Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-04-04
WEEKS EVENTS
COLORADO
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Dates for Comma Events.

Dates for Coming Events.
May.--Knights of Columbus Meeting
May-state Council. ]. o. U. A. NJ. at
Colorado. Springs.
June.-National Press Assn Meeting at
Colorado Springs.
June.-Northern Colo. Sunday School
Aug.-Thirty- second Triennial Con-
eaavs of knifghts TemPlar Denver.
Colorado Springs
Oct. 21.-Colorado State Baptist Asso-
citation at Pueblo.
A general cleaning day will be in
augurated by Meeker this spring.
Four fires, two of incendiary origin,
caused a $4,000 property loss at
Boulder.
John E. Field was appointed state
engineer by Governor Ammons to sue
ceed C. w. Comstocli.
Bankruptcy proceedings have been
instituted in the Federal Court against
the American Fuel Company.
Miss Lottie May of Loveland was
badly bruised and her head and face
cut in the Omaha storm, but will re-
cover.
Howard Baker pugilist and owner oil
a pool hall was assaulted and knocked
unconscious at Boulder when on his
way home.
The wife of Professor Herbert R.
Chapman of the State School for the
Deaf and Blind died at the family
home in Colorado Springs.
The Colorado Springs school cen.
sus, just completed shows S,O34 child
ren of school age recorded, of whom
4,O76 are girls and 3,95S are boys.
Announcement was made by County
Treasurer Allison Stocker that his
resignation as state chairman of the
Progressive party organization would
be offered.
Irrigation law and mining law will
be offered as a result OF the curri-
culum of the University of Colorado
summer session. June % to August
2, at Boulder.
Probably the longest funeral cor
tege that ever went through the
gates at Fairmount was that which
followed the remains of DIR. Arnold
Stedman of Denver.
Civil service examinations were
given at the city hall in Denver to
fifty aspirants for city positions as
district commissioners and district
foremen for city work.
Harold, the seven-year-old son of w.
E. Smith, a dry farmer on the govern
ment road, a short distance from
Meeker, was attacked by a militant
rooster and severely injured.
Edwin Buriiclr. brigadier general,
Colorado Brigade Uniform Rank.
knights of Pythias, has addressed an
appeal to all lodges of the order iu
the state, asking for contributions fer
the flood sufferers.
After a contest of two years in the
courts of Montrose county to estap-
lish the priority of its claim TO water
rights for the Uncompahare waller pro-
ject. the United States government has
at last won its fight.
Shouting playfully a warning to
look out. l shoot you.' Manuel
Martinez, 5. pulled the trigger of
.22-caliber parlor rifle and shot Mrs.
Floripa Chavez of Boulder in the
head, killing her instantly.
Lying on the ground after having
been twice struck down with heavy
club in the hands OF Juan Sanchez, AZ.
Mexican. Patrolman ]. w. Blue. OF
Denver, drew his revolver and shot
his assailant through the leg.
George B. Lang resigned as supply
clerk in the office of the secretary
of state and left for Washington.
where, he will be assigned to clerk
ship in the United States Senate. His
family will move to Washington in
April.
Reports from the Ohio, Indiana and
Illinois floods has recalled to mem
bers of the Board of Public Works and
city engineer the Cherry Creek flood
of last July, and immediate plans will
be made for protection against its re
currence.
The use of the recently popularizei /
typhus serum will prevent thousands
of typhoid fever deaths following the
flood horrors in Ohio and the Eastern
states, according to the opinion of DR..
]. NJ. Perkins, Denver's health COM
missioner.
S. B. Rash, 45, of Denver. brakeman
employed by the Colorado & Southern
Railroad Company, was killed at
Sheridan Junction when he fell off
the top of train between two cars.
The wheels of several cars passed
over his body.
Giving as their reason that tho
| feed room was ankle deep in water,
| fifteen employees of the Globe smelter,
at Globeville, refused to work and
within an hour had brought about n
| strike that may seriously cripple the