Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-11-22

The twelfth annual convention of the
Rocky Mountain Hotel Mems Associa-
tion was held in Denver.
Laborers in the city's employ, to the
number of fifty. were enrolled in =
union at a mass meeting held in Den
yer.
Articles were signed at Trinidad for
fight Thanksgiving Day between
Benny Chavez, the Trinidad bantam,
and frankie Bradley of England.
Mrs. Riddle was elected as a mem
ber of the Legislature by a majority
of nearly 1000, instead of ]. n. Coun-
ter, as was announced in the early re-
ports.
Albert Hennessy, tenant on a
farm a mile and a half west of Gree
ley, shit himself in the right temple
with .3S caliber revolver and died
almost instantly.
John Hanway. thirty, laborer. report
ed to the Denver police that he was
held up at Tenth and Market streets
by two highwaymen and robbed of S.
and gold watch.
Miss Octavia Mcnamara, former
St. Louis girl. died at St. Joseph's hos
pital in Denver after an illness lasting
six days. Valvular heart trouble was
the cause of her death.
Figures compiled by Assessor Pitch
er of Denver show that 54,S41 persons
will pay taxes in the city and county
of Denver this year. This is an in
crease of 1854 over that of 1911.
]. Wendell Marley. twenty-six, died
at Colorado Springs from tuberculosis.
He was president of the Marley Brok-
erage Company, Cumberland, Mary
land, and a man of immense wealth.
Grief over the death of her hus-
band, the late George Wither of San
Jose, Cal, resulted in the death in
Denver of his aged window. Mrs. EN-
ma r. l.. Wither. who died at the Park
Avenue hospital.
Football in Colorado caused its
third death of the season at Boulder
when George r. Jack, the eleven-year-
old son of C. G. Jack. died of internal
injuries received while playing with
older and stronger comrades.
What is believed to be the climax OF
one of the bittcrest enmities ever re
corded in criminal annals was reached
when Myron A. Root, fifty-five years
old. was shot and probably fatally
wounded by burglar in his home,
300 Vallejo street. Denver.
The women of the Colorado Equal
Suffrage Association want the right to
serve on juries and for the purpose OF
securing this right they are planning to
introduce a bill before the next Legis-
lature making all women taxpayers Ii
able to the call of the jury commits
sioner.
Isaac Cox, John Graves and Jesse
Carmen, charged with the murder OF
Samuel TRULY in the Box Canon coun-
try, three miles north OF the Colorado
New Mexico line. arrived in Durango
and gave themselves up to Sheriff Tim
]. Mcclure, who held a warrant for
their arrest.
Lawyers who are opposed to some
of the measures adopted by the peo-
pie at the recent election maintain
that the Legislature. in spite OF the ac-
tion of the people. may amend or re-
peal any of the measures adopted by
the people, with the exception of con.
stitutional amendments.
Attorney Burdick expects to ask that
Mrs. VILLA Pearl Martin of Denver,
who is suing her mother-in-law. Mrs.
Eta Martin Watson for $4,000 fol
alienation of the affections of her hus
band to exhibit her little daughter in
court as evidence that she is the moth.
er of child by her second husband
Leo William Martin.
Through the work of vandal, or
vandals. inspired, the authorities be
lieve, by a spirit of revenge, or a
drunken idea of sport, hundreds of val
liable pheasants from the famous Kend-
rick pheasantries. between Littleton
and Fort Logan, were given freedom,
and perhaps a hundred were killed,
their necks wrung, and carried away.
A group of Denver brokers and small
investors have made about S250,000
profit in the last year through dealing
in the stock of the Midwest Oil Com.
pany, organized more than year ago
by Werner u. Reed and associates. The
stock has been selling above par re
of the wells it operates at Casper,
Wyo.
Believing that enemies were follow
ing her to take her life, Mrs. Stella
May Henson, aged twenty-eight, daugh-
ter of Mrs. w. H. johnson, dress
maker, living at 120 East Eighth av~-
nue., Denver. committed suicide by
either drinking choloiorm or inhaling
the fumes of the narcotic in room al
1853 California street. Her dead body
was found by Mrs. Anna Faulkner, the
Iandlady.
A banquet was given at the Audi
torium hotel in honor Of E. e. Nc