Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-01-10


The parcels post law is now in CT
feet.
Uncle Sam has s475.0Oo.O0O in gold
stored in the Denver mint.
Editor John Wilson of the Colorado
Springs Public Opinion died at the
home of his daughter in Roy. N. M.
No section in the United States can
make just claim to a greater variety
of substantial industries than Flor
ence.
Colorado women have picked out fif-
teen offices that they desire to fill by
appointment by Governor-elect Am
mons.
Charles Lindford, thirty-eight was
found dead in the firebox of an engine
at the santa Fe round house at La
Junta.
News of the death of James NJ.
Johnson, an early resident of Denver,
at Piedmont, Cal, has been received
in Denver.
A repetition of last winters flood is
becoming imminent at Meeker, and it
is feared it will break despite efforts
to check it.
Many things have occurred to make
the industrial development of Rio
Blanco county greater this year than
ever before.
AS far as known the only New
Years baby born in Denver is the
daughter of Mrs. Charles Zilcher, of
2152 California street.
Suits aggregating $222,000 were
filed against the city and county of
Denver by attorneys representing a
large number of plaintiffs.
The body of John McGavock. Den
yer boy who was killed in snowslide
near Cordova, Alaska, Dec. IS. arrived
in Denver and was buried there.
Denver is a bidder for the 1913 con-
vention and meet of the Federation of
American Motorcyclists, the only 9TH
er city in the. running being Chicago.
The meeting of Colorado district
attorneys called by District Attorney
elect NJ. w. Purcell Of Colorado
Springs, has been postponed to Jan. 9.
County Judge-elect Duncan ]. Nc
Lean, fifty-eight, died at Leadville of
pneumonia. Judge Mclean resided in
Leadville for over a quarter of a cen
tury.
James Monroe Clark, seventy-seven
years old. former secretary Of the
State Horticultural Society and one of
Colorado's pioneers, died at his home
in Adams county.
More than 6.OO0 telephone employees,
on the payroll of the Mountain States
Telephone and Telegraph Company.
become subject to the pension and dis
ability benefits inaugurated January 1.
A severe windstorm that swept the
Drairies north of Denver carried away
large two-story barn belonging to w.
J. Lackhan, farmer, near Westminster
college. Debris was strewn for a mile
and half.
Thrown fifteen feet when the auto
mobile in which she was riding
crashed into another machine in Den
yer. Miss Evelene Belmont, twenty
five. suffered injuries which, 1t is said,
will cause her death.
Mrs. Angeline X. Post, widow of C.
C. Post. attorney general of Colorado
under the administration of Governor
Orman, and one of Colorado's "'59ers,
died at her home in Denver. She was
seventy-eight years old.
The condition OF Congressman Ed
ward T. Taylor, who underwent an
operation for appendicitis three weeks
ago at st. Luke's hospital, is not as
satisfactory as his physicians had
hoped, and his journey to Washington
was postponed.
John w. Springer, president of the
Continental Trust Company, who was
for ten years president OF the Ameri-
can National Livestock Association,
will tell of = great future for the live
stock industry in an address which he
will deliver at the sixteenth annual
meeting of the association to be held
at Phoenix, Ariz., January 1916.
A grain which may revolutionize
Colorado dry farming, rendering the
scni-arid lands in the eastern part of
the state profitable of cultivation and
creating a means Of sustenance for
100000 settlers, has been produced by
Prof. B. C. Buffum of Wyoming, and
will form the subject of a rigid investi-
cation to be conducted by the Denver
Chamber of Commerce during the new
year.
Mrs. Rula Rehkugler was sentenced
at Grand Junction to a term of five to
eight years in the penitentiary at
Canon City for the killing of Joe Wal
ters, a ranch hand. 1t was claimed
that the killing was because Walters
had refused to elope with her. Sen
tence was imposed by Judge Shackel-
ford, who gave the maximum penalty.
although the jury had recommended