Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-11-28
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Association at COLORADO Springs
| Sept. colorado State Fair at pueblo
I9lj.-Last Grand Council of North
| American Indians at Denver
The Denver commissioners would
| bar free lunches in saloons.
Fifty cents ton was Topped off the
price of Ignite coal in Denver.
The Colorado Springs city council
has decided to appoint committee to
form plan to mine its own coal.
The city council has ordered the
marshal to take action against the
candy and cigar cards and church RAT
| files in Montrose.
George w. Belcher, Baldwin-Felts
detective, was shot and killed at Main
and Commercial streets in the center
CT the business district of Trinidad.
E. A. Newcomb, proprietor of the
Iris cafe. in Denver, pleaded guilty to
the charge of keeping wine room,
and was fined S10O and costs.
General Chase issued the official
notice for military court at Trinidad.
The military commission will consist
of seven officers of the National Guard
Of Colorado.
Pueblo, as a shipping center, will
profit materially by the new freight
tariffs. applying from points east to
New Mexico, Arizona and Nevada. The
rates will go into effect on Dec. L.
The Mountain States Telephone &
Telegraph Company has absorbed the
Western Slope Telephone Company In
Clifton and the plans of the farmer or
ganizers of the cooperative company
have been abandoned.
Alfred Darnell of Clifton disprovcs
the adage about lightning never strik-
ing twice in the same place. After
being in bed six weeks with broken
leg he ventured to school again and
broke the same leg in the same place.
For the unlawful killing of an elk,
Sam Hines, owner of Marvine lodge
on Marvine lake In Rio Blanco coun-
ty, was fined $500 and costs by Judge
John T. Shumate in the District Court
in session at Glenwood Springs.
Meeting with two strangers, one of
his. own nationality and the other 4
Spaniard, Ulysses Guigerrez a Mexi-
can. lost $3.50 in a daylight robbery
which the victim told the police hap
pened in the Capitol grounds in Den
yer.
After remaining out for more than
fifty hours and failing to arrive at a
verdict the jury which heard the con-
test over the 100000 estate of the
late Alfred IL. Miles was discharged
by County Judge Rothgerber in Den.
yer.
Complying with request from Gov
ernor Ammons, the mine operators
agreed to meet with a committee of
striking miners to consider the COM
plants of the latter relative to the
present coal strike in the southern
fields.
Secretary William b. Wilson of the
United States Department of Labor
/ took up his office of mediator in the
southern Colorado coal strike situa-
ton Friday when he conferred with
Gov. E. NJ. Ammong for three hours in
1 the governors office.
Mrs. Mary G. Campbell, seventy
two, sister-in-law of former Senator
T. NJ. Patterson, and widow of E. J..
Campbell, former lawyer, banker, mine
owner and politician of Colorado, died
at the home OF her sister-in-law, Mrs.
{ Prince Campbell, at Eugene, Ore.
Officials from Camp Ludlow identi-
| fled James r. RiclSuvaris, thirty-two,
| Greek. who has been confined at st.
Josephs hospital in Denver with a
! gunshOt wound, as the man who shot
and killed Angus Alexander, guard. at
| the Hastings mine on October IS, the
I Ia. haf ta nil
the strike district.
The man recently discovered near
! Embudo, Rio Arriba county, n. NJ,
caught in bear trap was identified
as Henry Severson, sixty-five, former.
! ly of Denver. 1t Is thought he stepped
into the trap while hunting or pros
! pecting and was unable to release
himself, dying from exposure and
starvation.
The last spike in the Steamboat
| Springs-Craig extension of the Moffat
road was driven at Craig, marking
the completion of the branch on which
nearly 1,500 men have been working
since the first of the year. All the
citizens Of Craig and many others from
the surrounding towns helped to cele-
brate the event.
Union lodge No. Z, A. f. and A. NJ.
the oldest Masonic lodge in Colorado,
celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of
its organization at banquet in Dem
yer at FL Jebel temple. Three hun
dred and seventy-four members sat at
tables. Some of the Oldest members
of the lodge, including one nonagena-
rian and several octogenarians, were
| present.
The engagement of Miss Mary U.
| Brooke, a society girl of Norfolk. Va,