Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-12-05
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
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Jan. 12-i5.-Colorado Poultry Fanciers'
Jan. IS-s4.WNationai Western Stock
Show at Denver.
Jan.-Meeting Colorado Good Roads
Association at Colorado Springs
Sept. 7.-Colorado State Fair at Pueblo.
July l3-14.-Grand Lodge Session, B. p.
1si5.@Last Grand Council of North
American Indians at Denver
Soldiers must make oath to amount
due before getting pay, is Kenehan's
edict.
The council has decided that Den
yer saloons may continue to serve
free lunches.
The Red Rocks at Morrison prob
ably will be selected as the site for
staging the 1915 Indian pageant.
Daniel ]. Mckay. pioneer mining
man of Colorado, died at st. Joseph's
hospital in Denver following an op-
Grafton.
Every citizen of Colorado is to buy
at least one Red Cross Christmas seal
II the plans of the Red Cross Society
are fulfilled.
Miss Vera Bergin Of Pueblo was
held up while on her way home and
relieved of a purse containing 81 by
two highwaymen.
Twenty-Five recruits were enlisted
in the National Guard at Rocky Ford
and left Immediately for the strike
zone near Trinidad.
Albert Martin, Wyoming stock
man, was the victim of the game of
matching dollars" in Denver. He told
the police he lost sS5.
The telephone has supplanted the
telegraph in the dispatching of trains
on the Denver & Rio Grande between
Grand Junction and Salt Lake.
Mrs. Nora d. Rosenbaum, Colorado
pioneer and resident of Boulder coun-
ty for the last forty-five years. died
at st. Luke's hospital in Denver.
John McLennan. state president of
the striking coal miners. was re-elect-
ed president of the Colorado State
erendum vote.
For the second time in the history
Of the thirty-nine years of organization
of the Colorado State Teacherhs' Asso-
citation, a woman has been elected to
the office of president.
John Thomas, for years one Of the
most successful mining men of the
district, died of heart disease on a
couch in the office of the chief of
police in Cripple Creek.
A twenty-pound rock. crashing loose
from blast on the Short Line tracks
near Colorado Springs, struck John
Cameron, miner. in the face. crush
ing his head and killing him instantly.
Charles w. Rich was re elect
ed clerk of Book Cliff Camp No. 81 of
the Woodmen of the World at Grand
Junction for the sixteenth year in
which he has served in that capacity.
Denver women are wrought up over
has appointed none of their sex in
Colorado to federal positions. Prompt
action is being taken by prominent
clubwomen of Denver to lay their
grievances before administrative and
legislative heads.
Death ended the romance of Elmorc
and Mrs. Pearl Macdonald, whose
marriage at Macdonald's bedside in
st. Jcseph's hospital in Denver took
place a few days ago. The Rev. John
II. Houghton, who performed the we'd
ding ceremony. conducted the funeral
service at Macdonald's grave.
Edward T. Taylor of Glenwood
Springs. congressman from the Fourth
district, will be a candidate for re.
election from that district next fall
He authorized the announcement upon
his arrival in Denver on his way to
Washington to be present at the open
ing OF the regular session of the Six
ty-third Congress,
The acquisition and operation of mu
nicipal coal mines, suggested by the
Denver City Council to combat high
fuel prices, is entirely practicable, but
not demanded Immediately accord
ing to the Public Utilities Commission
in a report submitted following an in
vestigation requested by the council
into the advisability of such a propo
sition.
The body of a man, found at the
bottom of a twenty-foot well on the
abandoned ranch of Henry Mcintosh
in Berwind canon near Trinidad, is
believed to be that of George Macca
lusso, goat herder, who disappeared
from Primero Oct. IS. The body was
found by a party of cavalry troopers
and reported to General Chase, who
notified the coroner.
Governor E. NJ Ammons and Secre
tary of Labor William B. Wilson re
ceived no official answer to their joint
letter to coal mine operators and mine
workers last week in which it was rec
commended that the miners return tc
work and that both sides submit the
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