Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-02-07
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
western Newspaper Union news Service.

| FEB. b-9-COlorauO state i. M T. "a. a.
Feb. 1S-2o-Colorado Retail Hardware
and Implement Association at Pu-
March 3-S-Twelfth Annual Automobile
| Show at Denver.
The National Anti-WLite Slave AS
| sociation has started another crusade
tc wipe out the white slave traffic in
Denver.
Mrs. Catherine Spencer, So years
| old, was burned to death twenty-five
miles south of Limon, at her sons
homestead.
The primary election of September
| 12, 1912-the first ever held in the
state-cost the various counties a to-
tai of s176,427.04.
E. r. Conaway T. 3. Stearns, Fred
P. Johnson and Charles H. Howe were
| elected directors of the Denver Cham
ber of Commerce.
Six men were arrested by Denver
detectives in the West hotel. on sus-
picion of being members of an expert
gang of check operators.
The Legislature of Colorado has
been asked to appropriate $1,oOO,OOO
for the Pageant of America, to bo
given in Denver in 1915.
Three Italians were shot by another,
Nichala Guida, until recently employed
by the city highway department. at
the saloon of Paul Sancapietio. in Den
yer.
Joseph Shaw, As. former employe
of the Leyner Drill Works. committed
suicide at Littleton by shooting HIM
self in the head with .3S caliber re-
volver.
Denver's new postoffice building. ac-
cording to advice received by Post
master Joseph H. Harrison from
Washington, will not be completed for
two years.
Preparation for staging the Twelfth
Annual Denver Automobile Show,
which is scheduled for March As at
the municipal Auditorium. are being
pushed vigorously.
Alvin Baker, formerly deputy sher-
If under Alexander Nisbet, and for
twenty years connected with the po'
lice and sheriff's departments in Dem
yer. died at the county hospital.
Albert Stromwall, aged II. mes
senger boy in Denver, is in the county
hospital with a fractured skull, due TO
collision with Edward Kinney, OF
the same age, and also a messenger.
knights Templar of Denver will
start early upon a campaign to raise
at least $125,000 for the entertainment
of the visitors who will come to Den
yer next summer to the triennial con,
claye.
Obadiah Mitchell, %. teamster
was placed in the county Jail at Boui
der pending an investigation by Dep
uty District Attorney Harold P. Mar
tin. on the charge of having two
wives.
A judgment for $500 in favor OF
Mrs. Annie NJ. Jamison against Joseph
Burke, a wealthy Oklahoma rancher,
was entered by District Judge Teller
of Denver. Mrs. Jamison demanded
$4,000 damages for false represent
alton.
Formal resignation from his office
was handed to Governor Ammons by
Thomas Tully of Durango, member OF
the State Highway Commission, and
the executive Immediately appointed
Louis Wyman of Silverton to succeed
Tully.
George Di Viii of Walsenburg, one
of the wealthiest Italian residents In
southern Colorado, was hurled to the
floor unconscious and his home
wrecked. after he had refused to meet
the demands in threatening black
hand letter.
Ten days ago the United States
mint in Denver commenced the coin
age of $40 gold pieces, and has been
turning them out at the rate of $780,
900 day ever since. This will be
kept up for several months. The dies
for the new scent piece are expected
soon, and when they are received
there will be short run made OF
nickels.
H. ]. Bradford. forty-eight. a plas-
terer and his only son, Hugh Brad
ford, occupied adjoining cells at the
Pueblo Jail. the father charged with
forging his daughters name to twenty
checks for a total of $3.50. and the son
with having passed them at his faith.
er's command. Mrs. Bradford, the
wife and mother. is on her death bed
at their home.
The case of George Terry, charged
with killing Stuart Lanterman, ended
at Akron. AS the defense was offer
ing the last of its evidence the defend.
ant arose and asked the court IL he
might withdraw his plea of not guilty
and enter plea of guilty of second
degree murder. His request was
granted and he was sentenced to not
less than nineteen nor more than TWEEN.
ty years in the penitcntiary.