Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-12-20
COLORADO
STATE NEW S
western Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.


January 2o-25-Eighth Annual West
! ern Stock Show-Denver.
Alex Spill, ranch laborer, was ac-
cidentally shot by his employer, A. Pc
terson, and died in the Parker hospital
at Kiowa.
William Barth withdrew his name
as plaintiff In the suits brought by
Savings bank.
The widow of Walter G. Martin, who
was killed in the Longmont sugar fac
tory November IS, was awarded $4,000
damages in the District Court.
The funeral of the late Mrs. Alice
Wachter Hayes. wife of Elbert l..
Hayes, tok place from her home in
Montrose. She was forty-five years
old.
Cupid again took a girl student from
the Safe Teachers college at Greeley,
giving Miss Marian Easton, Junior,
as the bride of DR.. o. S. Adam of Se-
gundo.
James Judkins, a barber, died from
tuberculosis in a hospital at Trinidad,
institution near death from the same
disease.
Thomas E. Williams was elected
president of the Colorado Manufac-
turers' Association, succeeding Burt
Coldren. L. II. BRAKEMAN was elected
vice president.
The leap-year appeal of yonug Vir-
ginia woman for a Western husband.
which was made to Mayor Arnold of
Denver, has been accepted by two
Colorado men.
A new $4,000 factory for Denver
for the manufacture of breakfast foods
may be commenced within the next
six months by the Wyoming Plant and
Seed Breeding Company.
Beet growers of the Greeley district
got checks for about 100000. The
money was distributed among the three
factories of the county as follows:
Eaton, s3SO.OOOs Greeley. 100000 and
Windsor. 100000.
The Denver jury in the case of
Charles W. Frickey, charged with the
murder of w. L. Swan, bartender,
returned a verdict of first degree MUIR
der. The verdict carries a penalty of
life Imprisonment.
To wed his sweetheart, whom he
had not seen for five year, Y. Takaki,
wealthy japanese of Fort Lupton.
left for his old home. He had $4,000
with him, the profits of one year of
farming near Fort Lupton.
On account of default of payment of
100000 in demand notes July l, the
Colorado Midland railroad was placed
in the hands of a receiver. George w.
Vallery, president of the road, was
named receiver.
George Edward Esterling. organizer
OF the Ex-Husbands' Anti-Alimony Pro-
tective Union, estimates that there
are nearly 500 men in Denver eligible
to membership in the union. The rec
ords show that $50 men are paying
alimony into the County Court and 500
into the District Court.
NJ. r. Bliss, who was shot at Socor-
ro. n. NJ, by his wife, Marie R. Bliss,
formerly lived at Pueblo with his
mother, Mrs. Martha Bliss. Bliss left
Pueblo over a year ago. Mrs. Martha
Bliss, who still owns considerable
property at Pueblo, removed to Calf
fornia five months ago.
Awakening to find the clothing of
her bed on fire and the room filled
with smoke, Miss Ida Playa, night op-
orator at the telephone exchange at
Platteville. with difficulty aroused
herself sufficiently to extinguish the
flames. a spark from stovepipe in
the room started the fire.
John J. Cohan, who has been in the
county Jail at Colorado Springs for
several weeks accused of threatening
the lives of President-elect Woodrow
Wilson, Judge Julian a. Mack of Chi
cago, and number of Colorado
Springs officials, will be liberated II
the recommendations of County Ply
sician Z. l.. McKinnie are carried out.
Voluntary settlement of the claims
of depositors against the Denver Saw
ings bank by Leonard Imboden and
James A. Hill will not depend upon
the suits which they have filed for
damages against Guy lie Roy Stevick,
receiver for the institution, and 9TH
ers for damages of $685., 900 on the al
legation of conspiracy to defraud the
bank, according to Lyndon E. Smith.
attorney for the two men.
Increased purchasing power of the
funds available, increased efficiency of
the teaching staff, increased enroll.
ment, a widening of the scope of the
work of the institution and some ad-
vance steps in experimental and exten-
sion work through cooperation with
the United States Department of Ag-
riculture were shown in the annual re.
port of President Charles A. Lory, OF
the State Agricultural College, made
| to the State Board of Agriculture in