a
minimum scale of wages for working
girls, by which they may live respec-
tably, without outside aid and you will
have laid the basis for the moral cor
rection sought today" declares Mrs.
Agnes Riddle. reelected to the Legis-
lature recently. Mrs. Riddle is prepar-
ing bill Ito be presented to the Gen
eral Assembly this winter, providing
for fixed minimum compensation for
all women workers. which she be-
lieves is the first step toward a solu.
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